posted by Meg at
4:03 PM
One woman's quest to stabilize her relationship with food, with her body image, with people, and with the universe at large.
Once upon a time, I lost about a third of my body weight. That was hard. Maintaining that loss was a lot harder. I've gone from Weight Watchers to Body For Life to a close personal relationship with Zoloft and then out the other side into Mindfulness Meditation, and my focus has finally shifted from "stay skinny" to "stay sane". I'm trying a lot of different things in my quest for stability, from my thoughts on the nature of the universe to my struggles with marriage and money to my deep and abiding love for new shiny technology, and I post about them all here.
4 Comments:
Yeah, I was having trouble with blogger too. And the stupid "recover" button does nothing. So frustrating!
I can't help you with HIITs either. What does that stand for?
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Noames, at 4:48 PM
Oho. I see now.
I've been something vaguely (VAGUELY) like that with my treadmill time. I've got 40 minutes (aproximately the time it takes to run through a DVD'd episode of Alias, hee)-- first five warm-up, last five cool-down. Then I've got it broken into six five-minute sections that sort of act as a zig-zag step pattern going upward until the end: first four minutes at intensity X, last one at intensity Y, then going back down again but to a higher X level than before.
It's been my half-assed way to convince myself that I can, in fact, run properly in the morning instead of only slogging along at the slow-ass X 'cause I'm sleepy and lazy. Thus far it's been working-- the relief of no longer going at intensity Y always makes X feel gloriously slow by comparison, even though it's 4 minutes of going faster than I was before.
So how much do I have to joggle things around for this thing to work? Is it okay for me to keep moving my X and Y upward, or does that break things?
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Meg, at 7:30 PM
Hi Meg
Since we seem to run at somewhat the same pace I can give you my HIIT work out that I think I need to up a little bit soon but it's a nice wake me up.
here's my official BFL 20 min treadmill cycle
1 min 5 mph
1 min 5.5 mph
1 min 6 mph
1 min 6.5 mph
1 min 7 mph
1 min 7.5 mph
(repeat that 6 to 7.5 cycle 3 more times)
1 min 8.5 or 9 mph (<--shooting for max HR here)
1 min 6 mph
after that I tend to do 10 to 20 minutes of steady state at 6.5 mph so that I put in 3.5 to 4 miles
some folks do bigger jumps (like 6 mph, 7 mph, 8 mph, 9 mph) but since I know I'm going to do a few miles extra I think I conserve a bit at the front end.
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Anonymous, at 10:10 PM
::looks at Cathy's routine::
::dies::
Okay, the fact that I was congratulating myself for having gone three out of ten minutes at 7 mph this morning means that I am currently a big ol' loser on the treadmill. Oh my God. My little Excel sheet informs me that while I've been tracking this stuff, I have yet to break an average of 6 mph.
I'm making a mental note to get my head out of my ass and get back in gear; I was doing 6 mph regularly for a few weeks at the beginning of the year and then I got lazy. This will not do; I know I can do better, it's just a question of remembering that fact at 6 AM. I'll try your program on for size on Thursday morning; if it kills me I'll drop the levels down .5 mph and try to build up to it by the end of the month.
Goals are good. Gotta keep myself honest.
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Meg, at 9:16 AM
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