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Otis fad diet thread — yoga, fasting, and kevzilla walking on🚶♂️ (9 Viewers)
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bostonfred
Footballguy
You're not desperate and you're not in need. It's difficult to stick with it but it's worse to put in all of that effort and then give it all back.
bostonfred
Footballguy
Day 12 of 65.Otis said:
Give me two solid months of effort. We'll get to 219.8.
And 215 before Thanksgiving.
Let's do this.
Otis
Footballguy
I’m in. No booze tonight. Had a pretzel and some cheese. After some cauliflower rice concoction Mrs O made for dinner (was pretty good actually). Drinking water and smoking a cigar.
Quiet day at work tomorrow and a long weekend ahead, plenty of time for a couple good rows, some yoga, and my push ups day tomorrow.
(Pssst small font ... if we’re being honest I’d punch a baby right now for a bottle of red and that rack of Tate’s cookies in my cabinet.... but this will have to do for now.....)
bigbottom
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
Bump for all the runners. I know the 10k thread is doing this but if any of you want to do a fun run, zoom, watch a real actual football game on the treadmill, whatever... let's do something for a great cause and a good friend.
Down 7lbs since this post and have been doing the BBS workout. Best I've felt of my adult life, no lie.
bigbottom
Footballguy
Thanks Fred!
p.s. You can walk this bad boy too. You’ll still get a race shirt and medal!
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The Flying Turtle
Footballguy
Yoga
15k steps
Under Weight Watcher Points
Couldn’t find time for yoga yesterday but finished with over 18k steps so overall still positive.
15k steps
Under Weight Watcher Points
Couldn’t find time for yoga yesterday but finished with over 18k steps so overall still positive.
bostonfred
Footballguy
eaganwildcats
Footballguy
Kept it rolling last night. Long weekend here we come.
Hike
- rained out
5k Row -
Ab Ripper X -
Hike
- rained out5k Row -
Ab Ripper X -
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
You know it’s not hard to meet your calorie goal when you cut out snacks and booze and do a little bit of exercise. I was able to eat a nice Mexican dinner of homemade veggie enchiladas (delicious) and Mexican rice with a la Diabla sauce. Then at night I scarfed down a Klondike bar. 
still way under
still way under
bostonfred
Footballguy
@DA RAIDERS Holy #### are my hips/groin sore from that yoga yesterday. Maybe I shouldn't have run afterwards.
SWC
Bromigo
continued my efforts to run again with a just shy of 6 mile run walk this morning jogging more than 50 percent of it was solid yesterday with a 15 mile bike ride and 45 pushups and came in under on calories and today i have only had cheerios and milk and i will ride the bike tonight i am down in the 190 range and with a bmi of about 23 stuff is going well take that to the bank bromigos
Poke_4_Life
Footballguy
bigbottom
Footballguy
DA RAIDERS
Footballguy
yea, me too. that was very leg heavy. especially if you went for it. feels like i did legs yesterday.
bostonfred
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
A few people are still catching up , and the rest of us are sore from yesterday so I'm going to post this core yoga practice for today- https://youtu.be/CRKmB-78elIbostonfred said:
@DA RAIDERS its only 22 minutes or so, but you said you were going to try my hundredpushups.com sets of 29/33/29/29/40 so this would be a good complement after the leg day yesterday
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
This is a really naive question as I haven't read through the entire hundredpushups.com link yet. Is the idea that we are eventually supposed to train up to doing 100 straight, good form pushups (without taking a breather)? If so, has anyone in this thread accomplished that yet? Sorry I know it's probably been covered already.
bostonfred
Footballguy
Yes the goal is to do one set of 100 straight.fred_1_15301 said:
I could probably do close to 50 straight right now. When I started a month ago it was more like a dozen. It's supposed to taken6 weeks but I'm redoing some days so it will be closer to 8 weeks for me.
The final day is like 5 sets, 50 or 60 at a time. It looks bonkers but I didn't think I could do sets of 30 at a time as quickly as I did so I'm trusting the process.
The Flying Turtle
Footballguy
Yoga good ab workout today
15k steps
Under Weight Watcher Points
Snacks: carrots, grapes, 2 turkey slices, banana,1 light beer.
Weight 234.4
good ab workout today15k steps
Under Weight Watcher Points
Snacks: carrots, grapes, 2 turkey slices, banana,1 light beer.
