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  • Day 5 – Starting to build a habit 🙂

    Weight = 108.8 Kgs

    Steps Completed = 15507

    This morning I woke up at 5 am again with my alarm and got out of bed, made my salt water then did my weigh-in and I am up 0.1 kgs to 108.8 kgs today! I then showered and got dressed then drank my salt water and then put the weight vest, coat and beany on and then left for my walk!

    Out of habit I put spotify on not my audio book and it took me until half way up the hill until I realised and swapped it over. I realised today that I had subconsiuosly been habit stacking with my morning routine as well as setting systems as goals too so I guess that I remembered more of the book that I thought that I did which is good.

    When I got home I opened up all the doors and windows and did Lüften while I did my morning checks and then once I was finished I closed the house up and went to work.

    I was at work until about 1:30 then headed home and worked from there until 4pm so I missed lunch again today 🙁

    I am on holiday Tuesday to Friday next week so I will use that week to get used to stopping what I am doing at 12 and heading to the track for a couple of hours so that when I get back to work I will want to go to the track more at lunch times. Next week I am going to do the timing to go to a pump track to see if it’s possible to have a decent ride at a pumpo track at lunch time or not! I should be able to ride for an hour and still get back to start work on time so that would be better for me at the moment than 2 hours at the track!

    I am also crazy to try out my S&M .38 special that I bought as my pump track bike and havent used yet!

    When I finished work I sorted out a bunch of stuff around the flat and put on a load of washing as I didn’t have any washing powder left so I sent my son to Lidl to get some. I am going to spend most of this evening washing and drying clothes as I need some clean pants for walking tomorrow!

    This evening I have been online and bought myself a standing desk frame and a couple of 27″ monitors from ebay to take to the office and get my PC setup properly with 4 monitors. It currently has a desk riser with a 2 monitor stand with 2 x 24″ monitors and 2 standard 24″ monitors on the desk in portrait mode so they do not line up and have a big gap between the 2 middle monitors and the 2 outer monitors which is not ideal to say the least! It also means that I can not use the riser as only 2 of the 4 monitors are on it so I can’t stand up. With the new frame I can get all the monitors on the same level and put them together so that they are all together and I can raise everything to standing height! I have also found a stool so that I can leave the desk in standing mode 100% of the time and sit on the stool when I want to sit 🙂

    I have just done my backwards treadmill and cleaning 1/2 hour so I’m all done for the day other than waiting for the dryer to finish 🙂

    Tomorrow morning Iwill wake up at 5am and then go for a longer ruck to finish the week off stong and try and get most of my 12000 steps done first thing. I have an appointment at the tip booked in for 9am so when I get back I need to empty the car and fill it with all the stuff that I need to take and then wake my son up and get him ready to leave the house for 8:45 to go to the tip.

    After the tip I have to take my son to his mums and drop him off and then I think that I will go to my parents for a bit to do some cleaning then head back home before it starts to snow at around 4pm 🙁

    Obviosly this may change depending on the weather but that is the plan.

    By the end of the day I was on 15507 steps 🙂

  • Day 4 – Getting in a rhythm

    Weight = 108.7 Kgs

    Steps Completed = 13652

    This morning I woke up without an alarm at 4:15 am so I chilled a bit on the phone until 5 am then got up, made my salt water then did my weigh-in (up 0.3 kgs to 108.7 kgs this morning. Iwas amazed that just cleaning through the flat last night before going to bed mad me feel so much more relaxed and happy this morning getting up to a tidy flat and it seems to make my morning flow so I will definately work of keeping that in my evening routine!

    I then got dressed, put the weight vest on and went out for my ruck as usual! When I got the area that I lost my earbud yeaterday I walked up and down a bit with my torch on the phone but I was not able to find the lost ear bud so I gave up and carries on with my ruck! I didn’t find the earbud so I guess that its lost forever!

    As you can see from the summary above I covered 2.92 miles in 59 minutes, climbed 359 ft and did 6518 steps. Fitbit is saying that I am on 6844 step so I am just over 1/2 way to my 12000 step goal this morning.

    When I got home and doing my Lüften 10 minutes I had the bright idea of looking for just a right earbud and I found one on ebay so I have bought it so that my son can have my old earbuds when it arrives.

    While walking today I listened to the Atomic Habits audio book and I realised that subconsiously I had set goals that built a system rather than result focused goals 🙂 So I am hoping that these goals will be more productive than all of my old goals.

