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Post by malckiera on Mar 23, 2007 19:33:10 GMT
Aw come on sosage! Surely there is some kind of exercise that you like doing?
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Mar 25, 2007 17:08:29 GMT
Friday G-Camp - Good class - got to work with one of the experienced guys today coz i didn't have a partner, he was really useful. Also had to carry Tony around on my back and do 20 squats Amusing, to say the least. Shin was f**ked completely from thursday, couldn't kick at all with my left leg due to the swelling. the worrying thing is, it didn't even get battered thursday, it just takes the slightest knock and it really really swells Gym - Push pressing - not bad, considering tendonitis was really bad today. 20 kg: 3 30 kg: 3 35 kg: 3 37.5 kg: 2 40 kg: F, F (just can't get the technique quite right) 30 kg: 6, 6, 6, 6 Squat formwork Rack lockouts for bench, pausing and relaxing at bottom of movement, so pressing with no momentum. 20 kg warm-ups 40 kg: 5 45 kg: 2 CGBP: 20 kg and 30 kg warm-ups 35 kg: 3, 3, 3 Saturday - Rest day.....didn't think I had worked that hard friday, but by the evening my triceps were totally fried Drove back from kidderminster dreading every gear change, thank jeebus for motorways. Felt really really rough when I got back, but it eased off through the evening. Sunday Woke up feeling pretty good, if a wee bit sore still. Then had coffee before the gym, which was a bad idea. Too much caffiene gives me palpaltations when I lift heavy (which I why I stopped having red bulls before sessions), and on the second set I started feeling pretty bad. But I ploughed through and the last two sets felt pretty good. Out of the squats, about 20% were high (uselly the third rep), 50% were spot on perfect depth, and the rest were well deep. Pleased to get the 5x5. 20 kg: 3 30 kg: 3 40 kg: 3 50 kg: 2 60 kg: 1 65 kg: 5, 5, 5, 5, 2...then racked bar because I had paused at the bottom of the set for ages, but managed to recover it, before doing the final....3 PB! Front squats - warm-ups with 30 kg 3, 3 - but knee started twinging and there is no way i'm getting injured right now, so stopped. Bench Warm-ups 20 kg, 30 kg 35 kg: 3 38.5 kg: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 - easy enough. Remembered on the way home I had done heavy singles before the 5x5 on the last program, but i'm not too worried, i'll do them when I start doing triples in a few weeks. PB! Cycling 5 mins Ab pulldowns 28 kg: 8 35 kg: 10 35 kg + big block: 8 35 kg + big and little block: 6 Run - haven't done running for a bit. 1 min @ 9 km...8 mins @ 10 km....1 min @ 11-12 km Easier than expected. 5 mins cycling Stretching - hell I was tight Great session today, especially considering I didn't feel on top form ;D ;D
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Mar 26, 2007 20:20:24 GMT
Monday - G-Camp Great class today, I got to learn flying chest height knees today, and hell, are they fun ;D It's not like they will ever be used in a fight, but there is something great about sailing through the air towards someone! Mike told me to fight at the next ones in May I'm not quite sure i'm ready for it, but I am going to consider it if training goes well over the next couple of weeks. Oh, and feeling really well today ;D
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Post by malckiera on Mar 27, 2007 6:23:39 GMT
Your flying knees were ace! ;D Sailing through the air towards someone is one thing, being knocked flying backwards is an entirely different experience, I can tell ya! Oh and did I tell you I think you should fight? I didn't get this whole flying malarkey, so I was really pissed off with meself. Was a real steep, constant learning curve tonight
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Mar 27, 2007 18:09:30 GMT
G-Camp at sugden. Was an average class, some things went right (low kicks, hooks), some things were not so good (timing of reverse elbows and kicks). Shin is swollen again, and I only caught it on the edge of a pad May have to get it x-ray'd and make sure I haven't chipped the bone or summut - it's been weeks since the original bruising and it's still playing up. Gym after - didn't do alot, just some chins, wide grip pulls and seated shoulder press. Have a HEAVY session planned tommorow with deads
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Post by malckiera on Mar 27, 2007 19:45:46 GMT
Well after 2 completely shite thai boxing classes, some things went alright again today. What didn't go right was holding pads - can't keep up with a flying bunny - sorry! We did a combo of front kick, side kick and then reverse kick which went surprisingly well, considering that I really didn't believe I'd be able to do them They still need a lot of work, but at least the basis is there. Worked a bit more on my low kicks as well, they are improving ever so slightly, but high kicks were shite Punches were okay I think - as long as I keep my guard up as well Did 20 minutes on the stepper afterwards and a few minutes stretching and then I was suitably knackered!
