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Yearly progress update

Age 41, starting weight in 2024 184 lbs/83 kgs, current weight 124 lbs/56 kgs. Going very slowly because my body is like a house of cards and if I push it too hard I’m out of commission for a good while.

I lift in the gym three days a week, and in April I started Couch to 5K, running twice a week. Right now I’m dealing with elbow tendinitis so basically no upper body work, which is super frustrating!

I’m not interested in maintaining a lower weight than this, so am heading fully into recomp since I’m still far from satisfied. (Recomp was initially my plan from the start of the year, too, but I guess I’m so used to being in a deficit it just stuck and I lost another few pounds.) Currently aiming for around 1900 cals a day to see how that works - I’ve definitely noticed needing to increase my calories now that I’m running more.

(I can’t figure out how to tag as NSFW, if the last few pictures require that - apologies if so and mods, please fix if needed!)

u/paraphee — 1 day ago
▲ 128 r/C25K

Week 8 - hit 5k for the first time!

The workout finished when I was still a little ways from home so I took a short walking break when the app told me to start cooling down, then ran for another couple of minutes, and then walked the last bit. It’s the first time I’ve actually hit 5k - very psyched about that!

Can’t believe there’s only one more week left of the program after my next run.

u/paraphee — 1 day ago
▲ 36 r/C25K

Week 7 - 25 straight minutes of running

It’s absolutely wild to me that I’ve reached the point where I can run for 25 minutes when I struggled through the 90 second intervals a little over two months ago! I’ve never gotten this far before. (The last few minutes were tough today, but given the weather that wasn’t surprising…)

u/paraphee — 16 days ago
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Starting week 5

So I've done repeats of both week 3 and week 4, but decided to start week 5 today and see how I felt, and it was definitely my best run so far! It was the first time I wasn't thinking "oh come on, please, it has to be time to start walking soon, right, PLEASE" while running. What a great feeling.

The route was just under 4K and took me 32 minutes, which gave me a pace of 8:42 per kilometre. I guess that's fine for this stage where you're still combining running and walking? I feel like I'm running incredibly slowly, but I'm also 5'1 with short legs, so there's that.

I'm only running twice a week, so I'm probably going to attempt day 2 next, then repeat that at least once before I have a go day 5. I'm already terrified at the prospect of running 20 minutes straight, but today was super encouraging.

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u/paraphee — 2 months ago
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Deadlift, heaviest set

ETA - thanks, everyone! I knew it wasn't ideal, but I didn't realise it was *that* bad. 😅 I'll be easing back and work at a lower weight until my form catches up.

Last week I accidentally did a set at 80 kgs - I thought I had 70 and didn’t realise until I was unloading the plates, so that explained why I struggled harder than I expected. (The most I’d lifted before that was 75.)

I wasn’t filming it so had no idea how it looked, so decided to try it again today to see, and, well. This is probably too heavy, yeah? I should keep working at my previous weight?

u/paraphee — 2 months ago