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Focus and goals

If you’re new here, you may want to sub­scribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So, I’ve kind of breezed through my first month of this trans­for­ma­tion with­out expend­ing an exces­sive amount of effort. There have been a cou­ple of road­blocks (a cat get­ting sick and hav­ing to be euthanased), a cou­ple of moti­va­tion humps, […]

Week 1 — Mindsets and making it happen

One of the biggest fac­tors I have found in being moti­vated to lose fat and get fit is to have great men­tors. The other is to, obvi­ously, keep doing the right thing in terms of exer­cise and diet and the periph­eral tasks around them. It helps to main­tain the right mindset.

So, this week, I did […]

Day 3 and the munchies hit

It’s always the way.
When I’ve tried diet­ing in the past and not been suc­cess­ful (which is most of the time), it’s about now that I fall flat. I imag­ine it’s pretty much the same story for many peo­ple who strug­gle with their weight. We have great inten­tions but we aren’t often moti­vated enough to stick at […]

About

G’day! I’m Steve Collins.
So, what’s all this then?
This is my (some­times very) per­sonal blog where I spend my time track­ing my per­sonal ups and downs, my demons, my vic­to­ries and my efforts to return to fit­ness after too many years of neglect­ing myself phys­i­cally and let­ting myself go.
I was inspired to start blog­ging here after realising, […]

Day 1 — Starts and first goals

This used to be me.

But not any more. I’m barely able to run 3km, let alone a 1.5−40−10 triathlon.
That’s all about to change, for all the rea­sons in the first post here and more.
So let’s look at my start­ing point:
Weight  —  94.0kg (207lb)
Height  —  170cm (5’7″)
BF%  —  30% (esti­mated)
Rest­ing heart rate  —  72bpm
Waist  —  92cm (36″)
Those are a long way from my best ever con­di­tion in the first […]

The change

A cou­ple of weeks ago, my friend, Gavin Heaton, tagged me to write a Man­Week post. He wanted me, and the oth­ers tagged, to dis­cuss what we thought it meant to be a man, and why. I didn’t respond then, because I had too many things bounc­ing around in my head to say any­thing coherent. […]