So I have just finished 8 weeks of walking over 12000 steps a day and to say that the consistancy is working is an understatement! I have lost 2 kgs in weight but my body composition has changed a lot and I am roughly 2″ less on my waist judging by my 38″ race pants falling down with the belt fully tightened 🙂 I have also noticed that my t shirts are way baggier now too and my stomach is much less pronounced than it was before!
My back is feeling so much better and so are my knees.
I have also noticed that things that used to make me out of breath like walking up stairs or walking in general are not really making me even breath heavily any more!
I have noticed a massive difference on the BMX to as I can now do full speed first straights and pump the rest of the track and not be too winded any more where as I would have been blowing out of my arse 2 months ago 🙂
I am at a point where I can now start to add sprints and track work back into my weekly training which is amazing!
Over the past 8 weeks I have walked a staggering 740990 steps which works out at 92623 steps a week or 13473 steps a day 🙂
On a more worrying note I have completely got out of the habit of walking in the mornings over the past couple of weeks which I need to address before it becomes an issue as it makes it really difficult to get the steps in as you end up having to get them in at night before you can go to bed which will become an issue when I start adding extra training in the evenings.
My main goal for the next 4 weeks is to get back into the habit of waking up and going walking or rucking as soon as I wake up then I can not only start the day with a big win and an endorpin rush but I will also get over 1/2 of my 12000 steps ticked off before I start work in the morning!
My diet is still really bad although I have cut out fizzy drinks and a lot of crisps and sweets I am still eating a lot of takeout which is far from ideal and is reducing the amount of weight that I am losing at the moment! So this next 4 weeks I will try and not eat takeout, sweets or crisps and cook food at home instead!
I am also going to start exercising in my lunch breaks and start riging the mtb, doing sprints doing gates sessions too as I want to start getting BMX fit too and build on my base fitness level that the waking has built.
I am going to start filming my sessions too so that I can try and work out the rinkles in my form as I can feel that I am not fully over the bars when I am sprinting down the start hill at the moment so I need to work that out! I also need to start learning to ride on the rollers so that I can get good enough to start roller sprints to build leg speed sooner rather than later!
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