    I have just finished my early morning work tasks and I’m not sure if its the fact that I have been on holiday or the morning walk and clean flat but it was way less stressful this morning! I would even go as far as say that it was ALMOST enjoyable 🙂 To be honest I was starting to get a bit bored of being on holiday so its good to be back at work!

    I am now waiting for my shopping to be delivered between 7-8 am and then I can get showered and head into the office to start moving servers again 🙂

    I have been trying to do a chin-up for 4 days in a row now and I still can’t get above 1/2 way but I will keep going until I can get 1 then push for more!

    By the time that I got home about 13:30 I was already over 12000 steps but I was really cold and tired so I went to bed for a couple of hours and slept.

    I woke up at 15:30 and did another hour or so’s work then finished work and cooked some pasta.

    I am now chilling for a bit and then I will do my backwards walking and then I will do my cleaning 1/2 hour and then most likely go to sleep again!

    I really enjoyed being back in the office and especially riding to and from work although it was really freezing when I rode into work this morning! It was way colder than it was when I was walking at 5:30 which is weird! My hands were red and frozen when I got to work so its time to get the winter gloves out for tomorrow’s ride!

    I have decided that this month I will focus on building the habits that I have started this month so walking first thing, 10 minutes of backwards walking and 12000 steps a day as well as going to the track at lunch times this month then I will add rollers next month when I am used to the walking.

    As predicted I am not struggling at all to not drink fizzy drinks at all so I think that will be an easy win and will make it way easier to know how long it has been since I drank fizzy drinks in the future.

    I’ve also noticed today that I have definately trimmed down as my trousers are way looser and my stomack is getting flatter too so even though I haven’t lost any significant weight so far I think I have definately chosen the nest habit to build for the year! I am also way more relaxed starting the day with a walk so its a win, win.

    By 20:00 I had finished my backwards treadmill and my cleaning 1/2 hour and I am now chilling with my feet up on my xmas present from my son 🙂

    By the end of the day I was on 13652 steps and I didn’t even put my fitbit in my sock for my backwards walking either!

    I have changed my goal a little bit to be 12000 steps + 10 minutes backwards walking a day from now on!

  • Day 3 – Happy New Year!

    Weight = 108.4 Kgs

    Steps Completed = 12515

    So I didn’t go out last night and I was sound asleep by 8pm and then woke up at just after midnight and couldn’t sleep again! So I have been thinking about my training and I think that my knee is stong enough now to start rucking in the morning! (its 2:30 now so not long until my alarm goes off!

    I have been looking online and there is a lot of evidence that rucking is rellly good for weight loss so I am hoping that after a year of rucking consistently (Mon-Friday probably) I can get to my goal weight of 85kgs by this time next year pretty easily!

    So I finally fell asleep at 4:45 ish and woke up at 8 am so I got up made my bed, made my salt water and did my weigh-in and I am 108.4 kgs the same as I was on monday again!

    I then showered and got dressed and while I was drinking my salt water I ordered as mini mortar and pestle set from Amazon as the salt is really big rocks so its a nightmare to break it down to put in the water in the morning so I will grind a bunch of the salt down with the grinder and then the mortar and pestle then store it in a container to use in the mornings.

    I have just got dressed and put my weight vest on so I am now off for a morning walk and I will go along the 2 tunnels as I am later today and it is getting light as its 8:30 not 5:30 🙂

    The Ruck was really nice and relaxing until I was half way home and then it started sideways raining and I lost one of my ear buds when I out my hood up and I was unable to find it 🙁 On a positve note I didn’t get hit by the deliveroo driver on a moped that rode around a blind corner not looking where he was going and didn’t see me until I shouted at him. I then found my hoover in the garage when I got home so 2025 is a bit up and down so far but not too bad 🙂

    I have jsut bought a new pair of the Anker Soundcore Liberty 4 NC earbuds which are the same as the ones that I lost but this time I went for metalic blue so that I will at least have a chance of finding them if they fall out again! Also the blue ones were £20 cheaper so thats a result too 🙂

    So in the end I rucked 3.89 miles in 1 hour 12 minutes and climbed 452 ft and did 8698 steps as well while carrying an extra 10 kgs over my 108.4 kg bulk and to be honest it was pretty easy and more importantly my knee was fine 🙂

    According to the fitbit I have currently done 9448 steps so I think that Strava undercounts my steps a little bit!

    I am going to try and remember to bring my glasses on my walk tomorrow and hopefully I can find the lost earbud then I can give the black set to my Son to use as his headphones are on their way out! If not that’s life!

