Sunday 2010-05-16

Unsurprisingly, I woke up early this morning. I seem to be doing that a lot lately. So three guesses what I did with my early start... yeah, I went to the gym

Overhead squats (with weighted bar) x10
Overhead lunges x10 each side

Squats - 15kg x 12
Deadlifts - 15kg x 12
Dead row - 15kg x 12
3 sets

Wide-leg squats - 15kg x 12
Deadlifts - 15kg x 12
Dead row (underhand grip) - 15kg x 12
3 sets

BOSU squat - 2x8kg x 12 (the 7kg weights had disappeared again so I had to put my weights up)
Lunges - 2x8kg x 12 each side
3 sets

BOSU squar & shoulder press - 2x2kg x 12
Stability ball hamstring curls x 12
3 sets

Plank step-ups x 12 (6 each side)
Stability ball crunches x 12
3 sets

Stability ball plank 30 seconds (holding last one as long as possible)
Stability ball roll out x 12
3 sets

And then I did a bunch of stretches, whilst chatting to my friend Simon, who had appeared after going for a run. Simon is lovely, but mental - he did a 30 minute run, and then spent 2 hours in the gym!

I'm in two minds as to whether to go to the gym tomorrow. I've a feeling my legs will be sore after today, so I might give myself the day off. We'll see how I feel when I wake up. I've a tendency to feel like I've achieved nothing in a day if I've not been to the gym.

Sunday 2010-05-09

I didn't go to the gym yesterday; I had sort of planned to, but when it came to getting out of bed I just couldn't be bothered. That's not really the best attitude to have, but I figured, I've been exercising all week, I can take a day off. And so I took a total day off everything, and spent the entire time on the sofa under a duvet, watching terrible TV and dodgy movies.

So this morning I woke up with a feeling of  "should really make up for yesterday's slackness..." and so I did. I feel I may regret this, when I try to get out of bed in the morning!

Overhead squats (with a weighted bar) x 10
Overhead lunges x 10 each leg

Squats 15kg x 12
Deadlifts 15kg x 12
Dead row 15kg x 12
4 sets, no break in between

Lunge & scaption 2kg x 12 each side
Wall squat & shoulder press 2x2kg x 12
3 sets

BOSU squats 2x7kg x 12
lunges 2x7kg x 12 each side
3 sets

Single leg deadlift 7kg x 12 each side
Sprint touch-backs 2x3kg x 20 each side
3 sets

Plank step-ups x 12 (6 each side)
Stability ball roll-out x 12
3 sets

Bicep pull down 20kg x 12
3 sets
(no idea what the correct name is for this, but I used the cables and the small straight bar. Am trying to build upper body strength so that I can do pull-ups, to prove a point to myself)

By this point my legs were shaking, my arms and back were sore, and I was really quite tired. So I went and had a shower.

I think this afternoon I'll try and do some stretching and use a pilates ball to massage my legs, I'm planning to go to the gym in the morning and do some cardio so it'll be handy if I can at least walk!

I'm not doing so well mentally at the moment, I've been pretty down and depressed about things and it's affecting my diet in a very bad way. I'm managing to keep up the gym routine though, which is helping. Last time this happened I basically dropped everything, and it just made everything worse, and for longer. Hopefully if I keep trudging through I'll come out the other side that much quicker. Much as I'm tempted to just throw my hands up and spend the next 2 weeks on the sofa under a duvet with a family pack of chocolate digestives, we all know that's a bad idea. Don't we?