Project Ripped

This morning I looked out of the window and it was pouring with rain. I don’t know where our Summer has gone to but I know that I haven’t had to water our vegetable patch since May! I had planned a long ride but thought I would hold off and see what the weather did. [...]

One of the greatest things I have noticed about the past 7 weeks in the improvement in my immune system. I used to catch every sore throat going and each one would last about a week. The sore throat I had yesterday has gone today – it lasted only one day. First thing this morning [...]

This week is a good example of why weighing ourselves isn’t always a reliable measure of progress. When I hit the scales this morning I was really disappointed as I weighed the same as I did last week. However, when I started taking body fat pinches, measuring body parts, etc. it was clear that my [...]

One of the things I told myself before I started this project was to listen to my body. Today it didn’t want to exercise. I had planned to do two things today but by the time I got around doing the exercise my body gave me signs that it wasn’t ready to do anything. So [...]

For some reason I was extremely stiff when I woke up today. I wasn’t sore in any way but just felt ‘rigid’ in the legs, hips and back. I spent 10 to 15 minutes warming up my body and stretching my muscles and after that I felt ready to take on the day. After having [...]

I was pleasantly surprised not to have DOMS in my legs this morning after yesterday’s run. All of the warming up, stretching and the hot bath must have had a positive effect. I would be lying to say I didn’t feel anything. There is a little soreness in my thighs and shin muscles but nothing [...]

Upon waking my legs were still a bit sore from the run a couple of days ago but I thought I should proceed with the day regardless. I spent 15 minutes on the cross trainer on the interval programme at level 3. My legs were a bit tired for the first few minutes but I [...]

I can’t believe it (well I can but I don’t want to). I had an awful nights sleep last night due to the DOMS pain in my legs. When I woke up today the pain was still there. Yes, I have second day DOMS from the run. I decided to go for a cycle first [...]

Ouch! First, an update on the run last night. I have never felt so alive and close to death at the same time. I picked a mile along an old disused railway track in the countryside to run down. I figured I could run a mile in one direction and the same back again. As planned I [...]

After my last week containing a couple of tough bicycle rides I thought how disappointed I would be if I didn’t lose any weight this week. After the weigh-in this morning I am pleased to say that I am absolutely delighted with my progress and had nothing to worry about.   This week my key [...]