    This morning I also deleted Deliveroo and Uber eats from my phone so from now on if I don’t have it in the house I can’t eat it 🙂

    I have just done a massive shop at almost £100 but that did include more vitamin drink than normal as its only £1.50 instead of £2 at the moment so that made up about 1/3 of the shopping price 🙂 Today I am going to clear out some of the old food in the freezer ready for recycling on Monday then next shop I can grab a load of fresh meat to go in the freezer going forwards.

    While I have been doing Lüften and hoovering I have been thinking that hoovering the whole flat literally only takes 10-15 minutes so I think that I should add that to my evening routine so after I have finished riding on the rollers and getting all my steps in and finished cooking and eating for the day I will spend 30 minutes cleaning the whole flat and on Monday nights I will mop through the flat too so that it is really clean for the week ahead 🙂

    I am now making bacon, eggs, hash browns and baked beans for breakfast then I will chill for a while before doing a bit of work I have to do so that the builds run tonight before I can chill for the rest of the day!

    I am back to work for a few days and then I am off for most of next week as its my birthday on wednesday so I take my birthday week off every year to get some time to sort my shit out before the work year really begins! This year is going to be worse still as we are moving the office over the weekend of 17th-19th Jan so thats going to be fun even though I have moved about 1/2 of the servers already I expect that weekend to be hell!

    At 6pm I did the little bit of work that I needed to do then did my 10 minutes of backwards walking then cooked some food and then did the washing up and ran the hoover through the flat again so that the flat is clean when I get up in the morning as I am back at wotk tomorrow 🙁

  • Day 2 – Struggled to get up this morning

    Weight = 108.5 Kgs

    Steps Completed = 12913

    It was a struggle to get up and get moving this morning! I went back to sleep until 5:10 then I kept trying to make excuses to go back to bed but I managed to get in the shower and get moving and went for my walk as planned but I set off late at about 5:48 am. I also did my weigh-in and I am up 0.1 kgs heavier than yeaterday ( 108.5 kgs from 108.4.kgs yesterday) but considering how much I ate yesterday that was pretty good 🙂

    I walked for 50:57 this morning so about 3 or 4 minutes faster without the dog but not as fulfilling! I covered 2.73 miles, climbed 342 ft and dod about 6054 steps. I am on 6132 steps on fitbit at the moment so about the same as yesterday.

    I am currently sat in the flat with all the windows and doors open doing my Lüften for the day then thats 4 things ticked off of my daily todo list already 🙂

    I am amazed how much better the flat feels after being aired out for 10 minutes early in the morning. I am definately going to carry on with this and add it to my growing list of daily morning habits!

    I am feeling a lot better after just 2 mornings walking so setting that as my goal for the year is definately a good call.

    I am still amazed at how much better my knee feels when I do my 10 minutes on the backwards treadmill so I am also glad that that is my only other goal other than walking first thing every day and walking 12000 steps a day every day!

    Basically my goals for the year are:

    1. Wake up and walk every day
    2. Do 10 minutes on the backwards treadmill
    3. Walk 12000 steps a day

    My side quests are:

    1. Drink salt water first thing
    2. Air out the flat for 10 minutes a day Lüften
    3. 1 hour on the rollers in the evening
    4. Do max number of chin ups a day
    5. Go to the track at lunch times during the week

    My side quests are nice to have habits that I want to build but I will not waste a lot of engery or focus on them and I will focus on the big 3 this year over everything else.

    After my walk and airing the house I woke my son up and drsgged him to Patchway for a bit to play on the BMX’s but his bike got a blowout as soon as we got to the track so we had to share my bike so we didn’t stay too long but had a bit of fun!

    When we got home we emptied the shed and put everything to go to the tip in one ton bag and put it back in the shed to keep it dry and filled another ton bag up with things to keep to sell on ebay and put that in the garage until we go to the tip next Saturday. Once the shed is a bit emptier I will make space for the ebike in there then it has a home. I am off work from the 7th-10th Jan so I will get the garage sorted and take as much stuff to the tip as possible so that I can get the bikes that are currently hung up in the lounge into the garage so I can organise my life a bit!

    After we finished the shed I cleaned the ebike and the DK and put them in the flat again.

    At about 16:30 I did my 10 minutes of backwards walking but managed to forgot to put my fitbit in my sock until I had 3 minutes left so I had to get the last 1000 steps of the day done cleaning the flat and putting washing away! I got there pretty easily though by 18:00 and then chilled out after cleaning the kitchen!

