my crazey new scheme
Do you want to hear about my new crazy scheme?
Well it is kind of what I am going to write about here so if you don't and assume it doesn't involve world domination then go do something else, it's ok I won't be mad...
right now they are gone on to my plans for world domination!!!!
ok maybe not, here is my actual new scheme.
I have found myself for the first time in a long time booking up a holiday. Whenever I have been on leave from work I have either found myself kicking about at home just using the leave up or at the behest of friends and family (travelling for their birthdays or whatever). Not that these have been trips I haven't enjoyed (taking my Nan to Prague was ace for example), but they have not really been for me.
So when my friend Chris and his long term girlfriend broke up our mutual friend Andy Mason suggested we go to Budapest on a bit of a lads holiday. Now don't worry I am not going to spend a week ripped off my face, I will be balancing it out with some culture and seeing the sights and all that jazz (hmmm jazz clubs must look into that), but we are going out and going to party a fair bit too which leads me onto the problem and the scheme.
I am not so confident these days, and a fair chunk of that comes from how I perceive myself and how I believe others perceive me, and frankly if I am going abroad and spending all that money on getting out and about the last thing I want to do is spend the time trying to hide (figuratively/literally) in a corner. In short I want to do something about my physical appearance... ok mostly my weight before I go so I can have a good time not caring about it.
I have 11 weeks on Monday until I go away and I figure that is a good amount of time to make some serious work on myself and make some changes? after all those ads claim (I DID THIS IN 6 WEEKS! cut to picture of someone who has been to the gym every day for a year)
I am not saying I am going to make myself an Adonis, I am just saying better.
A start.
So I think it breaks into two factors: Diet & Exercise
I am working up a food plan, and going to be cooking more for myself and cutting out a lot of the crap I eat. I think the key for me is going to be preparation. I do tend to snack to deal with hunger pangs, and chuck things in the oven I can walk away from and just add water or go to the vending machine and over sleep etc etc. So yeah I am going to be planning.
More importantly is the exercise front (this is starting to sound like a military campaign!)
I am going to start working out at home on a regular basis. I am going to be using the wii fit plus and my fitness coach for the wii, and I have some hand held weights I can use, and a few other bits and bobs around my flat I can use. I am preferring this over signing up to a gym because I have done that in the past and it has tended to go in the same cycle, 6 to 8 weeks work (sometimes hard), some kind of break (injury/holiday.illness), a couple of meek attempts then mostly just look the other way as my year long membership flitters away. so not signing up to a gym anytime soon.
So I am going to alternate between the various things I can do across the course of a week but I will be sticking it out in the flat I think.
In addition to that I am going to try and take up running too. Chris is saying he is going to start up again now he is single, so I have someone to encourage me and compete with some, and we work together so we may do it back or forth from work. This is really good because I am terrible at self motivation... No really, I know shocker!
So in addition to this I was thinking of taking up a class of something and right now the idea at the front of the pack is taking up a martial art, because in addition to getting the blood and sweat flowing it doesn't hurt to be able to handle yourself in a pinch (again that'd make me more confident I feel, plus people say it can give you that thing I lack... that erm thing errr..... whats it called.... focus? :)
I have two options if I follow this through, Chris, Mason & my friend Tom do a mixed martial art called Goshin which is focused on form at first but builds into combats or there is a krav maga class which is a really straight forward self defence art which is more practical but offers less development long term and I would go alone, but is more practical in real life. That said however I think Goshin would offer more of a work out, though I know there are some egotistical guys who go to that class. I am still musing at the moment.
there are some other things I am considering taking as classes instead/in addition.
So that is the bulk of my scheme, in addition there is one last thing. To keep myself on track, focused, motivated and held to account, I am going to be blogging about it on here, I am aiming for a week by week account, but we'll see. So feel free to chuck in your input.
FYI: I am officially starting this little endeavour on Monday, but I have been having a warm up
Well it is kind of what I am going to write about here so if you don't and assume it doesn't involve world domination then go do something else, it's ok I won't be mad...
right now they are gone on to my plans for world domination!!!!
ok maybe not, here is my actual new scheme.
I have found myself for the first time in a long time booking up a holiday. Whenever I have been on leave from work I have either found myself kicking about at home just using the leave up or at the behest of friends and family (travelling for their birthdays or whatever). Not that these have been trips I haven't enjoyed (taking my Nan to Prague was ace for example), but they have not really been for me.
So when my friend Chris and his long term girlfriend broke up our mutual friend Andy Mason suggested we go to Budapest on a bit of a lads holiday. Now don't worry I am not going to spend a week ripped off my face, I will be balancing it out with some culture and seeing the sights and all that jazz (hmmm jazz clubs must look into that), but we are going out and going to party a fair bit too which leads me onto the problem and the scheme.
I am not so confident these days, and a fair chunk of that comes from how I perceive myself and how I believe others perceive me, and frankly if I am going abroad and spending all that money on getting out and about the last thing I want to do is spend the time trying to hide (figuratively/literally) in a corner. In short I want to do something about my physical appearance... ok mostly my weight before I go so I can have a good time not caring about it.
I have 11 weeks on Monday until I go away and I figure that is a good amount of time to make some serious work on myself and make some changes? after all those ads claim (I DID THIS IN 6 WEEKS! cut to picture of someone who has been to the gym every day for a year)
I am not saying I am going to make myself an Adonis, I am just saying better.
A start.
So I think it breaks into two factors: Diet & Exercise
I am working up a food plan, and going to be cooking more for myself and cutting out a lot of the crap I eat. I think the key for me is going to be preparation. I do tend to snack to deal with hunger pangs, and chuck things in the oven I can walk away from and just add water or go to the vending machine and over sleep etc etc. So yeah I am going to be planning.
More importantly is the exercise front (this is starting to sound like a military campaign!)
I am going to start working out at home on a regular basis. I am going to be using the wii fit plus and my fitness coach for the wii, and I have some hand held weights I can use, and a few other bits and bobs around my flat I can use. I am preferring this over signing up to a gym because I have done that in the past and it has tended to go in the same cycle, 6 to 8 weeks work (sometimes hard), some kind of break (injury/holiday.illness), a couple of meek attempts then mostly just look the other way as my year long membership flitters away. so not signing up to a gym anytime soon.
So I am going to alternate between the various things I can do across the course of a week but I will be sticking it out in the flat I think.
In addition to that I am going to try and take up running too. Chris is saying he is going to start up again now he is single, so I have someone to encourage me and compete with some, and we work together so we may do it back or forth from work. This is really good because I am terrible at self motivation... No really, I know shocker!
So in addition to this I was thinking of taking up a class of something and right now the idea at the front of the pack is taking up a martial art, because in addition to getting the blood and sweat flowing it doesn't hurt to be able to handle yourself in a pinch (again that'd make me more confident I feel, plus people say it can give you that thing I lack... that erm thing errr..... whats it called.... focus? :)
I have two options if I follow this through, Chris, Mason & my friend Tom do a mixed martial art called Goshin which is focused on form at first but builds into combats or there is a krav maga class which is a really straight forward self defence art which is more practical but offers less development long term and I would go alone, but is more practical in real life. That said however I think Goshin would offer more of a work out, though I know there are some egotistical guys who go to that class. I am still musing at the moment.
there are some other things I am considering taking as classes instead/in addition.
So that is the bulk of my scheme, in addition there is one last thing. To keep myself on track, focused, motivated and held to account, I am going to be blogging about it on here, I am aiming for a week by week account, but we'll see. So feel free to chuck in your input.
FYI: I am officially starting this little endeavour on Monday, but I have been having a warm up