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Today officially is the beginning of my exercise routine. Yes I've been working out this last week but it was really just a testing/warm-up week. I wanted to get myself into the mental state to work out and also to test to see how well my fitness guide I made matched my ability. I've found I am able to adjust most of the guide as far as number of sets and reps as well as running times. So you can see my updated and now official fitness guide here:
http://www.alanbarber.org/gallery/files/fitness/fitness_guide.doc

So to start I did my bicep and tricep exercises. I did 1 set of 10 reps of bicep curls and 1 set of 10 reps of tricep dips. This is actually up from 1 set of 8 for each as I originally planned. That's not much of a difference but I realized it wouldn't kill me to do two more reps twice a week.

Just now I finished my running. I did a 10 minute walk to warm-up, 10 minute light jog for the main exercise and a 10 minute walk to cool down. This is up from 10 walk, 5 jog, 15 walk. After I was able to run for a full 20 minutes Thursday I knew I could up the jog time. However, I was very sore after that 20 minute jog so just adding 5 minutes seemed a good compromise. I also decided to keep an even 10 minute warm-up and 10 minute cool down were as originally as I upped the jogging time I shrunk the warm-up and cool down times. It just seems better to have a solid 20 minute walk to add to the total exercise time.

My weight right now is 181.5 pounds according to the scale. However, I am wearing my running clothes minus the shoes and socks so we'll just round it to an even 180 pounds and this will be the starting weight. I plan to loose two pounds a week for the next 8 weeks to get down to 165 pounds where I hope to stay at.

From now on I plan to post weekly updates every Sunday since doing daily updates is pretty much a waste.