    I drank 1/2 a can of Guatana that my brother brought over for my xmas present and my son left when I took him home to his mums house to not lt it go to waste and also to make tomorrow my first day without fizzy drinks again so that I know the exact date that I gave up fizzy drinks even though it has been 4 or 5 months now that I have not drank fizzy drinks for!

    I seem to have lost my new hoover so I will have to fully tidy the flat tomorrow when I get the hoover back from my parents house where I think that I left it!

    By the end of the day I got to 12913 steps so pretty good getting almost 2000 steps around the flat this evening 🙂

  • Day 1 – Started walking early 30/12/2024

    Day 1 – Started walking early 30/12/2024

    Weight = 108.4 Kgs

    Steps Completed = 12229

    I decided last night that I may as well start my challenge early as its Monday today instead of starting in the middle of the week on the 1st as planned!

    I woke up at 4:30 without an alarm and got up and did my salt water and my weigh-in (108.4 kgs again this morning) I then got dressed and did all the recycling before getting the lead on the dog and heading out for a walk.

    We did my uphill route that I do when I am rucking but I didn’t use the weight vest this morning as my knee is still not 100% at the moment and I didn’t want to mess it up any more than I have already! I have decided that I will hold off on walking in the weight vest until next week to let my knee heal a bit first! The uphill route is so much easier than it is with the weight vest but its still much better than walking on the flat!

    As you can see from the image above I walked for 53:40 minutes and covered 2.74 miles gained 343 ft (mostly in the 1st mile) and walked about 6222 steps.

    By the time I was home I was on 6518 steps on my fitbit so the real number of steps was somewhere in between the 2 I guess.

    I think the morning walk broke the dog too:

    The walk was also slower with the dog as she kept turning around to go home wever 10m for the first mile or so which slowed me down a fair bit but it was nice walking with the dog as its way better in my opinion walking with a dog instead of just walking as you feel like you have a purpose to walk 🙂

    Its odd but ever since I got up this morning I have felt way more motivated to get up and do stuff than I usually am and I haven’t really wanted to look at my phone or turn on the TV since I got up which is unusual to say the least!

    I have just messaged my friend that I was planning to go on a road ride with today to see if he fancies going to the track instead as its actually dry today so I have to make the most of it as its going to be wet and cold again tomorrow 🙁

    My knee is less painful now than it was when I got up so I think that the walk has helped with that so a week of walking will hopefully get it back to 100% ready to start rucking next Monday morning.

    I have been thinking how easy the walking was today and I’m not sure if its due to not having the weight vest on or due to the fact that I am super well rested from basucally a week of not moving 🙂 Even my fitbit was calling me lazy this morning saying that my activity was well down last week compared to the past month where I have been getting 12000 steps in at least!

    DateDayWeight (kgs)Steps Done
    23/12/2023Monday108.512802
    24/12/2023Tuesday107.95044
    25/12/2023Wednesday108.84433
    26/12/2023Thursday109.11571
    27/12/2023Friday108.75150
    28/12/2023Saturday1094727
    29/12/2023Sunday108.44384

    As you can see from last weeks step totals I haven’t been doing even 1/2 of the 12000 steps last week other than last Monday which was my last day in the office before the xmas break.

    As I have started the challenge early I have started my 2025 training log early too so that I have all of my training for the 2025 challenge in the 2025 training plan. I have added a column for Morning walk now too so that I can easily see if I am doing the morning walks or not as that is my main goal this year to do it evey day so I need to make sure that I am.

    The dog is definately tired as I have just gone into the kithen to get water and she has stayed in bed! She is usually glued to my side so thats good that she has had a good work out this morning 🙂

    I have also decided that when I get home from my walk I will open all the doors and windows in the flat to do Lüften to try and combat all the humidity and mould in my flat and reduce the need to have the de humidifier on all the time. Swapping the damp stale air for drier fresh air is also supposed to reduce heating costs too so that will be good too!

    Doing Lüften when I get home makes sense as I am used to the cold from walking for 45 minutes or so so having the windows open will not be so much of a shock then! It will be interesting to see if doing this reduces asthma too as my bedroom window hasn’t been openined in well over a year so the air is pretty stagnet in there now 🙂 Doing Lüften after my walk means that most people will still be asleep so I don’t look like a complete nut case while doing it 🙂

    Basically my morning routine for now will be:

    Wake up

    Make salt water

    weigh-in

    Drink salt water

    Walk

    Lüften for 10 minutes while I do my morning triage for work (15 mintutes or so)

    Shower

    Get dressed

    Ride ebike into the office.

