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Fitness Update: 58

December 14, 2018 by Mr. 1500 Days 8 Comments

Mrs. 1500 is trying to lose a couple pounds and so am I. I’ve been focusing on cardio exercise because:

  • Greece and Thanksgiving were unkind to my belly and butt. In other words, I was overserved. In other words, I struggle with self-control and shove food into my mouth with reckless abandon sometimes. Mmmm, stuffing and pecan pie…
  • My shoulder still hurts. I’m going to let it rest for a while longer before resuming strength training.

So, I’ve been running and walking. A lot. The most remarkable result of hoofing around town has been my lower heart rate.

58

I have a fancy Fitbit Blaze which keeps track of my heart rate. I like paying attention to this metric because it’s a direct indicator of fitness. The stronger your heart is, the more blood it can pump, so the less it has to beat. Extreme athletes have resting heart rates in the 30s while the average human is usually in the 70s.

As I’ve been running, I’ve been paying attention to my resting heart rate. Last week, it went down to 58 for a day, a new all-time low for me. Yippee!

And when I zoom out to 3 months, I see a bumpy trajectory downward:

While I’m sad that I’ve had to temporarily suspend my strength training, I’m happy to see that I’m getting in better cardio health.

Stats (12/12/2018)

  • Weight: 161.0 (Can I see 155??)
  • Body fat %: 17.5 (Maybe I can get this under 15 once and for all?!)
  • BMI: 22.5

Steps

I made my goal of 6,000,000 steps this year, but won’t make my stretch goal of 7,000,000:

I’m debating whether or not to set a step goal in 2019. I think that speed-walking has helped with weight loss, but wandering around town for hours on end isn’t the most productive use of time. Perhaps I could achieve the same weight loss with high intensity interval training? That or just less damn beer.

2019

Mrs. 1500 and I both need to focus on our health in the new year. All of the money in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you’re in poor health. The great thing about FI life is that you get the time to work on yourself.

Something that helps motivate us is having an athletic event to look forward to:

  • May: We’ll be running the 5K at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting 
  • May: We’ll be running a half-marathon as well. We’re still trying to figure out which one.
  • July: We’ll ride RAGBRAI which is a bicycle ride across Iowa. It’s more fun that it sounds!

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  1. Steven says

    December 14, 2018 at 8:50 am

    You crazy kids teaming up with the POPs for Berkshire and the house and such? Really happy to hear you guys make a shift towards better health and fitness, that was a huge part of my 2018 and I’m in such a better place because of it.
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  2. mrWow says

    December 14, 2018 at 9:20 am

    Good on you guys!!!
    How about we join you on all 3??? And then some.

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  3. Brian says

    December 14, 2018 at 9:40 am

    I might have missed it, but have you seen a physical therapist about your shoulder? As someone who had an 85% tear in my rotator cuff, this was the fist place the Dr sent me. They did a great job getting my range of motion back (strength no, because the tear was just too bad). In the end I had to have surgery, but the PTs got me back to where I needed to be and ahead of schedule.

    They might be able to give you some simple stretches and resistance band exercises to strength what is weak. It might also keep you from losing some of the gains from your previous strength training overall.

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  4. Cathleen Cooks Stuff says

    December 14, 2018 at 11:05 am

    Bike ride across iowa actually sounds very nice (in the summer, not so much in the winter). Hopefully I may make it to the century ride here, there’s one in Haleiwa, and it stretches through north shore, so will have some very awesome views. Unfortunately, my only operating bike is an electric bike, which may or may not be permitted. We’ll see.

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  5. John Massie says

    December 16, 2018 at 10:20 am

    Last week I had a colonoscopy and I sent the nurses into a panic on multiple occasions as I set off heart rate alarms as my resting heart rate was very low. My wife kept telling them that it is normal as he is an endurance athlete. It didn’t go over well. They finally kicked me out of the recovery area.

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  6. Ryan @ RoseRelish says

    December 20, 2018 at 12:54 pm

    Put together a RAGBRAI team and I’ll join. It’s been on my to-do list for a long, long time. But I’ve always been able to find a reason not to sign up and do it. But a 1500 Days Team riding around…hmm…

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    • Mr. 1500 Days says

      December 20, 2018 at 1:17 pm

      Email sent!

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  7. TinaP says

    December 20, 2018 at 1:29 pm

    RAGBRAI?! You should check out rideidaho.org – we have way better micro breweries and wineries! 🙂

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