{"id":32380,"date":"2012-07-13T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=32380"},"modified":"2012-07-12T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:34:35","slug":"married-to-my-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=32380","title":{"rendered":"Married to My Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember reading something in a magazine about losing weight that really stuck with me for some reason. It said “Don’t get married to your workout.”<\/strong> Basically this means change things up as much as possible. Don’t do the same workout every day. Try new exercises, increase the weight and resistance, change the mileage, try a different activity–anything.<\/p>\n

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When I read that article I scoffed. What I was doing was working. It worked well. I lost weight, I kept it off, I was getting stronger and faster. I was definitely getting a fitness level that I was proud of. And I\u00a0liked<\/em> what I was doing: I loved swimming and wasn’t going to reduce it.<\/p>\n

In the end, I did end up changing some things around. Previously my swim sessions were 3 days a week. I was finding that I didn’t have enough time for other activities and reduced that to 2 days a week. It’s been that way for years now and as summer has arrived and I need to increase my cycling miles, I’ve reduced it to 1 day a week. But that’s not all–my swimming sessions were the same. I was most definitely married to my routine. I had three different swim routines that I liked to do and rotated between them but there wasn’t much variation<\/a> beyond that. Was I doing intervals<\/a>? Not as often as I should have been.\u00a0What does this lead to? Plateaus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I first started doing a serious weight lifting program when I had to stop running for awhile<\/a>, I lost weight almost immediately. In that first month I lost 5 pounds and several inches. It had been years since I lost 5 pounds in one month. In the two years I’ve been weight lifting I haven’t seen a change like that since.<\/p>\n

I’ve been in a rut lately with my workouts. All winter long I was focusing on my weight lifting, swimming 2 days a week and going to spin class once a week. Now that the weather is better my goal is to bike to work 3 days a week. So far I’ve only managed 2 days but that’s partly weather related. Doing 66 miles a week (3 commutes) would be a major shake up to my routine. I’m looking forward to it and I won’t lie–a little part of me is hoping this change will jump start some weight loss.<\/p>\n

When Michael was consistently biking every day to work he lost a lot of weight. Granted, he’s a man and they seem to have it easier when it comes to melting the fat, but I REALLY hope I see some movement on the scale if I’m doing 66 miles a week!<\/p>\n

I HATE changing my workout routine!<\/strong> It’s so\u00a0comfortable<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0It feels\u00a0familiar<\/em><\/strong>. I’ve been able to\u00a0maintain\u00a0<\/em>my weight loss by sticking to my schedule. But it’s time. I MUST change things up!<\/p>\n

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So how did I change things up recently?<\/p>\n

Mileage, baby, mileage. In one week I was able to get my biking miles up thanks to starting the week off with a nearly 40 mile ride<\/a>. The 40 mile ride was pretty good, at least for most of it and only a struggle those last 10 miles. Happily, I had no soreness the next day. It was almost as if I had done nothing!<\/p>\n

Wednesday:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few days later, I biked to work. I was running late that morning so I stepped it up and went faster than I normally do. I also changed up my routine a bit–I changed my route to avoid that intersection that makes me crazy every time. The new route was so much better–a tad longer, but so much better! Morning Stats: 547 calories burned.<\/p>\n

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It was a hot ride home. I was a bit sore from the previous day’s gym session but not cycling sore from my 40 miles. I had my eye on the prize:\u00a0would I be able to do 80 miles this week??<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was doing well and then as soon as I hit the entrance of the Springwater trail near downtown, I heard a loud pop and then I fishtailed to the side of the trail. Yep. Tire exploded.<\/strong> Literally. It wasn’t quite as scary as the first time<\/a> it happened, but it still sucked. Thankfully it didn’t happen downtown in traffic or somewhere I could have gotten hurt.<\/p>\n

I pulled off into the shade and texted my Knight in Shining Armor. We are currently completely out of tubes so even if I had the savvy to change my bike tire, I didn’t have anything to change it to. Also lame.<\/p>\n

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I’d barely gone 2 miles when it happened. I was bummed. I stood in the shade and waited for Michael to pick me up. It was a disappointing ending to my day and cut my training short for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

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Total mileage for the day cut short: 14.24<\/strong><\/p>\n

Total miles for this training week: 50.84<\/strong><\/p>\n

Total miles for the last 7 days: 73.44<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sigh! Here’s to next week being better.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Are you married to your workout and if so, how do you change it? Can you change a bike tire?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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