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Friday. 30min personal training, hills and upper body, yay, just what I needed after leg day yesterday. Legs, bums and tums- ok my legs are no starting feel put upon and picked on. Someone is enjoying that look of pain on my face far too much. Pull up work. - continuing in my quest of pull ups. Started with some lightish…
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Thursday. 1hr personal training session, proper leg burner on the stairs. I've been proper on it this week, really focused and able to take everything she's thrown at me. Today though, was hard. Leg day I do love leg day, although I've now named it "no pain no gain leg day". Kept my routine the same as the last few weeks…
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Wednesday No PT today but I had instructions to go out and run. So I did. Total I'd 3.8 miles run. First run was 2 miles tempo, supposed to have been 3.1 but I got an important phone call. Idea was I ran as fast as I could for as long as I could and then dialed it back for a minute to recover and then rinse and repeat.…
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Tuesday Omg a tough day exercise wise. Having some rl issues and tough exercise helps. 30min Session with personal trainer, a trx/abs circuit with absolutely no rest. She also showed me how to set up my trx and how to set up a resistance band for assisted pull ups. Because that's the new challenge, to finally master both…
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Yay its monday. Mentally been a bad place the last few days so I took it out on the gym. Started with a 30min sprint session with my PT, and she pushed me hard. Then took myself to the gym. Started with 20min very high effort on the rower. Didnt look at pace, had dampener on 6 and simply pulled as hard as I could keeping…
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My all out sprint is around 6min/mile and I can keep that up for 30sec maximum. Marathon pace is more like 13min/mile
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Sunday- I know it's supposed to be active rest but was feeling stressed and I didnt do much more than usual. 5min row to warm up Round 49 of PiYo Live - this is a tough one and I'm working on mastering flips. 2.5km progressive treadmill run (actually took less time than my hill loop from last month. 2500m rower cool down…
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I did 75000+ steps the day I ran London marathon. That included getting there (around 10000 steps before I even got to the start line) and back. But I have little legs, I always say I run the equivalent of 1.5 marathons compared to people with normal size legs, and 2-3 marathons compared to the elite athletes with their…
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Two and a bit years of maintenance, first year recomping, second year bulk and cutting. Theres actually around 4lb difference in weight, but I can see a massive difference in body composition, size and the amount of loose skin (I've lost a total of 147lb).
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Saturday Cycle to and from bootcamp - around 7miles altogether. Managed to get an 8th place trophy on strava which isn't bad considering it was in to the wind and my bike isn't exactly a racing bike, in fact it's just a commuting bike. Bootcamp - lots of running and far too many burpees. DOMS kicked in massively during the…
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Friday. No PT today and my usual class wasnt on either so I went to a couple of classes included in my gym membership (that had been set up in direct competition to the classes I usually go to) Hiit - hmm I seemed to spend a lot of time jogging on the spot waiting for everyone else to finish. Not exactly what I would call…
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Thursday...tough on the legs today. Started the day with PT and as the climax of my 30 days of Coxs Hill challenge, I pulled her up the hill. Ridiculously hard, my legs and lungs were burning by the top. Then went to the gym for leg day. Same workout as last week, but all sets upped by one rep. Plus added squats @40kg.…
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Pigeon pose is fab for hips (and glutes and outer thigh)
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I dont do any stair climbing events, but a do a stair workout once a week with my trainer. It involves running up the flight of stairs, sometimes one stair at a time, then 2 stairs. Up to 2 down 1. Squat jumping up, burpeeing up. Lunging, press ups and god knows what else.
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Deadlifts, donkey kicks, various squats, single leg push downs, more deadlifts. And as you're a runner, running up hills
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Wednesday 30min early morning session with my trainer. Mix of trx and sprints. Mini tri workout set by my trainer. 1000m row 7km bike 3km run (yep you guessed it taking in my hill, only one more time to go up it this month) 2 mile Walk down to class. PiYo Zumba
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I do piyo, 3-4x a week, one live class and then workouts from the beachbody apps. Atm I'm loving the flow sections to get a full body stretch and my favourite actual stretches are pigeon (I get tight hips/glutes as a runner) and dancer. Although straddle also feels good
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Personally I wouldnt take rest days from walking unless it was 20miles plus but I walk 13+ miles on a daily basis (no car and walk or run everywhere). But rest days are important, that doesn't mean you have to do nothing on rest days, it's all relative. I'm usually crazy active mon-sat and then Sunday I have a stretch…
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Yay it's crazy Tuesday 30min session with trainer, a mix of core work and hill suicides. Felt really hardcore after a really easy weekend Zumba 2hours of upper body, benching plus shoulders and arms. Its half term and I've got to somehow get 3 weight training sessions compressed to 2 so this was a lot longer than usual.…
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6-7 days a week (if you count a 20min easy run as a workout, which I don't) I run anything between 1.5 and 13.1 miles 7 days a week. I train with a PT 4-5x week I go to around 10 classes a week. I strength train 3x week And I stretch (and do piyo) 3-5x a week. Average around 2.5hrs a day mon-sat with Tuesday my really…
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Monday. It's my PTs birthday and she had the cheek to take the day off so no training or classes. (Also my little boys birthday, so we spent the day together). All I've done today is a 20min easy run taking in my challenge hill
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Thanks. I've been working hard on form over the last couple of.months as I couldn't use much force. I'm extremely short, with little legs but try and get full range. I know what you mean though about people who dont move much, there was a lady doing 45 strokes a min on level 1, but was doing 4min/500m moving in a range of…
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I've been going really easy in the rower thanks to my elbow. Last night was the first time I'd put effort in. Unfortunately the rower itself.is not the best maintained and very old. I usually have the dampener on 8, anything lower and I can't get a smooth action as it feels like I'm pulling on air.
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Sunday. Active rest, well sort of. Total of 19min on the rower. Dampener on 6, but high effort. 14min to warm up and another 5min to cool down. Really working on form and putting a lot more strength in to it. Elbow felt good which is why I decided to try pulling harder than I have been. May even be ready to restart…
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Saturday. Cycled to and from bootcamp - total of around 7miles and somehow got a 10th place trophy on a segment. Really not sure how, considering it was in to the wind on my very much not racing or mountain bike, that I bought purely to get from a to b. Bootcamp - quite enjoyed this morning, we did some sprint relay races…
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Friday. 60min early morning session with personal trainer. Started with a new running challenge that we started last week. 0.4mile run (was supposed to be 0.4km but someone changed it to miles), 50 squat jumps, 0.4mile run, 50 press ups, 0.4mile run, 50 sit ups. Last week it took me 25 minutes today it took 18, obviously I…
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Thursday. 30min sprints with trainer, she really ramped the pressure up today, had me chasing her, and then she chased me. Managed to spike my pace at an unheard of <4:30 Leg day. Yay still relatively light but really enjoying getting a full on leg day in. Deep barbell squats 6@20/22.5/25/27.5/30/32.5/35/37.5kg Deadlifts…
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I can hold warrior 3 (on one leg) for around 2 minutes. Tree I can hold for around minute
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I have a 6yo who really wants to be doing weights with me but my trainer has told him he needs to weight till he's 14. Instead he does the bodyweight exercises and stretches that I do. So he does body weight squats, lunges etc. Plus he goes to gymnastics and does piyo and yoga stances. Oh and he runs with me.
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Wednesday Bench : decided it was time to start pushing the weights a little. Started out with 3 sets of 10 at 25kg, down for count of 3, hold for 3, up for count of 3. Then sets of 5, going up 2.5kg a set until I hit 40kg. Ok not quite back where I was but getting there. 30min cardio, rower and stair master 3mile run -…
