Yesterday was a pretty lazy day - lots of work to catch up on sitting at the pc.
Hit the gym this morning though, pushed myself a little bit, but was really struggling, so didn't push too hard.
Covered 1.5km in 15 mins on the treadmill again, and then did 5 mins on the rowing machine to just get my arms moving a bit!
Upper body strength is my real weakness at the moment, so I decided today to mainly just focus on that. I did pressups, the fist and the fury, and dumbbell squats. I moved up to 5kg dumbbells (mainly because the 4kgs were missing), so did end up having to push pretty hard at the end of the sets to get through it, but I got there in the end, feeling a bit disappointed that I hadn't done better.
I know every workout isn't going to be epic and I am gonna have days when I just find it harder than others, so I'm not going to beat myself up for not doing quite as well as on Monday, but I am going to work harder again next time I'm there!
Tomorrow I'm going to be outdoors shooting nudes, so that's going to be a different sort of challenge - but I guess I'd better get used to being dirty and wet!
I'm hitting the gym again on Monday, though if others are up for going swimming on Sunday as well, I wont pass up the chance to join them!
Friday, 24 February 2012
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Past few days
Ok, so not a great start in keeping this updated every time I workout - ooooops!! Well, I'll just recap what i've done since my last post.
Saturday was definately not good for the diet - went to the cinema and had pick and mix, then a huge pub meal! Not ideal, but I'm not starving myself constantly, and it is increasingly rare that I splash out quite that much!
Sunday was a family day, we spent a good couple of hours waking in the woods - combined with some bursts of sprinting as we raced to a tree, and then climbing the tree when we got there!
Monday - Went to the gym and walked/ran for 15 mins - covered 1.5km. Then 10 mins on random level 4 on the cross trainer (burning about 95 calories). Then I tackled the tough mudder circuit, in a fashion. I struggle to do simple pushups at the moment, so I did 1 min of them, and then didn't do any of the other push up style exercises... so, in order i did
1 min of pushups
45 seconds on each arm of the fist and the fury with a 4kg ball
1 min of back row using 4kg dumbbells
1 min of dumbbell side lunge (same weights)
1 min of lunge + twist with a 4kg ball
1 min of shoulder press (4kg in each hand)
2 x 20second plank
2 x 20 second side plank
1 min tough squat (6kg)
On tues I was definately still feeling the ache in my arms and legs, not painful, just a gentle reminder of the work i'd put in on monday. I didn't workout on tues, but did an hour and a half of vigorous housework - lots of running up and down stairs carrying hoovers etc!!
Yesterday I was out shooting, so spend most of the 7 hours we were out walking at a moderate pace, mainly on roads. I probably burnt a lot of calories with the walking, but it was probably negated by all the vodka and diet coke I was drinking through the day, and the chicken burger I got when I got home.
One of my biggest struggles (especially when I'm working) is actually eating enough of the right stuff. I can quite often have a snack box of raisins for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and a ready meal and bread for dinner. If i'm in the studio, or out shooting, it's even worse then - a bacon roll for breakfast, and then I get through most of the day on caffine, and have a takeaway in the evening.
I really need to start focussing on making sure I fuel my body enough and regularly, because otherwise, there's just no way it's going to cope with training otherwise.
Saturday was definately not good for the diet - went to the cinema and had pick and mix, then a huge pub meal! Not ideal, but I'm not starving myself constantly, and it is increasingly rare that I splash out quite that much!
Sunday was a family day, we spent a good couple of hours waking in the woods - combined with some bursts of sprinting as we raced to a tree, and then climbing the tree when we got there!
Monday - Went to the gym and walked/ran for 15 mins - covered 1.5km. Then 10 mins on random level 4 on the cross trainer (burning about 95 calories). Then I tackled the tough mudder circuit, in a fashion. I struggle to do simple pushups at the moment, so I did 1 min of them, and then didn't do any of the other push up style exercises... so, in order i did
1 min of pushups
45 seconds on each arm of the fist and the fury with a 4kg ball
1 min of back row using 4kg dumbbells
1 min of dumbbell side lunge (same weights)
1 min of lunge + twist with a 4kg ball
1 min of shoulder press (4kg in each hand)
2 x 20second plank
2 x 20 second side plank
1 min tough squat (6kg)
On tues I was definately still feeling the ache in my arms and legs, not painful, just a gentle reminder of the work i'd put in on monday. I didn't workout on tues, but did an hour and a half of vigorous housework - lots of running up and down stairs carrying hoovers etc!!
Yesterday I was out shooting, so spend most of the 7 hours we were out walking at a moderate pace, mainly on roads. I probably burnt a lot of calories with the walking, but it was probably negated by all the vodka and diet coke I was drinking through the day, and the chicken burger I got when I got home.
One of my biggest struggles (especially when I'm working) is actually eating enough of the right stuff. I can quite often have a snack box of raisins for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and a ready meal and bread for dinner. If i'm in the studio, or out shooting, it's even worse then - a bacon roll for breakfast, and then I get through most of the day on caffine, and have a takeaway in the evening.
I really need to start focussing on making sure I fuel my body enough and regularly, because otherwise, there's just no way it's going to cope with training otherwise.
Saturday, 18 February 2012
A New Blog
Ok, so this is my new blog!!! I am keeping it separate from my main blog so a) i dont bore my regular readers and b) i dont scare new readers!!
This blog is going to (hopefully) chart my training from being someone who hasn't run further than to the bus stop since I was at school (over a decade ago) to someone who completes the Sheffield Tough Mudder in 2013.
I plan on getting a personal trainer to help me along with my training, but I am starting to build a run into my gym workouts at the moment, and seeing just how many of the exercises on the tough mudder website I totally fail at at the moment!!
I am also going to keep a vague track of my diet on here, but if you want to support me more in that area - I have a my fitnesspal account which i'm more than happy to share the details of if anyone is interested. I try to keep a good track of my food intake on there every day - if i dont, it's probably because i'm eating too much!!
So, I hit the gym yesterday on the treadmill to start with, where I covered 1.5km in 15 mins (that included a 5 min walking warmup, and 5 mins solid running!). Then 10 mins on the cross trainer.
I did some dumbbell curls and hammer lifts, then decided to see how long I could hold a plank position (the website says hold for a full 60 seconds) I managed 30 seconds, twice, with a few seconds downtime in between. Then finally I did squats on the balance ball, which killed my abs and my thighs are still feeling today.
This blog is going to (hopefully) chart my training from being someone who hasn't run further than to the bus stop since I was at school (over a decade ago) to someone who completes the Sheffield Tough Mudder in 2013.
I plan on getting a personal trainer to help me along with my training, but I am starting to build a run into my gym workouts at the moment, and seeing just how many of the exercises on the tough mudder website I totally fail at at the moment!!
I am also going to keep a vague track of my diet on here, but if you want to support me more in that area - I have a my fitnesspal account which i'm more than happy to share the details of if anyone is interested. I try to keep a good track of my food intake on there every day - if i dont, it's probably because i'm eating too much!!
So, I hit the gym yesterday on the treadmill to start with, where I covered 1.5km in 15 mins (that included a 5 min walking warmup, and 5 mins solid running!). Then 10 mins on the cross trainer.
I did some dumbbell curls and hammer lifts, then decided to see how long I could hold a plank position (the website says hold for a full 60 seconds) I managed 30 seconds, twice, with a few seconds downtime in between. Then finally I did squats on the balance ball, which killed my abs and my thighs are still feeling today.
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