Finally Started Training

Its almost a month late but I have finally started training.

Although my ankle still isnt good I decided that I can't just sit around doing nothing anymore!!!

Monday night I did 30 minutes on my exercise bike. In the 30 minutes I did 14.58km and I was on level 2. I stopped after 30 minutes as my ankle was hurting.

Last night I played full court pickup basketball for just over 2 hours and my ankle was still really hurting but I managed to keep playing for the full 2 hours.

I have also not drunk any coca-cola since saturday afternoon which is pretty good.

I am planning to do an hour on the exercise bike after work for the rest of the week.

I am also going to start streching at night for 30minutes to 1 hour as I think a lot of my problems result from a lack of flexability.

more setbacks

Have been unable to do any exercise since sunday as my ankle is really hurting. I am going to ice and rest it until monday and then see how it goes.

As I couldn't exercise this week I have stopped drinking coke (coca cola) which is the main reason that I have piled on the pounds. On average I have been drinking about 2 litrs of coke a day which as well as making me fat has strted to give me indigestion so I figured it was time to stop.

It hasnt been that hard so far although I am feeling a bit run down due to the lack of caffeine I guess. On the plus side I am feeling much less bloated and my jeans are feeling less tight :-)

I played 1 hour of 1 vs 1 basketball this morning and my ankle is hanning now!!!!
I have taken nurophen and had my ankle elevated for 2 hours and still cant walk!

I amgoing to try and ride the esercise bike tomorrow morning to see how the ankle is.

Back to Basketball

Basketball started again last night managed to play full court 5 v 5 for 2 hours with little problem with fitness.

My ankle is reall not right still and is really bad when I jump off of one leg.

While I have been laid up with my ankle swollen I have decided on a plan of action to get fit.

From now on I will be playing basketball 2 times a week for 2 hours (Tues and Sunday) in order to get fit I need to first loose some weight in order to start jump training again. The 2 sessions a week will help with this but I have designed a stratergy to help the weight loss. As it is the rainy season here in Brasil at the moment I can't rely on being able to play basketball outside every night as I had planned.

Starting next monday (21-01-13) I am going to do the following for 1 month:

Weekdays before Work:

Take dog for walk for 40 minutes.

Weekdays after work

Stationary bike for 1 hour Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri (Basketball Tuesday Nights)

Saturday Mornings

2 hour Bike ride on the dirt tracks around the town.

More Setbacks

This weekend we went away to the beach for my birthday and I managed to twist my bad ankle 3 times!!! This is going to set my training back at least a week!!! I am planning to Ice my ankle for the next 4 days then hopefully sunday I will be OK to start cycling again but I will see.

Next week I will have to start with the rehab exercised again to get the propreoreception back as well and I am going to start to weat the ankle brace all the time for the next month or so to try and stop me twisting it again!!!

What a great birhtday present.

As per usual the minute that I plan to start training my work life gets really busy!!! This means that I am already a week behind on my training before I have even started.

This morning was the first time that I have been able to exercise before work. I did 30 minutes on the exercise bike (14.98km) on level 2 folled by a 30 minute walk with the dog followed by another 15 minutes on the exercise bike on level 2 (7.47km).

All in all not bad! I am going to try and go to the clubbe tonight as well after work to play some basketball.