I have been shovelgloving, which has also been going great.
What has not been going great? The fact that I still have a round belly. While this doesn't bother me, for inspiration, I've been following the following website:
http://bendoeslife.tumblr.com/
It is great, but when Ben weighed 280 lbs, he was in pants smaller than I am. We are the same height, but I weigh 40 lbs less. The major thing that he does differently than I do is, he is doing boot camps which compose of ab workouts (and a lot of other crap
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So, I figured, why not throw in some ab work and see what happens. I have found the following website:
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/
...And did the initial test. I was able to do 60 crunches without stopping. I would like to take a second to thank shovelglove for the abs, without you, I would have nothing...
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This allowed me to jump to week 3 and start the program from there. Day one, I really feel my abs and it was a good workout. I think instead of 3 days, I am going to do it every other day and see how it goes. Worst case, I can always cut back.
The key to adding any additional component is to ensure that it doesn't affect the other aspects of life. If it will affect running or shovelgloving, I will need to re-evaluate. Until then, lets see if I can do 200 situps in 3 weeks!