Well, it's been an epic 90 days.. As you'd expect with something that runs for three months, I have been through some real highs and lows over the course, and learned a lot along the way. I am immensely proud of what we as a group have been able to achieve here in a relatively short space of time (and, really, 3 months IS a very short time to erase literally years of abuse and bad habits from the system). The crew that I did it with - Andrew, Mark, Mug, Graham have been an amazing support, sometimes just agreeing with me when I was having a whinge, and the rest of the PCP crew - particularly Wei have been massively helpful as well with the questions back to Pat etc etc.
So today I begin life without PCP - and began that with a sandwich for lunch, some low fat yoghurt in the afternoon, but followed by a few beers this evening with a couple of clients, so not a perfect PCP day but not exactly off the rails either. I am now equipped with everything I need to know in order to stay in shape, do that 30 minute Bowen and hopefully a 3:30 marathon..
Well done to everyone who finished today, and good luck to Youngy, Arnie, Ash, Marlon, Vic, Jerome, Khoi and everyone else who are half way and have done a great job so far.. Try to do a perfect PCP and you will love the results.
Thanks Pat - you're onto a great thing, I'll continue to evangelise for you..
Nick
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Day 90 - Done!
Morning all.. just finished today's exercises, so I guess apart from today's diet I'm done! Will write more when I have more time, but just posted the shots from today.. well done Team - it's been a great effort from all of you.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Day 87 - 3 to go
So having not talked to my computer for a good couple of weeks through day 75, I feel compelled to share a little more of me with the world at the moment.. sorry about that. Knocked out a great session this morning with Mark DP and Andrew followed by brunch up at Oolaa and while I feel the visible results are slowing, the strength that I've gained so far is building - must keep that up after Day 90.
I thought as I approached day 90 I'd be feeling like I had reached the end of the line, and that it would be just about maintenance from here on, but seeing Devil Scale giving me a 20% fat reading made me sorta realise that this is just the beginning.. a fantastic beginning, but that, and Patrick's comment on my last blog just made me feel that I can get better - stronger and leaner in the coming months. At 34 you feel like your best sporting years are behind you, but maybe if you've spent the past 6-8 years slowly getting fatter, less fit, doing less exercise, a life changing program like this can spur you to greater things. So maybe I do have a 3:30 marathon in me, perhaps I do work on my swimming and do a triathlon properly. The program has given me options, which is great.
anyway, enough from me for now. have a great Sunday guys.
I thought as I approached day 90 I'd be feeling like I had reached the end of the line, and that it would be just about maintenance from here on, but seeing Devil Scale giving me a 20% fat reading made me sorta realise that this is just the beginning.. a fantastic beginning, but that, and Patrick's comment on my last blog just made me feel that I can get better - stronger and leaner in the coming months. At 34 you feel like your best sporting years are behind you, but maybe if you've spent the past 6-8 years slowly getting fatter, less fit, doing less exercise, a life changing program like this can spur you to greater things. So maybe I do have a 3:30 marathon in me, perhaps I do work on my swimming and do a triathlon properly. The program has given me options, which is great.
anyway, enough from me for now. have a great Sunday guys.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Day 86 - Almost there
4 more sessions to go - still noticing changes even now which is great. my weight is a ludicrously low 66.6kg this morning on our new uber fancy Japanese scale. It's also telling me that I'm still 20% body fat..think we may need to buy cheaper ones that lie to you instead..
Looking forward to being able to relax on a Friday night with a glass of wine or beer - must say I was craving one last night.
The Super Sets are tough but I find them really satisfying - I am loving the pull up then tricep dip one.. they hurt like a bastard but I think are gonna be awesome for overall result. Also have developed a very belated love affair with 8Minute Abs.. doing abs at both ends of the day MUST make this 6-pack come soon. Perhaps not soon enough for day 90, but no fuss, I'll just continue in some form well after day 90.
Anyway, took some more fotos this morning - check em..
Looking forward to being able to relax on a Friday night with a glass of wine or beer - must say I was craving one last night.
The Super Sets are tough but I find them really satisfying - I am loving the pull up then tricep dip one.. they hurt like a bastard but I think are gonna be awesome for overall result. Also have developed a very belated love affair with 8Minute Abs.. doing abs at both ends of the day MUST make this 6-pack come soon. Perhaps not soon enough for day 90, but no fuss, I'll just continue in some form well after day 90.
