New Years Resolution Gym Goers; Don’t Join!

I am writing to all the people who’s new years resolution is to “get fit” or “lose weight” and this usually means they think they should join a gym … don’t! Well not initially anyway. If you’re already a member of a gym then I’m sure you can relate to this.

Let me explain why I think you shouldn’t join a gym …

The way this usually works is people think they need to join a gym, so they join at £xx per month and get locked into a 12 month starter contract. They then start to go in January with the aim to go 3 to 4 times a week and do this class and that class. They do it for maybe two to three weeks but then work gets in the way, they remember they want to go to the pub and socialise instead of doing squats and crunches and before they know it they’re paying their membership fees so they can say to their friends “I’m a member of a gym”.

Don’t get me wrong there are people out there who start in January, get fit, get ripped, be happy etc. but a majority flounder and give up.

So people end up paying a lot of money for not going to the gym and for January the people who take it up and stop in February just annoy and get in the way of regular gym goers.

Let me be fully clear I am a member of a gym and have been for many years; although it wouldn’t show looking at me. I dip in for a few weeks/months at a time and then something comes up etc. and don’t go for a while so I look at the issue from both sides depending on where I am.

So what can people do to get fit and save money?

To get fit you don’t need to join a gym although joining eventually can help. You can start off by doing free activities such as running. You can get a number of apps now a days which will help you train from couch to xkm and apps which will track you such as RunKeeper. If you want to run with people there are many ParkRuns world wide which you can sign up for and go to for free.

If you want to be more serious about training then look to get a personal trainer who comes to your house and can train you in the garden or local park. This way you are paying purely for their time and not paying the gym *and* a personal trainer.

If once you get to the point where you want to join a gym and you’re already getting fit and have built in the time into your weekly schedule then please do. When you do try not to feel self conscious about going to the gym if you aren’t model thin or can only lift a couple of kgs people are there for themselves and don’t care what others are doing. So take some music and lose yourself in the exercise.

It doesn’t matter if you train at the gym or not but you do feel better for doing exercise so I encourage you to keep with your new years resolution.

Happy exercising and money saving in 2014!

February Update - “And the winner is … “

… beer this month!

Short update this month;

- Not much lost
- Big beer in take as it was a mates Stag do

Upside; Spring is on it’s way. It’s sunny, although cold, so can go and play disc golf after work. The summer is on it’s way! :-)

Current weight loss (since Aug ‘09) : 16 1/8lbs

Current Status : Bad! (-97.8)
Beers: 490 + 37 = 527
Miles: 183 (gym: 129.5; road: 33) + 7.5 = 190.5
DG Rounds: 75 + 8 = 83
Gym visits: 94 + 5 = 99
Lengths : 56.7 (total: 567) 

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

January Update; it’s all about the diet & disc golf

It’s time for a January update on how the diet/exercise bits and bobs are going.

Generally speaking January has been a good month. Loosing every week except the last week and then only putting on 1.5lbs that week. This week was a big one as weeks go as I had a dev social on the Friday after weigh in the week before. We then went out for a curry on the Saturday night. The following week Lau and I had our “get together” anniversary (9 years!) which also doubles as our 1/2 yr wedding anniversary (1.5yrs) and my birthday on the Thursday so went out for dinner on Wednesday. As you can image this didn’t help with getting to the gym or dieting generally.

So overall, I have lost 1.25lbs this month. This isn’t great and I need to step it up a bit in February. I really want to get under 11stone by end of Feb / mid march time. So 4-6 weeks to drop 4.5lbs so its defo do-able.

So that’s it diet wise. Along with Frostbreaker the last weekend of the month where I shot reasonably well (for me) and was only 5 shots off making the Adv Am final. This is a good achievement for me and I’m really happy with how I played. I also had loads of energy which resulted in playing another 7 or so holes after lunch while the finals where taking place but also ran up a couple of hills. The gym’ing must be helping!

Right, so end of month means first thousand beers update …

Current weight loss (since Aug ‘09) : 14 5/8lbs

Current Status : Bad! (-83.3)
Beers: 461 + 29 = 490
Miles: 162.5 (gym: 129.5; road: 33) + 20.5 = 183
DG Rounds: 67 + 8 = 75
Gym visits: 82 + 12 = 94
Lengths : 54.7 (total: 547) 

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

End of 2009 – General thoughts, musings and diet updates.

