Looking to lose weight BMF Part 22 Bit of a two parter tonight since I missed last weeks blog, simply because it was the fitness challenge. Some of you may remember I turned out on a Saturday back in November for my first ever test. It was horrendous and took me about 18mins 30secs as I recall. My test this time was 12mins and 4 secs. Now that is a big improvement in physical recovery. So for those of you who think you cant do it, thats a near 23 stone geezer getting up off his behind and doing as Im told and not giving up, one to two times…

I turned up at Jacksons Field last night (Bank holiday). As soon as I switched the engine off it started raining, and I knew I was in for a crappy night. It turned out that there was three of us, two blue bibs and the instructor Josh. I definitely knew I was in for a crappy night. The theory was, he could work us hard and test us as red bibs and correct technique. Im not one for text speak in actual writing, but OMG! The warm up had some hideous thing where we had to cross jump across the path, then touch the floor with hands, and variations thereof.…

Would you believe me if I said this was the hardest session I have ever done. My legs are totally jelly. Close to puking my guts as well. Desperate to have a shower and cup of tea. Plenty of running as usual, Josh was the instructor for the night and that’s a guarantee it is going to be an easy night, especially if he has been doing competitions, as after all he is a bit of a girl, and cant cope. Bless him. We also managed to blag Maria into wearing a red bib, which I think she regretted, but fair play, she did it. You have to have an…

Well, following last week’s return to BMF, I turned up again tonight. Last week was ridiculously hard, apparently according to Tom in our office, something like six weeks of training can be lost after 2 weeks, so a four week break wasn’t looking good for me. It was difficult in the warm up, but I was surprised that there was no residual pain in the following days. Tonight, was a monster for me, just the warm up left me on the verge of blowing chunks, which I somehow managed to hold on to till the end. Then it seemed to be a constant workout, like nasty. I was being encouraged…

Ok, here is the story, new iphone 6+, happy days, love the screen size, and responsive screen, but…had poor restore, with lots of things going wrong, result, locked out of two websites as admin and cant get back in. On top of which I noticed that the phone was slower than my 5, and the charge cable didnt go in properly as you might expect for an apple product. This evening, it looked like something inside the phone has dropped and the charge cable wont go in, Result knackered phone. So because of all that I couldnt do my blog on Monday, I did train in the soaking wet, it…

People, let me first thank you all again for reading, and noticing the weight changes happening in my life. This year, I have lost 3/4 of a stone. Im absolutely happy with the speed. Tonight even, Mel mentioned he noticed the difference in my efforts and also the ever present Jon was there with his hand on my shoulder giving me that support. I missed Monday night’s blog, but rest assured I was there, Josh was back from his New York trip, and keen to make us pay for his break, with blood sweat and tears. The long and short of it was that he smashed the squats and I…

Today was the day of the dreaded devil’s challenge. I was on the phone to a friend last night and told him, I was going to do it, and in a show of solidarity he said he would do it with me. To be fair, I did tell him it was going to be nasty, and he still agreed. I woke up bright and early to ensure I got plenty of calories inside for the arduous task that was to come. I was delighted to see John’s smiling face when I got there. Andy the instructor was full of beans, and quickly explained the challenge, 6 stations, 6kilometres in total…

Its another night of freezing cold and the dreaded British Military Fitness. I say dreaded, but it isnt, it is great fun, and plenty of banter. That is a given, from the fact it is military people, the forces are built on banter. Tonight was the turn of Andy to take us, and the numbers of people were even. That is always good. The knots in the stomach started when I saw him getting out a log with four ropes tied to it, and five horrible looking body bars. I remember too well running with a telegraph pole sized log, and the whole section hanging on for dear life, running…

What a great session tonight was, Im on a buzz a high, elated. Scot was the pain master for tonight. I wouldnt call it the worst it has been, but no mistakes it was hard. There was a new girl started tonight, who looked in a reasonable state of health, as they say in Indiana Jones, you chose wisely, when she picked the blue bib for her fitness level. She admitted frequent cramps and the inevitable pain from the squats. I suppose I am getting used to the expected pain. I know its coming so I grit my teeth and get on. I still really suffer from the warm ups,…

Back on the wagon again, my arms only just stopped hurting on Sunday, from last week’s. You can see I havent done Wednesday’s as my arms were sooooo sore. Tonight, I think the instructor was Mark, you know, the one who isnt too bad, my arse! We did sprint runs interspersed with exercises such as press ups, situps, burpees, and squat thrusts. I could barely keep up with tonight. I found it extremely hard. I would not say this was the hardest one, but it was hard to me. It was partner exercises and I found it very difficult to keep up with my partner as he was a green…