Day 2: Aches and Pains #blogboost

Well, its day 2 of my new fitness regime and have just eaten my 2nd bowl of Weetabix in 2 days, nom nom.  However, at present, I currently have a couple of aches and paints in my hips, pelvic region and my shoulders, probably caused by the exercises that I have been doing over the past 2 days.

So this morning, ok, I’ll admit I wasn’t awake at 0630, and in fact I was awake at 0400, needless to say I rolled back over and went back to sleep till around 0700/0730.  Straight away I was up and into the kitchen to enjoy my first cup of coffee of the day, although my back was absolutely killing me.

Washing up sorted, and now its just a case of getting the children off to school, and the missus isn’t too far behind them.  So once kids had departed and, silence filled the room and after a wonderful healthy bowl of Weetabix, on goes the Wii ready for another 30 mins of exercise.

Doing similar moves to yesterday, including the torso and hip twists – which caused more pain.. followed briefly by around 20 elbow crutches with a Wii remote… this will be changed next week with a 500ml bottle of water.  Once complete, I was straight onto some boxing, doing really well and almost beating my best of 305 points… – will be aiming to beat this in the coming days.

So after the warming up, I was already up to 10 mins worth of time, so I thought I’d give the step ups ago, and to my surprise I did better than yesterday.. I have yet to beat my partner,who can get perfect on it every time… – another goal for the next couple of days, so after another 6 minutes of this I thought I’d give the hula hoopy thing a go.

10 minutes worth, and yesterday I manage to complete the entire set, however, today, my hips were very stiff and I ended dropping all my hoops with just 10 seconds left, was not best pleased!!!

So with just 4 minutes left to do on my work out I finished it off with another session of boxing, did better than the 1st time I had a go at it earlier in the day.

Overall, 2nd day in, things are progressing, there is pain… but as Mr T would say:  Quit your jibba jabba – more tomorrow .

Making a Start – #blogboost

As some of you know, we have been looking at trying to get ourselves a bit more healthier this year and unfortunately, thus far, we have been unable to achieve this due to one reason or another, perhaps it’s mainly excuses as to why we haven’t started the fitness regime.  The other area that also needs focus on is the diet, eating chips and sausages, although very tasty, doesn’t really do much for our bodies in terms of the whole fit body and leads to all sorts of complications.

So with this in mind, we thought, we would make a start on our fitness program by taking the following steps:

Water

If there is one thing on this planet that makes us all feel better after a really crap day in the office is Water.  So over the coming weeks we’ll be drinking quite a bit of this wet stuff.

Weighing In

We’ll be honest, we haven’t been on the scales since the end of New Year, why?? hmm well because we’re scared too, over indulging at Christmas is not uncommon.  So with this in mind, and with a deep breath we’ll be carrying out a weighing tomorrow, 17/01/2012 and subsequently every Tuesday there after – look out for our blog posts thereafter.

Exercising 

Ok so what exercising regime have we got, well in all fairness we haven’t got one, according to medical news, at least 30 minutes of exercise a day should be sufficient enough to keep things in check.  With this in mind we’re thinking of this sort of regime:

1. 5 Minutes warm up and some nice gentle exercises – the sort of stuff that really does hurt your back and arms – but gets you in the mood for the main bit
2. 10 Minute free style run – we were considering going out running – but upon checking for the whole running trainers and gear.. hmm we’re a bit short on this – so the Wii will have to do
3. 10 Minutes of hoop the hoop – aka circling your hips in a big circle mimicking the concept of a big ring around your body
4. 5 Minute worth of boxing, or punching thin air depending how you look at it.

So how are we going to get started on this well, we have been thinking about aiming to get up and about for around 0600 in the morning ready to start the day off with a good old exercising session followed by a nice healthy breakfast… toast anyone??

Healthy Eating

Ok, now lets look at this, we want to keep in good shape and the exercising will help, but how about the eating frontier.  Before we go into too much detail we should say we have a very sensitive stomach, and when we say sensitive we mean that.  So we’re planning on introducing a new food each week, substituting one meal per day with something healthy.

So here are the plans for the next 4 weeks, these will run Sunday-Sunday

• Week 1 (Jan 22nd Jan-28th): Weetabix will replace our traditional breakfast of nothing at all or something less healthy i.e. a fry up, we will also reduce our alcohol consumption.
• Week 2(Jan 29th Jan-Feb 4th) Introduction of one piece of fruit to subsidise snacking so a Banna will replace crisps and chocolate
• Week 3(Feb 5th – Feb 11th) Introduction of another piece of fruit possibly grapes, we will also cut down on quantity to decrease weight gradually
• Week 4(Feb 12th – Feb 18th): Brown bread introduced, we would like to point out that this maybe delayed due to the high fibre within.

We’ve also added a new category called weight loss – and you can track all of our progress within that category