Well the end of the year is upon us and I think it’s time I reflected a little on what’s happened diet wise, fitness wise and a little in general.

First time in a while the exercise has been above and beyond the beer intake. With this and the diet that I’m undertaking with my wife the weight has gone down slowly yet steadily which is good. At least this way I am more likely to keep it off. I’m also feeling a lot healthier now that I have lost some weight and generally eating better. Improving what we ate (using Weight Watchers cook books) the food has been filling, tasty and yet not fatty or loads of points.

At least once a winter period I go down with a stinking cold, I don’t get the flu as I have the inoculation every year, and it hits me for 6 for a few weeks at a time. Since going to the gym regularly and eating better I have felt great for the past few months not being worse than a bit of a blocked nose, until now. Ah well, hopefully will start feeling better when I get back into the swing of things with gym, food and work on Monday.

I’ve been impressed that I’ve managed to keep the weight off as well and I feel good for it. Only downside is the bits they don’t tell when you’re on a diet like you’ll feel the cold more as you don’t have so much podge to keep you warm! Below is the graph of weight loss since the start of the diet. As you can see it’s been a bit poor over the festive period but will get it back on track in January.

As for work related stuff, it’s been up and down this past year as I’ve posted before, but I am looking forward to the new year and what it will bring. I’ve got a lot of things planned both work and external related and I look forward to implementing most if not all of it. Also in the new year I will be posting more disc golf related content as well as more coding and design posts. I hope you enjoy!

Right, last bit to do is the first thousand beers update …

Current weight loss (since Aug) : 13 3/8lbs

Current Status : Bad! (-94.8)
Beers: 386 + 75 =  461
Miles: 97.3 (gym: 64.3; road: 33) + 65.2  = 162.5
DG Rounds: 62 + 5 = 67 
Gym visits: 70  + 12 = 82
Lengths : 51 (total: 512) + 35 =  547 => 54.7
Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Health, Life and beer – Update

It’s has been a very long time since I last posted with regards to anything, so I hope you have read my latest “geek” post about Windows 7 on the eve of its full release to the public. From reading a couple of tweets from various people I can see that if it was pre ordered it has already arrived in some cases … so enjoy!

Well there has been a lot going on since my last post, so I’m going to give you a quick “run across the roof tops” to use a project management phrase :-)

July ‘09

First wedding anniversary, doesn’t time fly! Lau and I went to Barcelona for the weekend and did the tourist thing. Saw all the important sites. Walked around the outside of the Gran Familia (defo spelt wrongly) and the Gaudi style constructions. Went past the Nou Camp which is an impressive sized stadium!

August ‘09

Found out that I would be to take part in a consultation period at work to potentially be made redundant. This was a bit of a shock to the system to be honest. On initially being told I thought I’d be ok, but when we had a more detailed discussion it was made clear that, unless something big happened, that I’d probably be going at the end of the process.

Also, went to Beaminster to play disc golf and Lau and I went to Bulgaria for our proper summer holiday :-)

September ‘09

Played in the Croydon Cyclone disc golf event which was awesome. Avery Jenkins (Current Open World Champion), Val Jenkins (Current Open Women World Champion) and Nate Doss (2 x Open World Champion) came over from the Euros on the way back to the US, via London to play in the event. I had the pleasure of playing my first round in the same group as Avery. It was awesome to watch someone with that much talent for the sport play, it was also good fun with the banter between us all.

Unfortunately, I also found out I’d be leaving my employment in October as my role would be redundant. This was a bit of a kick in the teeth. Both due to the fact that I had put a lot of time and effort into my job for the past 2 years 9 months, but also as I wouldn’t get to see my all my friends which I had made every day. This was the biggest rubbish point!

October ‘09

Bit of an up and down month so far, obviously the down was the leaving my employment in Reading and nearly all contact with Reading. This is the first time in over 7 years which I haven’t had very regular visits. This in itself was a little sad. On the upside we had a pretty good send off, drank quite a bit, danced a lot … it was good!

