{"id":871,"date":"2019-01-04T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T10:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=871"},"modified":"2021-12-08T08:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T08:36:28","slug":"871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Get Fit or Die Trying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly slightly melodramatic, but that\u2019s about the long and short of where I am at the moment. The usual glut of Facebook memories over the new year period, plus finding a load of photos from roughly ten years ago, have really brought in to stark contrast just how far things have slid in the wrong direction!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_3207.jpg\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been slim built, at a towering 5ft 9in I\u2019ve never been tall for my age but a sturdy build still saw me play most of my school rugby as a forward, initially front row then latterly as a flanker. Other hobbies like mountain biking and skiing also fitted having powerful legs, even today with not a hint of gym work, my legs are big. The problem is, everything including my legs have a fair bit of padding that wasn\u2019t there before. This was really highlighted in 2017 when I was in Las Vegas for the SEMA car convention. As ever, we were regularly doing 25,000 steps a day and I was at the heaviest I\u2019ve ever been; 99.5kg \/ 219lbs. Frankly, it was brutal. At the start of 2011, I was 80kg \/ 175lbs, and walking around in the 20 degree heat of Las Vegas, I felt every single one of those extra pounds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With marriage on the cards for 2018, I lost some weight. The success of this was somewhat muted when I raced in the C1 Cup at Rockingham in early September. Whilst I have raced without problems at my elevated weight plenty of times in the Scottish MINI Cooper Cup, those are sprint races of no more than ten minutes usually. With a conspiracy of safety cars and mechanical issues in the C1, I ended up doing just over an hour, taking the car to the flag. In temperatures getting on for 25 degrees outside the car, I was suffering inside. There was also the penalty in overall performance, at 20kg heavier than our lightest team member, that meant I was running 20kg heavier all race, which is not insignificant in a car which only produces 70hp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So here we are, start of 2019:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>92.7kg on the scales<\/li>\n<li>30.18 BMI [obese territory but BMI is largely nonsense]<\/li>\n<li>31.3% fat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where are we going? Well, there\u2019s more to it than just weight, my aerobic fitness has also dropped off a cliff and needs work also. Target over the next 3 months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>80kg on the scales<\/li>\n<li>26.0 BMI<\/li>\n<li>&lt;20% fat<\/li>\n<li>Able to run on the treadmill at speed 9 for greater than ten minutes without being sick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll save the topless pics for my personal horror at present&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_3115-1.png\" class=\"size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_3116-1.png\" class=\"size-full\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possibly slightly melodramatic, but that\u2019s about the long and short of where I am at the moment. The usual glut of Facebook memories over the new year period, plus finding a load of photos from roughly ten years ago, have really brought in to stark contrast just how far things have slid in the wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,29],"tags":[45,31,32],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}