Another day another dollar.

That’s what they say anyway – unfortunately ’tis not so.

I went to the gym after work. It was busy but it was negotiable, which makes a huge difference. I spent 5 minutes on the cross-trainer then did my usual bloodflow routine to warm up then got on with it!

5x

8x chest press at 31kg

8x leg press at 51kg

8x shoulder press at 17kg

8x seated row at 51kg

Between sets I did:

Squat jumps (15 after the first set, 12 after the second, 9 after the third etc, 6, 3)

Bounce press ups off a wall (15, 12, 9, 6, 3)

Burpees (15 [I nearly died], 12, 9, 6, 3)

30 second plank.

Suffice to say that I had quite a sweat on by the end of the session!

Now some of you may be wondering why I do the plyometric sets between my strength sets. There’s a few reasons for this:

1. I have been warned that strength training can be quite boring. This keeps me interested!
2. Netball gains. It helps build my explosive power for those jumps (I’m short) and helps to develop joint stability in my ankles and knees.
3. It keeps my muscles guessing about what’s coming next! Plus, it’s a good way of keeping my heart rate up if I’m waiting to use a machine.

Peace out/

Being Accountable like I promised….

Tomorrow I will go to the gym in the morning. If the pool has lanes I will also swim. I think it will – but I can’t find my timetable. Lol oops.

Monday I will go to the gym after work. Depending on what time I get there and how much work I have I may or may not swim.

Tuesday I am booked in to yoga. Expect to be told how I fell over/couldn’t lick my elbow.

Wednesday: Gym (and a swim?) after work.

Thursday: Kettlebells.

Confession: I ate an entire Easter egg today and have no regrets. 

I did Pilates today.

I started pilates in mid October and did it until the end of the University term (early December). I really liked it. I was nervous at first that it would be like yoga and that I would really suck at it but no. It is not like yoga.

I liked pilates because whilst it increases flexibility – it doesn’t rely on you being ridiculously flexible before you get there (trust me – it is really embarrassing when you’re twenty-something and are proud of being able to touch your toes only to realise that the pensioner next to you has her forehead on her knees…).

Anyway I stopped for quite a while because netball was taking up a lot of evenings and I needed the other evenings to get my head around my new job. But I decided that I would give it another go tonight.

How other people look doing pilates:

How I look when doing pilates:

It was nice to get back into it. She had a very different approach to my previous instructor who had a lot more focus on building up to each move with flows within the session, but nothing I can’t get on board with. I definitely felt like I’d worked harder in this lady’s class.

It put me off how busy the class was though, it’s hard to concentrate properly when you have someone else’s foot or hand in your face. So I’m going to try the Sunday morning class at some point to see if that’s less busy.

Peace out.