April fools day ...

So I just got back from climbing Kinabaloo, although we failed to make the actual summit as the weather conditions meant they closed the peak for our attempt time slot, however it was a massive workout like doing 1,000 sets of lunges on the way up, my legs are now super sore so not looking forward to lunging again ... I was worried my knees would give me trouble after being in some pain from the skipping but they seemed to hold out pretty well and although the descent gave them a good bashing there doesn't seem to be any damage done .

Missed some skipping but think we did more than enough cardio, managed to keep fairly well to the diet principles although the timings of everything and snacking all went out the window but everything eaten was pretty much pcp as I took a bumper load of fruit and carrots and tomatoes on the trip this time.

So now I have 2 weeks of uninterrupted time in Singapore so I should be able to stick 100% to the game plan before we go on Holiday to Europe for Easter,   

day 27 - back home ...

So my last day 26 post was actually day 25 , got a little bit mixed up , now I am back home in Singapore, the short trip down to Sydney was a bit of a spanner in the pcp works, I give myself 6/10 for the diet and 5/10 for the exercise, I managed to get one of the skipping/.exercise done each day and one day got both done but I dropped 2 skipping days and 1 exercise days in total, which I can make up on tomorrows exercise day off ... Staying in Hotels is not the best for PCP, the choices are all bad and when faced with bad options its easy to do something naughty, the fruit snacks also are hard to get in if there is no obvious fruit snacks to hand.

Unfortunately I am off to Malaysia to climb Kinabalu tomorrow so there will be more hotel garbage and dropped workouts, although it is a fairly decent cardio workout so I dont think it will be all bad, I just hope all the pounding my knees have taken don't give me problems on the climb ...

I took my stats a day early today and despite all the bad behavior I still managed to trim .5kgs weight and .5% fat over the last 6 days and gain .3% muscle so not a complete disaster. 

day 26

I'm down in Sydney now so the traveling has caused me to miss 1 skipping session and 1 exercise session so far, but finding the workout is fairly easy to do from a hotel room and the fact that it can be done with minimal equipment means its harder to find the excuse not to do it !

The diet is harder to follow as there is less pcp friendly options around as well as more temptation, but broadly sticking to the scheme although I ate some garbage on the plane and was forced at gunpoint to have a glass of wine last night ....

Todays 1100 skips are out of the way and I'm looking forwards to some of these new exercises we are getting this week ..

day 21 - end of week 3

Polished off the skipping at lunchtime , skipping outside in Singapore at noon is like a workout and a sauna rolled into one,  there is more skipping and less resting going on now which is an improvement.


Took the stats for the end of week 3 after the skipping, small improvements, I guess if I manage to get the same each week then the result over 13 weeks will be good

Weight -1.1 kgs , fat -1.2% , age -1 year, visceral -.5% , muscle +.5%,  so looks like chopped of some fat and turned 500g of fat into muscle this week.

 One other improvement I notice is I used to pop alka seltzer very frequently, getting quite horrible indigestion that meant I could not sleep well after particularly indulgent meals, In the past 3 weeks no form of indigestion at all.

One confession is that I did succumb and have a glass of wine at a kids party last weekend, other than that I have been well behaved.  

day 19 - Pull up lesson

So today I tried again to do a pull up and yet again it was a dismal failure.

My 15 month old daughter Heidi was disgusted and she marched me down to the kids gym to give me a lesson ..

Here she is grinding out a couple of sets ...

day 18 - turning the corner

So I took up Patricks offer yesterday of a day off skipping and ran on the treadmill instead, my knees feel better today, then for today's skipping I found a nice decked spot to do the skipping, which seemed to go fairly smoothly so I did a few extra to make up for yesterdays switcheroo. The decking was next to the condos jaccuzi so what better after than a nice cool down dip ...

Splitting the skipping up from the exercise seems to work too, now I am skipping at lunch then exercising at night and then taking my daughter for a shower when I am done with it, which works for us both

I think I am finally gaining a little muscle although yesterdays dismal failure to complete a single pull up does not really bear that out too well, I wasn't even close to getting half way up ! I guess we have 72 days left to accomplish one still.....

day 16 - still plodding on

Still hanging in there, skipping still pounding the knees away like crazy ...

Really miss all the good food and wine, I guess the craving goes away at some point but I am finding the food all a bit bland and boring, I guess a lot of the flavor in food is in the fat, especially meat. I don't miss the sweet stuff at all though, just fruit is fine. The only thing so far I am convinced I will stick to going forwards is a boiled egg with soldiers in the morning (free range organic boiled for 4 mins 15 seconds is perfect ) although post pcp I am sure there will be butter and salt in the equation ...

Weight still exactly the same, which is pretty amazing given I am drinking litres of water a day now which I guess is a function of less salt and I would have thought the water alone would have created some variance.