So the last 3 or 4 months have been a bit shit fitness wise as I was converting my parents garage to a bedroom and also nursing a torn rotator cuff on my good shoulder as well 🙁 For more than a month I haven’t really been any kind of bike and have been back on the fizzy drinks again 🙁
This meant that I rapidly put on weight again and by Boxing day I was at 109 kgs again so that meant that I was 0.6 kgs over my start weight of 108.4 kgs! To rectify this and get off of fizzy again I started a fast at 22:00 on the 26th and I carried the fast on until about 11:30 on the 30th December 2025:
So I managed my longest fast to date and it was pretty easy to be honest after the second night where I had massive withdrawal headaches from the caffeine and sugar from all the fizzy drinks that I have been drinking! After they subsided it was plain sailing although I spent a lot of time sleeping so that makes it easier 🙂
The fast resulted in 3.5 kgs of weight loss so I am back down to 105.5 kgs so well above my lightest weight this year of 102 kgs but still a lot better than 109 kgs!!!
My asthma is now back in check and I can again breathe through my nose so I have proven that my asthma and breathing issues are due to food allergies!
Now I am eating again I have been trying to eat no processed food and only food that comes from raw ingredients to see if that can keep my weight loss going into next year!
I have decided that my goals this year will be focused on clean eating and drinking only water to see how far I can get my weight down as I have focused on exercise for the past I don’t know how long and my weight has dropped a lot when I am training then jumped up again when I get hurt or sick so I have been yo-yoing between 108 kgs and 102-103 kgs all the time. I am hoping by focusing mainly on clean eating and no fizzy drinks I can kill that off.
I also want to commit to doing 2 weight sessions a week in 2026 as my shoulders are both knackered now and the only way to get them healthy again is to lift weights! I have all my dumbells at my parents house so I can start doing a shoulder sequence while I am finishing off my garage bedroom and then when I move in I can set up a gym so I can do squats and Bulgarian squats for my legs! I may buy a hex bar as well so that I don’t re-break any of my semi healed ribs when lifting heavy as the last time I did squats I re-broke a coupe if ribs 🙁
I also want to start playing basketball for fun on Thursday nights again which will help with the weight loss if not with the not getting injured as I am way too heavy to play at the moment! But it will definitely make the weight drop 🙂
In 2026 I have to be in the office 2 days a week anyway so I will at least get 2 x 50 mile ebike rides in when I ride to the office and back those days and I think I will start doing a woods loop when I am at home at lunch time to get more cardio in and get away from work as well!
At the moment I am planning to go into the office on Monday and Wednesdays but that will probably change as work are still deciding which days people are coming in! I will most likely ignore them and come in when I want but I will probably have to do as I am told for a couple of weeks at least!
I plan to be at home on Tuesday and Thursdays so that I can go for a ride on the ebike then get a workout in before starting work again in my lunch hour as I get a 2 hour lunch as I start early and I am not allowed to finish before 4 pm but the 2 hour lunch is great if I do not waste it working or sleeping 🙁 At least this way I will be able to not waste it on Tuesday and Thursdays ….
So my 2026 goals are:
- Eat no processed foods – Only fresh ingredients food no packet foods!
- Drink no fizzy drinks at all
- Do weights every Tuesday and Thursday
- Ride to the office and back at least 2 days a week
- Get back into a morning routine
As well as the goals that I have spoken about I also want to get back into the habit of getting up at 5 am and doing a morning routine so that I don’t waste the morning and just get up in time to work like I have been for at least the past 6 months again 🙁 I feel so much more productive when I am up early and doing my morning routine so I need to start doing it again!
My revised morning routine on non office days will be:
5:00 – Wake up and make the bed
5:00 – 5:30 – Bathroom and then make and eat breakfast
5:30 – 5:45 – Backwards treadmill
5:45 – 6:00 – Shower and get dressed
6:00 – 6:30 – Study
6:30 – 12:00 – Work
On Office days the routine will change as I will have to get up at 5:00 and then literally get dressed into my cycling clothes and then ride to Bath. I guess as long as I wake up at the same time it will feel like the routine anyway!
I am trying to get into the habit of having the morning time and lunch time as my time so on the 2 days that I am in the office I will stop work at 12:00 eat and then go for a walk for an hour as I start work 30 minutes later when I am in the office too so I only have 1.5 hrs lunch instead of 2 hours but its enough time to eat and get a decent walk in as well!
The routine will change once it starts getting lighter again as I can take the dog for a walk in the mornings after doing the backwards walking as it will be light by then!
I haven’t fully decided but I may change up my morning routine and not eat and do weight training every morning instead then I could start work later and have the same lunch hour every day.
This might be more beneficial as I can add Saturday morning as a weights day too and split the training into upper and lower body! Then Sunday can be my day at the track/ pump track. I can then use the 2 days riding into the office as rest days as they are way more light than the rest of the days!
Realistically I am not going to be ready to race until the middle of the season at the earliest so I will not focus on BMX specific training for now.