Task 7: Organise and Diarise

Here is task 7 (yes, I know, before task 6 is completed! lol).  This task is built on from my commitment task where I have to commit to my exercise plans by organising and diarising my time for exercising - 6 times a week where I need to burn 500 calories each time except one day where I need to burn 1000 calories to make up for my 1 day off.  I have had a look at my gym schedule for classes, as I find that I tend to work out harder in a class than I do on my own, however that said, if it comes to it, I am prepared no, committed to working out at home or on the gym floor if needs be.

Below, is my ideal workout schedule, however I haven't tried all of these classes before, so if I don't like one, I may need to reorganise it all.  I also need to make sure that what I have planned will work with my friend who I am doing the 12WBT with, so we have decided that after Saturday's Centergy class, we will get a coffee and look at our upcoming week to make sure that we can work with each other.  To start with, Michelle has laid out our workouts as:

• 3 days of Fitness
• 2 days of Toning
• 1 day of light fitness, core and stretch

I have managed to work it out as follows:

	AM	PM
Monday:	Hook Up
Tuesday:		Group Power
Wednesday:	Centergy	Group Step
Thursday:		Group Kick
Friday:	Group Power
Saturday:	Centergy

Fitness

Toning

Light

As well as the regular exercise component, there is also needing to look at milestones at 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks.  I have set these to correspond with my goals as follows:

• 4 weeks - go for a bushwalk in a national park
• 8 weeks - go paddle boating
• 12 weeks - undecided 

As you can see, I don't have a milestone at this stage for my 12 week mark.  Some people are setting marathons, some are using the end of round workout with Michelle, but for me, I really like the idea of doing something I have always wanted to do, but never done, whether it's because I have been too big, not had anyone to do it with or just sheer laziness.  Once it is locked into the calendar, that's it!  I have even been trying to narrow it down even more and pick which bushwalk to do!  Michelle does say to make it specific! lol So, it has been decided that I will do the Devil's Gap walk at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve (here is a pdf of the walking tours).  It is 6km, at 2 hours (moderate level) and this is what the brochure has to say about it:

A short but steep walk up the fire trail through dry mountain eucalypt forest. The walk ends at the boundary gate and returns along the same trail.

I can't believe I am about to say this, but I am pumped to do this challenge, and you know what?! I have diarised it for Sunday 9th September to do with my awesome partner.

I was a little concerned that the paddleboating milestone wouldn't be 'enough' and that maybe it was too much of a reward than a milestone/challenge, but my boyfriend assured me that it's a definite workout and can be quite hard to do!  So, all those pump classes should come in handy at this point in time as I will really need my legs for this.  I have added this to my calendar for Saturday 5th November.



The other thing that needs to be added to the diary are the red flag days. These are days where something is on, such as a party, or travelling or something which can trip you up.  The point of doing this is to ensure that these days don't become a major blow out and to teach us to prepare for events like this by either modifying our eating patterns or adding in an additional exercise - or both!  For me, I am quite lucky in the sense that I don't really have anything planned.  All of the family birthday's are done, Christmas isn't until after the 12WBT, and the only thing that we currently have locked in is a trip up to Sydney for the Harry Potter Exhibition in November, so I have asked my boyfriend when we go up there if we can try to get a hotel with a gym, or I might actually just get a casual pass for a gym up there. The other alternative is that I might fit in an extra workout before we go up, that way I won't need to worry about it at all over the weekend.

Well, this post definitely turned into a novel, but is was SO FUN to plan and organise it all!!  I can't wait to do my bushwalk now!!!  Better get to the gym and start getting fitter!!