    I have just gone around the flat and opened all the windows and the back door and I am now sat with a hoodie on freezing as the flat airs out. Once the dog goes back to my parents I will also be able to open the front door as well to increase the amount of air flow which will hopefully sort out the mould issues around the front door too! It is amazing how much fresher the air is feeling in the flat after only 5 minutes so I think that this is a really worthwhile habit to add to my daily routine too! The temperature in the flat has dropped 2 degrees already so that should help too,

    I have updated my goals board in my bedroom to show the 5am walk, Lüften and 12000 steps goals on there.

    It looks like crap at the moment but I will print off some stickers later and clean the old sticky off with alcohol and it will look much better 🙂

    To be honest the make the bed can probably be removed from the board now as I have done it every day for the past year or more so its a habit now so I don’t need to be reminded to do it any more so I will move Weigh-in to the top of the board and then re-arrange the tasks in order so it will read:

    Weigh-in

    5am walk

    Lüften

    BMX

    Chin ups

    Walk 12000 steps

    Rollers

    Cleaning 1/2 hour

    Learning hour

    At 5 pm I fed the dog them we went for a walk around the block and that got me to just under 11000 steps. We then loaded the dog in the car and too her back to my parents house and got a roast thrown in too 🙂

    We got home about 8:30 and I cracked on and did my 10 minutes backwards walking which took me over the 12000 goal for the day so I chilled and watched TV after that.

    I finished the day on 12229 steps for the day but it took until 9 pm to get them done so I need to try and get the steps done earlier if possible going forwards.

  • Going to try the 30/30/30 diet

    So while I have been basically bed bound all weekend I have been researching weight loss and stumbled on the 30/30/30 diet which is basically eating 30g of Protein in the first 30 minutes of waking up followed by 30 minutes of light exercise (Heatrate below 135 bpm) and that is basically it!

    The idea behind the 30/30/30 diet is that the 30g of protein kick starts the metabolism then the 30 minutes of exercise boosts the metabolism and then that level is maintained hours after the exercise.

    I am going to try this during January and see how it goes and then maybe continue for the rest of the year if it works.

    30g of proten is basically 3 scrambled eggs topped with some cheese which is quick and easy to do and easy to eat so I will start that tomorrow morning before taking the dog for a walk as she is staying with us this weekend!

    I am also going to try and get back into doing chin ups so I will do my maximum number of chin ups a day every day next year too. That will not be hard at the moment as I can’t do any chin ups at the moment 🙂 I just want to see how many I can do after 1 year of trying. I have a chin up bar in my bedroom doorway so it will take no effort at all to get it done each day either!

    So after sleeping on it I have decided to hold off on the 30/30/30 until a couple months in to next year to see how the waking up at 5:00, drinking salt water and then going out and walking and then intermittent fasting until about 11:30-12:00 every day does before making things more complicated and eating before walking.

    I will break my fast every day with 3 scrambled eggs with cheese on so that I get into the habit of eating eggs again as when I was doing that I felt a whole lot better and ate a lot less than I usually do so I think its a good idea! Other than that I am not going to change my diet too much other than cutting out takeout and I have a lot of food to be used up like Heinz chicken soup so I will get that eaten with pasta and try and clear all the food in the house then I can restock with healthy foods instead 🙂

  • Hurt Knee

    Hurt Knee

    So yesterday I tweaked my knee getting into bed and it felt OK so I thought it would be fine but this morning it was really sore so I have decided to rest until I start the 12000 step challenge next week. I will do some backwards walking until then to try and build up the knee as quicly as possible.

    As I am not going to be walking for the next few days I have decided to add drinking salt water every morning when I wake up as it is supposed to be really good for you and it is recommended as part of a sucessful morning routine.

    Yesterday I bought a 1kg bag of Pure Pink Himilayan Salt which was delevered same day about 8 pm last night.

    This morning when I woke up I did my weigh-in then hobbled to the kitchen and added a pinch of the salt to a glass of water and drank that.

    I will start to do this every morning to build it as a habit for the next year to see how it goes! My proposed morning routine will go as follows:

    Get up

    Go to Kitchen and make salt water

    Go to bathroom and do weigh-in

    Get Dressed

    Drink Salt Water

    Go for morning walk/ ruck

    Get home and shower and get dressed

    Ride into office (go in during the week and ride home again on weekends)

    Work in office until 11:30

    Ride home

    Eat

    Get into bmx clothes

    Go to track and ride.

  • 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!