Work it on out! (the physical training thread)

There was a big fire around the woodland/golf course area where I usually go running today. I was heading up a path and noticed a van with flashing blue lights and a radar dish on top sitting just off the dirt track in the woods and decided to investigate. After a little back tracking and heading down another path I discovered an ambulance and three firetrucks and a huge area of smoking heathland behind them.

Finally something a little different on my run!

Also I bumped into a friend on the way back home I haven't seen in almost a year. What was funny was I thought to myself "Oh that's so-and-so, nah it can't be!" as I came up behind him, but it was!

Well considering I run around a golf course, through some woods and then this swanky place, it was quite refreshing.











And suffocating.

I can't stand the elitism that comes with golfers.

"I'm posh, rich and awesome. I'm better than you because I play golf."

...is the general vibe I get at any rate.

You go, girl!

I jumped today! From a chair.

His arse I guess.

I've started working on my abdomen muscles again. I'm heading for the beach in 2 weeks and I want to be presentable! I used to have a killer body a couple of years ago (no kidding!) but not anymore. I think that someone is going to call Greenpeace and pack me up for a whale if the see me on the beach!

Are you shocked that I work out or due to the fact that I may be taken in for a whale?

I think the mental image of you working out may have caused his hormones to leap up and strangle his frontal lobe.

I should get started again myself.
Didn't much feel like it the last few weeks, but I gather that's a negative spiral: you don't want to do it, so that makes you feel worse, which leads to you having no energy to go and do it, and so forth.

I'm currently "celebrating" my 10th month of no workout whatsoever. My body (which is "normally" quite slim) is beginning to look like that alien who sings "Lapti Nek" in STAR WARS - you know, skinny legs and limbs, but with a big beer belly! Oy veh....not good.

I know, but it's too late for me. I lived a VERY unhealthy lifestyle when I was younger (even more than I do now), so I have fat around my waist that probably goes 20 years back! So even though I'm "only" 31 years old and still a good chance of losing weight, the only thing that can make me lose the belly now is being enrolled in a "fat camp" for several weeks with a personal trainer and no chance of beer drinking!

Most true words for every man past 30/35 ever.



Martijn; my man. He knows me so well

And you're inside having a cuppa, yeah?

Booked gym for a month, where my mate is an instructor and has personally taken "care" of me; i am back home from my 2nd time; officially dead.

5 times per week my friend, 2 of them being strictly aerobics, i.e. 30-40 minutes of joking / running on that mechanical road thingy (don't know how you call it ), the same amount of time on the mechanical bike and the same amount of time on a strange new machine that it's a kind of elliptic, uphill road that moves independently for the 2 feet; that, or alternatively the same amount of time for the basic elliptic machine. The other days contain machine (and manual exercises) with weights for abdominal, the chest, the back, all muscles of the feet as well as shoulders, biceps and triceps. All exercises are at my current maximum weight i can lift for 3x20 repetitions for each instrument, with one minute intervals between the sets.