Calorie Tracking, Kwando, and other thoughts.

Ok, today I did a Kwando (Cardio Kickboxing) class. It's my favorite cardio activity, and I really look forward to it every week. I really like Kim, the teacher. She normally teaches only Monday, but she filled in for the Wednesday teacher today. I think the main reason I like the class is becaue I have a Tae Kwon Do background, so I have pretty good technique compared to all the 30 year old soccer moms :)

I normally burn about 800 calories in the class. After class I normally lift heavy weights. At first it was very hard for me to lift weights seriously after a cardio workout, but now I feel that I can actually lift heavier than usual because my heart rate is so high. Although I think I can't really take my weight lifting workout seriously for more than a half hour, because the fatigue starts kicking in. I did Back and Shoulders today. My weight lifting regime is basically:
Monday Chest
Tuesday Bicep and Tricep (Arms)
Wednesday Back and Shoulder
Thursday Miscellaneous fun day

Lately I haven't been doing legs, because they're pretty tired from all of the cardio, but I know that shouldn't be an excuse. I plan on starting to do legs once a week too.

Also I found my old Palm Pilot last night. I will start using that to track how many calories I am eating per day. I have only tracked November 1 and November 2.

Monday: 2460 Calories
Tuesday: 2350

As you can see, I eat like a piggy. I plan on eating like this until like mid January. Then I will maintain the workout I do now, and cut my calories down to about 1900 a day. After I do that for about a month, I will cut it down to about 1700 calories a day.

I will post my calorie chart soon. For some reason Blogger is not letting me post pictures right now. One thing is: keeping data on calorie input is much more tedious than the calories I burn in a workout. Luckily my Palm Pilot is very small, and I have a special Palm Wallet.. so I can just carry it around with me every day, and keep my money and credit cards in my palm wallet.

So far I find self-monitoring to be pretty interesting, and pretty good for motivating myself.

1	Mon	11/1/2005	Cran. Turk Sand.	500	Baked Lays	120	Souper Salad	600	Prot. Shake	400	Wend. Spc Chk Sand	540	Caes Sal	300									2460

1	Mon	11/1/2005	Cran. Turk Sand.	500	Baked Lays	120	Souper Salad	600	Prot. Shake	400	Wend. Spc Chk Sand	540	Caes Sal	300									2460

1	Mon	11/1/2005	Cran. Turk Sand.	500	Baked Lays	120	Souper Salad	600	Prot. Shake	400	Wend. Spc Chk Sand	540	Caes Sal	300									2460