Monday 11 October 2010

Intu Flow
Beginner Level

Treat your own Rotator Cuff
Beginners Level Stretches

Food Intake:
3 x Bacon
3 x Brown bread

1Cup
Tea

Chicken
Cheese
3 x Brown Bread
Salad cream

2 Rashers of Bacon
2 x Brown Bread
Cherry Scone with jam
Glass of milk

5 Jammy Dodgers
Cherry Scone with jam
Plain bun
Glass of Milk

No sign of me getting embarassed with writing down the amount I'm eating. I am without shame.

Sunday

Intu Flow
Beginner Level

Treat your own Rotator Cuff
Beginners Level Stretches and Strength

Food Intake:
5 Eggs (1 yoke)
2 x Bacon
Onion, Peppers & Toms
Green Tea
6 Fish Oil Caps

Sunday Lunch
Cheesecake, Ice Cream and fresh cream

Magnum
Large Bowl of Lentil and Ham Soup
Magnum

Sunday 10 October 2010

Saturday

Intu Flow
Beginner Level

Treat your own Rotator Cuff
Beginners Level Stretches

Food Intake:
2 Eggs
3 x Bacon
3 x Brown bread

1Cup
Tea

Large Bowl of Lentil and Ham Soup

3 Rashers of Bacon
3 x Brown Bread
4 Toffee Pops!

2 x Fruit loaf slices
2x Brown Bread (toasted with marmalade)
8 Toffee Pops!

Pure greed at night - dieter does shite

Saturday 9 October 2010

Friday

Intu Flow
Beginner Level

Treat your own Rotator Cuff
Beginners Level Stretches and Strength

Food Intake:
5 Eggs ( 1 yoke)
2 cups Stir fry veg
0.5 Cup Oats
1Cup milk
3 fish oil capsules
Green Tea

Large Bowl of Lentil and Ham Soup

3 Rashers of Bacon
3 x Brown Bread
4 Toffee Pops!

The beginners level stuff for shoulder is really aimed at people with serious problems with their shoulder. I can handle the advanced stuff although there is certainly room for stretching out some tight muscles and strengthening around the area too.

Friday 8 October 2010

Thursday

Intu Flow
Beginner Level

Treat your own Rotator Cuff
Beginner Level

Food Intake:
5 Eggs ( 1 yoke)
2 cups Stir fry veg
0.5 Cup Oats
1Cup milk
3 fish oil capsules
Green Tea

Large Bowl of Lentil and Ham Soup

155g Chicken
4 x Brown Bread
2 Cherry TomatoesLettuce
Salad Cream

Been doing the Intu Flow every morning for around 2 weeks now and while I feel better in certain parts of my body like the wrists and hips, there are others that seem to be aggravated like my elbows and especially my nemesis - the right shoulder.

With the elbows think it might be more of a little soreness due to getting worked in a larger range of motion and nothing to worry about. But my chronic shoulder is a different matter.

I've skipped all mobilty drills on that side for a few days and I've now added in the short number of stretches and exercises from the highly recommended book Treat your Own Rotator Cuff

I've been messing around with the Club on the left hand side only so far, and I've got to say that in complete contrast to the right side it feels awesome.

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Intu Flow
Beginner Level

Food Intake:
5 Eggs ( 1 yoke)
2 cups Stir fry veg
0.5 Cup Oats
1Cup milk
3 fish oil capsules
Green Tea

Large Bowl of Lentil and Ham Soup
(Made it myself with my own stock!)

155g Chicken
4 x Brown Bread
2 Cherry TomatoesLettuce
Salad Cream

Eating better - not least of all because I usually allow myself a treat on Wednesdays (and every other day lately).

Got my Indian Clubs today. I love them. My neighbour Sam has done a fantastic job on them. One of them is about 0.5kgs lighter even though both bits of wood came from the same tree. At some stage I need to drill out a hole and put a bit of lead in the light one. In the meantime my right shoulder doesn't like it much anyway, and the lighter one is plenty. My left elbow and wrist has been getting a good workout with it.

Can't recommend these enough.




Tuesday 5 October 2010

Intu Flow
Beginner Level

Food Intake:
5 Eggs ( 1 yoke)
2 cups Stir fry veg
0.5 Cup Oats
1Cup milk
3 fish oil capsules
Green Tea

155g Chicken
3 Brown Baps
3 Cherry Tomatoes
Lettuce
Salad Cream

155g Chicken
1 medium potato (wedges)
Onion
Broccoli
Salad Cream

Better!!
Intu Flow
Beginner Level

Right shoulder feels a bit painful at times during this. I either slow down, decrease ROM until there is no pain or skip it altogether as needs be.

Food Intake:
5 Eggs ( 1 yoke)
2 cups Stir fry veg
1 Banana
3 fish oil capsules
Green Tea

155g Wild Duck Breast
2 cups Stir fry veg
1 1/2 Cups Noodles
Plum Sauce

155g Wild Duck Breast
2 cups Stir fry veg
1 1/2 Cups Noodles
Plum Sauce
3 fig rolls

Cherry Scone with butter and jam
Brown Roll with ham and cheese
3 fig rolls
Cup of tea

Let's see how long I can keep saying I want to be under 13st and eat junk! I almost didn't post this, rather like I avoided my weekly weigh in for a number of weeks. Easier to ignore the truth when it isn't right in front of you written down in black and white.

On a cherrier note my neighbour has been working away on my Indian Clubs I asked him to make on his lathe. I've seen one roughed out and it looks fantastic. One little problem has been that although he got both bits of wood from the same tree there is a discrepancy in weight. Going to have to drill one of them out and put some lead in it. Pics to follow soon ( I hope!).

Sunday 3 October 2010

Back Again (again)

Since I've last posted I had been doing a pretty good job of keeping the weight lose going. My weight was down to 13st 4lbs (186) which is the lowest in at least 4 years. That wasn't bad going given my state of mind back in August when I wrote my last post!

Unfortunately there is no fairytale ending. In the last three weeks out of nowhere I have devoured everything in sight. Most of it being in the form of sugary carbs. This morning I weighed in at 13st 10.8lbs (192.8) which is about what I expected.

I'm back here to wirte down my food intake again and chart my progress. Why? Because it works for me.

Diet starts tomorrow, but I'm going for limitation today ;)

As far as training goes I have been doing nothing more than mobility and walking, outside of work. It has really shown me that diet really is 90% of weight lose. I still have a damaged right shoulder which gives me less and less trouble. But without picking up KBs I can report that my body feels pretty good.

I have switched sides if you will in my training. I've moved into the CST camp and I've been doing Intu Flow daily for over a week now. I like the hierarchy of the system moving from mobility to yoga style/bodyweight workouts to clubbells. I have long been interested in and seen as the pinnacle for me of moving as parkour or movnat. Before reading this I saw in CST a way to gently and systematically ramp up my conditioning to allow me to practice some of the skills of parkour in the future. These clips will give an idea of the direction I want to move in.