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Mar 29, 2007 11:14:56 GMT
What didn't go right was holding pads - can't keep up with a flying bunny - sorry! It's fine, it's a hard combo to keep up with as the pad holder. I couldn't do it for Mike or Lisa myself! Wednesday - Deadlifts. Warm-up 10 mins CV 60 kg: 3, 3 70 kg: 3 90 kg: 1 100 kg: 1 105 kg: 1 112.5 kg: 2, ff(grip issues) 1, f(grip) 1, 1 f(didn't lock out) Form was all over the place. First double was easy enough, but then just kept loosing my grip. Two of the fails I basically got almost up, and then dropped it. Grr, I think it is just a practice thing. I had no tension yesterday, wasn't gripping the bar and was (to sum it up) pulling badly. But then I thought about it, and thought about how hard I had worked and thought, I may not have got the three doubles, but it was still a good session in terms of hard work and stuff learned. Oh and the double was a PB, so can't complain. ;D Did some plate pulls, but was a bit finished by then so didn't pull heavy. Then 30 mins CV which made me feel so good ;D
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Post by tabitha on Mar 29, 2007 18:10:24 GMT
*Shoves exercise types out of the way* I have been to the gym three times this week I am bored cr*pless with it now and refuse to go for the next 3 years
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Mar 30, 2007 19:19:02 GMT
*Shoves exercise types out of the way* I have been to the gym three times this week I am bored cr*pless with it now and refuse to go for the next 3 years Oh dear, it sounds like you may be a wee bit demotivated with it. Is there something you can do instead (classes, run outside etc)??
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Mar 30, 2007 19:31:38 GMT
Thursday - Rest day. Was going to go to Thai at Trafford bu me n' malckiera got there to find it had been reschedualed to Wednesdays. Doh!! Friday - G-Camp then Gym Felt pretty good at the start of G-Camp, but started feeling a bit rough halfway through. Bit fluey and tired. Anyway, some it went well...the run-in low kick clinche combo was good. But the right-reverse elbow kick combo thingy was a bit shite. Technical stuff like that requires practice. Flying knees to the head were fun, but the flying front kicks to the head were a little difficult Gym after, however, was excellent ;D Bench - 30 kg and 35 kg warm ups (had done millions of press-ups in TB so didn't need too much warm-up!) 40 kg: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 woohoo! Was thinking it would be hard to get 40 kg for 5x5 even on a good day, but now I think i'll have a go with 41 kg before I drop to triples. Dips - I hardly ever do these, but they were good today. I know this as even Mr Brown said it was impressive That doesn't happen very often 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 Chins: 5, 5, 5, 4, 4 - Bit harder, still haven't got that elusive 5x5 of these! Shrugs 80 kg: 10, 10, 10 - gonna have to work back up,not them for ages. Grip work Good session ;D
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Post by malckiera on Mar 30, 2007 20:23:47 GMT
Went to the same GCamp class as LGB above We did an awfully long warm-up, which I got bored with halfway through, but what do you do, you grin n bear it ;D First combo was just punches, and they felt quite good. Apparently kicks felt good at the receiving end as well, LGB said. Just as well, because some of them felt good doing em too! After last week's experience with clinching (feeling dizzy, sick and having a massive headache for 2 days) I really didn't want to do this clinching combo. Hence I did it half assed, so it went cr@p. I quite like the elbow/reverse elbow/front/side/reverse kick combo, if anything because I seem to be getting that a decent amount of the time. Unlike the last combo that LGB likes; my flying kicks and knees are absolutely diabolical; I don't get it, don't get enough of a 'forwards and upwards' motion and generally it's just getting nowhere. So I'm treating them a bit like brussels sprouts: I've tried them, don't like them, won't try them again if I don't really have to'. I'm sure the quality of my life will not be noticeably affected if I never manage to do flying kicks. After all that I spent 20 minutes on the step machine, as part of my preparation for this charity climb up Ben Nevis ( everythingvegan.proboards59.