Weight 234.4
krista4
Footballguy
I just did this one, immediately followed by today's 22-minute core workout. Figured I shouldn't use yesterday's for a back-to-back based on the comments.Good morning everyone and congratulations to everyone who just finished their first or second 30 days of Yoga with Adriene. Nice job sticking with it, and thank you to everybody who posted about it in the thread. Seeing other people stick with this makes me feel like I need to stick with this too and you have all helped me so much.
I know a lot of us are on different schedules with the yoga now, including some people who have joined recently and that really makes me happy because I know how hard it was for me to get started and I am psyched for all of you and hope you find this as beneficial as I did. If you want to join with us on the next round of yoga practices and feel like you're up for the challenge, please do. If you want to stick with the original 30 days of yoga playlist to build strength and understand what all the poses mean and how they work, you can join us at any time.
I am going to curate the next few yoga sessions so we can find what we like as a group. Some people have mentioned that they want challenging practices, longer practices, quick practices they can do between meetings, daily practices, days off in between, practices that don't use a lot of arms... it's not going to be possible to do all of that every day, obviously, but I am going to try to find a good balance and the only way to do that is to hear back from you so please let me know your thoughts on the daily video and also my approach.
Today's video is one we haven't done before from the yoga for weight loss series. It's 45 minutes and does some good core work but it's a full body routine and does some good stretching along with some challenging poses. People finishing the advanced series will recognize most of these poses although there are a few small variations mixed in. People who are newer to the practice should like the amount of explanation she puts in - this is from 6 years ago, before she had a huge audience of regulars.
Yoga for Weight Loss - Strengthen and Lengthen
Lastly, a reminder that anyone can start at any time and it's totally ok to take a rest day if you need to. First timers might want to try Yoga woth Adriene - Yoga for Complete Beginners before jumping in, or do the "beginner" series from 2015 called 30 Days of Yoga with Adriene. Our "advanced" group just finished a playlist called June 2020 Courage that was a bit more challenging than the original 30 days but had some easier days too. If you want to do those on your own and want me to remove you from the @ list below, just let me know. If you want to join us and be added to the list, or just want to follow along, let me know that too.
And finally, a reminder that I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice. Consult your doctor before beginning this or any exercise program.
Namaste
@krista4 @fred_1_15301 @Otis @DA RAIDERS @eaganwildcats @Dickies @Ministry of Pain @[icon] @culdeus @Poke_4_Life @ragincajun @The Flying Turtle @Leeroy Jenkins @Judge Smails @kevzilla @belljr @Big Blue Wrecking Crew
These were both good. The one above seems like a great "everyday" session, so if you're trying to curate something for us all to try, this would be a terrific inclusion.
I'm less interested in doing just a core workout, but if that's anyone's thing, I thought today's was also a great session, despite the side planks! I was definitely feeling it by that point. I especially enjoyed the little crunches while you're all pretzeled up on each side; those felt good.
One major complaint with both is no Benji.
bostonfred
Footballguy
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
I have faith in Otis. He usually posts updates in the morning.
Good day for me today. Played football with my son in the afternoon (we take turns running routes) and did a 50 minute (600 calorie burning) body combat in the evening. Wife’s bday is Sunday so I cooked some cauliflower “steaks” and air fryer French fries/poutine from scratch (so yummy). No snacks for me today but starting to drink a little. Also, we put up a tent in the backyard so the 4 of us are camping tonight.
krista4
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
Mrs O invited a bunch of friends over. She started off with a little sip of white and it was downhill from there. They’re all bombed and she can barely stand. I drank water. I did eat a few slices of pizza but it was salad pizza and it was only because I ate nothing else all day and the cauliflower pizza that Mrs O ordered for me ended up being regular pizza so this was the next best option. So I still probably ended the day like a thousand below goal. Maybe more.
The bad news is Mrs O is going to be paying the piper in the morning no doubt, so Otis will be ok kids and dog duty. Then again it’s Saturday and I don’t think we have plans so I’m sure I can work in time to workout in the afternoon.
Go get em everyone.
krista4
Footballguy
eaganwildcats
Footballguy
This aged well.
Way to stay on the wagon @Otis.
Got my row in last night - today is pushups and ab ripper.
