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I have decided to start a new fitness regime - again. I have cancelled my gym membership as I just wasn't going, I think because I had to haul my kit all the way to work and back to go after work.

So I bought a book, "The Official British Army Fitness Guide", and i am going to try and follow it over the next few months. It obviously tells you how the Army gets their soldiers fit, and it does not need a full gym or very much equipment at all. Uses a lot of personal body weight as the resistence. They give you full instructions on how to do the exercises, and a warm up and cool down programme, then 3 levels of full exercise programmes which take 12 weeks each. I am so starting on the easiest level. Apparently by the end of the 3rd level you are at the same level as a trained soldier.

It may take me longer than the 36 weeks to get there. I tried some of the tests they suggest to check your fitness level before beginning. 1 of them was as many press ups as possible in 2 minutes, rests in between are fine. So 25 press ups later and I am totally done in. And today I am in pain. Sore arms, sore shoulders and even sore down my sides. This is just a test?! how the heck am I going to manage the whole programme?

Today I wore my pedometer to work to see how much exercise I am getting daily. Just walking to the station, between trains and then to the office took me to over 3500 steps. Pretty good. it also tells me that is approx 2.6km, and I burned 233 calories. Not sure if it can tell the difference of walking up hill cause I must use more energy going up that evil hill on the way home from work.

Tonight I have to try and complete the tests, as many sit ups in 2 minutes and a 2.4km run. Wonder if I will survive?