I have to be honest, I’m really very disappointed in myself, last year around the 30th June I entered myself in a fun run and began jogging in preparation for it, I enjoyed the jogging and was feeling positive results, progress was slow but there was definite progress, I was actually enjoying it so much I swore to keep it up after the fun run and started my “Run Fat Boy Run” category here on my blog to record my running training regime.
I managed to do this for a while and was feeling good as well as being quite proud of myself but then succumbed to a toe injury. This was followed by a couple of illness’s which kept me from running for a little while but then when I was fit again and should have got back to running, apathy and my natural laziness took over. I struggled to get back in the correct mind set and just never got started again, my last run was all the way back on the 7th September 2009, around 4 months ago.
Well I am determined to begin jogging again, I really want to as well as the fact that I really need to start getting some exercise, I decided to start running early in 2010, but so far this re-start has been held up by the weather conditions. We had some snow and since then its been very, very cold resulting in the roads and pavements around where I live being covered in ice, its pretty treacherous underfoot around here and too dangerous to make my comeback just yet. As soon as things become safe I will be going back out running again though, that’s a promise.
In the meantime I have decided that I want to do some other form of exercise alongside my jogging, I’m not really a gym kind of person though so have been thinking what I could do. Well I own a Nintendo Wii and was thinking about Wii Fit, this is very expensive though, due no doubt to the fact you need the Wii Board with it.
But having had a little look online I have discovered something called “My Fitness Coach” for the Wii, this is software only and from the reports I’ve read is actually better than Wii Fit and a whole lot cheaper as you don’t need any extra equipment. I have ordered a copy of this from Amazon today and expect it sometime mid next week. I’m looking forward to trying this out, it might even be before I manage to get out running if the weather reports prove right, and when I’ve tried it a few times and evaluated it I’ll post a report here on my blog.
Actually I have been fit most of my life, at various points during my life I have trained in boxing, then karate, I also did a lot of weight training during these times. Then I started running, a lot, I used to run 4 to 6 times a week, including some pretty longish distances, I also did a number of road races, for fun and fitness. I did some kind of physical activity or another my whole adult life up to the point when my marriage ended and I started drinking heavily and had various problems.
But in the last 13 years or so I have done nothing (other than my little foray into jogging last year), I’m 53 years old, tubby and very out of condition, I live a sedentary lifestyle both at home and at work and tend to eat a lot of crappy unhealthy foods. Now I don’t do New Year resolutions, so this isn’t one, but I intend to get seriously healthier and fitter in 2010. So, hopefully, very soon I will re-start my jogging and add some extra fitness training to it as well, the “Run Fat Buy Run” category is becoming a record of my overall fitness training regime, inclusive of my running.
I also intend to begin to eat somewhat better, I’m not going to change my eating habits completely, well not right away, for a start I do actually enjoy some of these convenience foods, but I need to eat them less often and try to eat healthier for the most part. I will slowly add healthier things to my fridge / freezer and food cupboard, but hey, I eat for pleasure as well so I’m not gonna go daft and eat like a fitness freak, I don’t even want to be a fitness freak, I’m still going to eat the stuff I enjoy, just not as much.
So by the end of this year I may be, hopefully will be, a fitter, healthier and slimmer version of myself, well that’s the plan.
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