Stick with and achieve my WEEKLY fitness goals, which I KNOW make me happier and healthier

and I’ve been doing it for well over a year now, but the time has come to take it off my list, as my “be healthier from Wednesday” goal is very similar and in future I want to use that for these sorts of entries instead. Good luck to everyone still doing it!

Didn’t actually set any goals this week but did do some stuff: 30 min cardio on Tues and Fri, 60 min today (v. pleased with myself as felt like giving up after half an hour but carried on) and 1 hour tai chi on Wed. I skived Bodypump on Wed, not good, but it’s just too much to do it on the same night as tai chi.

Tai chi isn’t happening this week, so my plan is:

• Tues: 30 min cardio + 1 hour Bodypump
• Thurs: 30 min cardio
• Sat: 60 min cardio
• Sun: 60 min cardio

That should be plenty to be going on with. Have a great week everyone!

Made it to tai chi and Bodypump on Wed thanks to CC’s “healthier from Wed” goal – and did 1 hour on the incline treadmill today, so not too bad.

Plan for next week:

• Mon: possibly 30 min cardio if I get an early night and get up in time, but not the end of the world if I don’t
• Tues: 30 min cardio
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi + 1 hour Bodypump (argh!)
• Thurs: recovery
• Fri: 30 min cardio
• Sat: 1 hour cardio
• Sun: day off, as visiting a friend in Oxford

Have a great week everyone!

The plan for the week was:

• Tues: 30 min early cardio done!
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi done! + weights at home didn’t do weights but did do 30 min rowing
• Thurs: 30 min early cardio not done
• Fri: 30 min early cardio (perhaps rowing for a change) not done
• Sat: 1 hour cardio not done
• Sun: 1 hour cardio done!

2 hours cardio and 1 hour tai chi, not quite up to Gladiator Leopard standards but yesterday I was in no condition to do anything!

This week the great Oslo trip is on Thursday so I hope to get some exercise in before then.

• Mon: 30 min cardio
• Tues: 30 min cardio
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi + 1 hour Bodypump
• Thurs-Tues: chase Morten Harket around Oslo with CC SoapDragon and the Breakfast Martini Gang ;)

Have a great week everyone!

The plan was:

• Mon: 30 min cardio not done, was never going to happen after 2 hours cardio at the weekend
• Tues: 30 min cardio done!
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi done! + 1 hour Bodypump class cancelled, did some weights at home instead but nothing like the equivalent to a class
• Sat: 1 hour cardio done!
• Sun: 1 hour cardio done!

Overall 2.5 hours cardio, 1 hour tai chi and a bit of weights – not too bad but not as much as I’d hoped.

Bodypump isn’t happening this week either – the bloke who does it is on holiday – which is annoying as I was looking forward to getting into a weekly routine with it. Oh well! G is away this week so there won’t be any boozy late nights until Friday, and I want to get back in the habit of going to the gym early. The plan is as follows:

• Tues: 30 min early cardio
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi + weights at home
• Thurs: 30 min early cardio
• Fri: 30 min early cardio (perhaps rowing for a change)
• Sat: 1 hour cardio
• Sun: 1 hour cardio

Have a great week everyone!

The plan for the week was:

• Mon: 30 min rowing not done as didn’t have keys to get to rowing machine
• Tues: Bodypump class done! hard!
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi done!
• Thurs: lower body weights + 30 min incline trainer not done as was still in pain from Tues
• Fri: day off! done!
• Sat: assuming not too hungover after Fri, 60 min incline trainer done!
• Sun: weights + 60 min incline trainer did 60 min cardio but not weights

All in all not a bad result considering that Bodypump whacked me out for 3 days.

The plan for next week:

• Mon: 30 min cardio
• Tues: 30 min cardio
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi + 1 hour Bodypump
• Thurs: recovery
• Fri: recovery
• Sat: 1 hour cardio
• Sun: 1 hour cardio

Have a great week everyone!