Otis
Footballguy
Yeah.... I may be on my own here... and I’ll admit I’ve been considering having a Labor Day Weekend drink or two. Which would be totally fine given my other progress, healthy eating and exercise. But I’d rather jut stay clean a little longer and get closer to goal before I start loosening the reins.This aged well.
Way to stay on the wagon @Otis.
Got my row in last night - today is pushups and ab ripper.
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bostonfred
Footballguy
fred_1_15301
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
https://youtu.be/qiu1SYtAdBg
Hey all I know it's Labor Day weekend, and we've all got plans of some kind, but if you're looking to burn off some burgers and dogs, this is a full body routine called yoga kiss
kevzilla
Footballguy
I'm on to Adriene's shtick now.
1) Take stress techniques perfected at Gitmo and Albanian black-ops sites
b) Repackage them as "sleepy bear" and "happy eagle"
#) Profit
bostonfred
Footballguy
I literally just talked to her the other day and she was like wait are you the Boston Fred from footballguys.com and I was like no it's bostonfred and she was like that's what I meant and I was like it's not the same thing and she was all, you're right, I'm sorry, and also do you know kevzilla, and I was like yes, and she was like #### that guy lol, and I was like I know, right? And then we made out.
bostonfred
Footballguy
Hundredpushups.com week 4 day 3 redux
29 - check
33 - check
29 - check
29 - check
All consecutive reps no stopping, with a little over 3 minutes between sets. I was just short of exhaustion at the end of every set, especially on the 33 and the final 29, so I took double the time to rest before the final set of 40.
40 - well, I made it through 25 good form pushups. Then I collapsed and had to rest for a few seconds. But I got back up and powered through the final 15 with good, slow, controlled form and feel great. Going to be sore as heck later but I gave full effort and finished the day much stronger than i did last time.
The next thing I'm supposed to do is a test to exhaustion. Single set, as many reps as i can do. I'll try that Monday and see where I'm at - if I can do more than 40, then great, but if not, I will have to decide whether to repeat week 4 or drop down a level for week 5.
29 - check
33 - check
29 - check
29 - check
All consecutive reps no stopping, with a little over 3 minutes between sets. I was just short of exhaustion at the end of every set, especially on the 33 and the final 29, so I took double the time to rest before the final set of 40.
40 - well, I made it through 25 good form pushups. Then I collapsed and had to rest for a few seconds. But I got back up and powered through the final 15 with good, slow, controlled form and feel great. Going to be sore as heck later but I gave full effort and finished the day much stronger than i did last time.
The next thing I'm supposed to do is a test to exhaustion. Single set, as many reps as i can do. I'll try that Monday and see where I'm at - if I can do more than 40, then great, but if not, I will have to decide whether to repeat week 4 or drop down a level for week 5.
bostonfred
Footballguy
Week to week fluctuations don't mean that much GB, you know that. It's probably just water weight, but even if it isn't, you're investing in your overall health, not just weight loss, and doing all that walking plus yoga is like putting money in the bank back when there was an interest rate. You will see that you can do more because of the yoga, and your weight gets better you can do more, and you can do more because your weight keeps improving. It's the best kind of feedback loop.
Otis
Footballguy
Damn this is impressive progress. Honestly can’t imagine myself getting to that point, but if you’re telling me trust the program and it’ll happen, I’m in.
The Flying Turtle
Footballguy
I gotta thank you @bostonfred I was craving a snack or nap, but decided to knock out this yoga session instead. Without your motivation I likely would not have done anything constructive.https://youtu.be/qiu1SYtAdBg
Hey all I know it's Labor Day weekend, and we've all got plans of some kind, but if you're looking to burn off some burgers and dogs, this is a full body routine called yoga kiss
krista4
Footballguy
Wasn't a big fan of this one. Seven minutes of just sitting around at the beginning made me stabby.https://youtu.be/qiu1SYtAdBg
Hey all I know it's Labor Day weekend, and we've all got plans of some kind, but if you're looking to burn off some burgers and dogs, this is a full body routine called yoga kiss
bostonfred
Footballguy
Yeah I was going to warn you about that but I never got the chance because my kid was climbing all over me while I was doing it and I eventually gave in and took him for a hike. Just got home and having scallops and vegetables without wine, which is not the recipe.
bostonfred
Footballguy
kevzilla
Footballguy
"Always thrust the blade forward with integrity, whatever that means to you."
--From Yoga for Psychopaths
