This morning was a killer...
This morning's workout wasn't anything on paper but I suffered. I think this was a combination of 3 workouts yesterday and not being able to sleep last night.
Fast forward to this morning and I am hanging before I even stepped onto the treadmill for my first run:
Here's the workout:
15 minute warmup We cut this back to 7 or 8 for convenience
800m
20 pushups
20 crunches
5 chins
Repeat 5x
Ok I struggled because my legs were tired and this is my longest run sets I have done for a long time. Thankfully these ones aren't on the repeat for another 7-10 days. I know this sounds a bit pathetic but when you've experienced as many achilles and plantar issues as I have you tend to err on the side of caution.
I'm going to get back to the Future of Fitness, right now I'm going through the Design Research steps that I used to do before a project to inform myself and then decide what makes sense. If you find this interesting ask away and I can make the methodology accessible. It might not be your method or you might cherry pick the best bits, but I tend to use all of it, better informing my design work.
I listen to a lot of podcasts by the guys at the Adonis index because out of all the stuff I've read and heard, they make some kind of logical sense to me.
I've just finished listening to a podcast about the cults of eating and it threw up some interesting points.
I kind of agree that for me I don't think of myself having a 'relationship' with food. I mean lets be honest I don't cuddle up to a plate of carrots each night, or make love to a baked potato... that would be weird.
Relationships with the wife.
An appetite for food.
Then a psychiatrist came on and said absolutely wrong we all have very important relationships with food. After all it does give back, it gives us life.
Then she started chatting about the people that are Vegens being righteous because they are purer than non-vegans, and non-carbys being superior to carb loaders.
Somewhere in all this people forget to think logically and methodically about what is going on.
Our bodies require and balance of nutrients, minerals and content for us to be able to operate on a day to day basis. Eaten in moderation you will stay in shape, overeat and you will gain the pounds, under eat and you will get sick at some point.
The other day I asked what three things worked for you last year. The 5/2 diet was one of mine.
I didn't do the have 500/600 calories, 2 days a week. I did a version where I fast for 24 hours then start eating again as normal.
Now for me to go without food for 24 hours isn't even hard, I just do it.
I also started eating healthier for the other 5 days. Less cakes, less chocolate. If you are one of those people that eats healthily and doesn't 'cheat', well done, may you have a wonderful life.
I don't choose to demonise food, it's just food. Growing up I ate a normal diet. Ok thats a bit of a lie. I ate loads.
But this is what my normal day looked like:
6am Run 7 miles or 90 minutes in the pool
Breakfast
2 bowls of porridge with raisins 4 raw eggs
6 slices of burnt toast with butter and jam
Cycle to school
First break Basketball for 20 minutes
Lunchtime Sport for all but 10 minutes of my lunch hour
Dinner bolted down in 10 minutes, late serving got seconds, always had seconds
Cycle home from school
2 pints of milk
7 mile dog walk
90 mins in the pool
Fried chicken and Chips
Most of my days didn't deviate from this. In the 18 years I lived at home I was ill maybe twice, chicken pox and measles. No flu, no colds, nothing.
Fast forward to this morning and I am hanging before I even stepped onto the treadmill for my first run:
Here's the workout:
15 minute warmup We cut this back to 7 or 8 for convenience
800m
20 pushups
20 crunches
5 chins
Repeat 5x
Ok I struggled because my legs were tired and this is my longest run sets I have done for a long time. Thankfully these ones aren't on the repeat for another 7-10 days. I know this sounds a bit pathetic but when you've experienced as many achilles and plantar issues as I have you tend to err on the side of caution.
I'm going to get back to the Future of Fitness, right now I'm going through the Design Research steps that I used to do before a project to inform myself and then decide what makes sense. If you find this interesting ask away and I can make the methodology accessible. It might not be your method or you might cherry pick the best bits, but I tend to use all of it, better informing my design work.
I listen to a lot of podcasts by the guys at the Adonis index because out of all the stuff I've read and heard, they make some kind of logical sense to me.
I've just finished listening to a podcast about the cults of eating and it threw up some interesting points.
I kind of agree that for me I don't think of myself having a 'relationship' with food. I mean lets be honest I don't cuddle up to a plate of carrots each night, or make love to a baked potato... that would be weird.
Relationships with the wife.
An appetite for food.
Then a psychiatrist came on and said absolutely wrong we all have very important relationships with food. After all it does give back, it gives us life.
Then she started chatting about the people that are Vegens being righteous because they are purer than non-vegans, and non-carbys being superior to carb loaders.
Somewhere in all this people forget to think logically and methodically about what is going on.
Our bodies require and balance of nutrients, minerals and content for us to be able to operate on a day to day basis. Eaten in moderation you will stay in shape, overeat and you will gain the pounds, under eat and you will get sick at some point.
The other day I asked what three things worked for you last year. The 5/2 diet was one of mine.
I didn't do the have 500/600 calories, 2 days a week. I did a version where I fast for 24 hours then start eating again as normal.
Now for me to go without food for 24 hours isn't even hard, I just do it.
I also started eating healthier for the other 5 days. Less cakes, less chocolate. If you are one of those people that eats healthily and doesn't 'cheat', well done, may you have a wonderful life.
I don't choose to demonise food, it's just food. Growing up I ate a normal diet. Ok thats a bit of a lie. I ate loads.
But this is what my normal day looked like:
6am Run 7 miles or 90 minutes in the pool
Breakfast
2 bowls of porridge with raisins 4 raw eggs
6 slices of burnt toast with butter and jam
Cycle to school
First break Basketball for 20 minutes
Lunchtime Sport for all but 10 minutes of my lunch hour
Dinner bolted down in 10 minutes, late serving got seconds, always had seconds
Cycle home from school
2 pints of milk
7 mile dog walk
90 mins in the pool
Fried chicken and Chips
Most of my days didn't deviate from this. In the 18 years I lived at home I was ill maybe twice, chicken pox and measles. No flu, no colds, nothing.
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