The plan for the week was to do 45 min on the exercise bike every day, and to do a session in the gym today. I actually ended up going on the bike every day except Fri when I was achey as had also done weights on Thurs. Today I went to the gym, did some upper body weights and 60 min on the incline trainer which allegedly burned 1001 calories. Whether or not this figure is accurate, I’m jolly pleased with myself – it’s the most I’ve ever done.

Plan for this week:

• Mon: 30 min rowing
• Tues: Bodypump class – a new thing the gym is doing, and the gym manager is so excited about it that several of us in the office are planning to go. Should be interesting!
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi
• Thurs: lower body weights + 30 min incline trainer
• Fri: day off!
• Sat: assuming not too hungover after Fri, 60 min incline trainer
• Sun: weights + 60 min incline trainer

Have a great week everyone!

The plan was:

Mon: 30 min elliptical not done, I was knackered after a heavy session on Sunday
Wed: 30 min incline trainer (depending on how late I’m out on Tuesday), 1 hour tai chi done!
Thurs: 30 min incline trainer done!
Fri: 30 min rowing machine not done, too hungover after Thursday
Sat: weight machines + 45 min incline trainer done! in fact did 64 min on the incline trainer and notched up 1,000 cals burned
Sun: 30 min bike done! in fact did 45 min not 30

Only 4 sessions but two of those were harder than planned, so it almost counts as 5. Learning points: allow time for r&r after a major day, and don’t plan to exercise the day after a heavy night.

This week I’m at my parents’ place but there are no excuses as I have bags of time, some nice countryside to go walking/running in, an exercise bike and a DVD player. Watching a DVD certainly helps pass the time. I intend to do 45 min of something every day, and on Sunday hope to get back to London in time to hit the gym and do some weights and have a good session on the incline trainer.

Exercise is an intrinsic part of my 100 day project which I’m writing about elsewhere, and I’m sure checking in daily and feeling in some sense accountable is going to help with motivation.

Have a great week everyone!

The plan was:

• Tues: 30 min cardio not done
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi not done
• Thurs: 30 min cardio unless out the night before, in which case do it on Fri done!
• Sat: 1 hour walk did 30 min rowing instead
• Sun: weights + 30 min cardio & aim for another PB done! got 572 on the incline trainer. I would have got 576 but was getting very hot and my heart rate was through the roof. Must invest in a water bottle!

I’ve been reading a book by Tom Venuto about losing fat and he argues that there is no substitute for cardio and an endomorph like myself needs to do a minimum of 5 sessions a week (on top of weight training) to make a difference. So this week I’m aiming to do more:

• Mon: 30 min elliptical
• Wed: 30 min incline trainer (depending on how late I’m out on Tuesday), 1 hour tai chi
• Thurs: 30 min incline trainer
• Fri: 30 min rowing machine
• Sat: weight machines + 45 min incline trainer
• Sun: 30 min bike

Probably won’t manage all of this but it’s something to aim for. Have a great week everyone!

The plan was:

• Mon: 30 min cardio not done
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi done!
• Thurs: 30 min cardio not done
• Fri: 30 min cardio done!
• Sat: 1 hour walk done!
• Sun: weights + 30 min cardio done!

Four out of six which isn’t too bad. The good news is that this morning I got yet another personal best on the incline trainer. When I got the last one, 2 weeks ago, I said to myself it was going to be a long time before I beat that, as an excuse for taking it easy and not really pushing myself. But having read the growth mindset book and the quote about being a little bit better each day, this morning I thought why not go for it, and got 571 cal in 30 min (previous PB was 551). I now think I could get up to 600 by the end of the year, and will aim to push it a little further each Sunday.

So, the plan for this week:

• Tues: 30 min cardio
• Wed: 1 hour tai chi
• Thurs: 30 min cardio unless out the night before, in which case do it on Fri
• Sat: 1 hour walk
• Sun: weights + 30 min cardio & aim for another PB.

Have a great week everyone!