Tag: food

Here We Go!!!

So we have come to the entry that I have been looking forward to the most… the start of something new!!

Not only that I am combining it with something old, so let’s start there….

So this morning I reset my Nike Run Club training plan, set out 20 odd weeks before my next planned half marathon, I am not going to get into when and where just yet until I am happy that all my training is going to plan, no injuries etc kick in as my training cold well be heading to 7 days a week from now on.

So some of you may know I have never taken great care of my body, I try desperately but I always fall off the wagon. My diet has been pretty poor and when it gets better, it gets fairly lazy and boring. Fruit and veg were never really on the agenda and even now I struggle to get what I need, even though I try, I don’t really know what to do with it!!

To top that off, I don’t really indulge in much other exercise. Again I try but it always falls away. I have tried The Body Coach and DDP Yoga etc but I either don’t have the constant reminder to do it or other circumstances get in my way.

Adding in to the equation that I do struggle with my mental health sometime, with stress, anxiety and depression creeping in some times I find it all a little too much on occasion.

So combining that all together I am not model health and fitness guy, always looking for things that can help me with out having to do too many things and I think I have finally found the right place for me.

Not only does it tick all those boxes but it also features one of my geeky heroes.

Let me introduce Centr, home to some great physical trainers who teach things from HIIT to Yoga, as well as Meditation and mind exercises, great nutritionists who provide meal plans and great recipes who cater for meat eaters to vegetarians.

This great team didn’t just come together on it’s own, yes this team was put together by Marvel’s very own God of Thunder, Chris Hemsworth.

Chris has always been know as a hard worker when it comes to getting in shape and now he is happy to pass along that knowledge alongside his team, which also includes his wife Elsa Pataky.

I have signed up for a month to start with, and in doing so I have become a founding member of the program. Our trial begins on Monday 11th February and I honestly cant wait to get stuck in .

I feel this structure and having everything in one place can only help me and achieving my running goals for 2019.

This program isn’t just aimed at beginners, but also people who want to move to the next level. The are programs for all different reasons and levels, if you want lose weight or build muscle. I am there to tone up and increase my strength, while I will be starting at the beginners level, there are multiple levels depending where you are on your journey.

It’s not just the exercise, I am really looking forward to the food side of things. As I said I really struggle with knowing what my body needs through out training and I really think this can only help. Not only do they give you the recipes they give the shopping list that you need and that is a godsend to me.

So Monday begins the next chapter in my journey. Here is to the next step

You can join up with the program over at https://centr.com/ and stand alongside myself and thousands of others as we journey beyond the reaches of Asgard

Struggling Through, Before We Go Again

So I left you as I came to the end of my Nike Training Club plan, and boy did it end in spectacular fashion.

My last workout entailed a 30 minute run at a fast pace. Now before Christmas I had be testing new run, walk ratios. You see ever since I started running 6 years ago, I have been following the Galloway method.

Jeff Galloway is a former US Olympic 10,000m runner, who never really retired and just kept on running. Over the years he has become an author and trainer, and developed his own running method, which entails running for set period of time then taking a walking break, again for a set amount of time. I have completed 6 half marathons and a full marathon using this method.

So as I said I had upped my game before Christmas but was sick just before the Holiday period, plus the over indulgence of Christmas I had taking a step back which I knew.

This final run called for me to step it up a little, so I though right I won’t go as hard as I was before Christmas but I should have some more in the tank now than I did when I started the training plan 5 weeks prior, little did I know it wouldn’t be what I had in the tank that would cause me problems but what I had in my chest that would be the issue.

I had a little cold but thought nothing of it when I started out. It was cold out, in the minus figures and snowing. Not long in to the run I was struggling with a stitch which is something that doesn’t come about very often for me these days, but I battled though the snow and kept going. At stages I wanted to change my run walk ratio but I keep on going.

It was only once I got home that I knew I really wasn’t right. I just couldn’t catch my breath and felt quite sick. Sadly I had a lovely chest infection brewing that I didn’t know much about until the cold air and the effort of running got to it.

So I have been nursing it for the last 5 days and it seems to finally be breaking.

I am hoping I will be better in time for the launch of Centr, so I can get straight into it. I am really looking forward to having someone lay out for me what I need to be doing to really start to push my body to my targets for 2019. The main thing for me is getting a better structured diet, as with being poorly and not being on a plan my resolve with food has wavered in the last week or so, so to have some one tell me to eat this, eat that, will be great for me as it’s where I really struggle.

I did in fact buy a smoothie maker a week or so ago, so I am sure that is going to come in handy once I get into it.