Tag: Heath & Fitness

I don’t need to learn anything new.

I don’t need to learn anything new. This isn’t a boast or pride, its actually an admission of failure!

I don’t need to learn what the four key areas of personal fitness are: sustenance / diet, strength, stamina, and suppleness / mobility, because I already know!

I don’t need to learn that a bad diet produces body fat, and that caloric deficit (that is consuming less calories than you burn) reduces it. I also know that junk food and over eating pile calories on so quickly you’ll never be able to train them off.

I don’t need to learn that strength is built and maintained by resistance training. I know that you need to lift weights and / or do calisthenic exercises. I even know that weight training improves bone strength as you get older.

I don’t need to learn that stretching, yoga and pilates are key to suppleness and mobility. Along with this I know which apps to follow and YouTube channels to watch.

I don’t need to learn that stamina comes from cardiovascular exercise. I know this is: walking, hiking, swimming, jogging, biking, BJJ, rowing or even disco dancing (the last one isn’t for me – just ain’t got the moves.)

I’m not saying that I know everything, because I don’t! Nor do I know all the fine details, again because I don’t. But it does mean that I have absolutely no excuse not to be doing!

The buzz of doing something new is amazing. But the grind of daily self-discipline isn’t. You’ll not win a prize for eating less at the BBQ, no one cares if you get your reps done, no one will notice if you walk for half an hour. It’s easier to do whatever you want to do than be accountable.

My take away is: “Do what you know with what you have.“

Introducing Based Fitness

I’m a pretty average and ordinary bloke.

My fitness levels (for a 48 year old) are reasonably good.

My gut is a bit bigger than I’d like (100.5 cm) but a couple of inches would make the world of difference.

My weight since (last November 2021) has wandered into the very bottom of over weight. Losing a stone, 14 pounds or 6ish Kg, would have me well inside healthy weight.

I’m not on a ‘journey’ nor do I have some mad objective. I just want to be a bit leaner and to improve my stamina, strength and suppleness. Something lots of people want to do.

At the start of the lock down I started tweeting my training each day. It was done for nothing more than personal accountability, and it actually worked!

This blog is about: accountability, self-motivation, and consistency. And personally, for some strange reason, I take much more seriously whatever I happen to write about!

So there we are, I have started, commenced and begun!

PS the name! That wasn’t the name I was going to use. The WordPress algorithm suggested it and it sounded much better than mine, so I thought, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth!