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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fitness
  • Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:34:08 -0500



Gene GeRue wrote:

to make any changes in diet, just add non-cardio exercise (to the homestead routine and the biking) which will improve my
strength(build muscle) and flexibility....

And lose fifty pounds? Forget it. Calories in, calories out. If you
really want to reduce your weight by fifty pounds you must eat less
and work your body more.

A pound is 3500 calories.
50 pounds is 1.04 pounds a week, or 3640 pounds a week extra that need
to be burned...
That is an extra 520 pounds a day. When we ride bikes(outside) we
regularly burn 600+ on a ride. Canoing and walking also burn a lot of
calories. I don't think it is impossible to add some stretching and
strength exercises to the routine to round myself out and meet the goal.
Little steps, one day at a day....Exercising an additional 500 calories
a day over normal activities should be easy enough.
Eating less sounds good, but I found in the summer than I need to eat
differently. I need the energy for the additional exercise, but I can't
add too many calories. I did have to diet AND exercise to lose the 30
pounds in 3+ months, because I was losing 2.5 pounds a week, but what I
want now is a more "sustainable"(LOL) exercise plan, and obviously, I
will have to develop one!
I'm working on one of the sites that Cathy sent...has good exercise
instruction...


My body is happiest when my mind is happiest. When at Heartwood I am
doing those things that I am passionate about and that is my focus,
so I focus much less on food. Discipline for me is drinking no more
than three beers a day.

Since I live here year around, I work year around. And my last job,
while I worked as a chemist, was in an industrial setting, and I was in
charge of recycling material(rework) so I had to push and pull and
maneuver heavy(up to 300#) drums around. I got plenty of exercise.
There were stairs to run up and down, and while the warehouses were
cold, up on the deck was like a sauna at over 100 degrees, even in the
winter. I borrowed a pedometer from a friend and wore it to work and
registered over 10K strides. At home, I register 9K in summer and over
7K in winter. So, I don't have that much of a difference in winter vs.
summer activities...IMO, I think I just sweat more in the summer because
it is so hot. In winter, since we heat with wood, I am picking up
armloads of wood and bringing it in the house several times a day. Once
or twice a week, I am loading the wood on the porch, which involves
moving wood in a wheelbarrow up steps. In the winter, I rake, make and
fill raised beds, move lumber around(dh often builds stuff in the
winter); fencing(try dragging 4 or 5 cattle panels 1000+ feet across
uneven terrain); walk the ridges looking for deer sign; plant trees(my
shoulders are still hurting from the post hole diggers last week)

So, the point is, I get exercise, but obviously, I am either not being
consistent enough in what muscles I work (to build and tone them) or I
just don't have good flexibility, because do pull a lot of muscles it
seems.

B


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