not going to bother with anything but the facts:
i have had the flu for 8 weeks, have not worked out much at all in the last 3 weeks, went on a 5 night bender consuming copious amounts of alcohol which both destroyed my body and calorie intake but also meant there was no way i was physically able to do anything but wake up and go to work. it's all over red rover and we're back on the horse. cycle class at 6.05am tomorrow, get pumped.
Monday, 28 November 2011
Thursday, 3 November 2011
It never gets easier but you do get tougher.
This quote is definitely ringing true for me. Nothing is getting any easier any time soon, but I am getting fitter and more disciplined. Even though I have a super long way to go, I'm on the road and that's what counts! (bye bye tridaily crossiants in Paris)
Yesterday's workout what Bootcamp. Again, totally stoked that it is different every time. This was hardd with more running than usual I think. Or I found the running harder or something. Either way it was hard. My neck muscles and the muscles just below my neck were in a lot of pain as well, I think from the push presses from the day before, or perhaps the cleans. Either my technique was way off for the cleans and that's what has caused the pain OR I overdid the push presses OR none of the above and I just haven't used those muscles in a long time and forgot what it feels like for them to be sore. The bootcamp sesh was a whole lot of running, burpees, jump squats and running. We also have to do jack-knives several times which I realised I am completely crap at. Definitely need to improve.
Food intake:
half a bowl of fibre bites cereal
1 egg
tapas plate shared with Teek made by us (carrot sticks, celery, red capsicum, brie cheese and crackers and this freaking goddamn amazing dip that I could eat forever made of avodaco, red onion and tomato)
Strawberries
Bowl of Country Ladle chicken and corn soup
beans, asparagus, broccoli, corn and a pork chop for dinner
I walked from work to a different train station after work yesterday as well which was a nice way to wind down at the end of the day, it's 3km and took about half an hour or so. Maybe less, I wasn't paying enough attention.
ALSO I put a message out to some of my friends asking them if they were keen to start working out together at the park or the beach or something (mainly cos it's kind of boring by myself) and they all said they were keen! Which I was very excited about. The plan is to meet up twice a week, I'll plan the sessions and then we can all do it together. It is so much easier to get out of bed in the morning if you are meeting somebody so I am very pumped.
Yesterday's workout what Bootcamp. Again, totally stoked that it is different every time. This was hardd with more running than usual I think. Or I found the running harder or something. Either way it was hard. My neck muscles and the muscles just below my neck were in a lot of pain as well, I think from the push presses from the day before, or perhaps the cleans. Either my technique was way off for the cleans and that's what has caused the pain OR I overdid the push presses OR none of the above and I just haven't used those muscles in a long time and forgot what it feels like for them to be sore. The bootcamp sesh was a whole lot of running, burpees, jump squats and running. We also have to do jack-knives several times which I realised I am completely crap at. Definitely need to improve.
Food intake:
half a bowl of fibre bites cereal
1 egg
tapas plate shared with Teek made by us (carrot sticks, celery, red capsicum, brie cheese and crackers and this freaking goddamn amazing dip that I could eat forever made of avodaco, red onion and tomato)
Strawberries
Bowl of Country Ladle chicken and corn soup
beans, asparagus, broccoli, corn and a pork chop for dinner
I walked from work to a different train station after work yesterday as well which was a nice way to wind down at the end of the day, it's 3km and took about half an hour or so. Maybe less, I wasn't paying enough attention.
ALSO I put a message out to some of my friends asking them if they were keen to start working out together at the park or the beach or something (mainly cos it's kind of boring by myself) and they all said they were keen! Which I was very excited about. The plan is to meet up twice a week, I'll plan the sessions and then we can all do it together. It is so much easier to get out of bed in the morning if you are meeting somebody so I am very pumped.
urgent need to get stronger
If there is one thing I have realised in the last month, it's that I am freaking no where near as strong as I once was! I also need to stop caring about what was, and focus on how strong I can get. How philosophical of me..
