Spike's log

[spike]

New log time!

I've been really busy so no time to do a log and not as much time as I'd have liked for training, but still been going to taekwondo 1-3 times per week for the past few months.

I jacked in my part time job to be a full time student and it is *really* full time plus 1.5 hours commute each way every day.

Last few weeks I have been to training more like 3 times per week than 1, which is good. Also been for a run and a couple of gym visits so feel like I'm back doing a reasonable amount of exercise.

I've been trying to eat healthily recently, I need to consciously do this as I get sucked into eating too many cakes and biscuits if I'm not careful.

Going to log gardening and general a-b walking as well, to keep laziness at bay.

w/c 08/11/2010
m - walking - over an hour altogether
t - tkd - 1 1/2 hours - hard workout!
w - walking - about half an hour
t - walking - about half an hour, tkd, 1 1/2 hours, relatively easy compared to tuesday
f - gym, 5 min warm up on x-trainer, weights machines with puny weights, 2 minutes on the stepper thing, 4k on treadmill in just over 29 minutes + 5 min cooldown, stretching.
s - 2 hours digging, about half an hour walking altogether
s - tkd 1 1/2 hours, walking 1 1/2 hours

[spike]

Monday 15/11/2010

walking - over an hour

Tuesday 16/11/2010

walking - about an hour altogether
taekwondo - 1 1/2 hours. Not too hard physically, working on kicking for breaking, breaking and technical patterns, fixed sparring.
also went to the infamous G-camp Thai kickboxing for 45 minutes before TKD.

We were planning to go to yoga for a relaxing stretch before TKD but the class was full. Lack of footwear meant that g-camp was the only other option. The instructor seemed really sound and said it was fine that we wanted to leave early to get to taekwondo on time, said we'd love it and could have our money back if we didn;t like it. We weren't sure what to expect but he said there'd be a warm up and pad work which sounded fine.
It was one of those classes where the "warm up" is more like a load of press ups, running and leaping about that makes you think "if this is the warm pu WTF will the main bit of the class be like???!!!" The padwork was actually pretty easy. There were loads of other beginners and although we were working on fairly lengthy combinations it was fine - don't think I could have remembered a series of about 10 techniques if I'd never done anything remotely simliar before though. Probably won't go again unless it is on over Christmas when taekwondo is off. The kicks are different for starters and I don't wanna confuse myself. Also I don;t fancy full contact sparring, not that there seemed to be that much contact going on amongst the people who were sparring, didn;t notice anyone getting knocked out, but suppose I was concentrating on the padwork really.

So yeah, feeling the effects of yesterdays workouts today!

[spike]

Wednesday 17/11/2010

walking - an hour at most.

Arms aching from yesterday!

[thestoatyone]

You're back! Yey!

[spike]

You're back! Yey!

Yep! I wasn;t away for that long though?

Thursday 18/11/2010

walking - probably some, can't remember
taekwondo - 1 1/2 hours

Friday 19/11/2010

walking - some, maybe an hour or so
gym - 5 minute warm up on x trainer, shifted some puny wieghts on the machines, ran 4k in about 28 minutes something, quick stretch

Saturday 20/11/2010

walking - about 45 minutes
about an hour light alltoment work

Sunday 21/11/2010

walking - about 2 hours
taekwondo - 1 1/2 hours - good class, sweated lots

[spike]

Ah bollocks, I'm not doing very well here!

mon 22

probably about an hour walking

tue 23

probably less than an hour walking

wed 24

several hours walking (Xmas shopping!!)

Thu 25

maybe an hour walking?

Friday 26

maybe an hour walking
gym: warm up on x trainer, resitance machines (they seem to have some new "girly" ones - suits me as I can't do the heaviest weights on them and they don't seem to be very popular), ran 4.5k on treadmill in about 32:30 then 5 min cooldown and some stretching

sat 27

about 45 minutes walking

sun 28

I don't think I left the house

[spike]

Hmm, really not doing a god job here. I don't think i have actually done any exercise since i last updated.
Bit pathetic really.
Someone please give me a kick up the arse!

[Rochellita]

There you go. The weather isn't helping though is it?

[spike]

Yeah, weather does not help at all!
I'm planning to drag myself down to the gym this afternoon. I may even get a membership as the price doesn't sound ridiculously extortionate right now. I hesitate today it's cheap!
so it's been ree weeks since I did any training and I've barely walked further than to the bus stop because the allotment is frozen, so no point going there, and I've not been to Sunday training which is normally a good walk. Meh. Let's see how I get on in the gym this afternoon. Going to take it easy, just be good to get back into the habit and break into a sweat again!

[spike]

Yay, I went to the gym and survived. It was quiet which was nice. managed 4k on the treadmill in just under 29 minutes. Also lifted some puny weights and got a years membership staring from January, works out as three quid a week.

Keep giving me a kick up the arse and I may even do some stretching at home over the next few weeks.

[spike]

Not a lot to report. just updating to get back in the habit (and as a way of putting off doing the things at are more urgent than updating a log with a non-update!)
went to the sales today. All the snow in the city centre has been cleared so it was a really nice change to be able to walk about normally without fear of slipping over. Forecast says it will finally get abov freezing tomorrow which will hopefully mean more walking and possibly even a bait of running outside

[spike]

Monday 27/12/2010

Nothing

Tuesday 28/12/2010

45 minutes walking

[spike]

Wednesday 29/12/2010 - nothing
Thursday 30/12/2010 - walking about an hour

[spike]

Friday 31/12/2010 - about 30 minutes walking
Saturday 01/01/2011 - nothing
Sunday 02/01/2010 - about 1.5 hours walking

[spike]

Monday 02/01/2010 - about an hour walking altogether.