Tag: fitness

• January 8, 2022

  2021 Workouts

  I exer­cised 142 times in 2021. When I took a count in July, I antic­i­pat­ed miss­ing about 10 work­outs through the remain­der of the year, but I actu­al­ly missed just one. At 3x per week, I was lucky enough to work out about 47 of 52 weeks. That makes 2021 yet anoth­er good year in terms of phys­i­cal activ­i­ty and… Read more

• October 7, 2019

  Weekly 5K runs

  Day­light sav­ing time start­ed in New Zealand last Sun­day (29/September) which means, I can no longer wait to run. It is now time to lace-up and run a 5K every week­end. And that’s what I did last Sat­ur­day: I ran a 5K with a bit of nudg­ing from my eight-year-old who also want­ed to run and joined me. Like every year,… Read more

• December 27, 2018

  Old habits. Not new resolutions.

  Just a thought that popped up while work­ing out the upper body in the last hour. But first some con­text. Last week and this week, I am find­ing it very hard to exer­cise. It is after all hol­i­day sea­son, and I have had excel­lent exer­cise com­pli­ance so far this year. So why not take a break for Christ­mas and… Read more

• November 9, 2017

  The anti­dote to eight large slices of piz­za I had ear­li­er this week: five rounds of 👇 Then I topped it up with a bonus set of 70 kg dead­lifts. Read more

• October 18, 2017

  First 5k of 2017

  I final­ly ran the first 5k of this sea­son! I intend to run a 5k every week­end for rest of the spring and sum­mer. I ran about twen­ty-five 5ks in 2015. But I did not run much in 2016. This year I try to do bet­ter again. My run­ning goal is mod­est: I just try to run a 5k each week­end. I start… Read more

• May 5, 2016

  First four months of 2016

  Since the start of this year, I exer­cised 50 hours and ran 15 5ks. Most impor­tant­ly, I achieved one of the two res­o­lu­tions for this year. I suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed Chai­tanya 3.0 project. More details lat­er. I am not doing very well on the sec­ond res­o­lu­tion: get­ting the per­fect abs. I am fail­ing to eat excep­tion­al­ly well. I ate more junk,… Read more

• October 21, 2015

  Three milestones and two goals

  It is rain­ing mile­stones this week. I hit 100 day streak in med­i­ta­tion. I start­ed med­i­tat­ing this Jan­u­ary but failed rather quick­ly. I say with expe­ri­ence that try­ing to start med­i­ta­tion with twen­ty-minute ses­sions is a sure shot way to stum­ble. So I start­ed again in May with Calm app. I start­ed with their begin­ner pro­gram and even­tu­al­ly real­ized ten… Read more

• October 15, 2015

  Exercise Milestone

  I fin­ished exer­cis­ing this after­noon and checked in to Coach.me to find this inter­est­ing mile­stone. It is indeed 211th check-in as I only start­ed count­ing after the first eleven. 110 of those were in 2014. The rest 101 are in this year. This cheered up my oth­er­wise regret­ful after­noon. I ate well up until lunch and then screwed… Read more

• September 28, 2015

  Some inspiration for exercising

  One of my awe­some exer­cise mates shared this moti­va­tion­al video. It is not that peo­ple who don’t exer­cise lack moti­va­tion or don’t know the facts men­tioned in this video. And I don’t think any­one instant­ly starts work­ing out sole­ly look­ing at this video. Great watch, nev­er­the­less. I loved it. Read more

• August 24, 2015

  Push ups

  One of the skills I hoped to devel­op this year is to learn how to do push ups. I total­ly sucked at push ups last year despite exer­cis­ing 110 hours. I just could­n’t do even a sin­gle push up on my toes. So rather than get­ting frus­trat­ed and angry at myself and jeal­ous at oth­ers who can do,… Read more