On the upside, I have started my new job based in Warwick. Obviously this is a lot closer for me than Reading. It does however mean that I need to drive to work now, although toying with the idea of cycling in the summer (when I’m a bit fitter). Been here a week and so far so good, everyone is really nice. Yesterday I finished the first bit of development work to be used in the building and demo’d it. I’ve also started going to the gym for a run/workout a couple of mornings a week. This will help me loose weight, get fitter and recover from the shoulder damage ready for disc golf practice ready for next year.

As for beers and exercise I’ve kept a rough log of what has been going on, so this is now the updated “goings on” with the first thousand beer “challenge” (see below).

Also since August I have been kinda doing Weight Watchers with Lau (who is a member). As we both could do with loosing some weight and we are both very competitive, this has obviously turned into a competition which I was winning until we went on holiday and my redundancy etc. but now less than a pound behind, I will catch up!!

Current weight loss (since Aug) : 9 7/8lbs

Current Status : Bad!
Beers: 386
Miles: 97.3 (gym: 64.3; road: 33)
DG Rounds: 62
Gym visits: 70
Lengths : 51 (total: 512)
Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Weekend ups and downs ...

So little weekend up and down; didn't drink at lunch time on Friday but met up with Phipps for a cheeky catch up beer. He's buying a house and moving on Tuesday! It's an exciting time!

As for the rest of the weekend, I wasn't working so it was a good weekend! I've just got back from the gym and had a nice 5km (3.1 miles) run and a work out. It all helps towards the ratio! :-)


Current Status : Bad!
Beers: 271
Miles: 47.4 (gym: 14.4; road: 33)
DG Rounds: 49
Gym visits: 64
Lengths : 48 (month: 0; total: 486)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Quick Update

So after the day of work yesterday I thought about going to play some disc golf but decided I'd go to the gym instead for a short ish run and work out.

So 1 weights work out + 3.2Km later ... It's another 2 miles to a ratio :-)

Ratio still bad though! :-(

Current Status : Bad!
Beers: 270
Miles: 44.3 (gym: 11.3; road: 33)
DG Rounds: 48
Gym visits: 63
Lengths : 48 (month: 0; total: 486)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

A weekend of strength and weakness

This weekend has been a bit up and down with stuff.

Friday evening Lau, my sister and I went to the theatre in Birmingham to see Return to the Forbidden Planet. I'd been quite excited about this as it is probably one of my favourite musicals and I've seen it a few times. I hadn't clocked when we booked the tickets that it was an amateur performance, so it didn't have the double drum kits built into the stage, it didn't have the characters playing the instruments through the show etc. so was a little dissappointed. On the up side it was a bit of a giggle. After we went out for dinner and I was weak and had a couple of pints of San Miguel. It was Friday night afterall!! So with 2 weeks of no beer the drought had been broken.

Yesterday to make up for it I went to the gym, went for a run and a weights workout. I've not ran for a couple of weeks and it's suprising how quickly you loose the base fitness so did 5km in under 33 mins which was ok. Felt it at the end though.

An to top off the madness of the weekend I'm now sitting in my study looking out the window at the nice weather and our resident birds flying to / from their nest, which is attached to our house, waiting for unit tests to run! Yep, that's right ... tight deadlines etc. means working the weekend again. I don't mind doing it as it will mean we exit dev on time etc. but I would prefer to be playing disc golf. :-)

Anyway back to it, they've finally finished!

Current Status : Bad!
Beers: 270
Miles: 42.3 (gym: 9.3; road: 33)
DG Rounds: 48
Gym visits: 62
Lengths : 48 (month: 0; total: 486)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

First 10km

Yesterday afternoon was my first 10km run. It was mainly just to see if I actually could do it. I set the speed at 8km/hr and just kept at it. It was the discipline which was required which was the most interesting part of it. Both the sticking at a steady speed and not changing it and potentially bringing the run to an end early, but also mind over body determination to carry on when your body is saying "why are you doing this?!".

So first 10km was done in 75mins ... this equates to 6.2miles (which is what I measure on below).

I've decided to take running at the gym into account, otherwise I'll never recover the deficit, also if I run 10km I'd only get 1 in the positive pot ... that sucks ... and I make the rules :-)


Current Status : Bad!
Beers: 268
Miles: 39.2 (gym: 6.2; road: 33)
DG Rounds: 43
Gym visits: 61
Lengths : 0 (month: 0; total: 486)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Long time no post ...

