Levi's Log

[Symphony-x]

Well I had the idea to start my log of what I eat and the exercise I have each day. Feel free to comment on what to improve/change.

[Hope making this topic is okay btw ^^]

I'll start with what I ate at what times, then training.

Woke up at about 6:30 and had a muller light strawberry yogurt for breakfast.

10am came, and its break time, so I had a Innocence Manga and Passion fruit smoothy [100% fruit, nothing else]

about 1.15pm I had my lunch where I had a ham, lettuce and cucumber sandwich, with another one of those smoothies.

6:30pm I had my main meal, which was chicken pasta bake ontop of toast with a side salad, and a glass of water.

9:30pm had toast with reduced sugar strawberry jam.

12:30am Bed time

Now for training.

Well, had a full day of college, so the only training I got there was walking up and down, and around the college several times. With about 4 flights of stairs a good few times ^^.

7:30pm went over to my kickboxing/karate place, and was told we were doing all fitness tonight. [Yay ]. So it started off at just before 8, and we had to run around the hall, in any direction we wanted, when sensei helen would shout change, and we'd change direction. We did that for about 15 - 20 minutes.

We then started to have to sprint and jump for each square, missing one in the middle. Then doing forward rolls across the room, and then side stepping then star jumps.

We stretched off, and got ready for our 'circuits'. We got into groups of 2, or 3, where one person stood at one side of the hall, and the other at the other side. We got different exercises to do, then after doing ten of them we had to run to the other side of the hall, and back, and do ten more. We did that for 2 minutes at each time.

The exercises include, lying on your back doing cycling movements with your legs, power push ups, crunches, squates, lunges, sit ups, star jumps etc.

After that we had to jog on the spot, and every 10 seconds we had to jog as fast as we could for ten seconds. Did that for a while then stretched off as a cool down.

12pm just before I went to bed I did about 20 press ups, and 50 sit ups, plus a few reps of my dumbells.

So that was Tuesday Will post todays tomorrow.

[Symphony-x]

Well, sorry for the delay, but had my grading yesterday, so couldn't post my wednesday log. so here goes again...

Wednesday I had a day off of college, but the weather here was absolutely terrible, heres my food intake of the day:

10:30 Strawberry muller light yogurt, glass of semi-skimmed milk.

1pm ham sandwich, just plain. [and I hate butter, ick] and a glass of peach water.

6pm ham, chuttney and mixed salad wrap. with water.

Now for my training.

Well the only training I could do on wednesday was that at my boxing. Arrived and started at half past 7, with a run around the hall for about 10 minutes for a warm up, then onto stretches.

After that we had a circuit layed out which consisted of:

1, skipping

2, lunges

3, sit ups with medacine ball

4, punches with weights

5, sit ups to ankles

6, quat thrusts

7, press ups: thumbs touching

8, tricep raises

9, sit ups with medacine ball again

10, flys with weights

we did each for 3 minutes.

After that we had 3 rounds of 3 minutes shadow boxing to get our bodys lose and ready. Starting off with just leg movement and gradually working everything together.

We then went upstairs to do pad work, and bag work. Altogether we did 12 2 minute rounds, which included 3 pad work rounds, and 2wice on the speed ball.

After these, we went onto stomach work where we had to start off doing 15 sit ups, then raising your legs up six inches, doing full circles with your legs in one direction 10 times, then the same in the other direction 10 times again. Then straight into 15 sit ups again.

We had to then raise our legs 12 inches, and hold it for 1 minute, pointing out toes away from us. 15 sit ups again after that.

finally we had to put our legs vertical, and push them up raising our legs as far up as we can do 20 imes.

We stretched our stomachs off, and did stretches as a cool down, and tht was us finished.

[Symphony-x]

Ok, now on to thursdays training. I had college in the morning, and then my college afternoon out, where I had to go early due to kickboxing training. here goes:

7am: Strawberry muller light ypgurt.

10am: 'Just Juice' 100% apple juice carton

2:30pm: Chicken and bacon panini with side salad.

6:30pm: toast on its own.

Ok so with our afternoon out we went bowling. Now I wouldnt have said bowling was much exercise but the ammount I walked about, and throwing the bowling ball couldnt have did any harm atleast.

8pm: My kickboxing started. We started off with a 15 minute job around the hall, getting warmed up, and to work some sweat. We were asked to speed up every so often, so we'd feel it more.

After that we stretched a bit, and then ran for about 5 minutes again, to losen are legs off once more.

We were told the night we'd be working on front and rear leg round house kicks, spinning back leg round houses and blocking kicks.

We started off by getting into groups of 2, where 1 person would kick, and we'd block the kicks after sensei graeme showing us exactly what to do. We did this from 1 side of the hall, to the other, and the other person would do it back. We moved onto doing backleg round houses and front legs where the person blocking would have to watch out to see which 1 to block.

We then moved onto spinning kicks, which I love. We just found a space outta everyones way, and tried spinning back kicks, and blocking them.

At the end of the class we were given our new belts, and were told this time round we had been assessed continually instead of doing a grading at the end. I got my red belt WOOOO!

[Symphony-x]

Onto Fridays training then and eating habits.

Day off of college again.

Woke up later than usual.

1:30pm: ham sandwich

6pm: Pasta and chicken with a side salad and a glass of water

10pm: had my weeks treat, a small bar of dairy milk chocolate.

Training:

Well, My kitchens currently being renivated, and I had to move my cooker. I didnt realise how heavy then can get, especially when the other person isnt as strong as you. So lifting it was a bit of a work out.

At about 3pm I walked my dogs for about half an hour.

8pm: Karate starts. We started off with a 10 minute warm up jog, then stretched off. We then did a relay where we got into groups of two. We had to run to one side of the hall, do an exercise, then run back. Then your partner would do the same.

The eercises were: 10 star jumps, 15 push ups, 15 sit ups and 15 power push ups.

After that we did line drills on our 'XL BOB' practice thing. We started off by doing front leg roundhouse kicks in left fighting stance, then after a while in right fighting stance. We then went onto doing axe kicks, and the same: left fight stance first, then right.

After we did that for a while, we were able to do combinations of both in either stance. We did that for our remaining hour.

Finally, we lifted up the mats and stacked them up

And, before I went to my bed, about 1:30am, I did 20 push ups and 20 sit ups.

So, that was Friday

[Symphony-x]

so, before I start doing more. Could people say whats good/bad about my diet/exercise and what should be changed?

[bushido_man96]

It looks to me like you are doing a fair amount of work, and you don't seem to eat as much as I do, so I would say just keep it up, weigh yourself today, and take measurements, and then weigh yourself in 2 or 3 months, and take measurements, to see what has changed.

[elbows_and_knees]

so, before I start doing more. Could people say whats good/bad about my diet/exercise and what should be changed?

we can't really say unless we know what your goals are.

[Symphony-x]

to lose about 3 stone [42 lbs] by march... really. Though, losing weight isn';t the main thing, its losing body fat

[bushido_man96]

to lose about 3 stone [42 lbs] by march... really. Though, losing weight isn';t the main thing, its losing body fat

Take a body mass index reading, and then check it again in 3 months. This will help you to best determine if you are working toward your goal.

[Symphony-x]

not to sound like a total idiot, but... how do i do that?