Gymtastic
Posted: Thu 27 January, 2005 Filed under: Health, Resolutions Leave a comment »Expect a post saying “Ouch” at some point later (or in the morning, if I can’t be arsed tonight) for tonight is the night of the induction session at the gym.
I haven’t been to a gym in about a year now. I should’ve done, I know, but I haven’t. So this session is going to be interesting. I know the kind of things I’m interested in doing, but we’ll see what they have to say – should be fun, if nowt else.
10,000
Posted: Tue 25 January, 2005 Filed under: B&Q, General, Health, Resolutions 1 Comment »Today, Gordon’s talking about pedometers, and how many steps people walk in a day. As it’s something that’s good to do as part of the healthy thing, I thought I’d have a quick count-up of the main part of my walking each day.
Thanks to the B&Q delivery (still cocked up, but less cocked-up than it was) I was able to count my walk to and from work. just for this post (He lies, in a fit of “look what I do for you people” pique) It works out as roughly 2,100 steps, although I’ll be verifying that tonight. So assuming I walk both to and from work (I do most of the time, but occasionally get a lift from Herself) just the walk nets me approximately 4,000ish paces. Not bad considering that the average is only 3,000 per day, and that doesn’t take into account the walking I do around the house and office, at lunchtime, or when we take Hundus for a walk. So I reckon that on a normal day I probably average about 5,500-6,000steps – possibly more, but I doubt I break the 7,000 on average.
What interested me more was my walking speed – those 2,100 paces took me approximately 20 minutes. That’s 105 steps per minute, or 1.75 per second. Fairly fast, I’d say.
Thoughts on Weight
Posted: Mon 24 January, 2005 Filed under: General, Health 2 Comments »I’ve never been small – I’m 6’4″, and tend to average around 20-21stone. (Gordon wrote some thoughts about this earlier this month) I don’t (normally) see myself as “fat” – I’ve got a 50″ chest, which isn’t fat, it’s bone structure. I know, we’ve all heard the “I’m not fat, I’m big-boned” excuse a thousand times, but at some point it does have some veracity.
I know I need to lose some weight – and, as detailed below, it’s beginning to happen. But when I look at what Weightwatchers recommend as my target weight, I can’t really do anything but laugh.
Start Weight : 20st 10.0lb
10% Goal : 18st 9.0lb
Weight Goal : 11st 9.9lb
11st 10lb?!? Now that’s going to be impressive – losing half my body weight. Meanwhile, back in reality…
Quite honestly, I simply don’t think it’s possible for me to lose that much weight. I’ll be happy with 16 or 17 stone – even that I think only borders on feasible. We’ll see. But eleven stone on a 6’4″ frame with a 50″ chest? It’s not going to happen.
Upgrading Health
Posted: Mon 24 January, 2005 Filed under: General, Health, Resolutions 2 Comments »Since the start of this year, I’ve been working a bit on general health and fitness. The first part of that was to start losing some weight. As of yesterday, I’ve lost nearly a stone in weight in three weeks, which I reckon is pretty good. I’m working on losing it sensibly, rather than any crash-dieting or whatever.
The next part of it starts this week. Over the weekend we joined up with a local gym, and the initiation initial consultation is going to be on Thursday. We may go in the meantime just for a tryout, but having visited it before Christmas I pretty much know what to expect.
There’s still a long way to go – including a visit to the GP, and a thyroid test. (It runs in the family, so it’s best to see how I’m doing on that score) There’s also a plan to buy a bike, which should be interesting as I haven’t ridden one regularly in about eight years.
Still, it’s all working so far, and it’ll be interesting to see how things go.
Changes
Posted: Wed 5 January, 2005 Filed under: Health, Resolutions Leave a comment »The new job is still going well. I think I’ve done more brain-work in the last 48 hours than I did in 18 months in the previous job. The learning curve is somewhere just short of effing vertical, but that suits me just fine. I like being challenged mentally (as opposed to being mentally challenged *Grin*)
Along the way I’m also working on weight loss – we’ve both joined Weightwatchers’ online programme (and I have to say that for a system that’s entire web-based, their website is utterly fucking shite) and that’ll continue to be worked on. It was one of my targets for 2005 anyway, to lose some of my ample bulk, and it’s going to be interesting to see how it works. There’s also a gym membership in the offing, which’ll help too. There’ll be fairly regular updates on that score – not that anyone really cares, but well, what the chuff, it’s going to be interesting to me.
Now I just need to get the move and so on sorted – there’s a lot of stuff around that still to be organised, but with luck I’ll be able to get a lot of that dealt with while I’m up there again this weekend.
But in general, 2005 has started well, and I just hope it’s going to keep on in the same vein…
Don’t expect much today
Posted: Mon 24 March, 2003 Filed under: Health Leave a comment »Well, I’m back. Hadn’t realised they were going to do so much in one 90 minute session. I’ve had
- 9 surgical extractions
- 1 root canal work
and - 13 injections of local anaesthetic.
Needless to say
Unsurprisingly, I feel abysmal.
Thankfully, that’s pretty much the worst of it over with. I knew I needed a lot doing – and in many ways I’m glad that all the really shitty stuff has been done in one day, so I don’t have to go back thinking “I’ve got another day of feeling as shit as I do right now”. But all the same, fuck me, what a morning.