#optside

I have not done one of these in a while, but I never stopped walking. I cut back significantly as I got busier with OCA but I never stopped.

Now that things have calmed down I am back on the grind. There is a free Gym at my new job so I have been hitting that three times a week and lifting weights with some of my new coworkers. It will be easy to not skip the gym now as I will have to deal with heavy traffic for a few hours after work.

Or. I can step into the gym for an hour and burn some calories.

I am also going to start bringing my lunch more. I was doing so good with that during my time in OCA, but I fell off the bandwagon. I am going back on that.

I really like Pokemon Go for its fitness aspect. It really has motivated me to work out more and more. For instance this week I walked 60km+ (close to 40 miles.) All because I wanted to hit the 50km goal and hatch a few eggs.

I have a handful of fitness goals that I have been working on, and I have been following a few different blogs on here, that have little check-ins so I think I will start having some check-ins also. My Goals are the following:

• Lose 15 pounds
• Be able to run a 5k straight 
• Develop some core strength

To break this down, I have been working at losing weight. I was actually pretty successful at losing some weight, and then my birthday and the state fair happened and it all popped right back on, I also have been training with a URBNFit Exercise Ball to train at home. It seems a bit silly to start this up again right has some food heavy holidays are hitting, but I think it can be done. Honestly I just need to cut out the cokes.

I love walking. I can walk for ever. In fact thats what makes playing Pokemon Go and going hiking enjoyable activities. I can run maybe 50 feet (exaggerating) before I get winded and just sort of give up. I have walked two half marathons. I would like to run a half marathon, but I am going to start with just getting to a 5k. I want to run a 5k. Then Ill jump up to the 10k and then the half. But let’s get to the 5k first. 

Core strength. I have none. Walking has given my some well-toned calves, thighs and gluteus. I have no other muscle to speak of. I really have no strength above the waist. I can’t really do a sit-up, a pull-up or a push-up. I would really like to work on this, because having some tone to my upper body would really help with the whole lose weight thing.

I have two apps that are going to help me with this. C25k and SWORKIT. C25k is a running app and the name means “couch to 5k.” I have tried out the program before, but not finished it. So this time I think I will be finishing it. SWORKIT is a circuit training app that I can do in the off days when I am not doing the running. My goal is to at least do 15 minutes of SWORKIT or do the C25k running.

Let’s see how this goes. Also, my current weight is 197.4.