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Originally Posted by BrianSCohen  Scratch,
That is awesome. You have made great progress on your fitness. I bet your seeing some real benefits in your health markers and in how you feel.
I started in a similar timeframe, albeit with more focus on the stength training. I found Starting Strength:Basic Barbell Training to be an excellant beginning program. It has very good discussions on proper form and provides a well proven program for starting out. I have done the squats and milk, but found that I could only do it a few times before I become burned out. Remember that you are supposed to do 20 reps with your 10 rep max, resting at the top as needed.
Good luck |
Yeah, at some point I should go ahead and get Rippetoe's book and I'd also like to pick up a couple of Ross Enamait's books and go through them all for reference, better understanding, more ideas, etc.
I'm definitely in much better shape than I was a year ago and my most recent bloodwork was pretty nice, a 5.7 A1c and 76HDL/92LDL. Some of that is due to the exercise, some of it is also because as I've gotten more involved in exercising and making improvement, I have found it valuable to improve my diet.
A hospital here in the area has a May festival thing and a 5K run called the Dash for Diabetes as part of it and I did it again yesterday. It wasn't my fastest 5K, a tough hilly course and my legs felt a bit sluggish yesterday, but I was happy enough getting it done in 28:57.
