Well my journey started on the 30th September 2009, with my first game of squash for over six months and previous to that I hadn’t played squash for over 6 years. This is what happens when your busy at work and have a young family. Well it is what you use as an excuse. In fact there is no real excuse, since if I had really wanted to play squash, go swimming and generally keep fit, I am sure that I could have found the time.
Anyway, I kicked myself up the backside on 30th Sept and decided to take the plunge to play squash with my new found squash partner – thank you www.gumtree.com. So this was the start of my journey back in to the world of fitness and as ever, once I start this journey I get really engrossed and then look at what I can do to improve and positively look forward to every element of my fitness regime.
So, after a few games of squash, I decided that I shouldn’t really be solely using this as a mechanism to fit. So this is where the swimming comes in. Initially I could only manage a couple of lengths, however, I have built up over the weeks to 20 lengths then 30 lengths and finally 40 lengths. I then jumped from 40 lengths to 64 lengths, since I was keen to be able to swim a mile. So I am now able to swim a mile of the pool in around 45 minutes. Not bad considering that I only started swimming on 2nd November and only swim once a week.
I also only started to concentrate on the ABS / CORE muscles or indeed Six Pack around the end of October. So not long really and I am already starting to develop the six pack.
As I posted on twitter the other day, I have lost over a stone in weight since I started out on my fitness / six pack journey – not bad for such a short space of time.
I put it down to making sure that I exercise when I plan, carry out cardiovascular work, ensure I have a rest day between six pack exercises. Eat sensibly, healthily and don’t pig out on snacks in an evening. Rather than reaching for the packet of crisps, do what I did only last night and eat raw carrott instead. I’m also eating a lot more fruit, drinking plenty water and have considerably cut down on my portion sizes.
So I wonder what my “Journey so far !” update will be in another 9 weeks time. What will I weigh, how will my six pack have developed and how many lengths will I be swimming ??!!
