Not the best week!!

After starting off the week really well walking the dog monday and tuesday moring before work it went down hill fast.

I have had a fever all wwek caused by a sore throat and to top it all off I twisted my ankle again yesterday playing streetball. I managed to twist is the other way to normal so I think my one remaining ligament was ruptured!!!!! 

I am able to walk today but not very well. Will see how the ankle feels tomorrow and play it by ear!!!  

4 Months to go!!

Things have finally calmed down a bit at work so I can start training again.

I basically have not done any exercise for the last 3-4 months so to say I am off track of my goal of being fit by 41 is a bit if an understatement.

The good thing to being pretty much sedentry for 3-4 months is that my ankle is feeling much better than it has for a few years!

Also I have manged to loose a couple of kgs just by not eating a lot at night and making a consious effort to walk more during the day (the fact that I now work in a hospital that is spread over 10000m2 helps too).

I played basketball against the local University team last week and I was surprised how easy it was. I can run again and my lateral movement has retured.

I have decided to go back to training with the Uni team twice a week again so I decided to get back training to try and loose more weight to get back to my training weight of 70-75kg. I am currently at about 85kgs so I have a little way to go.

I have decided not to plan too far in front as my work schedule usually gets in the way. Instead of planning months in front I have decided to plan and set goals on a more flexable weekly basis.

For example my goals for this week are:

Walk with the dog for 30 minutes in the morning before work (did this this morning).
Play Basketball 3 times this week (2 times at the uni and once on the weekend).
Exercise bike and stretch Every night for 30 minutes each.

I will see how this goes and then adjust from there.

The problem I have is that the clocks go back at the weekend so I will be getting up at 5am not 6am until my body adjusts.

The advantage of the time changing is that it will get dark later so the country club will be open later at night so I can start playing basketball outside on the nights that I am not training at the Uni so will see how it goes.

For this week I will stick to my goals and then create new ones next weekend.

Good week

Last week I had a good week. I had 2 basketball trining sessions of 2 hours plus did 2 hours of shooting with my coach from 6am till 7am on friday and saturday. Also did an hour in the gym.

Not bad considering I have had the flu all week.

This week I am going to have 2 baskeball training session at night I plan to go to the gym 2 mornings (tues + thur) and shoot wed + friday mornings and maybe saturday as well.

Slack Week

This week I didn´t make it to the gym at all!!! I did however taing with the Uni basketball twice this week and I was able to keep up with the pace of the training and I am not hurting too bad today :-).

I also walked for 30 minutes twice this week.

Good first week

I have had a good week this week as training goes. Did my 3 x 6am workouts at the gym although this morning was a struggle. Also played basketball tuesday and thursday night.

Feeling much better apart from the aches and pains.

First session at gym done!

Was up at 5:30 this morning and at the gym by 6:00. The first session was a light one to ease back into things slowly. I did 30 minutes on the recumbant bike followed by legpress, lat pulldown, calf raises and chest press. Feeling surprisingly good considiering how heavy the weekend was and the fact that my ankle was sore from trail riding on my nephews trailbike yesterday.

Tomorrow I am going to get up at the same time and take the dog for a walk before work to get a bit of extra cardio in. Also Tuesday nights I play basketball for 2 hours.

Wednesday will focus on abs and arms.

Change of plans

Yesterday by accident a friend of mine moved his gym down the road from my house so I went in last night and signed up for personal training from 6-7 am mon, wed and fri.

Decided that it was the only way to get back on track as I keep missing training to work early so decided that if I have to pay when I dont train I might re-prioritize my values. Also having some-one waiting for me is an extra incentive to get up.

I have also been invited to train with the local University team again so I now have an extra incentive to get back in shape as I will have to train against guys half my age