... because of many reasons. The lack of posting over the past few months is due to a few reasons mainly work related and not wanting to look at a computer screen after a day at work. This in addition to being shattered (due to work) and that's pretty much it.

We've had some pretty tight deadlines recently and due to this long hours and weekends have needed to be worked. This has prevented me from going to the gym and playing disc golf as much as I'd have liked. It makes going to the fridge and grabbing a beer very easy and this is very much the anti exercise :-)

What's been happening over the past few months?!

Well I've been working quite a lot. We've had some pretty big projects coming through dev recently and the deadlines have been incredibly tight. Some of the have involved working late, working weekends, working late weekends and the days I have left the office at a reasonable time I've got home and the last thing I wanted to do was open my laptop and do anything.

Unfortunatly my PDGA rating has gone down again in the latest update. This is bad! I thought I played ok in Feb at Frostbreaker, and I did, but I was a little out of practice and my fitness levels weren't as high as they should have been for an event there. To top it off it was made up of 2 rounds of 27 holes was over 5 hrs straight of golf with no breaks each day. It was a lot of fun though!

On top of that the Quarry Park Spring Fling was 4 rounds of 18; 2 per day. This was also tough, added in with the really crap weather we had it didn't help my rating. On the Saturday I shot my worse competative round there in about 3 years. On the Sunday thinking things couldn't get any worse I ended up shooting my worse competative round there ever! Something needs to be done!

I've been out recently and thrown pretty well although I have been injured twice, once hurt my right shoulder after slipping down the bank on hole 13 and putting out my arm to stop myself (stupid reflexes!) and it jarring my shoulder quite badly. And recently second to last hole threw a forehand approach on hole 17 and just pulled my arm. It hurt a lot! So hopefully will be fit again (arm wise) by the QP open in a couple of weeks time!

Health review - Feb, March, April and May

Well the health review for the past few months has been lacking a lot. I've got rough numbers for Feb but March, April and May will be educated guesses. But recently I have increased my running. I've been averaging between 5 and 10km a week. All on the treadmill as my knees and shins are trying to get use to running again. I've only counted this as a gym visit though so still being out weighed by beer :-)

The reason behind increased running is I want to loose some weight and hit my target I set myself back at the beginning of Feb. I managed to get down to 12 stone before I went to Frostbreaker, but recently that has creeped back up to a steady 12stone 4. I'm still aiming for 11 stone 7 before going down to dorset in August, so that gives me 2 months to loose the best part of a stone. Can this be done? Well thats the challenge. As part of this I'm going to give up beer in June and beyond if it helps :-)

Rough numbers / estimates of beer and exercise over the past few months :

Feb : 6 dg rounds, 6 gym visits, 16 lengths, 27 beers
Mar: 6 dg rounds, 10 gym visits, 0 lengths, 30 beers (including dev social)
Apr: 4 dg rounds, 12 gym visits, 0 lengths, 25 beers
May: 2 dg rounds, 10 gym visits, 0 lengths, 25 beers (including dev social)

So that estimately equates to :

18 rounds of disc golf (including hurt shoulder and elbow so should have been higher!)
38 gym visits
16 lengths
107 beers

June - no beer!

So no beer in June; it's going to be interesting. We've got some interesting deadlines coming up at work and for a dev beer is a good way to relax. I've decided that if I get home and want a beer I need to make myself go to the gym for a run. It will take my mind off it.

In additon to the weight loss and general fitness I've taken up running again as Lau and I are going to run in a 10km "fun run" in September and my initial target was to do it in 1 hr 10mins which seems reasonable. But if I push it and train well I think I could do it in an hour. 10km / h isn't back breaking but it's going to take a bit of dedication and effort to do it. That is the challenge!

The running is going ok generally. I've been running 3 to 5 km each time I go to the gym with my best so far of 5km is about 32/33 minutes. I need to start getting my body use to running for a longer period though. So I'm going to cut down the speed and try and increase the stamina and then work up the speed. I'm quite excited about training for the run and not drinking beer will help me loose some weight as well.


