Greg's Running Blog

Elliptical 60 minutes 126 avg heart rate 527 calories

Today’s nutrition was not as good as I have planned. It’s still not terrible but it certainly could have been better. I had a meeting at work and they brought in food from Pei Wei. I have ordered Pad Thai which has 720 calories in one half of the bowl not to mention the over [...]

Decline Press 1×15 @ 30lbs 2×15 @ 40lbs Incline Press 3×15 @ 40lbs Ab Crunch 1×15 @ 30lbs 2×15 @ 40lbs Twisting Oblique 3×20 @ 20lbs

Elliptical 30 minutes 139 avg heart rate 314 calories Elliptical 60 minutes 125 avg heart rate 512 calories

I’m trying something new today. I have started using myfooddiary.com to log my food intake. I will no longer post every single detail about my food intake, just the summary. Eventually I’ll write my own food logging application (I’m a software engineer after all) but right now I’ll just fork over the $9/month and have [...]

Ab Crunch 3×15 @ 30lbs Twisting Oblique 3×20 @ 20lbs Leg Press 3×15 @ 165lbs Leg Extensions 2×15 @ 20lbs

You might wonder why the calories are much lower than previous excercises for the same heart rate and same time duration. I have ran a fitness test with my Polar S210 heart rate monitor that calculates your theoretical VO2 max based on fluctuations in your resting heart rate. Mine came out to be 32, which [...]

I’m trying to still eat the home cooked meals that my wife makes because they’re tasty and she makes it for the whole family and it would just suck to be the one at the dinner table eating different. However I ate the meatballs with veggies instead of rice like I normally do. Unfortunately eating [...]

This is what I look like today. I can actually see a difference from my 10/26/2009 set. The top of my gut has definitely gotten a bit smaller. It’s a small progress but it’s in the right direction…

Back Day: Lat Pull 1×15 @ 40 lbs 2×15 @ 50 lbs Seated Low Row 3×15 @ 50 lbs Chest Supported Row – Inner Grips 2×15 @ 50 lbs 1×15 @ 40 lbs Chest Supported Row – Outer Grips 3×15 @ 30 lbs