Day One

I’ve not exactly been prolific with updating this recently have I? Poor show, I know, but I’m looking to rectify that. No, not in a ‘I’ve got a new years resolution to update my blog more’ sense, but certainly over the next 4 or 5 months there should be a lot more updates here. This is due mostly to the fact that I’m on a bit of a mission, and want to use this place as a reminder, motivation and diary for it.

Like millions of others over the last few days, I’m back on the ‘lose weight, get fit’ thing. In fact I’m all over it. Instead of just doing it with a vague sense of commitment, like those joining gyms this week with one eye on next months direct debit date to make sure they can cancel it in time, I have a real, actual goal to aim for.

Actually that’s a bit of a misnomer, I don’t have a specific goal at all. No dream weight or size or anything like that, but a definite time and place I want to be reaping the rewards of my impending monastic lifestyle. That time and place is the European Tang Soo Do Championships in Germany this May, over my birthday weekend.

I’m not sure why I’m so eager to get it done for that in particular, but it’s firmly lodged in my brain now, so that’s just how it is. I’ve been to a lot of competitions now, and not done well at all since mixing it up with the Dan grades. Now while it’s true that my technique isn’t the greatest, and that it all depends on the judges on the day, there’s also another major contributing factor; fat guys don’t win forms.

I know, I know, ‘it’s nothing to do with that’ – but it is. So I figure if I can at least get in shape properly by then and I still lose miserably, it’s because I suck at forms, not because I’m wobbling all over the mats. That I can live with. The essence of a forms competition is aesthetic, it’s about how it looks, and like it or not we’re affected by factors below our level of conscious thought. So from now until then I’m going to use this to keep track of what I’m doing, how it’s going, and to motivate myself. It might come across as part blog/part Facebook status at times, but that’s just tough I’m afraid. If you’re after something to read with a bit more intrigue, do yourself a favour and read The Pelican Brief.

So here we go, day one, it starts today with my first session back at the gym which will in all likelihood kill me. Such fun!

Oh and as an aside, I’ve also decided to start again with the Fish Oil and Glucosamine Sulphate supplements in an attempt to mend my ailing hips. I got on with them quite well last year, so I’ll give them ago for a couple of months to see how I get on.

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