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Author: walkeveryday_e6wtle

  • Plans for the rest of December 2024

    I was doing a 30 day 12000 steps a day challenge for december but I decided to take the 24th, 25th and 26th off so I have scrapped that challenge and I will regroup ready for the 2025 12000 step challenge to start on Jan 1st. For the next week I am going to start getting back into the habit of waking up and walking my uphill route every morning so that when I start doing it for real in 5 days time I am used to getting up and getting dressed and going out for a walk so that next wednesday I can add the weight vest to the mix and make it a bit harder again but it will not be a total shock to the system.

    I have enjoyed the rest the last few days but the aches and pains are starting to come back and my back is starting to feel stiff again so it is definately time to get back to walking tomorrow morning!

    I am off work until Jan 2nd so I am going to make the most of the time off and get my shed and garage cleared out so that I can de-clutter my flat and hopefully get a gym set up in the garage once I have sold my excess bikes to clear space for the gym equipment.

    I have a couple of 1 ton bags coming today and I will pull everything out of the shed and stick as much as I can into the bags ready to take to the tip Saturday Morning when I booked a slot.

    Once the shed is cleared out and all the rubbish has been sent take to be recycled I will then turn my attention to the garage and start doing the same as I have done in the shed so hopefully by the time I go back to work there will be enough space in the garage to get all of the bikes that are cluttering up my flat into the garage so that I can get my flat back to being a flat not a bike shop as it is at the moment!

    Once I have room in my flat again I will rip out my carpet in my bedroom and get some vinyl planking to sort the bedroom floor out then my flat should at least be livable again! I am also hoping that getting rid of the carprt in the bedroom will help sort my astha out a bit too as it will be easier to clean the floor.

    I am also going to start doing a de-clutter of the flat and get rid of as much stuff as humanly possible to start living a more minimalistic lifestryle again!

  • Welcome to Walk Everyday Online!

    Welcome to Walk Everyday Online!

    For 2025 I have set myself the goal of walking 12000 steps a day EVERY Day for the entire year. This blog is going to be used to tack my progress and record the daily struggle to make my goal for 2025 a reality!

    In 2024 I unsucessfully tried to consistantly walk everyday due to various issues including illness and injury but mainly I was not consistant because I wasn’t focused on my walking and got out of the habit of getting up first thing and walking!

    About me

    I am a 51 year old Male who is pretty active and used to participate in a lot of sport but iver the past 10 years has been less and less active due to working a lot in a basically sedentary job (IT) and the accumilation of injuries! Over the past few years I have had periods where I dropped a fair amount of weight and get much fitter from walking and doing 10000 step challenges etc and waking up at 5 am to walk before work but I have lacked the consistency to get any long lasting results from the walking.

    Because of the up and down nature of my fitness Journey over the past few years and the lack of real weight loss as a result of this I have decided that my only 2 goals for 2025 are:

    1. Wake up at 5 am and walk for 1 hour EVERY day
    2. Walk over 12000 steps a day every day!

    I am hoping that focussing on walking as soon as I wake up every day that it will make it much easier to make my goal of 12000 steps a day as I will have completed about 8000 steps before 6:30 am so it should be really simple to get the other 4000 steps in by the end of the day.

    As well as making it easier to get my steps in walking first thing has the added benfits of reducing my back pain, increasing my flexability, getting rid of aches and pains of being old and also wiping out the stress from the day before meaning that I am better prepared for the day ahead and my bag of fucks is nice and full making the day way less stressful!

    In the summer walking first thing also means that I get to see the sun rise and get some morning sunlight which is apparently super important for health and wellbeing too 🙂

    The main reason for setting these goals this year was to have an easily attainable short term goal of walking 12000 steps a day that will after a year of doing it mean that a really healthy habit has been built that I can build on in the years to come and also hopefully lose a lot of fat and get down to a healthy weight by the end of the year!

    I am going to try and Ruck (Walk carry weight) with a 10kg weight vest on my morning walks during the week as much as possible to increase the benfits from the walking and I also found that it really helps to work the core and improve posture which is really useful and sort of kills 2 birds with one stone!