Hey all! It's been another busy week of work and the gym but I am very pleased to say I lost another 2 pounds last week. If I can keep that this week, that's half a stone in 3 weeks which would be brilliant. My weigh in is tomorrow morning, so fingers crossed.
I'm not massively overweight or anything, it's just that like most people I feel that I am carrying a bit too much and therefore want to lose the excess, tone up a bit and get fitter for my golf.
I played Hollingbury yesterday and shot a very nice level par 72. I got off to a slow start again and was +4 through 8 holes. However a hat-trick of birdies from the 10th plus another one saw me home in -4 for the 2nd successive week at Hollingbury. I am feeling great about my golf right now. My iron play is so much better than it has been and my putting has improved too. I cannot wait for next year!!
Thankfully, I have finally sorted out a golf club to play and practise at! I got in touch with Holtye golf club, and after a few exchanges with a very nice secretary I popped down there and sorted it all! Holtye is only a 9 hole course, but it is a great little layout and is in great condition. Also they have a nice big practise area, a big putting green, driving nets and a little short game area! This is everything I need so I am extremely relieved!! In addition, it's fairly near work and is also en-route to Brighton too should I be heading back that way.
So, tonight it's the gym again. I managed to swim 40 lengths of the pool tuesday night so this is my goal going forward, dependant on how hard I have worked up in the gym. Either way, I always do a minimum of 30!
I'll leave it there, I'm off to the Ascot Races this weekend so i'll look forward to that! Tata!!!
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Gym and golf....
Mawnin' all! Have got off to a flyer with my new healthy lifestyle. Went to the gym 5 times last week and watched closely what I was eating and lost 2 lbs!! What a great and encouraging start. Hopefully I've found a formula which is working. I'd tell you what it is but I'd have to kill you ;-)
Played golf at Hollingbury last night and had another eventful round. I was rusty, crap and frankly useless for my first 5 holes and it did not feel good to be stood on hole 6 at +7!! It was extremely cold and windy so not the best conditions anyway but after a steady par on 6 I suddenly found my swing again. I played home in -4 from there to shoot 75 in strong winds (including a holed greenside bunker shot for eagle on 17) so this was great. The amount of golf I'm playing now is diminishing very rapidly indeed! I have the next 4 wednesdays off in which I will hopefully play at least 27 holes. After that I will be more or less full time at work and am doing stuff on most of the weekends so to be honest I am considering knocking it on the head for the rest of the year to recharge the batteries and come out focused, committed and keen in January to prepare for my tournament season!!
I got asked yesterday whether I was still considering turning amateur and my simple response is that I will give it until I am 30 and if I am no nearer to my goals and feel like I've given it my best, that will be when I turn amateur again and focus on competing at a high level in that arena.
Not really much else to report just now. I guess things go a bit quieter now in the build up to xmas. My focus for the moment is to get myself down to 11 stone. I would love to achieve this goal and as I said, I have gotten off to a great start. I'll leave it for now. All the best....
Played golf at Hollingbury last night and had another eventful round. I was rusty, crap and frankly useless for my first 5 holes and it did not feel good to be stood on hole 6 at +7!! It was extremely cold and windy so not the best conditions anyway but after a steady par on 6 I suddenly found my swing again. I played home in -4 from there to shoot 75 in strong winds (including a holed greenside bunker shot for eagle on 17) so this was great. The amount of golf I'm playing now is diminishing very rapidly indeed! I have the next 4 wednesdays off in which I will hopefully play at least 27 holes. After that I will be more or less full time at work and am doing stuff on most of the weekends so to be honest I am considering knocking it on the head for the rest of the year to recharge the batteries and come out focused, committed and keen in January to prepare for my tournament season!!
I got asked yesterday whether I was still considering turning amateur and my simple response is that I will give it until I am 30 and if I am no nearer to my goals and feel like I've given it my best, that will be when I turn amateur again and focus on competing at a high level in that arena.
Not really much else to report just now. I guess things go a bit quieter now in the build up to xmas. My focus for the moment is to get myself down to 11 stone. I would love to achieve this goal and as I said, I have gotten off to a great start. I'll leave it for now. All the best....
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Life is good...
Hey folks, hope you're all well. It's been a very hectic couple of weeks but for once I feel very good about life and am feeling very happy and settled in most things. My golf is good. I played very well tonight and my putting was horrific! Despite that, I had the ball on a string and loved every second of it. My ball striking is coming along so well now that I am getting a massive buzz about what could happen next year.
