I'm going to start watching my weight.
I've always kept an eye on it, but now I want to track it in detail, for a while at least. Mainly to work out what I should be aiming for. Because right now it's just aimlessly going up.
I tell myself I'm putting on muscle. I have become a pullup and kettlebell maniac, after all. But isn't that always what we say when we put on weight?
I'm definitely stronger than a few years ago. But I'm sure I've added a bit of unnecessary fat as well. Or maybe it's not unnecessary? That's what I want to find out.
When I left school, a weighed around 70kg.
When I started running more competitively (I mean entering races and training more as I never really stopped running after high school), in my late 20s, I weighed over 80kg.
I actually ran pretty good times then, even though I'd just started training more. I was fatter, but I had a lot more speed and power. Youth was on my side too, though.
Then at around 33 or 34, I did a lot of yoga and fasting, and my weight dropped below 70kg. This was when I ran my fastest times, but I don't know if it was the weight loss or the training --- I had some good patches of training at this time.
From then my weight hovered between 70 and 73kg mark. I then dropped a lot of weight around 2014, to 67kg, I think.
Then it hung around 72/73kg until 2019.
From 2019 to now, I've steadily climbed up to 75/76kg.
My weight now might be ideal for what I'm doing --- maybe I could be a bit lighter and faster, but I feel strong and robust.
Anyway, I'm going to follow my weight more closely, along with some other metrics like body fat, to see if I can work out if I'm healthiest (i.e. running fast but feeling strong) around my current weight or in the 72/73 range.
This will mean taking some measures and trying to drop a bit of weight while maintaining strength and robustness.
I don't know if the 70kg mark is feasible or even desirable. I'd probably have to give up too much strength.
