Fitness Goals 2013

I know it’s February already & a bit late for the whole new years resolution thing but this morning at the gym I was thinking about what I want to achieve this year. It’s taken me until now to get into a routine that I am happy with and now that I’ve done that I feel like I can set some goals.

Firstly I want to be able to do a pull up - queue lots of upper body work & time on the assisted pull up machine at the gym.

Secondly I want to develop a decent aerobic base. It has come to my attention that I have been running at a pace that is too fast to actually be of much aerobic benefit so as of a few weeks ago I have slowed right down & am currently waiting to see some improvement. My aim is to improve my ‘aerobic pace’ from 7.5km/hr to 9.5km/h. I’m not sure how possible that is in a year, or maybe it’s too easy but either way I will be happy if I achieve it.

Thirdly…actually I don’t really have a third one although I would like to work on my squat & deadlift. Perhaps an 80kg squat (currently 50kg) and a 50kg deadlift (currently 25kg) for 3x15reps.

I’m happy with those for now but I will try and remember to reassess half way through the year.

I love the way my weight has been trending downwards this week.

(Yes I know that I shouldn’t weigh myself everyday but I’m not getting all caught up in the numbers so I don’t see the harm)

I am one of those weird people who actually lost weight over the xmas break, but then I got back to work & put it all back on. Now I’ve settled into a routine & the weight is starting to drop again :)

I have also completed all my scheduled workouts this week - yay me! And I get to see my incredibly lovely, ultra marathon running boyfriend this weekend (he lives a 3 hour drive away).

Life is good.

Feeling a bit sad tonight

I won’t go into details but it’s because of a guy. Enough said. However I am not going to bury my feelings in ice cream & chocolate. I am going to allow myself one night to feel sad & then starting tomorrow I am going to channel all the negative into something more positive.

Me.

I am going to be selfish for a while, go running everyday because I can, eat health food because I love it & work my ass off to get where I want to be.

When he realizes what he is missing, well he can kiss my finely toned ass!

Tax time sucks.

I could do without the extra paper work right now.

I know its a little TMI

But I love the feeling of freshly waxed legs, I just had mine done & life feels so much better now.

And as an added bonus, it was half price because it’s the salon’s birthday. Win!

New motivation!

On the weekend I got a ‘save the date’ card for for a friends wedding which is extremely exciting in itself. The particular group of friends who will be at the wedding are my best friends in the world & we always have a hilarious time together.

In addition to being an awesome thing to look forward to its also a great excuse to work hard on my body & wear a kick ass dress! It’s not until next April so I have plenty of time to get rid of some of this pesky body fat.

I hate performance appraisals

I have one coming up at work & my boss gave me the self-assessment part this morning. They always make me feel like I’m not doing my job properly because they judge you on these few little measurable factors that our office doesn’t even really measure - I have no idea if my jobs are coming in under budget because the budget always changes but apparently I’m getting assessed on that. Are they delivered on time? How would I know, most of our jobs never have a due date.

I know I do my job well but about this time of year I feel like I’m meant to be perfect when I’m not. Especially when there is an expectation for me to do all this ‘management’ type stuff that I’ve never been trained to do and when I’m being assessed against numbers that for all I know don’t exist.

I really want to be self-employed one day at least then if business is going well, I know I’m performing well. If not, I have no one to blame but myself.

I just want to cry (stupid work stuff)

just had the worst end to the working week! had a client on the phone yelling at me for not forwarding him something (by snail mail) that we only received today! unrealistic much? yelled at me for about 10 minutes before I could even get a word in. I go out of my way to do the best for them as clients & this is how I get treated. Then when I rang back with good news he was all “oh lets just forget what was said in the heat of the moment”. So angry & upset right now - just as well it’s home time.

Rant over.

Hmm…hail…how nice

Freaking out a little

It has just sunk in that in less than 48 hours I will be meeting the parents of the guy I have been seeing for the past two months. It’s a long distance thing so I haven’t even seen him that many times but he wanted to go & visit his parents this weekend (in a whole different city) and suggested that I should come and meet him up there.

There has been no ‘relationship talk’ and I barely know anything about his family or what he has planned for us to do this weekend. All I know is that I have a flight booked for Saturday morning, no idea if he is picking me up or where we are staying.

Should I be nervous? What should I wear? What if we are staying at his parents house all weekend? Should I take a gift like flowers or chocolates? It doesn’t help that I am also PMSing at the moment! Am I getting too stressed out about this? Advice anyone?