Not Drinking

[sobrique]

I've been 'not drinking' since new years day. And ... well, I mean 'mostly not' and made a couple of exceptions for weekends away.

I think I've given up now. It has dismally failed and so all I've managed to do is just end up not drinking beer when I've wanted to.

Now the weather has warmed up, I think pub beer gardens, with nice beer is in order, more than my faffing about trying to do something that clearly just doesn't work.

The only real thing that I've felt it 'worthwhile' is that I got to write '0' units on my form at a new dentist.

Comments

[malal.livejournal.com]

but not varied it particularly much

Worth varying it a bit more, your body seems to "optimise" to a particular activity if you do it too much. Throwing it now & then apparently gets a better work out.

[dj-rws.livejournal.com]

I believe they call it "cross training". E.g. if you like just doing weights as I do then eventually your cardio-vascular system will start to let your muscles down as you can't deliver enough blood etc. to keep pushing your muscles through harder workouts. The solution is therefore to train in some cardio-vascular stuff such as running, ergs, swimming.

Running is supposedly the best for cardio and I know it's a no no for you due to the ankle so I'd suggest swimming or maybe the low impact striders which do look like assisted moon walking devices but with variable slope and difficulty settings are much more flexible than just running in a straight line. Or if you feel you're just not getting out of breath any more on an erg then maybe go to weights to build more muscle and increase your metabolism.

All round training is generally the best. Maybe start a "session" with a 5 minute slow warm up on an erg followed by 30 mins of weights and then do some hard cardio on the ergs again for 10-30 mins. You could even round it off with a gentle swim at the end and you could probably fit that into an hour and a half, maybe less.