Bill’s Training Blog

This is going to surprise many of you. It surprised me! In fact, I’m still a little stunned. Okay, make that VERY stunned.
The plan was for June’s exercise and weight results to be better than May’s. Not only are they not better, they are not worse.
THEY ARE THE SAME!!! (bizarrely the same! … cue Twilight [...]

Exercise Summary: 6.62 km in 40m 57s
This last week has been weird. It started a cold/flu which resulted in me taking drugs and going to bed early. The rest of the week was “okay” but I couldn’t shake the cold, something I ate didn’t agree with me and that made things worse but tolerable. I [...]

Last week as attitude readjustment! This week was the flu!
Since my great Sunday, I caught a dose of some bug that was going round. Sneezing, head aches and the like. Looking for sympathy. Getting none!
I was meant to do the 100 Push Ups Week 3 this week but didn’t attempt Day [...]

I know this morning’s post was a bit of a whinge. I think I had one of those moments where I saw myself slipping back into old habits and to be honest it scared me. I’ve lost 75% of what I plan to lose and I felt that, for no reason, I was slipping back [...]

Exercise Summary: 4.6km Run/Walk; no time recorded
The above summary says it all. Yesterday was not a good day on the road to health and fitness (pardon that godawful pun!). Sure, I went for the 4km run/walk and while that sounds good, I did it as an afterthought rather than as a planned activity.
You see, the [...]

Exercise Summary: 100 Push Ups Challenge: 71 Push Ups (15, 15, 12, 12, 17)
Driving home tonight after a really busy and disrupted week I was looking forward to a quiet night with a glass of wine and a good movie. Well, the wine is an Amberley 2007 Chenin Blanc, the movie is Johnny Depp’s Sweeney [...]

Today was a good day.
It was weigh in time and after my business trips I felt like I was back on track. As I drove away from the office on my way to Jenny Craig’s for the weigh in I was thinking 500g would be good as a “loss”.
To maintain some consistency I always [...]

Firstly, I think I may need to apologise for yesterday’s post on Rest. I re-read it last night and thought it turned out to be a bit preachy when all I wanted to post was that it was interesting that we need instructions on napping and that the world has a way of invading our [...]

Exercise summary: 5km run; Time: 24:56; Weigh in: 81.9kg; Push ups: 62 (15, 13, 10, 10, 14)

For the first time in 3 weeks I ventured into Jenny Craig’s for that fateful moment of … “The Weigh In”.
After a week and a half living out of hotels, buying restaurant food and struggling to keep a routine [...]

We all know how busy we are. There are obligations to work, obligations family (spouse AND kids, sheesh! ) then there are the obligations of watching our favouraute TV shows (admit it, you’ve never said “I can’t miss that?”) to having the obligatory drink on a Friday night after work. This list goes on.
I’ve [...]