Littlenose

Welcome back! Sorry to hear about your Highland Games accident, sounds brutal. What are your plans to get moving? Have you set any goals (apart from picking up your daughter, of course!)

Back here after.... oh, eons away, and looking for some accountability in my 2024 sporting / fitness goals. Swimming is not a thing I have enjoyed, for lots of reasons to do with body image / esteem / noise (in indoor pools) / people but mostly because I have not great eyesight and not being able to see well in the pool just adds to the general stress. Now, I have some new shiny swimming goggles with prescription lenses and they are an absolute revelation. This year (2024) I will: Enter and complete a swimrun race, Swim a mile in open water in under 1 hour, Achieve the RLSS swimming standard for a pool lifeguard. Bonus points available if I actually qualify as a pool lifeguard but this will involve dragging my fat old arse onto a lifeguarding course with a bunch of spotty youths that swim like eels. Anyway, I'm back and now I'm a Selkie. Hold me to it, gang! Selkie - Wikipedia

Hi Digs, If the scales aren't helping, then remember that your body composition is changing - you will be gaining muscle and losing fat as your body adapts to the demands you are placing on it. Muscle is denser than fat, you can be losing inches but not losing weight. Try not to get hung up on what the numbers say, instead look at how your clothes fit, how you feel, and bask in the compliments! Good luck with the rest of your challenge.

Hi Synyster - yes, agreed, situps aren't great - but I have to do them anyway, so I keep them in as a bit of a marker. Might chuck in some leg lifts as well though. Meanwhile - today 5 min warm up run Deadlifts (all weights do not include the weight of the bar) 1 x 8 - 10kg 1 x 8 - 30kg 1 x 8 - 40kg 1 x 8 - 50kg 2 x 4 - 60kg Inverted rows TRX body at 45 degrees 10 x palms facing each other 10 x palms away from face 10 x palms towards face 10 x palms facing 10 x palms away A tough day to keep eating on track, being out on the road. However, fruit salad and iron self control saves the day!

Eating today involved discreetly peeling the pastry off beef Wellington (cooked by someone else) and declining gravy. So I'm still on track for gluten free. Training, bodyweight circuit 20 squats 5 real pressups 20 situps 10 tricep dips 10 dorsal raises 30 sec plank x 3

Well, I have got a TRX, but my door is broken (those things are not related...) My nearest gym has Beaverfit frames with gymnastic rings hanging from adjustable straps and TRXs hanging from it, so at the moment I'm using the rings with my body straight at approx 45 degrees. Good luck with all your challenges.

No training today (boo) - but eating still on track (hurrah).

Sounds like you're making great progress - what are you using for the inverted rows? Desk, pullup bar, TRX/gymnastic rings? Keep us posted!

Eating still on track though - today mainly broccoli and salmon, with a handful of dried fruit, nuts and some cheeky sushi in the mix.

Today Sun 10 Mar: Active recovery bodyweight circuit 20 squats 10 tricep dips 10 sit ups 10 kneeling press ups 10 dorsal raises 30 sec plank x 3 Feeling a bit weak hence kneeling pressups not proper pressups, I'll chalk that up to the cold virus, and yesterday's deadlifting excitement...

Have a WOOT on me! How the frick do you do a handstand? The pushup part I get, but the being upsidedown is a whole new world...

Thanks - that's inspiring. Where next?

Well done!

I've not had the ?pleasure? of Tabata myself, though I have got previous for track-based intervals (200s, 400s, 800s) when I was triathlon and ultrarunning training. From what I understand about Tabata though, IMHO you don't need something that short, sharp and rigidly structured to improve your 1.5 mile performance, as you also want to keep a bit of steady state ticking over, and you want to keep things enjoyable. If you get outside, fartlek between lamposts, trees, street signs or whatever else catches your eye and try to enjoy it. Also, and I'm sure you've thought of this, if you've got any friends or family neaby who run, go out with them. 1. You'll both turn up, cos you don't want to let each other down. 2. You'll push each other on a bit quicker than if you were on your own. 3. If the weather is gopping it seems funnier when there's two of you getting equally soaked/frozen/blown over. If there's a running club near you then that could also help. Good luck

PS - get your girlfriend training too - then you spend quality time with her and get your workout done. Win-win!