I will be essentially participating in next quarters challenge but I want to post my own challenge/journal thread in order to keep myself more accountable. I'm 60 yrs young and according to my Tanita scale, weigh 212.8 lbs and a 37.7% body fat, if you can put any stock in that, I'm 5 ft. 10 in.. The heaviest I've ever been was 225 lbs and I managed to get down to 198lbs. a few years ago from that weight. My long term goal is to be a muscular 175 lbs, not bulky, but like a swimmer or gymnast build. I hope to lose about 20 lbs. during this challenge, but anything over 10 will be considered a short term success. Beyond dedication and motivation there are a couple of complicating factors involved. I have some chronic work related injuries that always seem to throw a monkey wrench into my plans whenever I get the urge to improve my fitness. I have chronic low back pain with bulging/herniated discs and to a lesser extent the same condition in my neck. I also have SLAP (superior labrum anterior/posterior) tears in both of my shoulder joints. So this complicates to a very high degree which type of exercises I can do. Running and any high vertical impact is out, walking is fine. I used to be a road bike user, riding a 100 miles a week as a 30 something, but now because of neck pain riding in a roadie position I can only do limited rides on my mountain bike confined to paved trail use. For now push ups are out due to the SLAP tears, but I hope to remedy that. Time will tell. For a younger person, surgery for SLAP tears has only about a 60% success rate, for someone my age, surgery is not recommended. Other than that, I'm in great shape!
So of course I'm going to pay more attention to my diet, cut out the sweets and complex carbs, back off the alcohol intake some. I'm starting to walk today and will soon get back on my trail bike. I want to do some body weight exercises but I will have to go slow on anything that involves my shoulder joints. I plan to rehab/strengthen those with some light clubbells and circular strength training ala Scott Sonnen. I also plan to do some of Sonnen's mobility exercises as I have always been very stiff, even as a young man before weight gain or chronic injuries. So I have my work cut out for me. Nuthin to it but to do it!
So of course I'm going to pay more attention to my diet, cut out the sweets and complex carbs, back off the alcohol intake some. I'm starting to walk today and will soon get back on my trail bike. I want to do some body weight exercises but I will have to go slow on anything that involves my shoulder joints. I plan to rehab/strengthen those with some light clubbells and circular strength training ala Scott Sonnen. I also plan to do some of Sonnen's mobility exercises as I have always been very stiff, even as a young man before weight gain or chronic injuries. So I have my work cut out for me. Nuthin to it but to do it!
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