RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
August 6, 2018 at 12:33 pm
Stage 2 of my masterplan in action now 
The other day went out and bought some sports clothes... a Nike t-shirt and couple of pairs of shorts made out of the same material as the football shirts... good for dealing with sweat. And today I went out in them just to the Post Office and shops... I felt very self-conscious initially because I don't have the figure to be a walking Nike advert... kind of like Mr Blobby in shorts ... well not that bad, but I do have a large spare tyre... but then I just reminded myself I had once dressed up as Odo from Star Trek so a little bit of sports gear shouldn't be a major problem Anyway the aim was just to add a little bit of jogging into my walk... so I did two short bursts of jogging on the way there and two on the way back while carrying groceries, and again trying to put self-consciousness out of my mind, quite successfully. So I guess that could maybe be classed as something like the 'interval training' Shell suggested. It's still a scorcher (27 degrees C outside) so this probably wasn't the best time of day to do it but I just feel I want to try a put little bits of extra exercise into anything I do. My recovery rate after each burst seemed pretty okay; a lot better than I was expecting... just a few minutes of out of breathness and then back to normal... rather than feeling like I was going to have a heart attack, as I felt in the past while I smoked and tried to run. So my aim with this is to gradually work on my running/jogging with the hope of one day being able to run a mile and a half in twelve minutes. I figure I can work out a route around my town that covers that distance and walk it but gradually and 'intervally' add little runs to it until eventually the whole thing is a run. The reason that's my target is because when I was younger I wanted to be in the army and that was the minimum fitness requirement for entry, and I could only dream of it, especially since I smoked. Now I'm way too old to join the army but it would still be great to reach that fitness target... and now, post-smoking, when it's oxygen rather than carbon monoxide that's circulating in my blood, I feel I have a chance 
The other day went out and bought some sports clothes... a Nike t-shirt and couple of pairs of shorts made out of the same material as the football shirts... good for dealing with sweat. And today I went out in them just to the Post Office and shops... I felt very self-conscious initially because I don't have the figure to be a walking Nike advert... kind of like Mr Blobby in shorts ... well not that bad, but I do have a large spare tyre... but then I just reminded myself I had once dressed up as Odo from Star Trek so a little bit of sports gear shouldn't be a major problem Anyway the aim was just to add a little bit of jogging into my walk... so I did two short bursts of jogging on the way there and two on the way back while carrying groceries, and again trying to put self-consciousness out of my mind, quite successfully. So I guess that could maybe be classed as something like the 'interval training' Shell suggested. It's still a scorcher (27 degrees C outside) so this probably wasn't the best time of day to do it but I just feel I want to try a put little bits of extra exercise into anything I do. My recovery rate after each burst seemed pretty okay; a lot better than I was expecting... just a few minutes of out of breathness and then back to normal... rather than feeling like I was going to have a heart attack, as I felt in the past while I smoked and tried to run. So my aim with this is to gradually work on my running/jogging with the hope of one day being able to run a mile and a half in twelve minutes. I figure I can work out a route around my town that covers that distance and walk it but gradually and 'intervally' add little runs to it until eventually the whole thing is a run. The reason that's my target is because when I was younger I wanted to be in the army and that was the minimum fitness requirement for entry, and I could only dream of it, especially since I smoked. Now I'm way too old to join the army but it would still be great to reach that fitness target... and now, post-smoking, when it's oxygen rather than carbon monoxide that's circulating in my blood, I feel I have a chance