I walked from home to Claremont train station in the morning, the plan had been to run there but the backpack I have always run with and had no problem with-was an absolute pain the ass. It was so annoying to run with that I could only run 50m at a time. And then walked for a few minutes and then another 50 run. Wasn't what I planned, but something at least.
In the afternoon, my sisters boyfriend Justin took me to his gym using a free pass in exchange for a lift home (although I got the free gym session and the lift home so I am not sure how that is an exchange?)
Work out 1:
Warm up: 1km row (second 500m was a sprint)
Tabata thrusters with 4kg dumbell in each hand (8kg)
Tabata sit ups
Tabata cleans with 10kg barbell
Tabata push presses (1st minute 8 kg, 2nd minute 6kg, 3rd minute 4kg, 4th minute 2kg)
This was fucking hard, but it just shows me how far I have to go with my weights. They are such small weights but at this stage its just the movements I am trying to get used to. I just have to make sure I am consistently training them so I can improve. Patience will be required (not my strong point).
That night played a game of mixed netball which was pretty fun. Good run around.
Food intake:
2 eggs for breakfast
5 cups of tea
3 small rice paper rolls
1 sausage sizzle (ooooopppsss)
handful of salt and vinegar almonds
lemon chicken and vegatables for dinner
icecream
I walked from home to Claremont train station in the morning, the plan had been to run there but the backpack I have always run with and had no problem with-was an absolute pain the ass. It was so annoying to run with that I could only run 50m at a time. And then walked for a few minutes and then another 50 run. Wasn't what I planned, but something at least.
In the afternoon, my sisters boyfriend Justin took me to his gym using a free pass in exchange for a lift home (although I got the free gym session and the lift home so I am not sure how that is an exchange?)
Work out 1:
Warm up: 1km row (second 500m was a sprint)
Tabata thrusters with 4kg dumbell in each hand (8kg)
Tabata sit ups
Tabata cleans with 10kg barbell
Tabata push presses (1st minute 8 kg, 2nd minute 6kg, 3rd minute 4kg, 4th minute 2kg)
This was fucking hard, but it just shows me how far I have to go with my weights. They are such small weights but at this stage its just the movements I am trying to get used to. I just have to make sure I am consistently training them so I can improve. Patience will be required (not my strong point).
That night played a game of mixed netball which was pretty fun. Good run around.
Food intake:
2 eggs for breakfast
5 cups of tea
3 small rice paper rolls
1 sausage sizzle (ooooopppsss)
handful of salt and vinegar almonds
lemon chicken and vegatables for dinner
icecream
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
waste of a day
food intake:
a few slices of chicken
ice cream
1 banana
1 bowl of Special K
handful of nuts and sultanas
Didn't work out today, umpired 4 games of netball tonight but that was it.
Today was crap in every way.
a few slices of chicken
ice cream
1 banana
1 bowl of Special K
handful of nuts and sultanas
Didn't work out today, umpired 4 games of netball tonight but that was it.
Today was crap in every way.
happy birthday boys!!
this post is for yesterday, for a moment there I thought I didn't work out yesterday but I did-I went to bootcamp!
It honestly felt like I was eating all day yesterday...ate out for every meal.
Breakfast: 2 poached eggs, a piece of bacon and half a hash brown
Lunch: Steak sandwich and chips (without the sandwich)(for more information about the side of chips, see below)
Dinner: Half a chocolate pizza, 1 piece of chicken and bacon pizza
October officially ended at midnight last night so that meant to I could drink alcohol again. The plan was to get pretty drunk but after 2 drinks I was done. I drank a vodka red bull that made me feel so disgustingly sick and then after that it was a jacks and coke. The red bull made me feel incredibly nauseas which further supports my theory that I am allergic to caffeine. I should ask my GP. This morning, I had an awful hangover -from just 2 drinks! My body was not used to the alcohol after a month without it and put it this way - this day was hell! I'm not saying I will never drink alcohol again but I sure won't drink as much as I did preOctober. I just don't think my body could cope with it honestly.
