Kicking off the month of September with 1868 points : 18,232 steps.

Fast for life – glad to hear that your activity level will pick up & so will mine.

I’ll weigh in after my weekend fast, also. ✔

Tabata HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) has been good to me..for years. Always on strength training.

Recently, I’ve started doing SIT (Sprint Interval Training) with Tabata timings.

So far, I look forward to it, up until the 3rd rep. Then, it’s agonizing.

But, then, it’s only 4 minutes of total victory.

I feel that I can SIT daily, but in reality it’s like cross training for my other activities. I’ll SIT when it’s convenient, mostly.

I’ll gauge the effect that it has on my marathon running, later next month. ✔

Glad you asked.

Tabata is simply doing what Michael Mosley recommends for intensity of 3 reps and instead doing 8 reps.

Tabata interval workout has a scientific basis & is loved by researchers and fitness pros alike for its unparalleled fat-torching abilities and simplicity.

To do a “Tabata,” simply pick an exercise and set a timer for 20 seconds on and 10 seconds rest. Do the exercise as hard as you possibly can, repeating 8 times.

http://www.shape.com/fitness/cardio/10-new-fat-blasting-tabata-workouts

I’ve being doing Tabata for years for strength training & only recently, since starting 5:2 & watching the Mosley video, have I started applying it to running.

It’s only 4 minutes. I use a timer from my smartphone that has start/stop times.

It’s intense.

It’s fun.

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Starting Measurements:
Weight: 192 lbs
Height : 5′ 11″ – still same
Pulse. : yes – reached 177 HRM on sprints

Tracking:
Weight: 191 lbs
Steps: 40,248 steps, (3) days of climbing floors
Feed/Fast/HIIT: 5:2 and (3) times HIIT

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Alright you two: let’s settle this fairly on the FAT issue!

You know who you are!

Fight FAT with no FAT – fairly.

Whoever removes the most FAT or other measurements in September wins!

http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/feed-fast-hiit-september-2013/

I’m on this site and tracking my activity, and I could just as easily track my weight.

You want to throw FAT? Well, what are you waiting for? 3 weeks left, not much, but there you have it.

It’s also an honor system, as we cannot verify this. Calibrate those scales or whatever measurement fits, like weight, BMI, size measurements.

Top 3 are acknowledged, and winner has boasting rights & can close this thread.

Ties are voted on by impartial participants.

Man UP and woman Up!

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Checking in on floors:

(731 floors total) 515 – 36 = 484 FTG ( floors to go)

Welcome to Annie and Fastforlife!

Great to have fellow travelers.

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I’m virtually climbing Australia: Mount Kosciusko, 7,310 feet (731 Floors)

After this beginning summit, there are six other mountain summits that someone cleverly devised for virtually climbing them.

Since I enjoy climbing floors, this gives me a reason and motivation to do this more frequently.

Next year, I will compete with others in climbing floors in high rises in a real world environment.

Enjoy and join me?

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@barney77 – “when you say floors is it as in climbing stairs so each set is a floor?”

Yes, there are 13 stairs to reach another floor in my building. To make it easier, it’s been designated as 10 stairs to a floor. This way, the height of a mountain, in terms of feet, can be calculated more easily, as mentioned before.

My tracking devices track my floor climbing and steps and other activities, so that we can measure expended effort. In this case, it’s a friendly competition to reach the summit (s).

For today, I procrastinated until the evening for my workout.

Checking in on floors:

(731 floors total) 484 – 36 = 448 FTG

36 floors to the rooftop. Once I start (and it takes a lot of procrastinating effort), I’m going. Occasionally, I’ve not made it all the way up, but it’s usually because of other situations.

On weekends, with more time, I can sandwich (figuratively, as I’m actually fasting) strength training at the beginning & cap off with sprints at the end.

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@fast for life
“Exercise: 30 laps swimming, 1 hours dance class.
Feed/Fast/: 4 3
Loss to date: 42 lbs
…Rocky i think the BMI would be the one i would look to try and lower x”

Impressive results and thanks for the feedback on the BMI.

