Kickin'
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: Beatles White Album
Dave came to TKD with me today! I've been trying to get him to give it a go for ever but he always said he didn't fancy it. I think he quite enjoyed himself, despite falling on his arse in mid kick :-) Everyone does that at least once ....

We had a fun class today. Poor old insane Glen volunteered to put on a padded body armour type thing and let us all kick him for about half an hour. He looked a bit battered at the end :-) It was really great though. Good practice for getting power and accuracy into your kicks. When we started doing side kicks I was barely touching him and by the end my kicks were actually making him stagger back a bit. How cool!

Walked the dogs early again today. We have to at the moment or the poor little guys would just melt in the sun. Even early-ish it was still hot so they got a shower under the garden hose when we got back. Here's a picture of my babies in the garden:

That's Neo on the left and Eddie on the right.

Yawn
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: Lily Allen
Sleeeeeeeeepy tonight. It's too hot to do anything.

Went to the gym this morning. People keep saying "how can you go to the gym in this heat" - they don't get it - it's the best place to be, lovely and cold and air conditioned! Did 45 mins upper body weights, then Combat. Dave ran 9k on the treadmill!! I'm well impressed. He is so much better at running than me. I can do an hour of Combat or TKD happily, but put me on a treadmill for 20 minutes at a snails pace and I turn purple and lose the ability to breathe. It's very odd.

Today is a year's anniversary since my granny died :-( She was great and I miss her. Marked the occasion by buying a frame for a really nice photo of her and christening our new bookcase with it.

Eng-er-land started off their World Cup campaign with a pretty unconvincing win. Thank god I'm Welsh, Dave is Scottish and we don't really care!

Lazy day
Mood:  cheeky
Now Playing: Bon Jovi, annoyingly
Well I survived the double whammy cardio workout. Actually I was pleasantly surprised. Since they cancelled my Monday morning combat class I have only been doing it on a Saturday morning, straight after body pump. Doing it "fresh" I really didn't find it that hard. Which goes to show how much my fitness has improved, as I used to find Combat class a killer. Going on to TKD it was hard to get going again, but once I was in the swing of it I really enjoyed it, as I always do. So I may attempt to repeat the insanity next week. We shall see :-)

Tonight Bon Jovi are playing at St Marys Stadium. It's like 4 miles away from us and you can totally hear it from our house. Must be bursting some eardrums for the people there. It's just at that annoying level where you can hear it enough to notice but can't make out what song they're actually playing.

Had a nice lazy Friday today. A meeting and then lunch with my favorite client. We went to a lovely country pub and had lunch sitting in the garden by the river, surrounded by ducks begging for scraps. It's a hard life being self employed :-) Honestly, I don't think I could handle going back to working for someone else now. I've got used to being able to take 4 hour lunches when I feel like it.

No exercise today, after last night's madness. Tomorrow morning it's off to the gym for upper body weights then Combat. I've decided to give pump a miss for a while and stick to the gym weights instead. Then its home for a leisurely lunch with the papers and settling down to watch the England match after. Mmmmmmm I love Saturdays.

Insanity
Mood:  energetic
It's just too hot at the moment to do any work. I've done sod all all week and today I decided enough was enough. Managed to get my head down and get some sets of accounts finished off, but it was a real struggle.

The dogs are bonkers. Especially Eddie. He sits in the sun until you could fry an egg on his head and he is panting like mad. It never seems to occur to him to move into the shade. We keep pointing out to them that sitting in the sun in thick black furry coats is not wise, but they ain't listening to us.

In a moment of madness I decided today I would do a Body Combat class before TKD. I dunno what I was thinking. BC on its own exhausts me. TKD on its own nearly kills me. What made me think it was sensible to put them together? Anyway if this blog never gets updated again, you'll know I collapsed in a small heap and didn't make it back.

Goals
Mood:  lazy
So, I've decided this is mainly going to be a fitness blog. I think it will help motivate me if I put stuff down on here and can go back and see how I've progressed.

In which case I'd better start off with where I am now:

Weight 10 st 1 (height 5'4")
Pretty fit
Yellow belt Tae Kwon Do (and seriously addicted to it)
Been weight training seriously for about 5 weeks and I'm starting to see ARM DENTS!! I'm very excited about them :-)

Here are my aims for the next 6 weeks:

Lose 6 lbs
Weight train 3 times per week
Serious cardio 3 times per week, plus other lighter cardio.
Learn the patterns for green tag TKD.
Develop my upper body strength. Hopefully this combined with some loss of body fat will lead to even better arm dents!

Here's my training schedule:

Monday - 40 mins upper body weights, 20 mins interval run.
Tuesday - 40 mins lower body weights, OR longer slower run.
Wednesday - 40 mins upper body weights, plus either lower body or run depending on what I did yesterday.
Thursday - 90 mins Tae Kwon Do training - high intensity, lots of punching and kicking pads.
Friday - rest.
Saturday - 50 mins Body Pump, 45 mins Body Combat
Sunday - 90 mins Tae Kwon Do training - more technical and less knackering than Thursday.

I've been sticking to that more or less for the last couple of weeks, so want to carry on with that and up the intensity and weights a bit.

Today I did a full upper and lower body weight workout. It's a new workout my trainer set for me yesterday. Previously I'd been doing BFL style weights - 12 reps at one weight, up the weight for 10 reps, up again for 8. He told me to make a change from this and swap it round. So now I have to start off on my highest weight for 12 reps, drop it for a second set, and drop again. It was nice to have a change but just about every muscle in my body HURTS!!!

Where to start....
Mood:  happy
There's something quite daunting about an entirely blank blog. Suddenly I'm filled with horror at the thought of having to fill it. Also I'm wondering why on earth anyone would want to read about my not-very-exciting life. Still I guess I'll waffle on when I feel like it and see how it goes.

I just spell checked this entry and it wanted to change blog to bog. Now wouldn't you think that a blog spell checker just might include the word blog in its dictionary? LOL.

Blogging
Mood:  not sure
Hmmmmm well I seem to have just created a blog for no apparent reason. Clearly I need to get on and do some work.

:-)