The Bugg - Day 1 and Setup

I got the Bugg setup tonight, after I replaced the cable modem and had it provisioned by Com.cast.  

I was able to get the needed software downloaded onto the new PC (BuggPC) and started getting everything finished with setting it up.  

I did wear it today to see if it collected any information even though it was not setup and it did.  I found I need to move more on the days I don't workout.  

The program has me only losing 75# and the goal date is next June.  I will be down to just under 12% body fat too, in fact most of the weight I will lost is fat because my lean muscle mass did not change once everything was plugged into the program.  

I will have to keep journaling all my food consumption because daily I will need to enter what I ate into the program so it can figure out if I am at a deficit or a surplus with the calorie burn/consumption.  

I am excited to see what my KB work does tomorrow night for calorie burn.  I will reset the trip settings so I will be able to see what the Bugg says for calorie burn vs my heart rate monitor.  

The Bugg doesn't have a heart rate monitor built in so I will have to continue to use that too.  

Tired tonight so just wanted to post an update on the Bugg since it is now fully functional.  

Peace Out.

The Bugg has arrived!

It was sitting by my back door when I got home tonight from work.  I was patient and slowly opened everything in the box and looked it all over then immediately got it connected to my MAC to start charging it so it will be ready to wear.  

I was able to secure a cheap (free) monitor today that is now at home and the Bugg PC is all setup ready to go.  I just need to get the comcast modem replaced as it has stopped working over the weekend.  

I skipped my workout today.  My shoulders have been sore and I could hardly lift my right arm today because my shoulder hurt so bad.  I did not get the box tonight either.  I will have to see if Becky can go get it tomorrow or I will have to run there when I get home from work.  

The date has been set at the studio for the Vo2MAX workout.  It will be Wednesday October 28th.  I am going to go conservative so I can make it through the entire thing, I am going to use a 8k (18#) bell.  I would rather make it through with that then only do part of a set with the 12k (26) bell.  I will then work towards the 12k Vo2MAX for mid December.  I will do it alone if I need to but I will get it done.  

I am looking forward to getting my Bugg setup and working this weekend so I can start to see what I am really burning on a daily basis then start setting some goals for daily and weekly.  

I want to lose 90# in the next year but more important, I want to keep it off.  

Quiet day tomorrow after work so I might go for a walk.  If I get home early enough, I might run to get the new cable modem to replace the broken one I have now so I can get started with the bugg.  

That is all for now...

Training again on Friday for sure.

RKC Victim

Today I started out with having coffee and watching the Sunday morning news shows with my mom who was down for a birthday gathering I had last night with my girlfriends.  

This afternoon I volunteered to go be a victim for RKC candidates who want to become a certified instructor.  They need to teach the victims how to use kettlebells safely doing various drills.  I was training with another person from NE Kettlebells, Matt Thompson.  Our candidate had me working on squats and Turkish Getups, both things I am not very good at.  Roxanne, Dave and Ben were also there from NEKB.  Mary Powers from work was there with her husband but Emily from work did not make it.  

The highlight of my day over in St Paul was I got to meet Tracy Reifkind, who's blog I follow all the time.  She used bells and diet to lose 120 pounds, doing nothing but swings with a 12k bell. I saw her walking in and just stopped her and said hi.  I told her I followed her blog and worked out with Fawn, whom she is very good friends with.  Tracy  saw me after the work out and asked how it was.  I also told her that on Friday I did double snatches for 40 minutes and she was very impressed and wanted to see a video of it sometime.  I thought that was way cool.  

I will hit it again with Michael tomorrow night with the plan to make it 4 times this week to his class.  I am re-engergized to get in shape and lose the weight I was told I just need to learn to live with for the rest of my life.  

I have to this week again start to document my food, my birthday week is over and I have no more reasons to splurge on calorie intake.  

I am going to try making a shrimp risotto rice dish for dinner one night this week.  I bought a bunch of head on shrimps to use and I will make shrimp stock with the shells and heads, following an Alton Brown show I saw once.  

I am still waiting for the bodybugg to get here and it is not working with my laptop right now so I am still working on a solution to get it working.  I am going to send out an email to those who might have an old laptop laying around to see if they will give or sell cheaply to me.  I have found some laptops on dell and hp outlet websites that are $350 so I might have to do that if I can find one for free.  

I also have to finish paying for my new alarm system and monitoring for the year before I buy the laptop.  I have committed to getting that system paid for by the end of October and then I will pay the monitoring in November, that way I will be good with that until next November when I have to pay the monitoring again for the year.  

that is all for tonight. 

Training - Double Snatches

Last night we were working towards getting ready for the Vo2Max.  

I did 40 sets of 7 doing double snatches.  We had 30 seconds then our partner has 30 (we rested while the other worked).  

We tried with the 12k bells but decided right away we would not survive so we switched to 18# bells for the next round and it was a good choice.  

I feel good this morning so class later will be interesting to see what he has us doing.  I hope no snatches!

Tomorrow I am going to free KB lesson so I am excited to work on my swing some more to make it even better. 

BodyBugg

I splurged on myself today.  I got a Bodybugg.  It is a device that help manage calorie consumption and expenditures.  It was not cheap but, I figure it will be worth it if it helps motivate me to get the body I want to have.  I saw someone at work with one on today and talked to her about it and she has lost almost 10# in 4 weeks since she started to wear it.  

I had looked at them before but they were really expensive (they still are) but it was $100 off until the end of the month and that included the watch to wear with it to see where you are at realtime.  

The only issue I foresee is that it might not work with my MAC.  It will work with a MAC but only ones with an Intel processor not a PowerPC processor.  Worst case I use my work PC to download the stats weekly from the Bugg to the website.  I will find a way to make this work for me.  

I will post about my progress once I get the Bugg.