I’ve yet to log my progress for this week, as it’s still continuing for me.

Enjoy.

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@luv fasting
“Going to try it this week as I need to up my activity.”

I did my stairs/floor training yesterday & usually cap it off with Sprint training. However, I forgot to bring my card to get to the room with the treadmill. I wasn’t able to do it & missed it. My body missed it.

Doing it today & I’m have been postponing it, so far.

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Checking in with weekly stats.

Starting Measurements:
Weight: 192 lbs
Height : 5′ 11″ – still same
Pulse. : yes – reached 177 HRM on sprints

Tracking:
Weight: 191 lbs – went down to 188lb
Steps: 40,248 steps + 27,136 steps this week
Feed/Fast/HIIT: 5:2 and (5) times HIIT

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There is something about tracking progress that is intriguing & effortless with trackers as follows for my past week performance:

TOTAL STEPS: 32,233
DAILY AVERAGE: 4,605 steps
BEST DAY: 7,016 steps

TOTAL DISTANCE: 15.13 miles
DAILY AVERAGE: 2.16 miles
BEST DAY: 3.28 miles

TOTAL FLOORS CLIMBED:171
DAILY AVERAGE: 24 floors
BEST DAY: 45 floors

TOTAL CALS BURNED: 14,642
DAILY AVERAGE: 2,092 cals
BEST DAY: 2,263 cals

WEIGHT CHANGE:3.7 lb
LIGHTEST: 188.1 lb
HEAVIEST:191.8 lb

AVG SLEEP DURATION: 5 hrs 31 min
AVG TIMES AWAKENED: 16
AVG TIME TO FALL ASLEEP: 0hrs 24min

All this may have more meaning over a period of time.

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Hello climbers, or am I the only one doing stairs/floors?

Checking in on floors:

(731 floors total) 340 – 36 = 304 FTG

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Alternating floor days, 36 floors to the rooftop & down, and Sprint intervals.

Indoors, on the rooftop, and moments of focus.

Rewarding myself with sprints & slowly progressing.

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Hope everyone doing well also.

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@sivasankar
“Tracking:
Weight: between 153 – 155 for the last few weeks
Waist : 35.5
Exercise : 200+ pushups a week and 3 days 3 * 30 sec HIT (not HIIT)
What has changed since starting 5:2:
May May
2012, 2013 (2 months into fast diet)
Weight lbs 163, 161 (~ 5% loss – dropped from 170 lb since Jan) – right now between 153-155
Weight lbs ~ -10%
Cholesterol -10%
Triglycerides -30 %
LDL -15%
HDL +2.5%
LDL/HDL Ratio -18%
Cho/HDL Ratio -16%
BMI -10%
Waistline -15%
Earlier post – http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/blood-test-results-comparison/ ”

Very impressive tracking and admirable results!

I saw that you only weigh yourself monthly now.

How do you get such detailed information on yourself?

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Checking in on floors:

(731 floors total) 228 – 36 = 192 FTG

Again sprints & strengthening at the end.

Intestingly, I’m doing a presentation on Galapagos (turtles) tomorrow.

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@tomorrow
“The dog looks puzzled when I do it, doesn’t know whether to ignore me or join in the silliness.”

I also would look puzzled.

But then we’re athletes in the making.

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@ fast for life
“total loss for this month 4.25 lbs”

Great going….!

I’m fasting this weekend and will report as we close out September.

I keep seeing great numbers from others also.

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I’m surprised that little is said on these forums about sleep tracking.

I think that may be because few people are monitoring their sleep. That will change with newer devices coming on the market & people adapting to them over the next few years.

While I’ve been tracking my sleep, I don’t know how to interpret my sleep nor do I know how to change my sleeping behavior.

One of the results of fasting for me is that I can drastically reduce or eliminate my snoring. I’ve read of others that have done so. Another benefit of fasting may also be reducing sleep apnea.

Any thoughts on this?

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