attack of the globo gym

Today was another sleep in, seriously  need to get my ass into bed a whole lot earlier (I say this, as I'm writing this post at 3.05am!) but the minute I was awake Mum asked me if I wanted to go to a cycle class with her at her gym. It's a pretty mammoth gym, and I've been to a few cycle classes with her there. The classes are absolutely killer, you get seriously smashed. Today's one was at 12.30 and was only 1/2 an hour as we discovered, they have short classes at midday so people can come in their lunch breaks. It was all interval stuff so pretty much the whole class was 8 seconds max effort and 20 second normal pace. And the gears were changing like no one's business, one moment it will be light then a moment later it will have so much resistance that you can barely move the pedals. It was a killer workout-all the cardio was really good to loosen up all my muscles. Mum has bought a 50 pass card to that centre which she is sharing with me, so the plan is to go to a cycle class there once a week.
Once the class was over Mum suggested we go check out the gym which I was very disgruntled about because I've been totally converted into hating globo gyms by my crossfit mad best friends. 
We got in there and it was honestly just depressing. Any exercise is better than no exercise, but it was so disheartening to see men on the cross trainers plodding along like it was a chore. I wanted to go up them, shake them by the shoulders and yell THIS IS MEANT TO BE FUN!
I think Mum had it in her head that we would do some light gym work but I managed to convince her otherwise. This gym has all the cardio equipment e.g. treadmills, bikes, rowing machines, cross trainers upstairs and then all the resistance machines down stairs. Mum and I jumped on some bikes and after a couple of minutes of warm up pedalling and gossiping as mothers and daughters do - I challenged her to a race to see who get to 100 calories first. It was on!
I was smashing her by about 7 calories when both our machines cut out!! She had already done over 50 calories and I had done at least 60 so we decided to finish the race to whoever got the next 50 calories first. And the woman cheated and started before we had even agreed on it to try and get a head on me! She totally succeeded because then I couldn't catch her for the next 50 calories. I was half a calorie behind her the whole time. Needless to say, I was not happy. It was fun making a race out of it though, instead of just sitting there pedaling along like all the other people were.
Mum then wanted to go downstairs and do some strength stuff, and it took me a few minutes to coax her off the machines and another few minutes of ranting about functional movement opposed to isolated muscles until she agreed to do what I wanted.

Workout:
30 sit ups with a 5kg medicine ball (with partner aka Mum)
30 push ups
7 squats
23 sit ups with a 5kg medicine ball (with partner aka Mum)
23 push ups
7 squats
10 sit ups with a 5kg medicine ball (with partner aka Mum)
23 push ups
7 squats

Time: 6.06 minutes

We were meant to be doing 30 sit ups for all 3 rounds but Mum nearly punched me during the second round when I told her she had to do another 30 so I took the number of sit ups down each round, for fear of my own life.

Food intake
Breakfast: 1 poached egg with tomato sauce and salt and pepper, blueberry yoghurt with frozen berries and chia seeds

Lunch: Salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, capsicum, avocado), chicken and sweet chilli tuna
Dinner: Subway (Foot long sweet onion teriyaki chicken with salads and old english cheese on italian, herbs and cheese bread)

Not so smart on the subway...