Day 11 is for Exercise (Rule #2)

Today started out a little cloudy and cool, so it seemed like a good day to hop on the elliptical and then build a workout routine for the JourneyGym. Light breakfast (eat right) followed by 21.5 minutes on the elliptical (301 calories burned) followed by a 6 minute routine with the very portable and convenient JourneyGym. You can check out a quick 3 minute summary of the workout over on my YouTube channel.

What exercise did you do today?




OH, and if you have some old photos or scrapbooks from times when we might have been together in the same place at the same time, please send them to me privately by clicking this email link for photos@blogs.docdevore.com.  Please! With sugar on it?. Trust me - they won't end up here unless you give me permission.

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Thanks for spending some time with me.

You may also want to get useful tips on losing weight and exercising at my blog at MyFitnessPal (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/docdevore) or Daily Stories about how to lose weight by only learning two rules - eat right and exercise - then visit Doc's blog over at docdevore.blogspot.com. CYA! (wear sunscreen :)

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Okay, the legal stuff. Listen up.

I am not a doctor. I am not a certified trainer. I am not a professional body builder. I m in better shape and I do know a lot of stuff that those experts told me, but I don't have a paper that says so, and they haven't told me everything they know yet. Or as Uncle Buck said: "You should always consult a professional, like your doctor, before you begin any weight loss program, and you should ask an expert before you try some of the foods and exercise that Cheryl and Doc use." In other words, this blog contains my opinion on what might work and is for folks who are serious about changing their life. It should not be construed as anything more than what I found on my journey, and how I learned to use it. So you have now been warned: Do attempt the journey on your own without consulting a professional or gaining parental approval. And by the way, there is some other legal stuff on this page about who owns the trademarks and photos and copyright stuff. Most of what I have is not original, but the way I package it up IS, so be sure to read ALL of my rules. Here they are: All postings on my blogs are the opinions or thoughts by Floyd V. Doc DeVore and are protected by a Creative Commons license; all photos are the exclusive copyrighted property of Doc and any reuse, posting or alteration must be approved or licensed in a manner consistent with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at plus.google.com/108251433034379163350/aboutt. In other words, if you want to use, just ask me.

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Day 8 of Journey Gym Challenge - Rule #22

Yesterday was rule #7 for day #7. Nothing to show because it's a day off. Today starts the second week of our 70 day challenge put to us by the good folks over at JourneyGym.Com. We have a lot of video to share and it's coming as soon as we can.

Tonight's routine: 17 minutes on the Elliptical followed by a good 7 minutes of upper body routine. What is rule #22. It's rule #2 - Exercise squared. Yeah, I just made it up, but it is the second year of this journey, and the good Doctor John has given Cheryl and me a way to keep working out while the gym is packed with people working on their New Year's Resolutions.

Did you order your JourneyGym yet? If not, send me a note explaining why, and telling me what you are doing to take your exercise to the second level - rule #22.



OH, and if you have some old photos or scrapbooks from times when we might have been together in the same place at the same time, please send them to me privately by clicking this email link for photos@blogs.docdevore.com.  Please! With sugar on it?. Trust me - they won't end up here unless you give me permission.


Because you have your fun assignments for the week, I am going dance some swing around the pool listening to some great steel guitar and thinking about all those great memories we have shared. (Send that email.)

photos@blogs.docdevore.com

Be sure to get some breakfast, and take Clif Bar with you.

The Disclaimers, Shameless and Legal Stuff

Thanks for spending some time with me.

You may also want to get useful tips on losing weight and exercising at my blog at MyFitnessPal (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/docdevore) or Daily Stories about how to lose weight by only learning two rules - eat right and exercise - then visit Doc's blog over at docdevore.blogspot.com. CYA! (wear sunscreen :)

Okay, the legal stuff. Listen up.

I am not a doctor. I am not a certified trainer. I am not a professional body builder. I m in better shape and I do know a lot of stuff that those experts told me, but I don't have a paper that says so, and they haven't told me everything they know yet. Or as Uncle Buck said: "You should always consult a professional, like your doctor, before you begin any weight loss program, and you should ask an expert before you try some of the foods and exercise that Cheryl and Doc use." In other words, this blog contains my opinion on what might work and is for folks who are serious about changing their life. It should not be construed as anything more than what I found on my journey, and how I learned to use it. So you have now been warned: Do attempt the journey on your own without consulting a professional or gaining parental approval. And by the way, there is some other legal stuff on this page about who owns the trademarks and photos and copyright stuff. Most of what I have is not original, but the way I package it up IS, so be sure to read ALL of my rules. Here they are: All postings on my blogs are the opinions or thoughts by Floyd V. Doc DeVore and are protected by a Creative Commons license; all photos are the exclusive copyrighted property of Doc and any reuse, posting or alteration must be approved or licensed in a manner consistent with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at plus.google.com/108251433034379163350/aboutt. In other words, if you want to use, just ask me.

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(wear sunscreen :)

Rule #6: Work It Out As You Go

Losing weight is simple. Seriously, it's simple. It is why my sister and TLOML think it's a math problem. And, it's why I say it's just a matter of a Balance Transfer, and "trust me" on this: AOD GETS GTD GTG. And my friends at MFP call it BMR - base metabolic rate, which is why both my sister and I are correct, but why AOD GETS GTD GTG.

When I discuss with my software developer friends, they explain as being a simple ITTT logic puzzle - if that then this. Simple stuff really. David Allen called it knowing your @context and what action to take next to get closer to your goal. All I knew when I lose some weight is that I could probably start by eating right. Seemed logical to me. Calories in, calories out. Didn't have time to exercise, but I could cut back the calories. Wow, rule #1. Simple.  And it worked! With new confidence, in mid-November of 2010, I asked Cheryl what she wanted for Christmas that year. Her answer was also simple, "biceps."  So I added rule #2, Exercise. Still seemed like "if I want that, then do this." If wanted to go from good to great (GTD), then go find the barbells Cheryl had been using because I knew what she looked like after loosing 80 pounds; "fine, mighty fine."

Now, later I will tell you what my friends at MFP call it using things like BMR, BMI, Burn Rate, and other tools, including an app for my Droid. I learned that not only did I understand it my simple way, eat right and exercise, I also learned why my sister and my wife are also correct. I also learned that there are other ways to do both, and then someone told me about Journey Gym. I didn't know enough the first time Berry told more than a year ago, or PK told me three months ago, but when Dr. John called I learned that I could take Rule #2 to a whole new level in 2012 - GET RIPPED and look as good as TLOML. Guess what?

He called me this week, and after we chatted about how simple it is, he told me he was going to send me a couple of Journey Gyms - one for me and one for Cheryl and we are getting pumped because we are going to get a simple tool to get ripped. SIMPLE. That's the essence of every rule you will read about. Eat right and exercise. We'll explore those rules as 2012 goes along, and we promise to share our progress and things we learn. And we will also tell you about Rule #9.  Sorry, no time for that tonight. Got to do #3 so I can be rested - WOO HOO! Cheryl, I can't wait! Let's go check out Dr. John's videos. This is going to be simple fun to getting ripped with the world's first truly portable universal gym..... TTUL

PS: go check it out and come back here and leave me a note (that's a comment; just click the button down there, okay. GTG GTD GTG!  (Trust me on the sunscreen; it is that simple) HEY YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO START WITHOUT ME!  :-)






PPS: Dr. John's blog has a great article on why New Resolutions usually don't work. Check it out.