So for the past at least 6 months I have been struggling with consistency and my morning routine has totally gone out the window and I am waking up just before I start work which is not good and it has meant that I have put most of the weight that I lost at the beginning of the year back on!
I have just moved house which has meant that my life us really a mess at the moment as I am going between 2 houses and I now have a 25 mile commute to work when I am in the office which is way more than the 2 mile walk/ride into the office that I had before!
I was planning to wake up early and do calesthetics but my shoulder is still not up for it even if I do wall push ups it hurts so I have decided that I will go back to my original plan of getting up at 5:00 and riding to work every day and then working in the office until lunch time and then riding home in my lunch hour and then working from home in the afternoons. On the way home I can go the long way home through Asham woods to get a bit more of a workout in as well 🙂
I will do this for a month and then see how my shoulder is doing and see if I can dial back to going into the office only stipulated 2 days as week again or not.
***** Update 24th Jan 2026 *****
I have been thinking about the Daily 50 this week BUT I will only do it Monday to Friday and then rest at the weekends! I have decided that as of Monday 26/01/2026 I will start doing the Daily 50 just with leg exercises while I rehab my shoulders! I am also going to aim to have averaged 12000 steps a day for 2026 which will need a bit of work as I have averaged 5108 steps a day for the first 24 days of the year so I have to put a concerted effort in over the next 11 months to get to my goal!
I plan to start with 50 of the following exercises:
50 x Squats
50 x Step-ups or Lunges
50 x Calf Raises
50 x Bulgarian Split Squats
For the first 2 weeks I will try and do 25 reps as soon as I wake up and then 25 in the afternoon/evening when I have time and see how that goes!
I am also doing 2 x 10 sets of resistance band power raises one set in the morning and one in the evening before bed and that has helped a lot already so I am hoping that once I have been doing that for a while I will be able to add the Press-ups and Planks back into the Daily 50 in a couple of months!
Sunday will be the start of week 5 of the year so I need to get moving on something as I have effectively wasted the first 4 weeks of the year! other than sorting my diet out I have not got any consistent exercise in at all!
I also need to make a concerted effort to ride the ebike into the office for the 4 days that I am in there as I haven’t done that at all this year and I need to start so Monday 26th January 2026 I plan to wake up and do the first set of 25 of the Daily 50 then get dressed and head to the office on the ebike and make a start at building that habit as well. I am thinking that on Friday I will still get up at 5:00 do the daily 50 then get dressed and go out on the ebike on the lanes around here for a bit before getting on with my day! That way I do basically the same thing every day and the only difference is the length of the ride really.
Daily Morning routine
5:00 Wake up and get out of bed
5:01 Do shoulder exercise
5:05 – 5:15 – Get ready
5:15 – 6:45 – Bike ride to Bath or around lanes here.
6:45 – 7:00 – Daily 50 then shower and get ready for work
7:00 – 7:10 – Ride to the office
7:10 – 12:00 – Work
Daily Lunch Routine when in the office
12:00 – 12:10 – Ride to flat
12:10 – 12:15 – Get ready to ride home
12:15 – 13:45 – Ride home
13:35 – 14:00 – Shower and get changed and stick riding gear to wash
14:00 – 16:30 – Work
Daily Lunch Routine on Friday
12:00 – 13:30 – Local loop
13:30 – 14:00 – Shower and get changed and stick riding gear to wash AND wash the bike
14:00 – 16:00 – Work
I am not going to ride the