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Posted by on 24th April 2016

Hey, so I thought I would update this a bit and share what has been happening at my end recently.
So i’ve now been running since the end of March with the C25K App called C25K -5K Running Trainer, in all honesty its been really hard, when I first started it, it was torture and I had to stop midway through the 30 minute plan, now my body seems to be slightly more used to running and I can normally manage to complete the plan, however I keep rehashing the first week of it as I cannot do more than a minute of running at a time, this is starting to worry me as in my current state I cant see myself being able to do gung ho 5k properly.
I have been thinking a few thoughts on this the last few days with the idea of gyms, running buddies and personal trainers going through my mind, having looked at prices for personal trainers its safe to say that idea is out of the window, so that leaves the gym and running buddies, now with me working 4 nights a week, some weeks this just isnt going to happen regularly, also I wouldnt have a clue what to do at the gym. Ive looked at Parkrun – Newcastle also, but they meet at 9am on a Saturday morning, impossible time for me regardless of the week, so at the moment its just me on my own trying to push myself to keep going and get fitter, its really hard when your by yourself and your not accountable to anybody else, realising that if you quit then your only letting yourself down.
On the plus side I can see a difference in my size since I started and have now dropped a dress size as well as a stone and maybe more than that in weight, so that is encouraging, I have just got to continue eating healthy and exercising as often as I can, then hopefully I should be on the way to loosing more weight and toning up.
As a present to myself, with my birthday cash I recently bought a fitbit, its been really helpful for me to push myself with how many steps I do in a day, because I have a really physical job Im finding that I can really notch up the steps and a bit of friendly competition between JC and myself is always useful, I can normally notch up at least 12-15k steps per day, more if we go out somewhere that we wouldnt normally go to.
So it is now nearly the end of April, that means that in essence, I have two full months to get to a better fitness level than I am currently at, will I do it? Time will tell…

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Thoughts

Posted by on 6th April 2016

Hi, Michelle here.

So a little background information, John and myself have been friends for well over fifteen years, actually nearer to twenty now and we have done some crazy yet fun stuff through the years, so when I was talking to him a few weeks ago about fitness and dieting, he then suggested that we participate in GungHo, never dreaming that I would say yes!

I downloaded a C25K app that I am using to help me get fitter but because I work four nightshifts a week this makes it pretty hard for me to go running three times a week as the app recommends, after talking to my lovely sister-in-law, she suggested that I go for a run after I have finished work, so far I have managed this once.

I have also gone to a high intensity workout class last week called Skinnypigs, the class lasted fourty five min and by the end of it my legs felt like jelly. The idea for me is to try out different things as well as running so that I can get an all round fitness level.

Since starting my whole diet/healthy eating/fitness thing, I have definatly lost over 12lb, its a start but still a long way to go.

 

 

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The Beginning… Day ONE

Posted by on 5th April 2016

Michelle and I live about 45 miles apart and I went up to see her. I put that I would be starting “training” on Monday and so when I arrived, I was told I was going out for a run… I didn’t seem to have a choice to put this off any longer and so got changed (I always have various clothes in the car) and got ready to attempt a run, something I’ve never managed before. The best I’ve done is walking for a while and no running ever happened. I have on a number of occasions attempted running on a treadmill and always lose balance and co-ordination and instead seem to fall off and entertain people in ways I didn’t intend.

Here we are getting ready to run, all changed and headed out the door. Michelle brought her son to help motivate or humiliate or annoy us – not sure which or maybe it was to give her husband some peace so he could sleep – I’m thinking it was one of the former ones anyhow he came out with us.

We walked to the park and that was our warm up time and then it was one minute jogging, then 90 seconds walking. I thought it can’t be that hard, I used to run about lots when I was a kid so lets get started and the first 5 minutes wasn’t too bad and then it was. I think I managed to get just to the half way point of the programme (which is only 30 minutes total) and felt like collapsing then sat and waited for breath back and the weird burning feel in my throat to go but I was done – it took about 20 minutes for the feelings to disappear and this morning the top of my legs just were sore. Michelle continued and did I think the whole thing while I entertained her son by going on the swings in the park we were at.

So from first stance, I am exhausted but need to get on – this was day one and I’m not sure I’ll be done within 6 weeks but it was an eye opener. I think these programmes assume a little fitness – they say its only 20 minutes or so… it felt a LOT longer than 20 minutes but we will get there. For the next few weeks, I’ll be doing them alone or dragging someone else to try it too.

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