Mr. A. - A weekend of activities.

My weekend started off with an off-day, only biking a bit as transportation.

Saturday: I had a small transportation bike ride of 7 km in the morning, and in the early afternoon I started my long bike ride in total the long ride ended up at 83 Km, which I am quite happy with.

There were a ton of hills and a ton of wind which made it quite hard, especially the last 25 km where though both physically and mentally but I managed to pull through.

Sunday: We had our bi-weekly weigh in.

This week ended in a slow but steady progress and I am now down to 76,3 Kg so still 6,3kg’s to go, not as fast progress as I would have liked, but progress none the less!

The activity this Sunday was (unfortunately for me :P) biking: we ended biking around ~60 km, must confess my ass was a bit sore from the day before, but fortunately for me the speed 7 intensity was a bit lower and there wasn’t as many hills or wind as the day prior so that made it quite a bit easier, after the biking we did a bit of circuit training, and a basketball drill.

I ended up the weekend with some homemade burgers, and ice cream as desert, I feel it’s ok to “celebrate” your achievements and reward yourself :-).

Today it's back to the regular schedule!

Mr. A. Just do it!

Everyone have days where you are, tired, lethargic, unmotivated, lazy, and basically you don’t feel like doing a workout, and find a million excuses not to workout.

The solution is pretty straight forward, just do it! Show up to the workout and just attend, once you are there, once you get the running shoes on and get out the door, the workout will work itself and you will get through it, and get all the benefits it provides!

Even if it is not going to be your top most intense workout, it will still be a workout and a step moving forward.

So just do it!

Mr. A. Rescheduling training

I’ll just start off with: "I had a great swim today in total 3 km"

 

• 400m freestyle warm-up
• 200m (12.5m crawl non breathing 12.5m normal)
• 3x (400m crawl arms(pull buoy) +200m breaststroke)
• 100m freestyle
• 4x (25m crawl sprint 25m free)
• 300m freestyle warm-down

 

And now for the actual subject:

  

Due to the Outer snapping hip I have been forced to reschedule my training a bit to lessen the stress on the cords and hopefully reduce the inflammation

 

So the new training plan will be largely based on swimming and then attempt to keep some of the other activities up as well

  

So for now it will look like this:

• Mon: Swimming
• Tue: Boxing
• Wed: Swimming
• Thu: Boxing
• Friday: Free or Swimming or Random activity
• Sat: Biking or Swimming or Random activity
• Sun: Biking / bi-weekly activity

 

I’m not quite set on the weekends yet.

 

This is the initial plan and I will likely have to adjust it depending on how my hip ends up behaving

 

 

 

 

Mr. A. – Old injuries reemerging

So this tends to happen every time I attempt to get back into doing sports, and it has always been what ended up putting a stop to my training, and now it is reemerging.

Outer snapping hip, when fully emerged it appears as a snap every time I take a step and ends up being quite painful, and removes any kind of possibility for running and even walking ends up being painful.

Luckily it has not set in fully but I can begin to feel the snapping sensation, and I know from past experiences that I’m not far off from it getting to be a big issue.

I found some exercises that should, in time, help strengthening the area, and I think going to physiotherapy might be something I should look into

Mr. A. Having Easy ”go to” meals #1

Some days are easier than others, especially when you are trying to lose weight, and having to go shop on one of those days, usually won’t end up with a good result.

To avoiding this scenario I sugest you have 3 “go to” meals you are always able to make.
These should be:

1. Be healthy
2. Be easy and fast to prepare (shouldn’t take more than 20 mins)
3. Should always be in stock at home

This is my own go to meal #1 I will post #2 and #3 at another time

1. Stir fry x egg’s in a wok, with a little oil (I always have eggs
2. Add - Meat Salmon, Tuna, Chicken etc. (I always keep frozen chicken at home just in case
3. Add random veggies you have example. Spinach, Broccoli, tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, anything goes (try to keep a large portion of the total volume of the dish veggies for the health benefit.
4. Keep stir frying, Add, some: salt, pepper, soya, fish sauce, lime, lemon whatever you like, I usually go for soya / fish sauce and if the meet is fish I add lime.
5. Serve with: Rice, noodle or pasta, you can go for wholegrain here if you’d like to make it even healthier.

Once You get used to making this dish it can easily be done within 20 min’s and you should always have left over veggies you can use.

I love this, because it’s such a flexible recipe, its healthy it’s easy to make, and it tastes great

Mr. A. - Doing several things at the same time

So i'm the kind of guy that usually likes to go "all in" with this kind of stuff and the one thing i find the most difficult is to increase the amount i'm training while at the same time attempting to limit my intake

Were I to advice other people i would definitely say start with one thing, and slowly build on the other, ie. i would likely advice them to start increasing the amount of training they do, and slowly start improving their diet.

Doing both at once leads to a lot of balance issues, you exercise more so your body needs more energy, but how much more, and you might not want to give it more since you are trying to limit it to lose weight.

I personally find it difficult to figure out how much i need to eat with the increased training, but i keep my focus on the fact that the food needs to be healthy first and foremost, if the weight doesn't decrease than i will have to make further reductions in my eating habits.


I would recommending only working on improving 1 thing at a time at the very beginning, and after you  have gotten into the habit of doing it i would improve on the other aspect.

Mr. A. 8 Tips to eating less

So one of the 9 simple rules from one of my blogposts from last week was “don’t eat too much”.

Eating too much is somewhat hard to decipher, how much is too much, how much is too little, and when you at the same time are increasing the amount you train, it becomes even more difficult to find a good ballance.

Here are some tips to eating less

1. Drink a large glass of water 30-15 minutes before a meal
2. Drink a large glass of water while eating sipping in between bites not just waiting until you have eaten and then drinking.
3. Chew your food extra thoroughly (something I personally need to improve. I tend to just swallow my food
4. Use a smaller plate, a smaller plate will look full faster than a larger plate you will tend to fill the plate up regardless of its size.
5. Take salads/vegies first, they fill a lot of the plate making room for less of the “heavier food”
6. Avoid bringing your pots and pans into the living room, take a serving, and then pack the food away or let it cool off, eat in another room, and don’t go back for seconds, and if your really feel like you need some more to fill your stomach, go for veggies.
7. Pack left overs in potion sizes, instead of keeping the left overs as a big pile pack them into potions and just take one when you need lunch or dinner.
8. take 15-20% less food than you would normally, this should come naturally with the smaller plates

Following these tips might be easier said than done, but i will attempt to follow them as best i can in the following weeks