Anyway, took some more fotos this morning - check em..
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Day 82 - oh so so close.. the alarm keeps getting earlier
Ello all.. so just over a week to go, and though this week is relatively heavy on the dinners out, I am going all out to get this done perfectly. so i guess the 6oz of steak tonight was prob not ideal, but not massively over, so no harm done.
Exercises are definitely ratcheting up another gear, with the end in sight I guess I expected them to but I am just wondering when the two sets of eight lame pullups will miraculously turn into 6 sets of perfect tens. I presume that happens somewhere between day 84 and 90.. hmmm.. outside of that, am thoroughly nailing the skips - averaging around 160-170 per minute, and all other exercises are going well. took pat's advice (hoping not too late) and am spending my 8 mins a day with me new style-king mate Mike - lycra zoot suits will never go out of fashion, hoping that he can help me find the abs under this stubborn layer of fat.
Now getting close enough to plan in great detail what the agenda for the days post-PCP will look like. Thursday dinner planned, Friday a nice French or something with my wife Yumi, and Saturday a junk boat where I'll unleash the 8MAs.. woo hoo
Exercises are definitely ratcheting up another gear, with the end in sight I guess I expected them to but I am just wondering when the two sets of eight lame pullups will miraculously turn into 6 sets of perfect tens. I presume that happens somewhere between day 84 and 90.. hmmm.. outside of that, am thoroughly nailing the skips - averaging around 160-170 per minute, and all other exercises are going well. took pat's advice (hoping not too late) and am spending my 8 mins a day with me new style-king mate Mike - lycra zoot suits will never go out of fashion, hoping that he can help me find the abs under this stubborn layer of fat.
Now getting close enough to plan in great detail what the agenda for the days post-PCP will look like. Thursday dinner planned, Friday a nice French or something with my wife Yumi, and Saturday a junk boat where I'll unleash the 8MAs.. woo hoo
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Day 80 - back on track
Ok ok so following on from my previous post which was nice and dark (thanks Elaine and Keita for the gambatte messages after that by the way!), I bring you a little more sunshine, in keeping with the beautiful weather this morning in HK. Back on track now, having had another couple of days of near perfect PCPness. A great session yesterday morning and this morning have done my skips (will get to the rest over lunch when Oli and Yumi have a lunchtime nap). Trying to fail out on as many of the exercises as possible. This I find mentally pretty difficult. I like getting to a number, and giving up after that point.. getting to failure requires me to get to Patrick's recommended number, then pushing say 10 more after that, then once i get to that point going for another 5. Usually somewhere in that last 5 I fail out.
I'm down to around 67.5kg now, which is ~8-9kg below my start weight, yet I'm several times stronger than I was at the start. I can't wait to give the 8km Bowen Road track a crack the weekend after I finish the program. Previous best was 32.04 I think a couple of years back. Given I haven't run more than once or twice in the 90 days of PCP my guess is I'd go pretty close to that time first up. Reevesy, then we've got to get through 30 mins in the next few weeks.
Have a great PCP day all.. for Team Thor, just 10 days left.. looking at everyone's blogs I think we've dropped around 80kg between us - that's a pre-PCP me! Amazing
I'm down to around 67.5kg now, which is ~8-9kg below my start weight, yet I'm several times stronger than I was at the start. I can't wait to give the 8km Bowen Road track a crack the weekend after I finish the program. Previous best was 32.04 I think a couple of years back. Given I haven't run more than once or twice in the 90 days of PCP my guess is I'd go pretty close to that time first up. Reevesy, then we've got to get through 30 mins in the next few weeks.
Have a great PCP day all.. for Team Thor, just 10 days left.. looking at everyone's blogs I think we've dropped around 80kg between us - that's a pre-PCP me! Amazing
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Day 78 - Uh oh... slipping
Hey guys.
