This week has been a bit up and down again both with sticking with the carnivore diet and also getting up and working out as well! Its another week that I haven’t actually been to the gym again which is not great! I have also had a couple days where I ate a lot of carbs so not great either and it has caused my weight to fluctuate a lot this week!
My lowest weight this week was Monday and Tuesday when I was 102.6 kgs and my highest weight was on Friday when I was back up a kg to 103.7 kgs! I am now back down to 103.0 kgs so I dropped 1/2 a kg again but I’m still 0.4 kgs heavier than I was on Monday and Tuesday!
BMX wise I have had a few really good sessions this week. Saturday and Sunday I went to Bristol with my son and he really got into riding and his manuals really started to click so he is really into his riding again which is cool! We took Monday off and then rode again Tuesday lunch time then I dropped my son off at his mums house. Wednesday I rode at Bath track at lunch time and worked on my 3rd straights and then I met friends at the track again in the evening and we had a really good session where we gently pushed each other to progress which was amazing! By the end of the session I had tap manualled both jumps on the 1st straight as well as cleanly manualled the 1st on 3rd and then manualled off of the camel and tap manualled the 3rd on 3rd which was a massive improvement from how I had been riding!
Thursday the weather was horrible but I still went to the track and did a bit of riding but wasn’t really feeling it so did more pump laps than anything else and then in the evening I went to gates and did about 5 gates before calling it a day! The longer cranks really helped with my gates and I was closer to the quick guys that ever so that was a good sign! I also stopped before I hurt my knee too so that’s a bonus 🙂
I then took Friday and Saturday as rest days as I was feeling a bit flat and had a bit of asthma so I think i may have been a bit sick but I’m feeling really good again today so I will definitely get out on the bike today!
While I was resting I was contemplating my progress so far and I really need to sack up and start jumping things on the track or I will end up starting the season next year fitter and faster but only slightly better at manualling than I was last year! I have decided that this month I will ride the jump bike at lunch times instead of the BMX and really focus on re-learning how to jump! I really want to get to a point where I can jump the 3rd jump on the 3rd straight as most of my friends are now able to do that and also I think that it may get re-modelled when we get the 3rd berm one so I want to tick it off before then! I am setting myself the goals of jumping the 3rd on 3rd, on and off the camel on 3rd (at different times) and jumping the 1st and second on the 1st straight by the end of September so that gives me the rest of August and the whole of September to reach that goal so that should be plenty of time to get it done if I put the effort in!
Basically for the next month and a half I am going to spend all of my lunch hours at the track working on my jumping on the jump bike. If last week showed me anything it was that working at skills for an hour a day brought massive results by the end of the week so sustained effort for a month and a half should get me where I need to be!
Once I am able to jump properly I can then start doing full laps to practice all of the skills that I have learnt on every lap and keep improving my skills from there whilst building up my fitness levels for the start of the new season!
From September onwards I will start to add in sprints sessions as well to work on getting faster on the bike too!
My other main training focus will be to actually start going to the gym in the mornings before work so I have decided that I will got every morning from 5:30-6:30 then start work at 6:30 am in the office as the gym is right next to the office anyway! I will then ride home about 7:30 am and work the rest of the day from home!
Gym wise I am going to do the following:
Wednesday and Friday = Legs
Tuesday and Thursday = Upper Body
As Monday is my day in the office AND my on call day so I have decided that I will take Monday as my rest day so I will do the gym Tuesday-Friday every morning and go to the track Tues-Friday lunch times and work on my jumping! On Mondays I will try and get as much walking in as possible to get some active rest in and to try and stay as active as possible!
I am going to be riding the bike to and from the gym every day so will get 30 minutes as day cardio in anyway so it should be enough along with the extra exercise at lunch times to not need to do any additional cardio at all for now! I may need to change that up later but I will see how it goes!
I will try this for the same amount of time that I am practising jumping and see what happens 🙂 I am hoping that at a minimum my knees and ankles will get stronger and hurt less and I will drop weight and body fat significantly!
So my week will look like this from now on:
Monday = Rest day riding bike to work and back and walking as much as possible.
Tuesday and Thursday= Riding to the office, Upper body session at the gym then riding home and jumping at the track at lunch time.
Wednesday and Friday = Riding to the office, leg session at the gym then riding home and jumping at the track at lunch time.
Saturday and Sunday = Riding at the track with my Son working on skills!
My main focus for this time is to remain consistent with training every day and try and get to bed my 9pm other than Mondays when I have to work until 10pm! At this point I really just need to focus on consistency to build getting up and going to the gym and riding at the track as habits over the next month and a half and then once the habits are formed then I can build on that over the winter!
For now my weight sessions will be machine based then hopefully in October I can start to do free weights once my shoulder is stronger and more flexible!
I also want to add a power/ plyometrics day in instead of one of my upper body days to start building power and working on getting more athletic again!
I am also thinking of adding evening stretching sessions to my routine in October to improve my flexibility going forwards and improve my power production from being more flexible and also reduce injuries too!
I am going to add the gym and track sessions to my tick off board so that I can start using that again as it is a really good motivator for me to stay consistent!
My goal for today is to get my ebike up and running as best as I can so that once we get the containers at the track I can leave my jump bike, helmet and body armour in the container and ride the ebike to the track and back instead of using the car every day as I am doing at the moment! I think that the ebike will need a new belt but I will make do for now as the new belt is about £50 that I don’t have at the moment!
I am still waiting for the second mortgage to go through but once it does I will see about getting the ebike fixed properly! I will also get my Standard OS20 built up and running and also go and get Gary from Curtis to build me a 24″ Cruiser that will work with my RockShock Pike forks so that I can train on the the bike with bouncy forks and just do gates and race on the stiff forked bike! I may also use the bouncy Cruiser to race 4x next year as a lot of my friends are going to be racing 4x next year 🙂 I figure racing a 24″ will mean that I feel more comfortable than having to adjust to a 26″ bike but we will see!
For now my focus is all on getting ready for the up coming BMX national season more than anything!
This afternoon I have added the gym, Track Skills and Free ride to my task check off board so I can start ticking them off when done!
I really like the new Permanent marker font so I will re-do the board tomorrow night to re-do all the daily tasks to the new font. I am also going to remove the work related tasks as I am not doing them but I want to re-start doing my 30 minutes cleaning after work each day again to get on top of keeping the flat tidy again!
I also want to get add my goals of getting to 80kgs, consistently going to the gym, walking 10000 steps a day and being able to manual and jump every jump on the bath track by the end of the year then I can mark off any goals that I reach as I reach them!
I may but another white board for my goals and put them on a different wall so that I always look at them but I will think about that further before implementing it! I may break each goal down into smaller goals to check off to reach each big goal so for example for the weight goal of getting to 80kgs I can have a sub goal for each 10kgs that I lose on the way to 80kgs to make it easier to achieve and to keep me motivated! For example my first goal will be to get to 100kgs which is only 3 kgs away so its much easier to focus on than getting to 80kgs which is 23 kgs away!
Also for the skills I can have a tick off for each jump that I manual and jump so that I can tick them off as I go along so jumping the table top will be the first jump to jump as its the easiest then 3rd on 3rd etc until I have jumped all the jumps on the track and can tick off the whole goal once I have jumped all jumps etc! I don’t think that I will be able to jump the camel or the triple on the 4th straight by the end of the year but I should be able to jump all the doubles on the track I think!