31 March 2010

My usual Wednesday session was cancelled today so went at 9 am this morning. They held the challenge in the squash courts. Seemed to lack energy today, and not much enthusiasm coming from me. Probably over training a little. I have started entering road races and race walked the Mineshaft 15 kms on Sunday, very undulating I must say. I jogged my first unbroken 8 kms last night, slow but steady. But with 4 weeks left to go must keep going. There is special talk tonight on diet for the remainder of the challenge, should be quite interesting. Still have a long way to go but am already feeling like a million dollars.

24 March 2010

Best session so far, next to the beach session of course. I am finding that I have enough strength in my arms and core to hold up my bodyweight while doing the routines. Had a good weightloss this week 1.8 kgs. Back on track, but trained harder and longer. Did 2 x 10 kms run/racewalks this week. Am rather impressed with my new found abilities, but I have also discovered a couple of new muscles in my back that have been in hibernation for long time. Eish!

17 March 2010

Seven week now into the GetFit Challenge. Had a busy day running around shopping. Rested for an hour then went to RWFL. Felt a little flat energy-wise and did an easy 8 km power walk. Thought it was better not to do any running to conserve my energy for the GetFit session. Arrived at Virgin Active and cooled off in the aqua pool for 30 minutes to revitalise myself before the Challenge session. Enjoyed the session because of a different routine, not much ab work today, more weights. Good thing I've been training. I find that I can do the weights much better than abs. Knees are creaking under the strain a little today, not comfortable at all. Also had a weight gain this week. Liz, focus!

13 March 2010 – measurements (6 weeks)

Went for measurements today with great expectations. Hoping to have lost at least 60 cms. What! My total centimetre loss was only 16 cms. Could not understand why so few centimetres compared to the Weightloss Challenge, then I realised that different measurement techniques are used. Felt a little happier to find out that I had brought my body fat percentage back on the chart, bringing me down to 35%, we are not exactly sure what my percentage originally was because the figures on the chart only goes up to 40%, I was way over that, probably about 42 to 45%. Total weightloss 5.7 kg in 6 weeks, could have been better but taking my age into consideration, well... I haven't done too badly. Now that I am on holiday for a month I can focus for the next couple of weeks, starting off with my first 10 km road race completed today. So watch this space, here comes Liz...

6 March 2010

Attended another beach session today at 8 a.m. Weather was fantastic, there was a film crew and about 90% of the team were wearing their Get Fit Challenge T-shirts. Looked quite impressive even if I must say so myself. Well done guys! We caused quite a lot of interest with the public. I wasn't late this time so had the full benefit of the work out. Put more effort into todays program and am finding that I now have more strength in my core muscles to do the exercises better. One of the exercises had a little challenge or competition so to speak, almost like musical chairs but instead of sitting down on a chair you had to lie on the mat flat on your stomach and then make a dash for a marker. The challengers that did not manage to get a marker was out and so on. Great stuff! I am working harder today so that I can have a better weight loss this week. After session I went for a race/power walk for half an hour. Well, with exercise done for the day I am looking forward to just chilling and relaxing until tomorrow.

And the winner was . . .

5 March 2010

Today we had the Get Fit Challenge session on the beach at Ushaka at 6 a.m. sharp. Nice crowd turned up and weather was good to us. Found it difficult to run on the beach sand. Did not realise how tiring it could be. Did lots of lunges, situps, crunches, pushups and running. Then ran up and down 3 steps and more pushups. My knees were creaking under the strain for this session. Found that lunges are becoming very difficult to do. Uncomfortable with every step. Thoroughly enjoyed the session and a bonus was that the Moya cloakroom facilities were open so we could clean-up before going to work. Looking forward to another session tomorrow morning.

3 March 2010

Fifth week: Had a good run/walk this afternoon. Walked 1.5 kms on field with Noleen and then jogged on the road for 6.2 kms. Went to Virgin Active and cooled off in the aqua pool, swam a couple of laps and then joined the fifth sessin for the Challenge. Weighed in at 95.8 kgs. Another kilo bites the dust. Did a variation of abs, crunches and weights in most of the sets. Started to battle to get up from the floor on a couple of occasions. Seems as though back to back exercise program is a little harsher than I thought it would be, but have decided not to try and change class for another slot and to continue as I have been. I'll be on annual leave from next week and will be able to do RWFL in the morning and will have plenty of time to recover nicely for the evening session of the challenge. On Friday and Saturday the training will be on the at Ushaka in front of Moya. Looking forward to the stint on the beach. Should be fun.