Monkey2Runner

Parkrun in the rain My usual Saturday morning starts with the alarm going off and thinking it's Parkrun time again. Then with all the best intentions I get out of bed open the curtains look at how nice the weather is and decide if I want to go back to bed or actually leave the house.  Countless mornings I have decided against Parkrun due to rain or it looking cold.  This morning as I waited for my 10 minute snooze alarm to go off I thought I'm going no matter what. The sky was grey I could see the rustling of trees due to the high winds and it was just starting to rain. muddy trainers I just got up and put on my trainers and went. This was Derby Parkrun my 43rd run and as I got to the start the rain started to fall over 500 runners stood there in the pouring rain waiting for the starting siren.  But guess what I was feeling happy and great that I made it and every one there seemed in more the good spirit for getting up on this cold and wet Saturday morning and going for i...

So I have decided to not spend for a week. That's seven days with no food shopping or online shopping or going out anywhere which requires money. So far this week it's been interesting to see where my mind goes and how the old habits pop up. I keep thinking of things I need to get or must shop for, but not being able to shop means I have to just pause and say to myself not now. I have cupboards full of food and a well stocked freezer with more than enough for a month's worth of meals. Yet I keep thinking about going food shopping or that I would like to buy something that I don't have rather than just make meals out of the food I have already. It's been nice not having to go to the shops or need to spend anytime waiting for online orders. I will definitely keep doing this every few weeks as a way of just making do with what I have and learning to not buy so many random things. It's been a challenge of self control saying no I don't need to buy that and...

100 pushups/situps/squats and some planking  day 1 of 30 day 1 said i would update after 10 days and so on but could resist a quick post about first day on this method. took along time to perform all the exercise as i was only able to do short periods in the plank position of around 60 seconds at a time , and with breaks in between took over an hour to get 7 minunits of plank in, as first day stopped at 7:30 just short of 10 min target, started to feel burning which i don't want to over do this as im going for 30 days. Sit-ups i could easy perform 20 - 30 reps each time so over the course of the day managed these fairly easy. Push-ups or press-ups  only went as far as 10 sets of 10, my push up technique needs work so over the day i managed to do these also fairly easy , mixed it up with a few slow sets and some explosive fast sets few dive bomber type movements and couple slow ones where i held the contraction at various a...

100 push-ups , squats and sit-ups and 10 mins of plank for 30 days for the next 30 days 100 push-ups 100 bodyweight  squats 100 sit-ups 10 minuits of plank per day not going to failure on any of the exercises, stopping set when form is compromised. doing as many sets as it takes to reach daily rep target. Grease the groove style also , random sets of 5 or 10 throughout the day. 30 days challenge to target whole body each day plank will be done using stop watch until the 10 minute mark is exceeded after 10 , 20 and 30 days evaluate from there either continue with higher workload or modify ie diamond push-ups or pull-ups ect. other alterations to lifestyle changed drinking more water eating more fruit and vegtables. before and after pictures to follow next update on the 28 January 2013