28 October 2008
Killing me softly
Posted by Aled under: fitness .
In an effort to really start shedding some of the spare tyres I seem to have accumulated over the last few years, I’ve stepped things up a bit.
Every morning I jog 2 miles, careful to keep my heart rate towards the lower end of the cardiovascular exercise range - around 65%. This ensures that I’m working my cardiovascular system and if it slows down a little I’m into the “fat burning” range, either way it’s good. It’s 2 hilly miles as well which gives me a few opportunities for a few sprints in there just to push things along a bit. So that’s 5 of those a week…
…at work, every Thursday, we play badminton for an hour. It’s fun, it’s energetic, it’s mostly aerobic exercise…
…today I started playing badminton a second time every week. So practice on Tues, play the league on Thursday…
…in the evenings I’ve started doing something - walk a few miles over the hill behind the house, a quick run, test my fitness using a multi-stage fitness test (aka bleep test), even cleaning the house which if you do it right can be aerobic exercise…
Throw into that the fact that I’ve cut down on my tea and coffee, replacing them with water and my eating has become a lot more healthy. Hopefully all this will work wonders and in a month or two I really will have lost some weight.
I do wonder however if I’m overdoing it slightly - I’m not sure if I’m tired today because I do too much, or if it’s because I didn’t sleep until late last night. Meh, early bed tonight I think…
Oh the joys of having inherited South Welsh genes - where the person’s height & circumference seem to stand a good chance of ending up about the same, if not with the circumference greater!
I, too, have inherited these genes, & others for 6′ height. So I’m doing a lot of walking at present, while the sunshine lasts at least, as well as watching my intake.