Get back into training
Status: started, proper!
This must be the most classic project of them all. I really need to do it though. Not getting younger, and I can certainly feel my back being stiffer and knees creakier when I don’t move around.
Plan of attack
Plan is to come up with a schedule I can stick to, and not fall in my typical trap of being overly ambitious for a month or two and then give up on it all.
Progress
Procrastinating my way to a fatter belly. Find it difficult to get inspired. Thanks to a recent post on the Hand to Mouth blog I am now working on the 100 burpees challenge (yes, it is exactly as mental as it sounds) and am up to 16 (10th of May 2011) and going.
Should sign up for the Stockholm half marathon to force me out on the road running again.
Update 31/12/2011:
While I haven’t done at all as much exercise as I should the last half of this year, I did get started with CrossFit. That’s a keeper. For 2012 I will try and maintain a schedule of four sessions a week (of which 2 will be CrossFit), and I have realised that my main enemy is social life. I simply need to set my priorities straight and not dodge a training session as soon as someone nice and interesting suggests drinks or an exciting restaurant to try… Hard!
Update 30/07/2011:
Realised that what I needed was something new, something to make training fun again. I think I have found this in CrossFit. Now doing CrossFit two times a week (and running a fast 3km after each session) at CrossFit London. Just finished the beginner’s introduction, and loving it. Works your entire body, activates your core to the max, lots of variety in movement and exercises… And really, really tiring! CrossFit London also have amazing instructors, friendly and skilled.