Current Status : Bad!
Beers: 268
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 43
Gym visits: 61
Lengths : 16 (month(s): 0; total: 486)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Exercise update for the festive period, New Year and Jan 2009

I've been thinking over the past few weeks that I want to change the angle of my blog to a more technical nature and having posted a couple of programming related posts recently I've decided that 2009 is the time to do this. I will keep a record of the exercise / beer ratio which I've been doing for a while as I've been using it as a log of my exercise. It's nice to keep a record of what has been happening.

So this is Januarys monthly post, it cover the festive period of 2008 as well. The main aims of 2009 is to loose some weight, get better at disc golf, improve the UK and local Disc golf scene and continue to work hard at my career. It's a tough time at the moment with the current economical climate and part of my aim for 2009 is to help my work push the envelope and work our way through it.

I'm also going to use these monthly posts to keep track of my aims; including the exercise and beer consumption and weigh ins. So as of the beginning of the year I was a chubba of 12stone 4 pounds. My target weight is at least 11stone 7 by the summer; more would be good tho!

So end of the month is here and I've been keeping track of the weight over the past 31 days and after hitting an all time low on my birthday (28th) I hit a 12 stone 3/7 pounds, so almost a loss of 4 pounds in a month. I can live with that ratio of a pound a week!

So here's the monthly roundup ...

1st Jan - Round of Disc golf, shot 63 (+9) with 3 2's (holes 2, 8 & 15) pretty happy start
2nd Jan - gym workout + 10 lengths
3rd Jan - Round of Disc Golf, shot 69 (+15) with 1 2 (hole 2) - drive disappeared through the 3 tree enclosures which I thought was good, when I got there it had skidded about 1.5 metres passed the basket - easy 2! :-). Swam as well, 10 lengths.
4th Jan - gym workout
6th Jan - gym workout
8th Jan - gym workout
10th Jan - doubles practice (2 rounds)
11th Jan - gym workout
13th Jan - swim 10 lengths (4b, 4f, 2b)
18th Jan - Hyzer Cup leg 2 @ Croydon - 2 rounds of DG
19th Jan - Swim 20 lengths (4b,4f,4b,2butterfly,4back, 4b)
20th Jan - gym workout
27th Jan - Swim 20 lengths (4b,4f,4b,4back,4b)
28th Jan - gym workout (birthday!!)

Total : Gym : 7
Swim : 70 lengths
DG: 6 rounds

Christmas - Eve - 5 beers
Christmas Day - 2 beers
Boxing Day - 1 beer
Holiday - 3 beers
New Years Eve - 6 beers
friday 16th - 2 beers (well 1.5 bottles, but will count 2)
20th Jan - lunchtime beer at Rev's
21st Jan - beer on the train home! Cross Country now serve Stella! WOO!!
21st Jan - beer at home ... fed up!
23rd Jan - 3 beers - Julie's birthday at Jongleurs in Birmingham
24th Jan - 1 Lager shandy - dinner with friends at Picolino's and pub after (driving!)
25th Jan - 1 lager shandy - Quarry Park Club first meeting at the White Horse, Leamington (driving!)

*Update*
31st Jan - 3 beers - Met up with some old uni friends in London (cough getting better, woo!)

Total: 27

Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 161
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 25
Gym visits: 23
Lengths : 47 (month: 70; total: 470)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Exercise Week #8 & #9

The past few weeks have been very manic at work and I have not been able to find time to update this as often as I usually do. This is partially down to Christmas parties, but also due to the increased pressure at work to get a certain project through the UAT criteria which is pretty tight. I didn't have to go in at the weekend (20/21) but a lot of the chaps did and worked really hard. I think we're all looking forward to some time off over Christmas to see the families and recover ... ready for the new year.

