My Fitness Manifesto
Jan. 10th, 2007 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99As a lot of people do, I've made myself some fitness goals. I'm giving myself until the end of June to do this, which I know is a lot of time, but I live quite hectically, so I don't want to add any extra pressure on to me.
1) From a start weight of 69 kg I want to get down to 60, or just under 10 stone. I thought 60 was 10 stone, but it turns out that 10 stone = 63 kg. So I learnt something today too. Which should be doable.
2) Go to the gym regularly. Yes, even if it's raining. This could be more of a problem. The gym I go to, the university one because I'm a cheapskate, and really, £32 a month is way too much to be charging for gym membership dear gym companies, is the other end of a fifteen minute walk through a rather dark park. I don't mind this in the dry, in the wet it's another matter.
3) Endevour to reduce the amount of sugar I eat. Again, a difficult one. I'm a sugar freak.
4) Reduce the amount of alcohol consumed. I will only drink guest ales, Czech Bud if I ever find it and at house parties/bar crawls. While this may still sound like a lot, it means I'm cutting down on a lot of random lagers and vodkas. And rum. This is far easier for me than cutting down on sugar will be.
As you may have gathered from the haphazardness of point 1, the main goal of this is not actually weight loss, it's toning up, only in order for anyone to see said toning up, I'm going have to lose some bulk. Hopefully replacing fat with muscle, which is why I've not set myself to lose a lot, because, as you undoubtedly know so I feel a bit stupid for putting it, muscle weights more than fat. But it should burn things off faster so more muscle is pretty much win - win for me.
Now as to how it goes, that's a different question.
1) From a start weight of 69 kg I want to get down to 60, or just under 10 stone. I thought 60 was 10 stone, but it turns out that 10 stone = 63 kg. So I learnt something today too. Which should be doable.
2) Go to the gym regularly. Yes, even if it's raining. This could be more of a problem. The gym I go to, the university one because I'm a cheapskate, and really, £32 a month is way too much to be charging for gym membership dear gym companies, is the other end of a fifteen minute walk through a rather dark park. I don't mind this in the dry, in the wet it's another matter.
3) Endevour to reduce the amount of sugar I eat. Again, a difficult one. I'm a sugar freak.
4) Reduce the amount of alcohol consumed. I will only drink guest ales, Czech Bud if I ever find it and at house parties/bar crawls. While this may still sound like a lot, it means I'm cutting down on a lot of random lagers and vodkas. And rum. This is far easier for me than cutting down on sugar will be.
As you may have gathered from the haphazardness of point 1, the main goal of this is not actually weight loss, it's toning up, only in order for anyone to see said toning up, I'm going have to lose some bulk. Hopefully replacing fat with muscle, which is why I've not set myself to lose a lot, because, as you undoubtedly know so I feel a bit stupid for putting it, muscle weights more than fat. But it should burn things off faster so more muscle is pretty much win - win for me.
Now as to how it goes, that's a different question.
