Sunday, August 17, 2008

Get Fit (again)

It's that part of the year where I decide to get fit (again) 5 weeks to my holiday where I start to think, "Sh!t, I need to lose weight, I'm going on holiday soon".

I am quite lucky as the excess weight just drops off me as long I eat sensibly and exercise, I attempted the "AH nearly dying diet"* last year, although it worked and I lost almost 1 and a half stone, it's not recommended for 2 reasons;
  1. You might die
  2. You will probabyly put weight back on.
I have resorted to normal methods, cycling (Kind of) and going to the gym - this is what this post is about.

If you like listening to your iPod while running, and like fast music to help with the cardio, have a look at the Podrunner podcasts.

The Podrunner podcasts have a fixed BPM for use when cardio training
There are also Podrunner Intervals which have a varied BPM which I use for High Intensity workouts, I am currently doing the "First Day to 5K".

Try it.. (Or Don't)

The AH diet so called after "me mate" at work, who decided to go one better than me last year and have a brain tumor. - It's all about one-upmanship on our office...

EDIT: Apparently it wasn't a brain tumour - it was a "giant pituitary macroadenoma", (Isn't there a dance to that song). - I SAY : SAME THING

1 comment:

Tao said...

Wow!
Good timing on this post chap!

I have just started running again!
I am also doing the nowt-to-5k plan and have been looking for a podcast to help me on the way.

I have been out running with my iPhone on stopwatch, counting down 5 mins run, 5 mins walk, 5 mins run etc.

There are some iPhone apps I can buy which do the whole thing for me - so I might do that too. I wish I had a GPS iPhone though as there are apps that will map your runs too!

I went and got some nice Nike running shoes yesterday too.

Yay for running!