It’s been a while… again. We must acknowledge that my standards for this blog slipped quite a bit and my posts are pretty irregular.
A lot has happened since I last posted. When was it? Mid-March? Yeah, sounds about right.
So, I turned 24, lost some more weight and moved house (or from a flat to a house share, but whatever). Oh, and the Coronavirus brought (most of) the world to a halt. Luckily the UK’s version of lockdown isn’t a lockdown so I’ve been able to go outside almost as and when I feel about it, given exercise can be used as a ‘reasonable excuse’ at any time.
Oh yeah, my dad gifted me a Fitbit Versa for my birthday, which, honestly, is the most useful present (in the birthday category) I think I’ve received in my 24 years of life… apart from my childhood toy of course, which has a place on my bed. Of course, my phone has a pedometer function so I still would have been able to find this data but I can tell you my resting heart rate at any given moment, which, y’know, is cool at worst.
So, as you have eyes, you will be able to see that my step average has increased. For April I was hitting an average of 9.8K steps and in May this rose to 13.3K. To address the days that display a lack of line my watch was charging (I promise). I’m really glad that this is the case because I moved house in May, which I was anticipating to negatively impact my progress.
Now, this is the part of the post where I tell you that my only exercise has been walking and 30-second sprints in a couple of attempts to make it to work on time (‘Sorry, I was sending a Snapchat’). I do want this to change, though, because we all know that walking isn’t going to cut it for defining abs and toning my arms and legs.
I recently found that a certain YouTuber, namely Chloe Ting, was trending as her workouts saw impressive results and reviews, with many others uploading videos detailing their experience of doing said ‘shreds’. Chloe has amassed a total of 9.4m subscribers on YouTube and 1.8m followers on Instagram. With these crazy figures depicting a massive audience, how could these shreds not work?
All of her programmes are free to access (thank you) and require no equipment, with her most popular being the Two Week Shred. So I’m going to give this a go with my newly-bought yoga mat and I’ll let you know how it goes in two weeks’ time. I mean, I could check-in sooner but somehow I think that’s a tad unrealistic.
I should add that I’m still in the DietBet Transformer game and am a ‘winner’ of its fifth round (out of six), weighing in at 69.1kg and adding another $30 to my personal pot.
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