Week 5

Today is the start of week 5!  I am trying to get myself motivated again, which is where I think the mini-milestone bush walk would have helped, however due to weather, we didn't get to go.  I have 'rescheduled' it for this coming Saturday, so I am hoping that the weather will be ok to us this time.  I am a little disappointed that we couldn't go, but I have also managed to get sick again, so to be fair, I probably wouldn't have been able to do much anyway or been able to get much out of it as I was so tired all of yesterday.

However, on Friday and Saturday nights I did complete my next fitness test to see how much I have improved.  Overall I am really happy with what I have managed to accomplish, considering I have struggled with the exercise portion and being sick so much.

First off, I did the 1km run and I managed to do it in 6 minutes and 51 seconds, 30 seconds better than 4 weeks ago. I have to admit, that I was a little disapointed, but considering that I hadn't really been running for long (probably 2-3 weeks) that's pretty good.  And when you are running, 30 seconds is a long time!  Also, I think that getting sick had an impact on this, and I think I walked a bit more than I did the first time.

Last time around I was able to do 23 push ups on my knees, on Saturday night, I smashed out 31 push ups!!!  That was really exciting!!!

I am also really happy with my wall sit, as I doubled my last result and I was able to sit there for 26 seconds!!!! I didn't think I would be able to do much more than my previous results of 13 seconds, so I am happy with that!

As expected, my abs test wasn't that great, and I am still at level 0 however, in saying that, I could tell that I had improved and I was able to get a little more movement, I just need to start doing more ab exercises.

The flexibility test was a pretty big break through! I was able to touch my toes!!  Which means that my result was 0!!  That is a 4cm improvement!!!

Overall, I have had some great results!! and I love that we are tracking them so that I can see them.  I wonder what my week 8 results will be like!!  The weekly surprise was updating my stats page with the above results as well as my measurements.