FAT Jack gets FIT

Round the Loch Run. Aldie Burn Woods

2008-09-18T05:12:00.000-07:00

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we're underway...

2008-09-18T03:24:00.000-07:00

Well I've started the process. Last week I went onto the Concept 2 website and used their great tools to create a rowing programme for the next sixteen weeks. The process begins with a test 2000m time, it then gives you a training programme based on the time and your resting heart rate. My test time was 9mins 02 secs and the machine spewed out a training programme that I'm going to endeavour to stick to. I want to try to get my test time down below 8minutes by Christmas.

Last week the schedule was:

TUESDAY 2x10mins 2183m+2269m
WEDNESDAY 1x18mins 3848m
THURSDAY 13mins+14mins 2276m+2980m
FRIDAY 1x20mins 4532m

TOTAL 18558m

NOT BAD, 18.5km in a week.

This week so far I've done:

TUESDAY 2x11mins 2277m+2408m
WEDNESDAY 2x14mins 3068m+2946m

As well as the rowing I've also been running with Tain Runners each Monday night. I'm trying to get the routes we run put up on here if I can. If I manage to work it out they'll appear somewhere nearby!

The great thing about running with others is the motivation you get to keep going! I've never tried running before as I just stop after a couple of hundred meters and treat the rest of the way as a pleasant nature ramble. When you're running with a group it really motivates you to keep going. If you're thinking of getting a bit fitter, I'd really recommend looking into local groups in your area.

On Saturday we went to Golspie to take part in a little run over there. My Wife's a very good runner indeed and she was taking part in the 10k race. There was a 3km fun-run at the same time so I took my 6 year old daughter and my 2 year old son and we entered it together. We had a brilliant time although I did end up carrying my litle boy on my back for a lot of the way!

Anyway, that's it for now. I'm really starting to enjoy all this exercise and I'll be back in a week or so to catch up with the latest.

Welcome to my fatness

2008-09-11T03:39:00.000-07:00

11/09/08
14st 3lbs
waist 36 inches

Welcome, to FAT Jack gets FIT. It's a simple concept really...my name is Jack, I'm pretty fat and I've decided it's about time I got fit.

At present I look like Homer Simpson; by the end of next year I'm going to look like a Men's Health cover model!

So I'll be ditching the ice-cream, the excessive amounts of booze and the delicious bread products and aiming to live healthy and die old!

I've recently joined a running club and I've got a rowing machine in my office!

My aim is to enter all kinds of races over the next year in running, mountain biking and rowing to set myself challenges and see how I do.

I guess the blog is here to help me to stick to my new lifestyle, I plan to publish the results, along with exactly how much exercise I'm doing and what I've been eating.

We'll see whether I get fitter or fatter as the months go by!