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Wednesday Day 3 of my bootcamp week. 3 mile cycle to get to and from PT Ihr beach workout with PT mostly sprints but some burpees, jumping and planks 1hr piyo class

Crazy Tuesday and day 2 of my bootcamp week. 60min session with my trainer. Stair workout with an additional 1.6 miles of sprints (some on flat some hill) 45 zumba Played with benching trying to work out what weight I need for muscular endurance style lifting rather than the pure strength I have been doing. 10min play on…

After having used one for the first time today, I'd say an assault/air bike gives pretty good full body workout. I managed 100Cal in just over 10min ETA also a good quality rower. Apart from running rowing is my go to cardio, very easy to vary the workout. I do tabata style sometimes, other times I do longer intervals. I…

Don't quote me but I believe that targets the glutes more than conventional squats, pretty much like doing chair squats

Today was the first day of a bootcamp week with my trainer. 1hr of PT mon to fri, plus classes plus extra home workouts at the weekend, with a personalised meal plan. PT this morning was trx focussing on upper body and core. While it was nice that my legs had chance to recover from yesterday's half, it did mean my arms,…

Slow your run down, then slow it down some more, even if that means you're barely going faster than walking. It's not really about distance atm so much as time running

Sunday Just the little matter of a half marathon today

Saturday. Active rest ....blah 20min easy paced run Stretching and foam rolling ready for my 11th race of the year...clacton half

@middlehaitch I literally started with just the bit of the step you put on the risers, so maybe 2 inches, then put one set of risers on, then 2.... Meanwhile my PT had me working on explosive power by jumping up flights of stairs. You will get there and the feeling when you do is unbelievable. Someone videoed my first ever…

Very much this. I marathon trained at the beginning of the year and bulked at the same time. I mostly bulked because it is far, far easier to recover from long runs in a surplus. (I'm a 5'1" 148lb female and was eating anything between 2500 and 3500 Calories a day and put on around 10lb in 4 months. Half marathon training…

Friday - yayday Taking it fairly easy today, got a half on Sunday followed by a bootcamp week with my trainer (seriously intense with an hour of training a day plus classes plus home/solo workouts plus meal plan) 30 min being stretched out by trainer, painful but I know I feel so much better after 2mile easy/recovery run…

Hmmm well I could manage to recover from heavy leg days until I was up to about 16miles then I just wasn't recovering from everything and I had to cut the weights right down. I continued heavy upper body right up until the last month of training, but squats and deadlifts I dropped right to about 50% of the weights I was…

Thursday 30min trx session with trainer, pretty much full body 6 mile easy pace run 45 min circuits class - lots of running and burpees

My PT is fabulous, a right cow and really horrible to me, but at the same time lovely and really motivating. I need that being shouted at and pushed right out of my comfort zone, if I wanted to stay in my comfort zone and just work out then I wouldn't need a trainer. I have been lucky though, and while her style works for…

Pretty quiet Wednesday for me. 1hr with trainer. 30min of sprints followed by 30min stair workout. Everything was screaming by the end. 1hr piyo class. Really love the timing of this class. I'm usually feeling pretty beat up after the craziness that is Tuesday and by the end of piyo I feel all stretched out

My trainer gets me to put my hands at my head (prisoner/hindu squat) when my form for bodyweight squats is slipping (usually when I'm feeling tired). It forces me in to a more upright position and just helps stop me being lazy. I can do perfectly good form squats without having hands at side of head, but i do tend to get…

Crazy Tuesday- my favourite day of the week. No PT today, got an hour tomorrow to make up for it. Around 3miles bike rides to get here and there. 45 min zumba class Gym workout 15minute run on treadmill, 1.5miles so quite fast for me 10 min on spin bike, doing standing hill climb intervals. Main workout was a pyramid…

I work in kg but my numbers are very similar, except for squats, but I'm getting back up to the 75kg slowly but surely after taking time off to concentrate on running. Bench 56kg (123lb) tested 1rpm, 50kgx3 (110lb) Squat 75kg (165lb) 1 rpm pr, currently 45kgx5 (99lb) OHP 35kg (77lb) 1rpm pr, 30kgx5 (66lb) DL 99.5kg (219lb)…

I don't do actual crossfit, but I do do a lot of crossfit style workouts with my PT (and on my own as I keep a record of my favourite workouts), and I love the style of workout and the competitiveness of trying to beat the number of rounds I did last time, or the time it took me. But I also have sessions with my PT where…

For me if I run slower I can run for a lot longer, meaning I can cover a much longer distance in a much longer time without tanking out. eg, If I'm sprinting I can maybe last a minute before I feel like I'm dying and I have to stop. If I'm doing a threshold interval, then 10 min is my max at Tempo 30min is my max then I…

If you've not finished c25k then you are way off of doing tempo runs, etc. I would graduate c25k and then maybe do c210k before thinking about this sort of plan (unless you are training for a specific event and then you would need to follow a plan for that distance. Strength training though is good to add in, if running is…

Get Moving Monday 20min easy paced run 30 min session with trainer, not sure what actually happened to get moving Monday. Straight in with a rather hellish hill sprint session with additional squats, push ups, lunges and planks Bowling with my boys 30 min tabata 45 min barbell School holidays are really cutting in to my…

Right I have eds type 3 and there's a lot of Can'ts there that eventually you can turn to cans. When I started out I was on tramadol 3x daily, used crutches to walk across a room and couldn't get myself off the floor. Now I occasionally take a low dose of codeine and I run marathons. Yes I do still live with a background…

Sunday- active rest 6mile family hike, with stop offs for den building, blackberrying and ice cream 1 mile run

Friday. No class this morning. 30min session with trainer, upper body trx, specifically chest and back. Think that the new challenge is pull ups. I do want to be able to do at least one unassisted, but trx pull ups are really hard, did 3 sets of 10 among the other exercises. While my boys were roller skating downstairs at…

Thursday 60min session with trainer. So she took me right out of my comfort zone to a gym trail in the woods. I have a huge fear of heights, and she once more tried to get me to conquer that fear (not get rid of it, just not let it beat me). Let's just say I had some choice words to say at the top of a wooden frame when…

Chilled out wednesday. 6am sprints with my trainer, 30min working on increasing distance I'm sprinting for 1hr piyo class, really starting to appreciate this class especially as I usually getting beasted pretty bad on a Tuesday (I generally partner the instructor in boxercise so get to do double bubble, or if her usual…

Me too, only I dont want to be noticed and try hard not to grunt. But when I'm in heavy week and lifting near my max I cant help it. Plus my trainer actually gets me to make a noise sometimes so I work on breathing at the right time

Crazy, crazy Tuesday 30min stair workout with trainer 45min Zumba 5/3/1 cycle 3 week 3 squats and shoulder press, finished off with 5x10 box jumps (I'm adding these at the end of most workouts at that gym to build confidence) 20min treadmill run 45min Insanity class 50min boxercise class

Get moving Monday 30min with trainer, lower body trx, focusing on glutes and hips 2.5hours roller skating with my boys 1.6 miles treadmill intervals 30min tabata 45min barbell