Year end conclusions

Had the last couple of weeks off from training and basketball as the basketball gym is closed for the holidays.

Have been walking most days with the dogs for 2-3 mile walks so I am managing to keep the weight down a bit.

My end of year weigh in was 96.8kgs and 29.8% bodyfat which means that this year I have lost over 2kgs. This is however well below my target weight loss.

The last 3 weeks I have gone back to drinking coca cola which is the main reason that I haven´t got below 95kgs yet.

Although I haven´t lost a lot of weight this year I have definately improved my fitness levels and my arms and legs have toned up a lot. I noticed the other day that I do not get winded any more walking up the hill to my house any more where this time last year I had to stop half way and use my inhaler now I dont even get out of breath. Also playing basketball I can sprint the length of the court without getting out o breath which make playing much better :-)

In a bid to start loosing more weight I started skating again yesterday which was fun but I was really bad and my ankle hurt a bit. My son has started to get into skating as well so next year we are going to go skate at least every other day which will help with my weight loss and also build up leg strength.

I have been thinking about my fitness goals for next year and I have com up with the following:

1. Go one year without drinking Coca Cola. My record is 3 months so this will be hard.
2. Walk with my dogs for at least 30 minutes every day and record the walks with Strava.
3. Do jump training at least 3 times a week.
4. Skate at least 3 times a week
5. Play basketball at least 3 times a week.
6. Use car less.

My main goal is to lose 10.8 kgs to get my weight down to 85kgs by this time next year. I think with the lifestyle changes that I am putting in place in the goals above that my main goal is achievable.

I am dedicated this year to log all of my activities in a jornal and I am going to create a new blog to chart my progress.

Tomorrow I am going to take a lot of body measurements and measure my current vertical jump so that I can keep measuring my progress over the year.

I have decided that I am only going to take weight measurements once a week instead of every day as I was doing as I want to put more focus on lifestyle changes and less focus on bodyweight.

Good walk

Went for a good long walk with my dogs. Was given a blue heeler from my brother in law yesterday as it was my nephews who is away at uni.

Having a few teething problems with my old dog accepting the new dog but they are getting along better.

I tool them for a quick walk yesterday to test them out and things were a little tense. Today things were much better this morning. We walked 1.7 miles and climbed 500+ feet. I changed up the route this morning and took a cattle trail halfway up the Hill and went around the back of the Hill to the top. Also had to re root at the top of the Hill as there were people doing a religious ceremony around the cross that marks the top of the Hill!

I AM still sick and it was a bit of a struggle but the de tour helped as it was a little less steep.

My weigh in was 96.7 kgs and 30.1%.

Slack week so far

This week hás been crazy with work só i havent worked out get. I havê got 2 dog walks in tho só not all bad. Still got a sore throat as well.

Still Ill

Felt reall rough yesterday afternoon and this morning so didnt train today.

My weigh in was 96.4kgs and 30.0% bodyfat.

Still ill

Feeling ill still and now got a headache to go with the sore throat and fever.

I still managed to walk the dog for half a mile although we had to cut the walk short due to rain.

I also did my circuit for the day although the last set was a struggle.

I havê now bought some medicine and an going to spend the afternoon in bed.

My weigh in was better today. 95.6 kgs and 31.1%.

Sore throat again

Woke up this morning with a sore throat and a bit of a fever again!

I was also raining so I did 30 minutes on the exercise bike as a warmup for my skipping workout. Did 13.42km and burned 305 cals. Was on level 1 for 5 minutes then level 2 for 23 minutes and then level 1 again for the last 2 minutes.

Started doing the skipping worout but felt really bad so I am going to start on thurday.

Going to eat breakfast now then go and shoot hoops at the club for an hour.

Ankle hurting bad

Woke up this morning and my ankle is hurting really bad. Still managed to walk the dog and just finished my monday circuit. Walked 1.5 miles and climbed 476ft in 35.09 minutes.

My weighin today was ok 96.4kgs and 31% bf.

Going to ice my ankle now to and take a pain killer to see if I can stop the ankle hurting. Also going to buy a new ankle support today to see if that will help.

My training today was as follows:

Exercise	Sets	Reps
Skipping	3	1 min
Squats	3	10
stepup	3	20
Lataral Jumps	3	20
Front back Jumps	3	20
Squat Jumps	3	10
Stepup Jumps	3	20
Calf Raises	3	20
Plank	3	1 Min
Wall Squats	3	1 Min
Box Jumps (30")	3	5

Iced my ankle all morning and it is feel much better. I am going to ice it some more this afternoon so that I can hopefully do my aerobic skipping workout tomorrow morning.