I had forgotten how bad at blogging I am. Haven't posted in ages. I'm actively procrastinating doing a presentation for Fat Face, which is in itself a procrastination for any/all college work.
Speaking of college work, I'm DEAD excited about my brand spanking new thesis. I get to do something to do with sports and fitness which is DEADLY. I'm not sure what yet, and it probably won't get my anywhere near a decent grade, but it'll be interesting.
Still haven't gotten into a pool yet. I'M THE WORST TRIATHLETE EVER. But I've bought myself a shiny new pair of goggles, which I insisted on showing the entire pav on Friday, and flip-flops and a swim cap. I'm completely ready to go. Somebody motivate me, or push me into a pool or something.
In other news, I'm the WORST EVERYTHING EVER. I can't stop eating, or motivate myself to do anymore work-outs than the three I do with Superfit. So I've put on a whopping 3.5 pound since starting the blog. That's a sick 12,250 unburned calories!!!!
First superfit weigh-in: 9 stone 5.8 pounds
Second Weigh-in: 9 stone 6.2 pounds
Third weigh-in/mental break down: 9stone 9pound. 3 POUND IN ONE WEEK.
Needless to say I threw an absolute fit. I'm surprised I'm not barred from the studio. I've been comfort eating all weekend now too so I'll be worse this Thursday. And no, it's NOT muscle weight. NEW GOAL: 9'3 for the ball. 2 pound a week pretty much. I will pull all the engineering boys. ALL OF THEM. When I am 6 pound lighter, this will be aided by my trial of the "diet" pills on sale at superfit. Here's hoping they work.
I hate life right now....
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Thursday, 12 January 2012
The Day after Day2.
Went on the superfit run last night. Another 10k-ish run of sorts. I can run most of it, but with lots of stopping and starting. Goal is the run the entire thing by the end of my 8 week courses with the lads. I'm loving superfit right now, meeting loads of new people and my mam, aunt and bezzy Sinead are doing it now too. It's nice to have motivation on a run. Rathcoole and its surrounds areas are SOOO hilly and undulating though! Also, I was split up from the three of them and put in the big boy group :( Not. Able. Are not even the right words to use.
I got in from the run and just ate and ate and slept and slept, this blog was supposed to help me not to do that. Grr... But I woke up this morning feeling a cold or possibly a chest infection coming on, with pains in my belly and a rash all over my face..... WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT??? I was also getting horrible pains in my shoulder when I was running too, that slowed me down a lot too. That's another thing to add to my list for poor Fergal, my physio.
Tonight is "THE BIGGEST LOSER" class. I'm going to win. I AM the biggest loser. We do a weigh-in in this class, so I'm going to take that as my start weight and attempt to not weigh myself at home at all anymore! Hopefully it's as fun as boxfit. Mam, Sandra and Sinead are doing this class too. Power in number. I'll update you later, right now I think I need to vomit.. :-/
I got in from the run and just ate and ate and slept and slept, this blog was supposed to help me not to do that. Grr... But I woke up this morning feeling a cold or possibly a chest infection coming on, with pains in my belly and a rash all over my face..... WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT??? I was also getting horrible pains in my shoulder when I was running too, that slowed me down a lot too. That's another thing to add to my list for poor Fergal, my physio.
Tonight is "THE BIGGEST LOSER" class. I'm going to win. I AM the biggest loser. We do a weigh-in in this class, so I'm going to take that as my start weight and attempt to not weigh myself at home at all anymore! Hopefully it's as fun as boxfit. Mam, Sandra and Sinead are doing this class too. Power in number. I'll update you later, right now I think I need to vomit.. :-/
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Day 1 - Boxfit
I'm so tired. Boxfit was amazing! Boxing away the bingo wings. It's hard for me to box without the urge to kick things as well, but this was nice to have a workout pretty much just focusing on my arms. I hate my arms. It'll hopefully make swimming easier. Oh yeah, I didn't go swimming. Friday, on Friday I will swim.
My right hamstring/hip flexor is acting up in a HUGE way lately. I'll have to go back to my physio soon. Get contorted back into shape. It's started to build up as tension in my shoulders. That's when I know its bad.
Right, into the nitty gritty. My Goals... In the last few months I've lost about a stone, just through gym work though. the next few months are going to be harder so I have to start watching what I'm eating now to lose the rest. I've gotten mammy in on the health buzz, she'll be doing my Thursday class too, but it's great because she cooks the dinners. Tonight we had a lovely Chicken pasta bake, it was delicious! And, there's even some leftover for me for lunch tomorrow, happy days!
At my heaviest I was around 10st 5. Vomit.
Day 1 weigh-in: 9st 7. (+2 pound from xmas)
I'm 5'2", so that gives me a BMI of 24.3, just barely in the normal range... :-/
I'm aiming for goal weight of 8stone-ish (BMI: 20.5) in 16 weeks. It should, hopefully look a little something like this:
My right hamstring/hip flexor is acting up in a HUGE way lately. I'll have to go back to my physio soon. Get contorted back into shape. It's started to build up as tension in my shoulders. That's when I know its bad.
