Sunday, January 31, 2021

This beast called Wellness

Here's my guide to getting into the zone.

You already have a goal of being at a certain weight. Great.

Find your total calories burned through a fitness app

Log your food to get the calories consumed. 

This should show you if you have a calorie deficit needed for your healthy weight loss.

This is a whole system, so just having control on one aspect of it may leave other important controls in blind side.

Find out your weakness.

Weekends?

Come up with plans for those.

Enjoy the experiment.

Be open to strength training, alternate measurements of health like body measurements and body fat% instead of weighing scale.

Veggies and fruits make you happy.

Use this as cushion when you are having a calorie dense food on a party food day. Live Well.


Saturday, January 30, 2021

It only gets better..

 Another 30 Min jumprope workout

I was amazed at how the food app is helping me on restraining the party food.

Another one today.

Had a great week with calorie deficit this week.

Fitness Apps

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Life is good

Woke up late. Made lunch walk good. Later in the day, while waiting for a meeting, squeezed 15 min jumprope beginner workout.

Between this workouts, food print app and Jillian Michaels pointing out the total calories from the smartphone fitness app, withings saying that I am in the 20% active people, while not my cardiac best, I feel great.


Sunday, January 24, 2021

Jump rope

 jump rope HIIT was good. I had  a15 min slot in the morning. This was perfect for that.

syndey cummings cardio HIIT too. Did about half of it. 

This blog is called keeping up with exercise but there's so much research going on that keeping up with exercise research is going to take more efforts.

The article is right that HIIT gets a lot of attention. The study found that moderate physical activity may have metabolic advantages.

I find it very fascinating that there are different type of calories. The way some smartphones count your calories as exercise when the heartrate goes above a certain threshold. Head to head comparision of HIIT vs aerobic activity.

Blood sugar control was found only on the days of exercise, so it does not matter what kind of exercise, but some exercise is good.  So dont fret too much about missing your schedule exercise as long as you exercise. If you exercise for weight loss benefits too, try coralling the food side with measurement and know for certain that the food choices are good ones with logging. 

A mix of exercises will provide you various benefits. Each with its own. Movement make syou happy. Exerting makes you feel fit. Choose them based on your time, schedule and energy.

When you do not have mich time, 1 min of exertion spread over 11 minutes will give you as much effect as 45 min moderate exercise. This one is easier with jump rope too. If you exert yourself for 20 seconds all out, then you would have to do it 3 times with 2-3 minute normal recovery.

25 min of kickboxing after 15 min jumprope.