Well it's been a long time since I've blogged, and I have to confess, I have been a less-than-perfect PCPer in the time since I've got back from Bali. Exercise-wise I'm still keeping up with the program, but I have slipped, particularly in the evenings.. A client dinner at a Teppanyaki resty in TST, washed down with a couple of beers last Tuesday, I justified to myself was the Third Indulgence come early (though I had really hoped to share the Third Indulgence Dinner with my wife!) Then a great mate of mine was in HK for Friday and Saturday, so we showed him the town - culminating in a 2am finish last Friday night and a pizza Saturday lunch in Stanley.. a pretty much perfect week up until another major blowout last night..
I am finding the final stretch really difficult. Mentally I have checked out..
Why is that? Results have been great, amazing, better than I expected so far, I have really quite enjoyed the diet, discovered I love having mango instead of chocolate after dinner, I love low fat plain yoghurt, I can tolerate skim lattes instead of the full cream variety. I love the extra energy during the day, and felt so good about the fact that I didn't touch a drop of booze for almost the first two months of the program.
Yet I have slipped so badly since I went on vacation. I think it's three things.. Firstly, I'm so happy with the results, I feel like if it ended now I'd be very satisfied with what I'd achieved. Secondly, and this is key for all those around me and particularly following, I have started to get a little lazy - Day 54 was my first drink and I felt that it was ok to occasionally have a drink - especially if it was a vodka soda or something low fat, then I was on vacation, and everyone relaxes on vacation right? Then I came back and the willpower I had earlier that would have stopped me from drinking or eating teppanyaki, just hasn't been there. Thirdly, 90 days is just a long time in HK or Tokyo!
So that's the bad stuff, the good news is that I have continued with the exercise, can do 2 sets of 10 pull-ups now (a massive improvement from earlier) and keep getting stronger. The work is getting harder and harder, and getting up 5:30 no longer cuts it - it's alarm set for 5 and up by around 5:15 else I get in ridiculously late.
I am making a pact to myself to do this last 12 days perfectly, then take a week or two off and try to do the last month of the program again.. this week is key - a few nights out with clients/friends.. if I can get the power to resist the booze and rich food back, I will be able to feel better about how I've done this.
PCP Out
Well it's been a long time since I've blogged, and I have to confess, I have been a less-than-perfect PCPer in the time since I've got back from Bali. Exercise-wise I'm still keeping up with the program, but I have slipped, particularly in the evenings.. A client dinner at a Teppanyaki resty in TST, washed down with a couple of beers last Tuesday, I justified to myself was the Third Indulgence come early (though I had really hoped to share the Third Indulgence Dinner with my wife!) Then a great mate of mine was in HK for Friday and Saturday, so we showed him the town - culminating in a 2am finish last Friday night and a pizza Saturday lunch in Stanley.. a pretty much perfect week up until another major blowout last night..
I am finding the final stretch really difficult. Mentally I have checked out..
Why is that? Results have been great, amazing, better than I expected so far, I have really quite enjoyed the diet, discovered I love having mango instead of chocolate after dinner, I love low fat plain yoghurt, I can tolerate skim lattes instead of the full cream variety. I love the extra energy during the day, and felt so good about the fact that I didn't touch a drop of booze for almost the first two months of the program.
Yet I have slipped so badly since I went on vacation. I think it's three things.. Firstly, I'm so happy with the results, I feel like if it ended now I'd be very satisfied with what I'd achieved. Secondly, and this is key for all those around me and particularly following, I have started to get a little lazy - Day 54 was my first drink and I felt that it was ok to occasionally have a drink - especially if it was a vodka soda or something low fat, then I was on vacation, and everyone relaxes on vacation right? Then I came back and the willpower I had earlier that would have stopped me from drinking or eating teppanyaki, just hasn't been there. Thirdly, 90 days is just a long time in HK or Tokyo!
So that's the bad stuff, the good news is that I have continued with the exercise, can do 2 sets of 10 pull-ups now (a massive improvement from earlier) and keep getting stronger. The work is getting harder and harder, and getting up 5:30 no longer cuts it - it's alarm set for 5 and up by around 5:15 else I get in ridiculously late.
I am making a pact to myself to do this last 12 days perfectly, then take a week or two off and try to do the last month of the program again.. this week is key - a few nights out with clients/friends.. if I can get the power to resist the booze and rich food back, I will be able to feel better about how I've done this.
PCP Out
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