Bad time for the beer ratio, really need to try harder over the festive period and on into next year :-)

Week #8
Monday - 1 gym visit
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - Working late
Thursday - rest
Friday - Work Christmas Party
Saturday - Recovery
Sunday - rest

Week #9
Monday - 1 gym visit
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - Feeling rough
Thursday - Off work ill
Friday - Lau's Work Christmas Party
Saturday - resting (recovery and due to lack of sleep due to Lau's coughing keeping me awake)
Sunday - 1 gym visit + 10 lengths swim (b,2f,b)


Week #8 Beers
Wednesday - 1 beer
Friday - 6 beers (Christmas Party)

Week #9 Beers
Thursday - 2 beers (Medicine wasn't working)
Friday - 6 beers (Burger Friday & Christmas Party)
Sunday - 2 beers (Parents after Carol service)


Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 131
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 19
Gym visits: 16
Lengths : 40 (week: 10; total: 400)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Exercise Week #7

Weights week #2 - I didn't get to the gym as much as I'd have liked to this week due to a few reasons. It's been an unusual week at work (can't say anymore) and then there was the epic thank you and Christmas card writing epic on the Saturday.

Exercise
Monday - 1 gym visit (workout)
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - 1 gym visit (workout)
Thursday - rest
Friday - rest
Saturday - stuck indoors doing wedding thank you and Christmas cards
Sunday - 1 round dg with Nige

Beer
Tuesday - 1
Wednesday - 1 (with lunch)
Thursday - 2 evening
Friday - 1 (burger friday)


Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 114
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 19
Gym visits: 13
Lengths : 39 (week: 10; total: 390)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Exercise Week #6

01Week 6 of exercising was Weights Week #1. I've decided that I am going to workout, reasonably hard, for the next few weeks and then get back into the swing of swimming regularly over the Christmas period when I'm off work for a week or so. Once we get past Christmas and New Years it will be back into training / practicing quite hard ready for the return leg of the Hyzer cup and also ready for Frostbreaker on the 7th/8th Feb '09.

Exercise
Monday - 1 gym visit (workout) + 10 lengths (b,f,b(2))
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - 1 gym visit (workout)
Thursday - rest
Friday - rest
Saturday - 1 gym visit (workout)
Sunday - rest


Beer
Tuesday - 2
Friday - 1 (burger friday)
Saturday - 1 beer (with dinner)


Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 109
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 18
Gym visits: 11
Lengths : 39 (week: 10; total: 390)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Exercise Week #5 & Hyzer Cup

Another week has passed so its time for another blog post to document the exercise vs beer ratio! :-)

It's been a busy week both at work and home with a few ups and downs so I've not managed to get to the gym as much as I'd like to have this week; however this has worked out quite well as I didn't want to over do it before the Hyzer Cup at the weekend, so all is good.

It was the inaugural Hyzer cup meeting between Quarry Park DGC and Croydon DGC at QP. The format was doubles match play in the morning and singles match play in the afternoon. It was a great day, the weather was good (for the time of the year - sunny but feecking cold!), the banter was good, the golf was good! I won both my matches, the first with my team mate Rich Hatton; the other half of team "Double Impact".

Qp went on to win the event by 11.5 points to 9.5.

Bring on the return leg down in Croydon in January!!!

Exercise
Monday - 40 lengths (b,f,b,fly,b,f,b,back,f,b)
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - 30 lengths (b,f,b,fly,b,back, b(6))
Thursday - rest
Friday - 10 lengths (b,f,fly(1), b(1))
Saturday - 2 rounds disc golf - Hyzer cup QP vs Croydon
Sunday - rest


Beers
Thursday - 1 beer
Friday - 1 beer (burger friday)
Saturday - 1 beer (dinner)
Sunday - 1 beer (lunch)



Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 105
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 18
Gym visits: 8
Lengths : 38 (week: 80; total: 380)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Strength != Power

Something I was reading yesterday made me realise something which I already knew but didn't overly think about much ... strength does not equal power! You can be as strong as a weight lifter but if you haven't got the muscles working in fluid, relaxed motion together with the bone structure of the body then you won't achieve your true potential.

Something to think about :-)

Exercise week #4

Another week on, another week of exercise!

Exercise
Monday - 40 lengths (b,f,b,back,b,fly,b(8),f,b) - fly is usuall setup, next week I'll try doing 4 full lengths :-)
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - 1 gym (body combat on a school night, what was I thinking?)
Thursday - rest
Friday - rest
Saturday - 1 round dg
Sunday - 1 gym visit - 8 lengths (f(8))

Beers
Tuesday - 5 (Dev social)
Thursday - 2 (with dinner)
Friday - 1 (burger friday)

The round of disc golf on Saturday morning was pretty reasonable even though the round score doesn't reflect it. I shot a round of 64 which is about my average at the moment. However, looking at the positives I shot ... 3,3,3,3,3,OB 5, 3,3,4,3,Double OB 7,3,4,3,4,3,4,3 ... so 12 pars and only 4 4's. So in 16 holes I was only 4 over par, so if I can cut down the silly OB on 6 (stupid wind!) and work out how to play 11 without loosing discs in the river I hopefully can start shooting sub 60 regularly! hope! LOL!!

