Health and Fitness (includes Sam's video skipping guide)
on Gilly Clifford (Cambodia), 04/Mar/2012 02:21, 34 days ago
Before we left England both of us were in pretty good shape. We used to cycle around 30 minutes to and from work (obviously part time in my case) with Gilly also swimming and me burning calories on the squash court.Here our 'commute' is under three minutes and Gilly was out of action for a long time afterbreaking her fingerswhile running on Kratie's less than even road surfaces. I didn't have any excuse for my laziness.But this has all changed as.2012 (unconnected to any ofour resolutions) has ushered in a new regime which is already having an impact. It consists of two key components which, in February, were complemented by a booze free month, which I only broke twice.Reducing our intake of carbohydratesI'd been suggesting this for a while (inspired bythis guyandthis lecturein particular) but Gilly only signed up after her brother confirmed it was a good idea. We are trying to only have one 'carb' intake per day which is quite tricky in a country where rice and noodles are the foundation of every meal. We're eating a lot more meat, eggs, fruit and salad as a result. I buy the meat from the market, ideally before 6am as it is displayed in the open air and you wouldn't go near it too much later. I'm pretty sure the pork I got the other day was'slaughter fresh'as the meat was unusually warm when I cut it up for mincing at home...Skipping five days per weekYou can see some videos below of me demonstrating what this means. Gilly is great at using the internet toresearch new routinesand keep us pushing ourselves each week. One of these is a 40 seconds on, 20 seconds off routine and I managed 121 skips in one round which is an average of three per second, still some way ofthis kind of speedthough. We're really enjoying it and so do our neighbours...Skipping intro, including the 'double under'. (You can buy the skipping rope featured in these videos, highly recommended,here.)Skipping reprise.Sponsor Us