Project 99 – Focus & Plan
I already announced it a few weeks ago, Project 99! The new year has come and it’s time to start again. The holiday’s are over and it’s time to focus. It’s time to start with Project 99.
Why another project? Well, everything is a project these days. If it has and end-goal, it’s a project. And what’s better then to give a good name to it to get inspired when you think about it.
The number 99 stands for 99 kilo’s. One of my first focus points during this project is health, and with health you also think about a healthy body. In 2009 I did a lot of food and sports experiments to figure out the last pieces of the puzzle and I think I’m now ready for it. I guess I was 19 years old when I still weighted in the double digit range, and it’s time to get back there.
So the goal of P99 is the weigh less then 100 kilo’s, which is a big task for me. And it wouldn’t be a real Jorg project if it didn’t have some interesting sub-goals in it.
The different focus points of the project can be found in:
- Cardiovascular training (running, swimming, cycling)
- Weight lifting
- Nutrition
- Specific sports (snowboarding, freediving)
I’ve set some interesting goals for the coming months. So I’ll write them down below.
The project starts on Monday January 4th and will end after 24 weeks. That’s is June 20th, the time I want to run a marathon. It’s all divided like this:
- Total time 24 weeks
- 2 cycles of 12 weeks
- Each 12 week cycle consists of 3 x 4 weeks schedules
- And each 4 week schedule is divided in weeks
- which are then divided in days.
So in total I work with day, week, 4week, cycle plans. And every next step can change due to the fact where I am the day before. This way I don’t set a fixed schedule that isn’t flexible to changing circumstances.
Weight
In the first 12 week cycle I want to reach a weight of max 109,9 kilo’s. Monday morning I will weigh myself, so then I know I much I have to lose. This way I have another 12 weeks to do the really hard part of another 10 kilo’s that I have to loose.
Cardiovascular Training
I’ve set some separate goals for each different discipline below:
Running
At the end of the first cycle I want to do a half marathon and at the end of the second cycle a full marathon. In between I will do some additional competition runs to get used to it.
Swimming
I’ve also got the goal to do a 10k swim this year. But I first want to do the first month before I do something concrete with this. The first half year is already pretty exciting like it is.
Cycling
Somewhere I also want to pick up cycling, so that my goals of doing a triathlon can be accomplished. Furthermore, it would be great to do the Alpe d’Huez one day… so who knows.
Weight lifting
A month ago I started with weight lifting again. This is so much part of me as a person that I just can’t live without it. I just love to lift heavy weights and I will probably never stop doing so.
For the first 12 week cycle I will build up my strength again and the end goal for the second big cycle is to be pretty close to some old personal best again AND to train at the new Shark Sports facility.
Nutrition
After a lot of experiments in 2009 with nutrition and some other body hacks, I’m now ready to make some permanent changes to my eating habits. It’s time to switch to Paleo again and start out some veggie tests as well.
Specific Sports
The sports that I do that aren’t for a general purpose like losing weight, except only to have fun and enjoy it are snowboarding and freediving. Both sports give me so much pleasure. If the general goal is reached during this project the performances in both sports will for sure improve big time. So some specific goals would be fun as well. As I don’t compete in snowboarding I just keep this sport as a purely ‘have fun’ goal.
Freediving goals are more clear. 4 minute static in water, 100 meter dynamic with fins and a 75 meter dynamic without fins before the end of the project.
On Monday it starts and I will then publish the somewhat more concrete schedule for that day.