Another mile stone this week; I've clocked up the 100th beer since I started this madness ... only 900 (well 899) beers to go!!

Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 101
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 16
Gym visits: 8
Lengths : 30 (week: 48; total: 300)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Exercise Week #3

Another week goes by and I've continued with the exercise more than I thought I would. I didn't manage to get a full100 lengths in this week as I'm feeling pretty shattered and I've not been sleeping well, but still managed over 50, a couple of gym visits and a round of disc golf. It wasn't a great round but first one after not throwing a disc properly for over a month (I think) so it could have been a lot worse.

Monday - 40 lengths (b,f,b,fly(4),b(8), f, b(12)) - fly was 2 lengths single arm, 2 lengths full
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - 1 gym visit (workout) + 12 lengths (b,fly(4),b) - usual fly setup
Thursday - rest
Friday - rest
Saturday - 1 gym visit (body combat class and weights)
Sunday - 1 round disc golf


Beers
Wednesday - 1
Thursday - 2
Friday - 2 (burger friday)
Sunday - 1

So in total ... 6 beers, and 8 exercises ... not a great week, but not a bad one. At least the exercise out did the beers ... that constitutes quite a good week for me ;-)

Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 93
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 15
Gym visits: 6
Lengths : 25 (week: 52; total: 252)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Exercise Week #2

Another week has gone by and another week of exercise ... I've actually carried on going this week. Woo! Go me!!

Monday - Gym visit + 12 lengths (f,f,f)
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - Gym visit + 16 lengths (b(8),b(8))
Thursday - 28 lengths (b,f,b(8),fly(4),b(8)) - fly was 2 lengths single arm, 2 lengths full
Friday - rest
Saturday - Body Combat + 4 lengths (f) (too busy with kids)
Sunday - 40 lengths (b,f,b(8), fly(4), back(4), b(8), b(8)) - fly was 2 lengths single arm, 2 lengths full.

Total: 100 lengths + 3 gym visits

Beers this week ... 1 beer thursday night, 2 friday (burger friday), 3 saturday night in with the mrs.


Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 87
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 14
Gym visits: 4
Lengths : 20 (week: 100; total: 200)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers

Exercise week #1

This week was a week of exercise for me and a good start to getting fit. I'm planning on getting into a routine which isn't so heavily based on swimming, but swimming is a good way of getting a baseline fitness level before kicking off big style with the training!

So this week in brief goes something like this ...

Monday - joined gym
Tuesday - 16 lengths (b,f,b,f)
Wednesday - 20 lengths (b,f,b,f,b)
Thursday - 24 lengths (b,f,b,f,b(8))
Friday - rest
Saturday - Gym Induction, CV part of workout and 28 lengths (b,f,b(8),f,b(8))
Sunday - Gentle swim - 12 lengths (f(12))


Key
b = breaststroke
f = freestyle (frontcrawl)

So in total, that is one gym visit and 100 lengths!!!

How does this get incorporated into the First Thousand Beers ratio? Well I thought it would go like this ... if I counted every length that would be silly! So for every 10 lengths I do I get a positive point to the ratio. Also, if I do a gym workout or a class then that will also give me a positive point to the ratio. However, (are u following this?!) if I only go swimming it doesn't count as a gym visit, but I can have a gym visit and swim (I'm tired this might not make sense!).

So *looks back at last few posts* ... update ... I had a beer a week last friday at burger friday and another at dinner with the takeaway. Again this was the case for last friday so thats another 4 for the bad ratio.

Current Status : Bad!

Beers: 81
Miles: 33
DG Rounds: 14
Gym visits: 1
Lengths : 10 (100 swam)

Key
Good => Exercise > Beers
Level => Exercise == Beers
Bad => Exercise < Beers