July 19, 2009
I have made a little change in my routine since my last post.
I now do pushups on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and walk four miles. My best time this week was 63 minutes. I am currently shooting to get it under an hour by next Sunday.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, when I don’t do pushups I walk more. Yesterday, I walked six miles for the first time. It took me 97 minutes. That is a tad over 16 minutes per mile, while I was a tad under 16 min per mile on a four miles walk. Over the next couple of weeks my focus will be to cut my time, rather than increase my distance.
My diet program is effective and I have lost almost 10 pounds since I started the diet three weeks ago, and I bought a pair of 32″ waist shorts this week, as my brand new 34″ shorts were getting loose. yea!
I am going to be leaving Houston late Sunday, early Monday to go to Grand Canyon. It has been more than 25 years since I last visited Grand Canyon, but the memory is fresh and I remember the impact it had on me. I came back with an awesome attitude and fresher outlook on life. It was one of my most profound Spiritual Experience.
Within a year, I had relocated from Chicago to Austin with a better job than I had at that time and I am looking forward to having a similar impact again. I plan on traveling by road and I will be writing in more detail about it during the week and as I get closer to leaving at my Nomadic blog.
The diet and exercise routine will be challenged as I travel, but I will keep you posted. I will have my next weekly post here on Sunday before I leave. I intend to be back by Friday.
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Tags: 100 push ups, building stamina, hundred pushups, Mount Everest, Tim Ferris, Walking
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July 12, 2009
To say that I am pleased with myself, is an underestimate.
It’s been two weeks since I embarked on the serious journey of losing fat, building muscle mass and becoming overall fit to prepare for my Ultimate goal of Getting to the top of Mt. Everest.
Last week when I posted the update, I knew I had made progress based on how I felt, but I had not seen any physical signs of it on the scale yet. I have done my best to stick with the Tim Ferris diet. I have adjusted it a bit to fit my eating schedule and eating habits, and I am here to report that this morning the scaled showed that I have lost five pounds during last week. (Applause, Applause)
I have also increased my daily walks to 90 minutes now. I found out that I had miscalculated the distance I was walking due to measuring the distance of each lap incorrectly, so now I am walking five miles per day in 90 minutes. My goal is to increase it to 120 minutes, and I will keep experimenting and posting about it.
I am following the 100 pushups program consistentaly as well. At the end of week 2 I am having to step down a notch in intensity because I wasn’t able to keep up at the same intensity. It is live and learn. I wil report again next Sunday with my progress, and I will also make a mid-week post from now on to recap my other activities, such as learning about the climbing process and books etc I am reading.
Until then, stay safe and keep dreaming Big!
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July 6, 2009
As I move forward with my goal of climbing Mt Everest I have been exercising, and I started a special diet recommended by Tim ferris, in order to lose fat and build muscles and it is working.
After week one, I am here to report that though I have not lost any body weight, I have definitely lost inches around the waist. Normally I used to wear size 36 pants, and in May I had bought two pairs of size 38 pants because it was getting difficult to button the size 36. I haven’t got much mileage out of those size 38 pants, as shortly thereafter I got started with my workouts, walking everyday. I have been wearing the size 36 pants again for last month or so, but this morning I went to Wal-Mart and bought myself a pair of shorts to exercise in, and I was comfortably able to get into a size 34.
My push ups program is going on as scheduled and I started Week 2 today and the results were a little disappointing, but I am looking at what I needed to learn from the results and moving on. One of those lessons was, that you don’t tell yourself this is going to be “tougher than I thought”. Mental preparations are more important than the physical ones. Also I learned about the importance of following instructions to the tee, and hydrating myself adequately before starting my exercises.
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Tags: 100 push ups, Everest, hundred pushups, Mount Everest, Tim Ferris, Walking
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June 29, 2009
In my last post I wrote about starting the 100 push ups program, which I did today. I also started the Tim Ferris’ ‘lose 20 lbs of fat in 30 days diet’ yesterday.
I expected the diet to be challenging as it is a different way of thinking and eating limited number of foods. It is not about variety, it is about eating the same foods everyday to lose fat. No feel good stuff here. I knew if I wasn’t serious about it, I am not going to succeed. My wife, who started the program with me is already complaining, but that is her habit. I know she will stick with it.
What surprised me was the push up program. When I did my initial test, I did 20 pushups. As I read the program, I thought it would be easy and a piece of cake, as it is designed to build your strength gradually. I should have known better than to let the simplicity fool me. But needless to say, I completed the day one without breaking down. I know I will be better prepared mentally on Wed.
I also managed to increase my daily walks to a full hour and a distance of 3.6 miles. This week my focus is to increase the distance to 4.0 miles while keeping the time within an hour.
I learned something new today. I Just took it easy during my walk today instead of trying to stretch myself and was amazed to find ut that I finished the walk in less time than when I walk briskly. I was still sweating by the end of the walk but I was not panting as much. I was really surprised by the fact that it didn’t take me any longer to walk the same distance when I walk at a leisurely pace instead of brisk pace. I’ll see how I do tomorrow morning.
Until then… Stay safe and keep dreaming big, take initiative and get going.
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June 26, 2009
… the teacher shows up.
I have been walking religiously everyday in order to increase my stamina. This morning I walked over 3.5 miles in just under an hour. That is amazing progress over the last three weeks. I intend to reach 4.0 miles in one hour by the end of this week.
While building stamina is important for my goal of climbing Mt Everest, it is also important that I lose body fat and increase muscle mass, and I was aware of the fact that focusing on stamina alone wasn’t going to cut it. I am going to have to find a way to cut fat and build muscles, but I was at peace knowing that if I kept on working on what’s at hand, the solutions to other matters will present themselves in due time.
I must be ready, because today I found two separate blogs addressing the two issues, namely losing fat and increasing muscle mass, particularly strengthening the upper body.
The first one was a blog entry more than two years old. 
Somehow I stumbled upon a piece Tim Ferris had done back in 2007 before the release of his now famous book The 4-hour Work Week entitled “How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise”. I was amazed at the simplicity of the method. I was more amazed by the fact that the post has received 2114 comments so far.
The second was a website called One Hundred Push Ups. It’s a six week incremental upper body build up program where you get to the point where you are able to a hundred push ups per day three times a week. I looked over the program, and did the initial test. I was able to do 20 push ups. I continually surprise myself with what I am able to accomplish given the fact that I haven’t exercised in ages.
I am starting the Tim Ferris diet Sunday morning and the push up program on Monday. I will keep you all posted on how I am doing at least weekly.
Oh, BTW, I weighed in at 185 pounds this morning, so I am looking forward to being at 165 or less this time next month.
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