Can’t wait, and given the state of my bag and my game, this is going to be a great time.
I just finished my last PT session today and have seen a huge improvement in the back / nerve issue I’ve been dealing with.
But I give this challenge so much credit for keeping me active and ready for golf this year. There is no way I could’ve completed the Olympic Prolific without this motivation.
Part of me wants to play my round from the tips at Mt Prospect at the Chicagoland NLU event on the 5th. I would get absolutely destroyed.
My schedule has been jacked up with all the rain in Houston lately and there’s zero chance I’m running 10k on a treadmill so I’m a little biased. However, I think the idea of 1 a week would have been fine but we started/announced the challenge a little late so 3 seems reasonable.
That’s kind of my thought process, I’ll leave it up to the individual to decide for themselves but I will accept 3 or 4. I just wrapped up my third and I’m about to leave for a job interview thing and will be spending most of my mental energy trying to walk and sit like a normal human being. Good speed, everyone (this was a typo but I’m leaving it).
Sorry, friends. I referenced it in YOTB but I’ve been going through a job transition and this fell on the back burner. I’ll post the final weigh-in sheet this week and we’ll bump the dates back for everything to start on June 15th. If you’ve already done your weigh-in, that’s fine! Just send it my way when you’ve got a moment or wait and upload it to the sheet yourself when it’s posted. Hope everyone is having a great week!
I have a few of those no holes adjustable belts (shoutout Mission Belts #freead) and I just had to cut 2.5 inches off my daily driver because I ran out of clicks. I’ve technically only lost a few pounds off my weigh-in weight from December, but that seems like a trend in the right direction.
Gents I am extremely sorry for dropping the ball on this, and am currently brainstorming ideas of how to make it up to folks. Very glad to hear that people benefited despite my total lack of consistency here.
It’s all good man, you had a lot going on in your personal life.
Just to give an update on me, I got down from 200 to about 175 before going completely off the rails and going back up to 200. Currently sitting at 195 after quitting carbs for the past week.
I definitely learned a lot this year about which foods and exercises work for me and which don’t and this thread was the catalyst for most of that experimentation.
I was doing really well for awhile and got frustrated when I gained weight despite removing alcohol and fast food from my diet for 6 weeks while doing regular exercise. Then wife got knocked up, I cooked and cleaned more, work got busy and here we are 10 months later and no change.
Life comes at you fast. Thankfully wife is determined to kick the baby weight this winter and hopefully she and I can motivate one another to really get things moving in a healthy direction.
Did you change shapes at all while your weight stayed constant? Muscle is more dense than fat, so if you’re burning fat and gaining muscle, you can see the scale go up while you’re staying the same size or even “leaning” out.
I’ve had a long and arduous fitness journey over the last 6 or 7 years. Woke up one day at 27 years old and tipped the scale at 285 lbs, looked at myself and was just so disappointed. Over the next year or so I got my shit together and was able to get down to 200 and decided I’d like to try and put some muscle on. I fell in love with the gym and lifted religiously until I was about 225 and 5% body fat. I didn’t miss a meal, only had one “cheat meal” a week and didn’t have a drop of alcohol for over 2 years.
But the reality is that that type of restrictive lifestyle just isn’t sustainable and then injuries started to pile up from the lifting. I’ve had to really scale it back with 3 herniated discs in my back and just general aches in pains in all of my joints, but have had a hard time finding some alternative workouts that I can do to stay in shape, prevent injury and maintain my golf game. Anyone in a similar situation that has found something that’s worked for you?
Not quite that beat up (yet) but have you tried yoga? I’m also a lifter by nature but I’ve done a few yoga classes and I’m always surprised by how much muscle endurance it takes. Plus it’s obviously beneficial to the joints, ligaments, tendons.