JeffDauler

Lots of questions about the training programs and nutrition plans I’ll be following as I prepare for the Malibu Triathlon in September.  I don’t really have anything specific yet .. but I will.  I have some general guidelines: move more and eat better. 

FITNESS & EXERCISE

The fitness goal right now is just to start moving.  I’ve been walking / jogging for about a week, and I got in the pool tonight for about an hour.  I’m going to write a longer post in a few days about the walking and jogging, as I’ve actually been dabbling in that for about 2 years now after a decade (plus) of no real activity of any sort.  In the meantime, just move. 

Find 15 minutes or 30 minutes or an hour just a few times a week and walk.  Twice this week, start your lunch break walking outside for 10 minutes in one direction, then come back to the office.  Saturday morning, walk 20 minutes up your street then come back.  Sunday evening, take a 40 minute stroll around the hood.  Guess what?  You just walked for two hours.  Do that for a month, you just walked 8 hours.  Do it for a year, and you’ll clock over 100 hours of movement that you did not have last year. 

NUTRITION & DIET

The nutrition goal is to simply start to think about what I’m eating, and make a few better decisions with those choices.  Like I said here a few days ago … small things add up.  Baby steps.  Fleming’s brought food into the studio this AM … GREAT food.  Mac & cheese, two different preparations of potatoes, steak, cheesecake.  It was heavenly, and I had some.  But not as much as I would have had a month ago.  I prepared a plate with a few bites of steak, a bit of the mac & cheese, and a bit of the one potato that looked the tastiest.  Just two (and by two, I mean three) bites of each.  2011 Jeff would have had a whole steak, a dinner-sized potion of the mac & cheese, and a slice of cheesecake … maybe a slice and a half.

So that’s the extent of my ‘program’ right now.  Easy enough, right?  I know you can do it too, in your own small way.  Just have to decide, right now, to do it.