Great First Week - 5062 calories

Well great first week. 5062 calories, over 700 per day. Finished off the week with a long ride. My legs are feeling the pain the most. By Sunday I was wondering what I could do without killing my legs more.

I ended up having 4 gym sessions, 2 runs, 3 rides and 1 walk.
Monday was a public holiday so we spent the day surfing.

Here is a picture of my son and I surfing.

Walking does not burn calories

Good Grief. 1 Hour walk and 200 calories. not enough but very relaxing. Took Princess Fifi for a 1 hour walk. 4:30am. really great but will have to do 400 calories tonight.

10km ride and 4km run = 600 calories

Dinner party tonight so had to get the calories in beofre guest arrived. Did a 10km ride and 4km run to get to 600cals in 1hr.

Running was slow 6min per km. My legs a re dead from Spartans. Tomorrow I reckon will be a long morning walk.

Another 1000 Calorie Day

The standard workouts for Wednesday night. Crossfit and then Spartans.

I am finding that the workouts I am doing take me between 50 min and 60 min to get 600 calories no matter what I do.

The Crossfit workout consisted of 4 sets. Each set was 6 min long with 3 exercises, rotating through the exersies at 1 min without a break. The 3 exercises are 2 strength and 1 cardio.

For Spartans we did a 5 min burpee test and the beep test. The burpee test was as many burpees in 5 min. My wife did 100 I only manged 70. I found that my legs gave in before my fitness. You will see the burpee test spike in the graph and the steady rise of the beep test to a max heart rate of 168bpm. The remainder of Spartans was stomach and slow runs to get to 600 calories.

http://www.spartansfitness.com/

Here is a pic of me surfing in the Maldives.. aargh the Maldives.

600 calories - 53 min on the windtrainer

Took the kids to see Monsters vs Aliens. Tammy made great dinner and I rode on the windtrainer for 53 min to get to 600 calories. It is very boring but took quicker than I expected. Heart rate sat at av 133 bpm.

1000 Calories 2 workouts

Day One consited of 2 workouts. A Crossfit session and a Spartans session. The Crossfit was hard with Adam and Cabana Boy going flat out. I was knackered for the Saprtans session which was a lot of hill sprints and burpees.

This is the Crossfot session. Notine the peaks as the sets increased. The genreal format was three exercises, 2 weights and 1 cardio.

Example set - DB Flat Bench, Jump Lunges with Medicine ball throughs, Plyometric Medicine ball push ups.

Spartans Seeeion below. The man peaks where 60 meter spints up a hill.

Pete Cuff in 1973

My Dad at 36years old. Thats me in the front at 1 years old.

Why

A while ago I was going though some old photos of out family. I came across a photo of the family when I was 2 and my dad was 36. He was ripped. My dad is 72 and can still bench 100kgs and do 10 pull ups. He has lived a fantastic life and at 72 is doing a surfing trip to Hawai.

I looked at myself and at the same age wasn't looking very good. So my quest is CONSISTANCY.
I plan to do 600 calories per day for 60 dyas. I realise it isn't much and isn't very long but it is an achivalbe start. After the 60 days I will look at the results and work out where to next.

I will post all my workouts and results. Enjoy.