Ivel's Rucking blog

So clearly jojo and belnick have it together.

Like most fitness blog's, mine will probably not be long lived. But I will give it a shot.

I'm mid 40's, 5'8" and vacillate between 175 and 185 pounds. I smoke a pack a day.

My work is fairly physical, I work in an architectural testing lab, so I do construction work (14 foot 2x12's are the most common lumber we use) and metal fabrication (moving around a lot of structural steel). I can do enough at work to be pretty done by the time I get off.

I'm mostly interested in being fit for hiking, although I do hit the gym now and then. I won't be pushing any big weights, I just want a decent functional strength. Probably 5x5's, and really I should focus on adding just a bit of squat weight, I am weak there. Obviously, I have (like most guys my age) some lower back problems, but with care it's fine.

I have been walking to work with a weighted pack. That's my daily workout.

Not very exciting, I know, but I am going on a few weeks, and it seems like a good thing. Time to blog it.

On a normal day, I average 4 miles walked in the course of a work day. If I am doing testing, I am more stationary. It's rare to not walk a mile while at work.

Today:

18 pound pack

2.5 miles, from work to home.

39.08 minutes.

Average pace: 15:26 min per mile.

297 calories burned.

2nd mile faster than first.

This has been my normal routine for a few weeks now. Tomorrow, I am upping the weight to 20 (the 18 is barely noticeable, no shoulder strain, I can pull it tight and jog a bit.) and walking to work as well, to get my total miles to 5 a day.

I would like to take 1 day, and do no weight, with some 1/2 mile intervals. Maybe try it this Friday.

All my info is coming from a Garmin fenix 2 (interesting toy, but not really a game changer) and a smart phone with the location feature turned, unfortunately, on.

I eat like a normal person, no special diet.

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Ivel's Rucking blog