MY FAT CHANCE

This is the first time I’ve bought a lot of clothes since probably July…since then I’ve lost 2 and half stone!

I’ve gone from XL and a 36-38 waist to a M and 32-34 waist size, shopping yesterday was a different experience for me, looking at something and knowing that my size was there! One of the reasons I wanted to get fit and lose weight was for shopping and I can finally do that, I was chuffed. These new clothes mark my achievements that this year has brought me and bring on more for next year! 

(Now I have clothes that fit me, everyone can stop saying that I look skinny too! Baggy clothes are fail!) See ya tomo…Attempting a 10 mi run tomorrow

Just trying to recover from the pool circuits we did yesterday, I’ve got some back pain and I’m sore, best thing I’ve found that works is a really long stretching session of 20 minutes or so the next day, I feel so much better afterwards…

So remember people…stretch! 

(I don’t think there will be a day when I can stretch like that)

Evening fitblr’s, Mondays session is listed here, the session went ok, could’ve been better and I got to help our women’s cap’n do some coursework so yay for edumuhcayshun eh. Anyway, today’s session was really good, there were only 5 of us but I wanted to swim all the distances that were put before us.

Wednesday Session

400m f/c

300m pull

200m kick

100m back

4x25m on 30

3x50m on 1min

2x75m on 1min 30

100m on 2 mins

(we repeated it but added 1 minute of rest to each part)x2

Pool Circuits

5x50m

23 press ups

25 tricep dips

100 shoulder rotations

37 second plank

5x50m (relay)

17 press ups

13 dips

40 shoulder rotations

30 second plank

100m swim down

total swimming distance = 2500m

adding 600m for other activities = New total = 3100m

2 guys, our chairman and a fresher swimmer did the circuit again but I didn’t have it in my, in the first set of pool circuits (between each 50m we did an activity that I listed my amount for basically) we did them “to fail” so you do as much of X exercise until you can’t do anymore and then dive into the pool and do another 50m. It was a weird one, I wish I did better though…I hate plank and did 37 seconds until I nearly blacked out as usual haha. 

The second time round we did the 50m swims as a relay to incorporate some rest, I was still tired from before though and had less time so didn’t do as well as I could’ve.

Overall, it was a good session, on a side note though, my legs have really got a lot smaller, it’s a combination of no running and less fat being on em, I’m going for a run on Sunday to put it right anyway and I’ll be hitting the gym from  next week once all my work is done, have a nice evening folks, I get to cry over the impending doom of a football result now >_>

Oh and I just hit a milestone! 50k calories burnt on Runkeeper :) 

When you hit your goal, it gets kind of lonely, I’m not overweight any more, I’m simply normal. It’s weird, because for the last year and a half, my focus has been to lose weight, even when I fell off the wagon and put on that stone and everything. Now I feel kind of lost, it’s like I know I have 6 months to bulk up and ultimately look how I want to, but for some reason, all of that sees very doable. After losing all that weight there’s not much out there that makes me think I can’t do anything…

Last week was probably the 5th Circuit training session that we’ve had, I’ve never documented them so now I thought, why not? We train at 07:30am to 08:30am.

Off the top of my head our usual routines are press-ups, military sit-ups, back raises, plank, hip raises, squats, sprints, upward row, shoulder press and a few more.

It’s an awesome way to start the day…wakes you up with an ass kicking I say. 

So yeah, that’s my form of exercise these days, swimming and circuit training and I love it. 

Friday’s session went really well, we used these Spin bikes (I think that’s what they’re called) for around half an hour, I haven’t cycled regularly since August and damn it hurt, I felt unfit, even though I know I am lol. We did sprint drills on those and 1 leg drills on those then got off, had to do 20 press ups, then 20 sit ups and then get back on the bikes! Our Womens Cap’n / drill sergeant is great :]

After that half hour bike session we moved on to circuit training, first time round the block we did each exercise for 1 minute and the second time round we did 30 reps of each exercise. I’ll have to admit, the second time round the circuit (which was a spur of the moment thing) hurt SO bad, but felt good in the end, we really worked ourselves. I keep on forgetting to bring water to the sessions, NOT good! 

Next Friday’s Sesssion (Yesterday Morning)

Stricly circuit training, we had Plank, Shoulder Press, Balance board, Step-Ups, Shuffle Runs, Sit-Ups, Press Ups, Tricep Dips, Bicep Curls, Exercise Bike, Hip-raises and Wall sits with weights doing punches.

We warmed up with some light jogging and sprinting, stretched out and were ready to get started. The first round of circuits we did for 1 minute with a 15 second rest and the second time round we had the brilliant idea to to 15 sit-ups instead of a 15 second rest…yay?

Training went well, I didn’t give my full 100% though, I know I could’ve done better, I guess next time eh. After every session I would like to say I feel improvement but I don’t know, maybe by next year my body will be more adjusted but we just keep on going as hard as possible anyway! Wouldn’t want it any other way :)

Anyway…that’s all, I wish there was a way to document that exercise on Runkeeper but there isn’t…as far as tiredness goes I would put it up there with…a fairly quick 10k!

Also a special thank you to our Women’s Cap’n with the swim team that leads circuit training every morning!