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Weight = 107.4 kgs

Steps = 10682

This morning I woke up when I woke up (about 7:30 am) and then got up and did my weigh-in (Down to 107.4 kgs) and then I waited around until 10 am when I woke my son up and we got to pulling everything out of the garage and putting it in the garden.

We then reorganised the garage and then moved the bike rack from the lounge into the garage and hung up all the bikes and put everything that wasn’t going to the tip back into the garage:

Before ^^^^

After ^^^

As you can see the after is not perfect but its at least useable for now and I have Friday off to take all the stuff that is being thrown away to the recycling centre and then do a round 2 to get enough space to set up the gym once the bikes have been sold!

After we have finished sorting the garage and breaking down all the empty boxes and bagging all the stuff to be taken to the tip I ordered a Pizza for my son then we got in the car and put the L plates on and he drove us to my parents house where I hoovered through the house and then mopped the bathrooms and conservatory/ kitchen before he drove us home again!

By the time I got home about 6 pm I was really tired so didn’t push it too much so didn’t walk any more to get to 12000 steps! In hindsight it would have been better to get the last 1318 steps but there you go!

So this week has been a bit crap all around as I have been ill or week with stomach issues and covid like symptoms too!

I have only managed 12000 steps for 3 days this week and the rest of the days I have only done about way less than 2000 steps a day with yesterday being my worst day at only 901 steps!

This has meant that my weight has slowly increased to 107.8 kgs today 🙁

I am going to take this week as my rest week and start back with high instensity from tomorrow!

Tomorrow morning I will get up early and go for a long ruck and then come home and start my pressups and squats in the mornings while I am warmed ip. I will start with 20 of each and build up from there. Tuesday I will also start back at sprints too to make sure I start getting some BMX specific training in too.

I am also going to start back on the carnivore diet from tomorrow too to try and reign in my weight.

I have also bought the The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman by Timmothy Ferrys to research the 30/30/30 weight loss method to try and lose fat faster so I will try and implement this into my morning routine as well so I will have to eat 30g of protein before my ruck to get this working. As the 30/30/30 method is basically eating 30g of protein 30 minutes after waking up and following it with 30 minutes of steady state cardio. I am currently researching what to eat to give 30g of protein that is easy to cook and eat at 5 am!

So this morning I woke up at 6 am as I had a food delivery coming at 6:30 am so there was not point in trying to get a walk in before that so I set my alarm for 6 am and had a lie in!

I got up and did my weigh-in and i am back up to 107.1 kgs today so the weight is going back up instead of down again 🙁

Once I am feeling better I need to work on my diet as well as start rucking again!

I then had a shower, got dressed and did some work while I waited for the shopping to arrive. It arrived right on 6:30 am which was nice so I was able to put the cold stuff away and then crack on with my work day!

I have my new work laptop arriving today but I haven’t been given a delivery window yet so I can not plan anything until that arrives so I am unable to plan my day properly.

Weight = 106.9

Steps = 12214

So this morning I woke up at 6:15 and did my weigh in and i was down 0.1 lgs to 106.9 kgs. I then started work until lunch time when I went to bed for a couple of hours then worked until 4 before going back to bed for an hour or so.

At about 18:00 I got ready and walked into the office to pick up the backup USB drive and also a couple of PI’s tomorrow.

The walk was a struggle but it was light still which was nice and shows that spring is in the air! By the time i got home I was on just over 10000 steps. I then hoovered through the flat and then cleaned the kitchen before going on the treadmill to get to 12000 steps.

I have just done that so I am done for the day!

By the end of the day I had walked 12214 steps which is pretty good considering I was ill and only on 1500 steps at 6 pm 🙂

Weight = 107 kgs

Steps = 1565 Steps 🙁

So I woke up with my alarm at 5 as planned and got up and did my weigh-in and I am up 0.5 kgs to 107 kigs this morning 🙁 My stomach was really bad too and I was feeling bad so I went back to bed until 7 am then got up and started work!

I will try and get to the track at lunch time to get some sprints done as my Sprint Block is arriving between 9:30-10:30 this morning so I need to try it out! I will hopefully get some steps in walking to measure the sprint distances and while doing sprints so that I don’t have to spend all evening on the treadmill today:-(

As the day went on I felt worse and worse so in the afternoon I went to bed and stayed there all afternoon and evening! I decided that it was better to not push it and to take the day off and rest and recuperate! As a result I broke my 57 day streak of 12000 or more steps as day and only did 1565 steps all day 🙁

Weight = 106.5 kgs

Steps = 12376

This morning I managed to turn off my alarm and slept in until 6:25 so I had not time for a walk this morning 🙁 I did my weigh-in and I was 106.5 kgs soup 0.1 kgs from yesterday 🙁 I then started work until 7 am then got showered dressed and walked into the office.

I noticed that walking into the office has a totally different feel to just walking first thing and although I felt better for doing it I didn’t feel as good as I normally would! I’m not sure if it is basically because I am commuting or if my usual morning route is uphill for the first mile so is way harder than my flat or downhill walk to work! Either way I need to make an effort to get out and walk first thing!

I then worked until just after 12:00 and then walked home and chilled for a bit and ate then started work again at 14:00. I was on 10800 ish steps by the time that I got home so I was pretty likely going to get my steps in.

