Tag Archives: training

Focus and goals

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, and a lit­tle bit of ten­ta­tive exper­i­men­ta­tion to make sure that I don’t pick up […]

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 1 — Training

I promised Derek on the week­end when we embarked on talk­ing about this that I would run 3km today. So I did. Almost.
I took it easy and shuf­fled, know­ing that this would mean I got through. I had to walk about half of the last kilo­me­ter after my calves com­plained loudly (that’s what car­ry­ing a […]