Right, into the nitty gritty. My Goals... In the last few months I've lost about a stone, just through gym work though. the next few months are going to be harder so I have to start watching what I'm eating now to lose the rest. I've gotten mammy in on the health buzz, she'll be doing my Thursday class too, but it's great because she cooks the dinners. Tonight we had a lovely Chicken pasta bake, it was delicious! And, there's even some leftover for me for lunch tomorrow, happy days!
At my heaviest I was around 10st 5. Vomit.
Day 1 weigh-in: 9st 7. (+2 pound from xmas)
I'm 5'2", so that gives me a BMI of 24.3, just barely in the normal range... :-/
I'm aiming for goal weight of 8stone-ish (BMI: 20.5) in 16 weeks. It should, hopefully look a little something like this:
It's approximatly 1.375 pounds a week. Pretty achievable I think.
Power song!
Just waiting for dinner and then boxfit. But I was thinking on my run last night how different songs make you run faster. This seems obvious. But I definitely wouldn't have made it up Rathcoole hill if it wasn't for this:
But my ultimate power right now is, rather embarrassingly, this:
Tunnnneeee...
Also, my skin is TERRIBLE right now but I hate wearing foundation training. Cleaning my room up and BAM, perfect solution. I found my old You Rebel, benefit tinted moisturizer. I'd forgotten how good it was. I had been using Bobbi Brown Skin for the gym and runs, but it sweats right off. /old blog
But my ultimate power right now is, rather embarrassingly, this:
Tunnnneeee...
Also, my skin is TERRIBLE right now but I hate wearing foundation training. Cleaning my room up and BAM, perfect solution. I found my old You Rebel, benefit tinted moisturizer. I'd forgotten how good it was. I had been using Bobbi Brown Skin for the gym and runs, but it sweats right off. /old blog
A First Post - Take Two.
Ok, so out with the old blog, in with a new one. This one will be more for me this time, to keep me focused, occupy me post-workout, instead of just lying around eating when I get back from the gym. It won't be interesting or fun or have any pretty pictures :(
So the aim of the game for 2012 is to do a triathlon. I'm not too unfit as it is, but I can't for the life of me swim. Every year I tell myself I'll learn how to swim. I came as close to have put my name down for lessons in citywest one time, but one thing led to another and I just never went. I've been in a swimming pool maybe once in the last two or three years. It's not that I don't like it, I love the water, particularly the water in the jacuzzi or steam room or the gym, but in the pool as well. I think my main problems are:
No going back now. I'll need to be able to swim at least 750m for even the shortest of triathlons. That's ~40 lengths of my pool. Last time I tried, I struggled to swim 2. Major problem.
So by giving myself the target of a triathlon I will definitely make myself get in the pool more often. Seeings how, at the moment, I don't really know my strength at swimming or how long it will take me to get up to speed, I know I can kind of run, and kind of cycle, I'm not really aiming to do a Tri until August sometime, either the Focus Ireland Challenge or the Dublin City Triathlon. Either one really. Maybe even both. So in that respect, I really don't need to start training for either of them until May-ish, after my final exams anyway.
But I do need to need to get fit and lose weight, so until May, this blog will be like my fitness/weight-loss diary. I'm aiming to update it EVERY SINGLE DAY :O or at least every week. So this is day 0. Tomorrow will be a proper entry. It'll basically list all the crap I eat, like today, I had microwave popcorn and a muthafuckin kitkat, for my lunch no less, and all the manly workouts I do. I'll start a weight tracker too. Tomorrow is boxfit, cannot wait to punch things.
So the aim of the game for 2012 is to do a triathlon. I'm not too unfit as it is, but I can't for the life of me swim. Every year I tell myself I'll learn how to swim. I came as close to have put my name down for lessons in citywest one time, but one thing led to another and I just never went. I've been in a swimming pool maybe once in the last two or three years. It's not that I don't like it, I love the water, particularly the water in the jacuzzi or steam room or the gym, but in the pool as well. I think my main problems are:
- It's SOOOOOOO much effort packing a huge bag with shampoo, conditioner, towel etc. with me to the gym.
- eeekkkk, me in a swimsuit.
- I feel like an absolute dipshit when I attempt to swim.
- I can't swim.
No going back now. I'll need to be able to swim at least 750m for even the shortest of triathlons. That's ~40 lengths of my pool. Last time I tried, I struggled to swim 2. Major problem.
So by giving myself the target of a triathlon I will definitely make myself get in the pool more often. Seeings how, at the moment, I don't really know my strength at swimming or how long it will take me to get up to speed, I know I can kind of run, and kind of cycle, I'm not really aiming to do a Tri until August sometime, either the Focus Ireland Challenge or the Dublin City Triathlon. Either one really. Maybe even both. So in that respect, I really don't need to start training for either of them until May-ish, after my final exams anyway.
But I do need to need to get fit and lose weight, so until May, this blog will be like my fitness/weight-loss diary. I'm aiming to update it EVERY SINGLE DAY :O or at least every week. So this is day 0. Tomorrow will be a proper entry. It'll basically list all the crap I eat, like today, I had microwave popcorn and a muthafuckin kitkat, for my lunch no less, and all the manly workouts I do. I'll start a weight tracker too. Tomorrow is boxfit, cannot wait to punch things.
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