http://brad.sweat365.com Thoughts on Fitness, Health, Diet, Marathons, Triathlons, and Ironman by Brad Hefta-Gaub Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:54:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, the experiment of watching TV while spinning was pretty much a bust. Problem 1: Too Noisy -  My wife couldn't take the noise, so we had to watch a show that was less dialog centric... which really meant we didn't enjoy it that much. Problem 2: Not a good workout - ... http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/19/spinning-while-watching-tv/ Adding to my plan for shedding some pounds... Drink a glass of water before I can have a cup of coffee. See, I drink a lot of coffee... mostly iced... I start out the day with a cup of hot coffee, and then move to iced coffee after about 10am... ... http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/19/food-weight-aug-19-2008/ As I mentioned in a post from yesterday, I'm feeling the pressure to get better at running up and DOWN hill. I am more worried about the running down hill, because that's never been something I've enjoyed doing. I always feel like I'm getting a bit of a pounding on ... http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/18/up-down-hill-repeats/ Time to get serious about tracking my food. I need want to shake some pounds. Breakfast - 94 cals Coffee - ahhh - 0 calories Greek Yogurt - 1/2 cup - 60 cals - 0g Fat, 11g Protein, 3.5g Carbs (3g Sugar) Nectarine - 1/2 fruit - 34 cals - .3g Fat, .6g ... http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/18/food-weight/ Quick body weight workout before dinner. I mixed in all of these exercises kind of randomly... 100 pushups 4 sets of 25 100 squats 2 sets of 50 50 crunches 2 sets of 25 25 bicycle crunches 12 each side oblique twist situps 25 straight leg situps 12 each side leg cross overs 15 each side wide windshield ... http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/17/pushups-squats-abs/ I hate to run down hill... it sucks. I try to avoid it as much as possible... well, except for the fact that I live at the top of a hill, and always start most of my runs by running down the hill to the nice flat trail. But I ... http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/17/running-down-hill/ Originally I planned to run 20 miles... but the heat was too oppressive, and since I'm running in new shoes, I felt like I should take it a little easier. My run times were way off the mark of what I wanted... but I ran with what I had in ... http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/16/brick-oven-run-leg/ Bike leg of my brick workout. I call it a Brick Oven because of the 91F heat. That might not sound hot to people working out in Iraq or Texas... but for us Seattlites... that is HOT! Goal of the workout was to do a long ride at Z1/Z2 and then ... http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/16/brick-oven-bike-leg/ http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/15/fixie-commute-to-lunch-meeting/ Testing out the new shoes... they feel good... but my digestive track wasn't so happy. Not sure why, although my youngest has a fever, so hopefully its not related. http://brad.sweat365.com/2008/08/14/three-slow-miles/