First day in Chiang mai:

Yesterday we landed Back in Chiang Mai, Thailand. After finishing our SE asia route, we’ve decided to settle somewhere for a month to get back into healthy habits and routines As travelling makes It very difficult to exercise regularly and since beer is so cheap here (cheapest beer we found was 13kVND = 0.34p) it’s hard to not become abit of a fat slob. 🫃🏻

Weve already been to Thailand and loved Chiang mai so that was our location of choice. We have a very nice top floor apartment - questionable residents also occupying lower floors though. Last night when we got in the lift another resident was also in there, he was going to the 18th floor already and were the one above and as he was man marking the buttons i decided to wait until he got out to press our selected floor. I got weird vibes from this man on the way up, I’m not one to judge (I most definitely am, but also my gut feeling is rarely wrong) he was standing right over the buttons looking very sus and as he got out he pressed floor 1 to send us all the way back down?! As I pressed 19 the lift was already in ‘down’ mode so we quickly hoped out and walked the last floor. But what a lovely welcome that is!

Anyway we had lovely mountain Views to wake up to and then headed to the local market where we were pleasantly surprised how kind the locals were and how cheap it was! For less than £10 we got 30 eggs, 2 dragon fruits, 2 mangos, 4 oranges, bunch of bananas, bag of garlic, bag of chilli’s, 2 peppers, 3 tomatoes 1 broccoli and a bunch of lemon grass.

We’re now headed to get a moped as it’s essential here for independence.

This evening We will start our fitness plan. (Thanks chat gpt)

SAT 16 MAY — TRACK + COREWarm Up

• 5 min easy jog
• Dynamic leg swings
• Hip openers
• A-skips/high knees

Run

• 5 × 400m at controlled hard pace
• Rest: 90 sec walk/jog
• Finish with 1km easy jog

Core + Calisthenics

• Hanging knee raises — 3×12
• Push ups — 3×15
• Assisted dips — 3×10
• Hollow body hold — 3×30 sec
• Deep squat mobility — 5 mins