I just love golf. I have done for 16 years now and will do for the rest of my life. I am driven very hard internally and am very clear on what I want to accomplish. The down days are horrible but they never put me off. All they do is spur me on to work harder - although this can work negatively at times as I can sometimes become obsessive. I'm working so hard on enjoying the game and not letting things get me down. I think that when you are given things to deal with in life it completely changes your outlook in all aspects of it. On the days I keep my temper in check, I love to play and I feel much better about myself.
I am going to try and save as much money as I can over the winter for tournaments next year and I am actually going to take charge of myself and start taking myself seriously! I heard a great clip from the golf psychologist recently which simply says that if you don't feel confident, ''ACT AS IF'' you are. I have continually put myself down in front of others about my golf. I guess on some level it takes the pressure off me to play well. But what a negative thing to do, and I don't know anyone else who does this. Well, maybe one person who I should think knows who they are if they read this. So, I am endeavouring to live this way now. I am a professional golfer. I know myself that I deserve and have earned this status so why not start believing it?!
I have joined a gym again and am undertaking what I consider to be a major lifestyle overhaul. I've given up chocolate, I don't have sugar in my tea now, I am cutting the beer down although I like to leave this as a treat as I can do it in moderation anyway and I am exercising hard!! I want to lose over a stone in weight. I want to become stronger and I want to become fitter as this will make me more confident. The fact I'm a bit overweight has made me very self-conscious and to be honest I probably havent taken the care of myself that I should have done. So, this all changes now!!! I'd love to work on my golf technically over the winter but I still don't have anywhere in Tunbridge Wells to do this so I'm not really sure how to tackle that one.
I aim to finish the year on a high. After an extremely low beginning to the year personally, if I can finish the year with my PGA qualification and as a qualified dispenser, I would consider that a successful year. It would be streets ahead of last year. In all honesty if I could erase 2008 completely, I would! But, things are looking up now. I've got some exciting things coming up. Next week i'm going to see my favourite band Coldplay in London and the following week I am seeing the Stereophonics. In addition, I am seeing Ricky Gervais in December so there is a lot to look forward to.
My dispensary job is going to be exciting too over the next couple of months. We are moving in to a brand new surgery so this will be cool!!
Anyways, I've waffled on enough for this blog..........
I just love golf. I have done for 16 years now and will do for the rest of my life. I am driven very hard internally and am very clear on what I want to accomplish. The down days are horrible but they never put me off. All they do is spur me on to work harder - although this can work negatively at times as I can sometimes become obsessive. I'm working so hard on enjoying the game and not letting things get me down. I think that when you are given things to deal with in life it completely changes your outlook in all aspects of it. On the days I keep my temper in check, I love to play and I feel much better about myself.
I am going to try and save as much money as I can over the winter for tournaments next year and I am actually going to take charge of myself and start taking myself seriously! I heard a great clip from the golf psychologist recently which simply says that if you don't feel confident, ''ACT AS IF'' you are. I have continually put myself down in front of others about my golf. I guess on some level it takes the pressure off me to play well. But what a negative thing to do, and I don't know anyone else who does this. Well, maybe one person who I should think knows who they are if they read this. So, I am endeavouring to live this way now. I am a professional golfer. I know myself that I deserve and have earned this status so why not start believing it?!
I have joined a gym again and am undertaking what I consider to be a major lifestyle overhaul. I've given up chocolate, I don't have sugar in my tea now, I am cutting the beer down although I like to leave this as a treat as I can do it in moderation anyway and I am exercising hard!! I want to lose over a stone in weight. I want to become stronger and I want to become fitter as this will make me more confident. The fact I'm a bit overweight has made me very self-conscious and to be honest I probably havent taken the care of myself that I should have done. So, this all changes now!!! I'd love to work on my golf technically over the winter but I still don't have anywhere in Tunbridge Wells to do this so I'm not really sure how to tackle that one.
I aim to finish the year on a high. After an extremely low beginning to the year personally, if I can finish the year with my PGA qualification and as a qualified dispenser, I would consider that a successful year. It would be streets ahead of last year. In all honesty if I could erase 2008 completely, I would! But, things are looking up now. I've got some exciting things coming up. Next week i'm going to see my favourite band Coldplay in London and the following week I am seeing the Stereophonics. In addition, I am seeing Ricky Gervais in December so there is a lot to look forward to.
My dispensary job is going to be exciting too over the next couple of months. We are moving in to a brand new surgery so this will be cool!!
Anyways, I've waffled on enough for this blog..........
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