I then worked through until about 7 pm when I built up my new TV stand that arrived in the early evening and got the TV back in my room. I then kept an eye on the builds until about 22:30 and then went to bed. I was so busy in the evening that I almost forgot about getting to 12000 steps but luckily I had walked around the house enough to get them in without remembering 🙂

At about 18:00 I had a really bad stomach and had a load of diarrhoea which I think was due to having McDonalds for lunch and also a build up of eating really badly this weekend while the house was upside down due to doing the floor. It could also mean that I am coming down with something which would explain the sleeping through the alarm this morning! I guess we will see.

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!

Weight = 106.4 kgs

Steps =

This morning I woke up just after 6 am which is late for me so I must have been tired! I could feel that my legs were really sore and as soon as I got up and walked to the bathroom to do my weigh-in they were screaming! My weigh in was positive at 106.4 kgs so I have dropped 1.1 kgs since yesterday 🙂 I noticed this morning that my love handles have reduced a lot so that is a really good sign 🙂

This confirms that I need to start doing sprints and getting back to riding the BMX every day again to get my weight dropping. It still amazes me how just walking has made me fitter on the BMX as it shouldn’t but it has! I guess that it has built a good base level of fitness!

Like I said yesterday I am going to also start doing press ups and squats every morning and evening to try and get mre toned as well! Its a little bit of effort a day but it pays off over time and it is just another habbit that I want to add into my daily routine!

I am not going to walk early again and will instead lie with my legs up to try and get rid of the soreness so that I can crack on and finish the floor a bit later on. i have to wait a bit as I will have a lot of sawing to do and my neighbor likes to sleep in so I will wait until after lunchtime to start work!

Weight = 107.5 kgs

Steps = 12204

So yesterday I spent all evening fitting my new bedroom underlay and floor so I struggled to get my 12000 step in and had to walk on the treadmill once i had got to a convenient place to stop for the night! This meant that I didn’t get finished with my steps until about 9:45 then I had to feed the axolotls and get the bed set up to sleep on so it was way past 10 pm when I got to sleep. I managed 12379 steps for the day so a good amount seeing as I did all but 3000 walking around the flat!

I woke up at 5:30 this morning without an alarm and got up and did my weigh in and I was 107.5 kgs today so my weight is going in the wrong direction again!

I then went back to bed and slept until about 10 am which is unusual for me but I guess I had had a busy few days 🙂

I then got some breakfast and chilled in my 1/2 finished room which feels a lot better than it did before even with the part of the room by the door insulated or boarded yet!

I have decide that from next week I will make an effort to get back to Rucking in the morning before work AND start to do timed sprints on Tuesday and Thursday lunch times again to get back in the habit of sprinting again!

I am going to do short sprints (5m, 10m and 15m sprints) followed by Timed gates in Tuesday lunch times as I am on a 1/2 day so I have time to do this and I will do long sprints (30m and 60m sprints) on Thursdays.

I will also try my best to get to gates in Andover on Wednesday nights and to the Friday lunch club and Saturday gates at Bath on Saturdays.

Monday, Wednesday lunch times I will do a 2 tunnels ride at lunch time to try and burn some blubber too 🙂

I have just bought a Sprint Block to make the sprints more realistic to gate starts too.

I have decided that I am going to change up the way that I sprint at the track so that I will sprint away from the track instead of towards the track as then I can rest in my car and keep my sprint book dry and also rest sat down in between sprints too. It also means that I have a longer run out after sprints too.

I am now getting ready to go to the track for gates and hopefully I can finally get the timing system working so that we can start having timed club sessions at the track!

So I have just put my 38″ race pants on and they are way baggier than they were 2 weeks ago! I now have the belt as tight as it will go so I think another couple weeks of consistent exercise will mean that I am back in my 36″ race pants again 🙂 This just shows that the scales don’t show the whole picture!

I also need to start riding on the rollers in the evenings to learn to use them so that later in the year I will be able to do roller sprints without falling off off all the time to build leg speed!

So next week I have to:

Ruck in the morning Mon-Friday

Sprint on Tuesday and Thursday Lunchtime

Go to gates at Andover on Wednesday night (Super long 1st straight so great for leg fitness 🙂

Do Gates at Bath Tues, Friday and Saturday

Ride the 2 tunnels Monday and Wednesday lunchtime.

I also plan to work in the office Monday-Friday mornings to be more active!

I make also decided to start doing press-ups and body weight squats in the morning and evening Mon-Friday too to add some kind of strength training into the routine too.

So Gates went well and I liked the new cranks as I was able to spin them faster than the longer ones! I now need to get on with sprints to learn how to spin again but that will come.

In the evening I went for a walk with my son as I was only on 7500 steps after getting back from gates and then I chilled for an hour and then went on the treadmill to get the last 1000 steps in as my Son only wanted to do the small loop when we went for a walk. After the 12000 steps I went to bed and messed about on my phone until about 22:30 then went to bed.

I just scraped the 12000 steps today with 12202 steps but I was really sore from doing the flooring on Friday and gates today so I am impressed that I managed to talk myself into doing the last 1000 steps when I was so sore 🙂