Posts tagged as "running"

Posted by Jettica on 20th January 2012

Fitness Challenge 1 so far

As far as fitness goes, this has been a good week. I’m not going to count my chickens yet because it’s not the end of the challenge and I still have a big party to get through tomorrow. (I can replace food with alcohol, right?) But I have lost weight and inches. Actually, a lot [...]

Posted by Jettica on 16th January 2012

The beginning of Fitness Challenge One

I weighed and measured this morning, all in preparation for the fitness challenge Running Bunn and I are undertaking. Somehow, I’ve managed to put on 2kg over the weekend. So hopefully that’ll be easy to lose! My starting stats are: Weight: 84.5kg / 186lbs Chest: 40″ Waist: 34″ Hips: 42″ My muscles have just about [...]

Posted by Jettica on 13th January 2012

Fitness Challenge 1

I had a bit of a brainwave earlier on and I ran it past Ali of Running Bunn/Bunn the Baker and she’s in. We are going to do a series of week-long fitness experiments. On the surface these things are to see how different types of fitness affect us, our moods, weight loss etc. A [...]

Posted by Jettica on 9th November 2011

Fitness: It’s not just about losing weight

Inspired by the glorious Bangs and a Bun. She recently wrote a piece entitled Women, Fitness and the Myth which touches on how women usually only begin running to lose weight. So when they don’t lose weight they give up. I agree with everything Bangs has to say in that piece. Women aren’t told about [...]