The bootcamp was harddddd but it was great because I had assumed that it would be the same as last Monday and therefore was dreading it all day because I knew what was coming. But as soon as we started I realised that it was different which was a great relief. It's so great not knowing what's coming because you have no time to think about it or anything. It's awesome just being able to totally switch off for an hour. It was a lot of running, a lot of burpees and a lot more running. I honestly never want to see a chip again, I regretted eating those chips with lunch soooo badly when I nearly vomited about 10 times during the session and tasted those chips again multiple times. Yuck yuck yuck.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM AND JACK!!!!
It honestly felt like I was eating all day yesterday...ate out for every meal.
Breakfast: 2 poached eggs, a piece of bacon and half a hash brown
Lunch: Steak sandwich and chips (without the sandwich)(for more information about the side of chips, see below)
Dinner: Half a chocolate pizza, 1 piece of chicken and bacon pizza
October officially ended at midnight last night so that meant to I could drink alcohol again. The plan was to get pretty drunk but after 2 drinks I was done. I drank a vodka red bull that made me feel so disgustingly sick and then after that it was a jacks and coke. The red bull made me feel incredibly nauseas which further supports my theory that I am allergic to caffeine. I should ask my GP. This morning, I had an awful hangover -from just 2 drinks! My body was not used to the alcohol after a month without it and put it this way - this day was hell! I'm not saying I will never drink alcohol again but I sure won't drink as much as I did preOctober. I just don't think my body could cope with it honestly.
The bootcamp was harddddd but it was great because I had assumed that it would be the same as last Monday and therefore was dreading it all day because I knew what was coming. But as soon as we started I realised that it was different which was a great relief. It's so great not knowing what's coming because you have no time to think about it or anything. It's awesome just being able to totally switch off for an hour. It was a lot of running, a lot of burpees and a lot more running. I honestly never want to see a chip again, I regretted eating those chips with lunch soooo badly when I nearly vomited about 10 times during the session and tasted those chips again multiple times. Yuck yuck yuck.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM AND JACK!!!!
Saturday, 29 October 2011
I love Mum
The best thing about Mum is that she is pretty much willing to do anything. She is happy to try new things, happy to push herself and just an allround amazing woman. We've been working out together a couple of times a week and today instead of going to our usual sunday cycle class we just went to the gym ourselves because she had to be somewhere at 10.30. I told her that she therefore had to promise to do everything I told her-and she did, without complaint!
We decided to do a fair bit on the bikes cos we were missing the class so that's what we did for the first half an hour.
Workout 1: (cycling)
20 seconds hard, 10 seconds light
10 rounds.
hard=gear 15, sprint
light=gear 10, recover
30 seconds hard=gear 18, standing
60 seconds sprint=gear 10, sitting
5 rounds
5 minutes hard, going up 2 gears each minute starting on gear 10 so finishing with a minute on gear 20
Workout 2:
9 sit ups with 6kg medicine ball
15 pushups
21 (don't actually know what these are, its a squat with dumbells and when you go down for the squat you bring the dumbells down to your shoulders and then as you go to standing position you push the dumbells above your head? THRUSTERS!!!!! Thanks Jack :) ) (started with 6kg each in each hand, made it for one round but then switched to 4kg in each hand. Seriously need to get stronger.)
As many rounds as possible in 10 minutes.
Result = 6 rounds and 3 sit ups
Workout 3:
100 calories on the crosstrainer (stupid machine, this was just compromise with mum)
500m row-sprint
Was totally buggered after these....were at the gym for just over an hour. Definitely got our moneys worth.
We decided to do a fair bit on the bikes cos we were missing the class so that's what we did for the first half an hour.
