This morning I woke up at 3:30 and I couldn’t get to sleep afterwards so I chilled on my phone until 5 then got up, did my weigh-in and I am down to 106.7kgs today so I dropped 0.3kgs just Rucking and walking on the treadmill so pretty good start 🙂
I then got showered and dress and put the weight vest on and walked into the office, I did some work until just after 7am then basically swam home as it was very wet 🙁 I then got changed out of my wet clothes got a drink and went back to work!
I was on 8620 steps this morning as I went a different way home to avoid being splashed by cars going through the numerous puddles that I had been splashed with on the way in!
I am definitely feeling it more in the legs today than I was yesterday but my abs are still hurting so I guess they are still getting worked hard too! I was super surprised that my legs arms and lower abs are looking way more toned this morning than they were before I started Rucking yesterday so thats a good sign that it is working! Hopefully after a couple of weeks my fat gut will start to melt away too 🙂
After I finished work I made some chicken breasts in the air fryer and then made a chicken, salad and Pizza Express Caesar salad wrap and then had a banana for pudding before doing a cleaning half hour of washing up and organising the lounge a bit. I then read some more of Atomic Habits and learnt a lot more about building habit chains basically where one habit triggers another.
So my morning habit is now:
- At 5am wake up with alarm on fitbit (Phone now left in Lounge to charge instead of left in room)
- Get up
- Make bed
- Take clothes into the bathroom (put out the night before to save time in the morning
- Weigh myself (I have decided that weighing every day is a good idea to keep the habit regular)
- Have a shower
- Dry myself
- Hang the towel to dry
- Get dressed
- Clean teeth and use mouth wash
- Leave bathroom and do 20 x Press ups, 20 x Squats and as many pull ups as I can.
- Get weight vest on
- Put coat on and grab headphones
- Put shoes on
- Walk to the office
- At 6am ish arrive at the office and work until 7am is (dependent on what needs doing).
- At 7am (ish) walk home.
- At 7:30 get home, power on PC and start work.
At lunch time my habits are now:
- At 12:00 lock PC
- Get dressed into cycling clothes
- Get bike from Garage
- Ride for 1 hour or so
- At about 13:15 get changed out of cycling clothes
- At 13:30 go to the Kitchen and make food
- Eat food
- At 14:00 start work again
My Evening routine will be:
- At 16:00 Stop work and lock PC
- Go to the kitchen and make food and eat food.
- At 16:30 do my cleaning half hour
- At 17:00 Do my reading/ blogging
- At 19:30 Do weights (I have decided to to split body weights 4 evenings a week Tue-Friday)
- At 20:30 is Stop doing weights and get clothes ready for next day
- Put phone in the lounge to charge
- Go back to the bedroom and read until 21:00
- 21:00 go to sleep.
At weekends I plan to do the same morning routine except I will just walk for an hour and half until about 7:30 then come home and go on the computer and do some blogging then the rest of the day I can play it by ear until 20:30 when the phone will go on charge in the lounge and I will go to bed, get my clothes ready for the morning and then read until 21:00 when I will sleep again ready for the next day! Also at the weekend I will tray and fit in either BMX or a road bike ride both days too!
I am hoping that by structuring my days to be the same every day it will make the habits more automatic than before and make it easier to keep doing everything! I have noticed that the Rucking in the morning has meant that I am at 10000 steps by early afternoon so I am feeling a bit lazy when not doing any exercise in the evenings but it is just this week where I am recovering from whatever I had last weekend so next week I will start back on the mtb rides at lunch time again so will be knackered by the afternoon again 🙂
I finished the day on 11393 Steps for the day.