Today was my day off from exercise, but I decided it was such a stunning day that I had to get out amongst it, so ended up doing a 6km walk anyway. And after my crap effort in the gym yesterday (unstable knee at the moment) I felt like I really needed to keep going today.
Still working towards my goal, and it is really just going to have to be 1 day at a time for now until I lose the next 20kgs. I will be in a much better position to work out what I need to do for the Police Fitness once I have lost the weight and built up some muscle strength.
I did some reading about knees and how to make them stronger, because....lets face it, while they are an awesome joint in terms of mobility they are also one of the more fragile joints and seems to be the joint that even super fit and trim people have some trouble with. So I have certainly not done them any favours over the last 20 years. The research and info I read was quite reassuring, and the great thing is that I don't actually have any pain at all, and no actual injury, they just don't feel very strong and are sometimes a bit clicky. Apparently this is quite common. So with building up the leg muscles you can aid and strengthen the knee.
I have been doing lots of reading about all aspects of the Police Testing, and Training, as well as watching lots of video's. Nothing has freaked me out too much yet, some things have elevated the heart rate a little bit, but as a past adrenalin junkie - that is pretty much what I am looking for anyway. Nothing like a BIG CHALLENGE.
And like I said....I'm not ready to curl up and knit my life away just yet.
I have also purchased some Psychometric testing books to increase my intelligence....working in the same job for so long has made my brain a bit lazy. I have also started doing sudoko to keep the brain cells firing as well.
I have completely cleaned out the city library of books on psychometric testing, swimming, running, triathlons, and cycling. SORRY WELLINGTON!
Well - that's all for now, going to read some books on swimming tonight and then try out the techniques in the pool tomorrow morning.
Oh some other great news today - SPECFORCE the gym that is run by the fitness trainer for the April Loses It challenge is opening next week, and as an ex Army PT Trainer I asked if he was intending to put a 6ft wall in his gym for people to train on, and apparently he already has it built and organised...so that is fabulous news.
I am going up to Auckland in the 1st week of the next school hols, so I will check it out then. And I might book another week up there in the 1st term hols next year so I can do a hard out week of training with him.
I have a funny feeling there used to be a 6ft wall on a confidence course in Gissy as well. So will try and find out if it is still there when I am home on the xmas holidays. Might see if I can do a ride along with the Gissy police as well over xmas, and see what policing is like in Gissy compared to Welly.
Oh....I also drew a 6ft line on my living room wall the other day.....not sure if I had written that before.....but its good to stare at it every day!!!!
Off to mark some work, read some swimming books, cook a healthy dinner, and update my visual dreams board.
Have a fab weekend everyone.
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