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 [...]

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 [...]

Exercise Summary: 4km run - 24 minutes; 100 Push Up Challenge: 16, 13, 11, 11, 16
Wow! Day 2 of Week 2 and it was certainly a challenge.
Technically I was meant to complete this set yesterday but completing Jacob’s Ladder on Monday did things to my legs and didn’t feel I’d be giving myself a fair [...]

Exercise Summary: 100 Push Up Challenge (Week 2 :: Day 1) 56 Push Ups (12, 12, 9, 7, 16.5)
The end of the weekend and I’ve just done the first day of week two of the Push Up Challenge.
This time I focussed on the final set when I started. I set a personal goal of 17. [...]

Goals are fantastic things. I set some goals for June simply because May was good but a bit erratic. June is erratic too. But hopefully erratic with higher achievements.
Here are my results so far.
Running:

Current Kms run: 33.84km
Target to 14 June: 46.6km
Variance: - ~13km

Swimming:

Current swim distance: 0km (yes folks you read that right ZERO!)
Target swim distance [...]

How fast should you run when you’re just starting out?
Frankly, I had no idea.
My first thought was simply to beat my previous time but not to beat myself up if I didn’t. I figured if I ran or exercised in some way every day, then that was always going to be better than not exercising [...]