Workout 1: (cycling)
20 seconds hard, 10 seconds light
10 rounds.
hard=gear 15, sprint
light=gear 10, recover
30 seconds hard=gear 18, standing
60 seconds sprint=gear 10, sitting
5 rounds
5 minutes hard, going up 2 gears each minute starting on gear 10 so finishing with a minute on gear 20
Workout 2:
9 sit ups with 6kg medicine ball
15 pushups
21 (don't actually know what these are, its a squat with dumbells and when you go down for the squat you bring the dumbells down to your shoulders and then as you go to standing position you push the dumbells above your head? THRUSTERS!!!!! Thanks Jack :) ) (started with 6kg each in each hand, made it for one round but then switched to 4kg in each hand. Seriously need to get stronger.)
As many rounds as possible in 10 minutes.
Result = 6 rounds and 3 sit ups
Workout 3:
100 calories on the crosstrainer (stupid machine, this was just compromise with mum)
500m row-sprint
Was totally buggered after these....were at the gym for just over an hour. Definitely got our moneys worth.
gnaaaarrrrrrrrllllyyyy
the last two days were a whole lot of craaappp eating. I went camping overnight for a friends birthday and the food was chips, lollies, cheese on crackers, more chips and lollies, chocolate and spaghetti bolognaise for dinner. I really needed to be more organised and have brought my own food. Very silly. I felt disgusting all today because of the crap and also the processed food that I hadn't really had a lot of in the last two weeks.
But when I got back to Perth and got home, it's back on!
Except that I spent most of the day eating nuts. Alllll day.
Food intake:
Nuts
Teriyaki chicken for dinner
2 pieces of katsu chicken
ice cream
Despite the crap eating filled camping experience, it was a very relaxing 24 hours and it was just what I needed. Just getting away for a short space of time like that can make such a huge difference.
Workout 1:
10 push ups
10 sit ups
10 squats
6 rounds.
Workout 2:
100 squats
Workout 3:
Running and on every minute:
10 squats
10 sit ups
10 push ups
For=17.30 minutes
The next part of the workout was not planned but seemed fun so it happened. It was all about 5's. There were 5 movements: double legged side jumps, double legged forward jumps, lunges, running and climbing.
5 double legged jumps, jumping sideways over each of these logs. (5 logs so 25 side jumps all up).
Then lunges to these:
Forward jumps over each of these. (Three jumps, five times so 15 all up).
Then running around these goal posts (in and out), five laps.
THEN climbing over this 5 times.
This was an awesome workout because it involved really functional stuff especially climbing over the frame. It was freaaaaking card but so fun. Definitely was getting some stares from passersby though. Would be more fun to do with someone else :)
But when I got back to Perth and got home, it's back on!
Except that I spent most of the day eating nuts. Alllll day.
Food intake:
Nuts
Teriyaki chicken for dinner
2 pieces of katsu chicken
ice cream
Despite the crap eating filled camping experience, it was a very relaxing 24 hours and it was just what I needed. Just getting away for a short space of time like that can make such a huge difference.
Workout 1:
10 push ups
10 sit ups
10 squats
6 rounds.
Workout 2:
100 squats
Workout 3:
Running and on every minute:
10 squats
10 sit ups
10 push ups
For=17.30 minutes
The next part of the workout was not planned but seemed fun so it happened. It was all about 5's. There were 5 movements: double legged side jumps, double legged forward jumps, lunges, running and climbing.
5 double legged jumps, jumping sideways over each of these logs. (5 logs so 25 side jumps all up).
Then lunges to these:
Forward jumps over each of these. (Three jumps, five times so 15 all up).
Then running around these goal posts (in and out), five laps.
THEN climbing over this 5 times.
And thennnn go backwards and do it all again! Ending back at the side jumps.
So that's a total of-
50 side jumps
30 forward jumps
approx 20 lunges
10 6m sprints
10 climbs over the wooden frame
Time=6.54 minutes
Then ran home, stopping each minute:
10 squats
10 sit ups
10 push ups
For=6.29 minutes
And then: WATERRRR
This was an awesome workout because it involved really functional stuff especially climbing over the frame. It was freaaaaking card but so fun. Definitely was getting some stares from passersby though. Would be more fun to do with someone else :)
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