We all know that SUP is great exercise, but It takes more than one great exercise to get fit. There’s also diet, other aerobic activities, flexibility training and general muscle workouts. It’s often a battle against social pressure, time, and genetics to achieve the kind of results you’d like.

Me last winter, there’s about ten pounds more of me right now

I’m from a family of large people. Despite being 6′2″ and 250 pounds I look like an average guy in family photos. I’ve battled weight and waistline my entire life, despite being an inordinately active person …

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Yeah sure….put up a pic of you sucking in your gut and an old fat faced photoshopped dashboard hula doll of me. Get that box cutter ready bro.

Here's my weigh in results:

Name: Stoneaxe

Current weight: 250

Weekly goal: 2 pounds per week

Number of weeks: 15

 First week tracking form:

Week: 1 Start Weight: 250

Daily Goals–Exercise and eating ( I didn't track my food this week…probably a good thing)

Friday 2 hour paddle, steady pace cruising with Sue. We switch boards when we cruise together. Makes me work harder and evens up our speed.

Saturday. Heavy chop upwind/downwind paddle 4 hours. 15 knot winds heavy chop….paddle hard upwind for a mile turn and run with the swell downwind, rinse and repeat. My favorite kind of workout paddle.

Sunday..7 hours of extraordinary surfing on the Cape. Chest to head high and glass

Monday: 30 min. interval run, 20 min. high rep. light weight workout

Tuesday: Knees hurting…..upper body workout only

Wednesday: 2 hour cruise with Sue, crunches, 100 pushups

Thursday: 30 min. interval run, 20 min. high rep. light weight workout

Friday: 2 hours of Surfing with Sue. Knee to thigh but fun, 30 min interval run.

I haven't been tracking what I eat but I'll start keeping a better diary. This past week was a bust for diet anyway

Weigh in: 246 lbs….you're catching up bro. I better be good this week….glad you won't be getting as much of a workout…:)

Second Week Weigh in: 248 pounds

Monday to Monday September 8  In New York City and at Watckins Glen to race my vintage car (Peyote) at the Watkind Glen Vintage Festival. New York was a semi-disaster for the diet and exercise regime. Semi because I walked or bicycled every day and was reasonable about the food most meals, but too much beer and wine and I didn't get any of the extended exercise I get from paddling. I'm sitting in Ohare Airport typing this, headed back to Portland. Tomorrow I should pick up my new Starboard Point board and get serious about paddling again. About one month until the race.

I'll start doing detailed logining again on the diet once I get home. I hope I didn't gain any weight back–doesn't feel like a did, but I doubt I made any progress. Good thing I was two weeks ahead.

Not sure how but I'm down to 243. I haven't paddled or done any heavy exercise for over a week because of the chest pains (doc says its just inflammation of the muscles surrounding the ribs and breastbone…presc. 800 mg ibuprofen and rest). I did go out for a light paddle today to fish…got skunked. I am going out tomorrow for a light cruise with Sue but I still won't get any hard paddling until mid next week. I'm going to do a LOT of interval running though.

I thought for sure I was going to put some weight back on after last weekend. I did watch what I ate this week. Happened to do a lot of walking this week and did curls while watching the tube but thats about it.

Hehe…twice this week I had women comment on the shape I'm in. 1st the nurse at the doc's office said she never would have guessed I was 50. Then one of the girls at the office commented on the change. Asked what the heck I had done to get into shape so fast, then said the girls in the office all agreed that I was looking smokin hot. I think I turned a bright red but I have to admit that it feels good to turn heads at 50. Pretty surprising too. Sue thinks its pretty funny.

How is the “The Point” board?  I have an 11'6 Naish and wondering how “The Point ” is out on the open ocean compared to an all round board.

246 today, should be about the same on Friday. I think this is week five (pretty sure) and I've lost 11 pounds so far, which is right on schedule. This is working pretty well (for the first time in my life there's been a pint of Hagen Daz coffee ice cream in the freezer for two weeks, usually they last until ten seconds after Diane leaves), except my shoulders are killing me from this morning's paddle. I pushed it a little trying to get under 10 minutes per mile. Made it but couldn't hold it. Still I did 2.99 miles in 36:26. That's a 12 minute average mile. Considering I started out in the high 15's I'm pretty happy with the progress.

Ouch, ouch, ouch.

I need some free time….240 again this week…no board time except for an awesome surf session last Sunday at Wellfleet with Jody. Tough part now is we're headed into the mid season. I'm going out this weekend to get a shorty. The board shorts and rash don't cut it when its 55 even if the water is still in the 60's.

We're supposed to have some big surf this weekend so i get some hours in for sure. damn chest is still bothering me though. Lack of water time has my head acting up too.

I thought this was week 4. Don't forget we skipped a week because of Watkins Glen.

238 this morning.

I think I need to press the reset button. Seems the scale at the house is WAY off. Went for my physical last Tuesday…Doctor's scale reads 255. Very weird…I'm down to a 38″ waist. House scale reads 237…..damn…recalibrate. Not sure what that does for the body fat content….my upper body has gotten bigger than it ever was and it wasn't small to start. I need to buckle down on the diet and spend a lot more time on the water. Planning on every day…at least for the near term.

Well i don't have a decent scale at home but it was what I was using. OK…reset i've been bad last couple weeks…using food to make me happy since getting laid off. Peanut butter and jelly with a big glas of milk followed by a desert of halloween candy will do the trick (albeit temporariliy)  of getting your mind off things. Been focusing my free time on the job search and getting caught up on some chores around the house. Time to buckle down and get back on the water more…heads been acting up since I haven't been paddling as much. Still can't believe what a difference it makes.

Really thought I was going to be able to be a LOT more disciplined about this. Wish we had some races around here. I think I'd do much better with a focus beyond it being good for me.