Project Ripped

Wow, I am nearly at the half way stage of Phase 1. In a few days I will have hit that first milestone and I am looking forward to revealing the stats of my progress.
I managed to go for a cycle this morning on the road bike. The soreness had gone from my knees and [...]

Today is probably the latest I have slept in for a long time. Although the kids were milling around I didn’t get out of bed until 9:30 am. and it felt good. My muscles felt quite good following on from yesterday’s mountain bike ride and the only real casualty is my knees (and a few [...]

I don’t know if today was a landmark or a mistake. Following on from how surprised I was with my cycle on Sunday I thought I would try a bit of a cycling experiment. I thought I would try and ride the mountain bike route that I followed in last year’s End to End cycle [...]

Upon waking this morning I felt fine. My calves were a bit sore from the cycle yesterday so I thought I would do “the hair of the dog” and go for a cycle for my early morning exercise. I took the road bike along the Ballacrye and The Cronk route in 17:30 minutes. I was [...]

This morning when I woke up it was straight to the the weigh-in to find out what progress I have made. Progress is once again slow but steady and I didn’t do my 15 minutes of exercise as I had chosen to go out for a good cycle this morning instead.
This week my key statistics [...]

I didn’t get to bed  until late this morning. It was about 2:00 am. and I hadn’t been out anywhere, I was just  enjoying the feeling of not having to get up for work for the next month or so. So, I stayed up watching a bit of TV, reading ‘Raw Magic’ by Kate Magic [...]

Today was my last day at work before the Summer break. I now have 6 weeks until I teach in front of a class again and it is a break that is welcomed after a full school year. People always joke about teacher’s holidays but they don’t appreciate the stress that is caused by being [...]

I woke up with the alarm today at 6:30 am. I had managed to get to sleep by just after 10:00 pm. last night so got a decent amount of sleep. Upon waking I went for a ride on my road bike along the usual Ballacrye and The Cronk route and took 17:15 minutes. I [...]

I woke before the alarm again today but once it went off found it increasingly difficult to get out of bed. It must have been 20 minutes before I could muster the energy to get out from under the sheets. Walking to the  bathroom I could feel stiffness in my feet and lower legs. I [...]

I seemed to wake up just before the alarm at 6:30 am. this morning. It took me a while to get out of bed but I promptly went down and spent 15 minutes on the cross trainer at level 1 on the interval training. Although my legs felt less tired than they did 3 days [...]