While doing some major house keeping this weekend (thanks to my cable/internet being out) I re-discovered a training manual I pieced together in 1995 when I was in college. The binder consists of basic information on starting a running program, and lots of articles about racewalking. In high school I was a competitive race walker but after turning down an athletic scholarship I stopped traveling down that road.
I'm seriously considering it again. Contained in the binder was a body fat analysis I had done in 1991 in the summer before my senior year of high school. The result: 16.25%! Granted I would not expect to get that low ever again (and remember folks thinking I was too thin) but an average between that and where I am now would be lovely!
Funny, at 16 I had no worries at all about my weight. I ran and racewalked year round, and at the standard rural fare. No frozen dinners in our house-just a protein, starch, veggie, and bread at every dinner.
A very useful tool I also found was a suggested year-round training program with minutes in each target heartrate level broken out day by day for the year. With my new heart rate monitor that sure gives me something to strive for! I tried it out today when doing an aerobics DVD and it was pretty cool (even though I wasn't since I'm pretty darn uncoordinated).
Posted by jgrieves at January 4, 2004 10:44 PM