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4 years ago I started working out to lose weight. I didn’t want to give up my sweet tooth so I knew that it would be hard to lose 20 plus pounds.
The first five came off very easily in a month, but over the last few years I have bounced around from 192 to 198.
The past 6 weeks I drop 12 lbs and still dropping. What was the difference? I had a client that drop over 10 lbs in 8 weeks without altering her diet. She had been exercising by walking with a 15 lbs weight vest over the last few years. When I told her she should use her arms more when walking and walk on the ball of the foot, next thing I know I get an email saying how she has lost 12 lbs since she started walking as instructed.
She said the new way of walking made her breath harder but did not make her tired.
I thought cool a bonus.
Then my wife started to drop weight like crazy also after following the same instruction.
Now I have to take notice.
So I don’t walk but I started running and biking in a way that made me breath harder but did not make me tired.
I bike one mile a week and I run one mile a week. Outside of that I run on the track and treadmill 3 days a week.
The only new thing is the bike portion as I have been lifting weights for the last 4 years along with training for track and field (100m,triple jump and long jump).
My track workout consisted of short explosive runs with a lot of rest in between.
But no serious mileage. The longest run I had done over the years is the twice a week 800m run. I did do two 1.5 mile runs to test a new shoe design but that is about it for anything over 800m.
For the one mile run, I run until I my breathing rate couldn’t keep up with the running speed. I then count to five and run again until my breathing rate couldn’t keep up with my running speed. I do this until I have ran one mile. Normally the mile run takes about 6 minutes or less including the time that I stop running to catch my breath.
On the track I changed the workouts, to something similiar to the one mile run.
I would run 50m walk back and run 50m again. I would run them until I felt out of breath. I would then rest 10 minutes and repeat again. I would also time the runs to make sure that I was going as fast as I could. If on one of the sprints I slowed down by .25, I would stop at that point and rest for 10 minutes.
I am happy to say in 6 weeks I have shed the additional weight of 12 lbs without altering my diet.
I hope to be down to 175 by June 14.
I could have drop the weight along time ago by altering my diet, but I wanted to have my cake and to eat it also.
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