Fathlete
2/3/17: ⬇7.7 lbs this week (thanks, Norovirus!), ⬇ 9.3 lbs this year, ⬇15.6 lbs over all.
Down this week, thanks to 4 days prostrate to the porcelain god. Chicken broth and tea, folks. That's the key. That and incessant vomiting. Now that we have the diet thing figured out...
I managed to keep my spirits up with a marathon of HBO's John Adams (somehow comforting, in the current political climate), followed by back-to-back sports movies: Invincible (Disney, Marky Mark, dirty ol' Philly, what's not to love?) and the Simon Pegg's, Run, Fatboy, Run.
More romantic comedy than true sports film, Run, Fatboy, Run is nevertheless a funny and painfully familiar look at a guy trying to get into shape to run a marathon, complete with all the standard jokes about chafing nether-regions and such.
But does it work? That is, can you run yourself thin? Vinnie Tortorich answers this way: stand at the finish line of a local marathon or triathlon. First you'll see the pros - skinny Kenyans and the like. As the hours pass, you'll see a parade of increasingly overweight folks make their way past. These are people who have spent hours a week, month after month, doing physical exercise. And yet, in many cases, they haven't lost a pound. (Those folks up front? They were skinny before they ever started running.)
There seems to be some truth to this. I rowed for three years, working out fairly consistently through both the 7-month season and our club's winter conditioning program. At the start of the 2016 season, however, I was at my heaviest weight in years. I learned quickly the truth of the phrase, "You can't outrun a bad diet." Burgers & fries, pizza rolls, beer, loaded tots... all delicious, all deadly. It was only after I started cutting down on the sugars and grains that I began to see any progress at all. I'm pretty sure that exercise has helped, but it looks like for me, it's not the bottom line.
Down this week, thanks to 4 days prostrate to the porcelain god. Chicken broth and tea, folks. That's the key. That and incessant vomiting. Now that we have the diet thing figured out...
I managed to keep my spirits up with a marathon of HBO's John Adams (somehow comforting, in the current political climate), followed by back-to-back sports movies: Invincible (Disney, Marky Mark, dirty ol' Philly, what's not to love?) and the Simon Pegg's, Run, Fatboy, Run.
More romantic comedy than true sports film, Run, Fatboy, Run is nevertheless a funny and painfully familiar look at a guy trying to get into shape to run a marathon, complete with all the standard jokes about chafing nether-regions and such.
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| "I'm not fat! I'm just... un-fit." |
But does it work? That is, can you run yourself thin? Vinnie Tortorich answers this way: stand at the finish line of a local marathon or triathlon. First you'll see the pros - skinny Kenyans and the like. As the hours pass, you'll see a parade of increasingly overweight folks make their way past. These are people who have spent hours a week, month after month, doing physical exercise. And yet, in many cases, they haven't lost a pound. (Those folks up front? They were skinny before they ever started running.)
There seems to be some truth to this. I rowed for three years, working out fairly consistently through both the 7-month season and our club's winter conditioning program. At the start of the 2016 season, however, I was at my heaviest weight in years. I learned quickly the truth of the phrase, "You can't outrun a bad diet." Burgers & fries, pizza rolls, beer, loaded tots... all delicious, all deadly. It was only after I started cutting down on the sugars and grains that I began to see any progress at all. I'm pretty sure that exercise has helped, but it looks like for me, it's not the bottom line.
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