Dumping The Fat

When I saw my chiropractor a couple weeks ago, we talked about the weight training/sick issue and here is what he suggested:

• Build up my cardio first
• Take at least 1 Echinacea per week to keep it in my system
• Be sure to take my Omega-3s
• Ease into weight training instead of jumping in full throttle

While I wasn’t happy that I had to “ease” into it, I have followed his advice and so far so good!  I’m thrilled!

For the first week, I walked on the treadmill 1 mile per day at a minimum for 6 days.  Most days, I threw some intervals in there by walking at a brisk pace for 5 minutes, jog for 1 minute, walk 5, jog 1, etc.

Week 2 - walked on the treadmill 4 days and weight trained 2 days.  I only did 1 set of 15 reps for each exercise I performed.

Week 3 - this week.  I did a 30 minute cardio session and 15 minute stretch session yesterday.  Monday I weight trained for 30 minutes by picking a few exercises and did 2 sets of 15 reps.  I think I did a total of 6 different exercises and worked my abs.  Today is weight training day and so I’ll probably do the same thing - 2 sets of 15 reps.

I have taken my Echinacea every week so far, and have been *trying* to remember my Omega-3s.  They’re in the freezer (to prevent fish burps) and so it’s easy for me to forget them.  I am getting in flax seed every other day, though, so that helps.

I’m getting stronger, I can feel that, and that makes me happy.  I haven’t checked my body fat percentage lately.  I thought I would hold off for another week or two.  I haven’t been sick the past 3 weeks as far as colds/flu/sinus/ears (knock on wood), so I’m hopeful my chiro’s advice is working.

Posted March 19th, 2008 under Working Out. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.