I am about 6 months away from my 50th birthday. I really don’t feel like a fifty-year-old, but I don’t want to wake up on July 11 feeling like an old man. The gift I will give to myself is to enter my 50’s in the best shape of my life. The key things that need to happen need to be:
- Clean up my diet
- Consistency with running
- Consistency with cross training
Current weight is 169.2 lbs
Body Fat 26.6%
The goal is to lose 30 lbs in 6 months.
I will start the exercise part of my program with doing 30 minutes of the 10-minute trainer workouts for the first 4 weeks. I think I need a good solid month of these easier workouts to build the daily habit of working out. I will then go through the 10-week T25 program. I should be in good enough shape at that point to complete the program without having to modify the workouts.
In addition to those workouts, I need to continue my running. I am doing 4 weeks of easy running (3 -4 miles 4 to 5 times per week). I am going to follow John L. Parker’s programs out of his Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot. After the first 4 weeks Starting from Scratch plan, I will move on to his 12 Week Novice Program.
So both my running and workout plans should be done in about 15 weeks. I will then check my progress before committing to what I should do the last 3 months before my birthday. If all goes well, I would really like to do P90X for the last 3 months.
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