Mine and Dan's particular favourite DJ, Mr Markus Schulz came to Manchester and we simply couldn't pass up the opertunity to go and see him in action, man can he work those decks! You literally cannot keep still...we like to party with Mr Markus!
Thursday, 22 July 2010
week 4 and still going!
week 4 of training for the RAF and I feel great, I've managed to shake off off quite a few pounds. Can't say how much exactly as I hate weighing myself! But it's a fair shake..infact it must be a wobble and a drop!
I've been sticking to the same routine since I started, mainly 30 minutes each night, 1-2 nights rest a week, depending but pretty solid exercise throughout. Week 1 I ran, and even ran into week 2 but started to feel pains in my hips so I eased off the running, I was told not to run too much as it's not good for the joints in your knees and hips, even your back can be prone to injury. So I've been concentrating on improving my upper body strength, which has been poor for years hence the back problems! I have felt a real difference just from a static bike and rowing machine (many thanks to gardener Paul's sister for that!) plus practicing 5x 10 reps of tricep dips and puss ups, still struggling with push ups!
Also I am keeping my brain active and prepped for the AST test, that will be one of the first things they'll do if I'm sucessful. It's basically a general knowledge testing your abilites and strong points of verbal reasoning, mathmatics, memory, mechanical, electrical and shape rotation. Looks harder than it sounds as the test itself is very very fast in timelength. With mathmatics, you have only 4 minutes to answer 20 questions, not a lot of time considering you have working out to do too! Not looking forward to that one bit!
Then it's a matter of a fitness and asthma test, if I pass those, then I get a formal interview, although not as formal as it's made out to be I've been told. And then it could be up to 2 months before I hear if I have been sucessful or not...scary but exciting stuff! Now excuse me while I go body pump!
I've been sticking to the same routine since I started, mainly 30 minutes each night, 1-2 nights rest a week, depending but pretty solid exercise throughout. Week 1 I ran, and even ran into week 2 but started to feel pains in my hips so I eased off the running, I was told not to run too much as it's not good for the joints in your knees and hips, even your back can be prone to injury. So I've been concentrating on improving my upper body strength, which has been poor for years hence the back problems! I have felt a real difference just from a static bike and rowing machine (many thanks to gardener Paul's sister for that!) plus practicing 5x 10 reps of tricep dips and puss ups, still struggling with push ups!
Also I am keeping my brain active and prepped for the AST test, that will be one of the first things they'll do if I'm sucessful. It's basically a general knowledge testing your abilites and strong points of verbal reasoning, mathmatics, memory, mechanical, electrical and shape rotation. Looks harder than it sounds as the test itself is very very fast in timelength. With mathmatics, you have only 4 minutes to answer 20 questions, not a lot of time considering you have working out to do too! Not looking forward to that one bit!
Then it's a matter of a fitness and asthma test, if I pass those, then I get a formal interview, although not as formal as it's made out to be I've been told. And then it could be up to 2 months before I hear if I have been sucessful or not...scary but exciting stuff! Now excuse me while I go body pump!
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