Nov 11 2008

Week 5 of the 35 Day Fall Fitness Challenge

Published by Deborah at 9:41 am under Fitness, Health, My Health Plan and Progress

This week I put Week 4 behind me and moved on to Week 5.  I also decided to extend the challenge for another week mainly because I haven’t figured out what to replace it with.

To get right to the results:

week 5 11-03 11-04 11-05 11-06 11-07 11-08 11-09 subttl
Circuits/intensity (3×3pts) 3 3 3 9
Intervals/intensity (3×2pts) 2 2 2 2 8
Intermittent Fasts (2×3pts) 3 3
Diet Coke (7×1pt) 1 1 1 1 1 5
Walk or hike (1×2pts) 2 2
total 27 90%

I made a couple of changes for the sake of variety, such as dropping one of my intermittent fasts this week.  I had enough points to reach my target goal without doing a second fast and I think it’s a good idea to mix them up by varying their duration and frequency.  I also did a hike that included enough hills that I felt justified including it as an additional interval training session.

It was actually an easy week.  My energy levels and mood were good and, although I had to talk myself into starting a couple of sessions, once I got going I was fine.  I increased the weight on some of my lifts and could tell the difference.  I repeated Tabata dumbbell thrusters as one of my interval training sessions.

I’ll be visiting family for nine days starting November 24th and intend to use that time as a break from weight training although I plan on walking or doing a couple of interval training sessions.  So I may very well extend the 35 42 Day Fall Fitness Challenge to a total of 49 days.

I’m not sure what I’ll do when I return from vacation.  Maybe I’ll get some kettlebells or maybe I’ll do all bodyweight training.  There are a lot of options and I don’t have a clue at this point.

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