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=anything&thread=1175237125&page=1) . I climbed the Kilimanjaro - and descended again! - in 20 minutes according to the machine. Legs suitably jellified after that
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Apr 1, 2007 16:51:48 GMT
Saturday - long G-Camp class. 1:45 mins It was a pretty good class on the whole. Left body kicks were shockinginly bad, but right body kicks were on top form. Did soooo many bodyweight squats again. Also did sprints, they felt alot quicker now I have some muscle in my legs! Need to get more calories in before this class though, as I always crash half way through.
Sunday Squat Day - yet another sunday of not feeling on top form at the start but ploughing through the work to get what I wanted. ;D TBH the 67.5 kg's felt as easy as 65 kg, and easier than when I did 62.5 kg a few weeks back. Some of the reps were high, usually after I had done a really deep one before, but on the whole they were ok. And the first ones were fine, which, essentially, are the most important ones. I'm going to keep ploughing with 5x5 for now.
20 kg: 3 30 kg: 3 40 kg: 3 50 kg: 3 60 kg: 1 65 kg: 1 67.5 kg: 5x5 PB!
Seated shoulder press - managed to perfect the knee technique to get them up! 12.5 kg: 5, 5, 5 14 kg dumbells: 4, 4, 4
Machine rows: 35 kg: 6 42 kg: 6 49 kg: 6 56 kg: 3 49 kg + half block: 5, 5
Chins 3 - but hurt my elbow
Pin presses (set on 13) 40 kg: 5 50 kg: 5 55 kg: 2, 2
Littlebigs: 15, 15, 15
Good session, so glad I.... a) went, b) perserved with the squatting past 30 kg warm-up! ;D ;D
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Apr 3, 2007 10:09:39 GMT
Monday - G-Camp at trafford. Damn I was useless. Squatting sunday obviously took everything out of me and I had a splitting headache all the way through. Prolly should have had a rest day, but hey ho, live and learn the hard way. Today- yet another routine doctors visit (don't ask, I nearly fell out with him about it today - thought the NHS was underfunded - you would think they would want to stop wasting my time then. *sigh*) Blood pressure back up to a decent 100/65 (it may have risen a little during the appointment though grr) and weight 54 kg. Thank goodness for that. I was beginning to worry I had been struck down by an irreversible case of Sugden Power Belly.
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Post by tabitha on Apr 3, 2007 17:49:19 GMT
*Shoves exercise types out of the way* I have been to the gym three times this week I am bored cr*pless with it now and refuse to go for the next 3 years Oh dear, it sounds like you may be a wee bit demotivated with it. Is there something you can do instead (classes, run outside etc)?? Bah!!! *kicks LGB grumpily* I actually have a gym instructor qualification and until about 7 months ago, worked in my local gym. However, Ive been bored with the gym for about a year now. I used to spend every morning at the gym, swimming and/or body pump or yoga classes. I also used to run about 8 miles a day about 2 years ago. I dont know why, but I have no interest in the gym any more. I would like to get back to swimming again and we have cycles, so we cycle at the weekends. When I moved in with Pob, we discovered we both liked walking and exploring places, so camping and hiking is an option I think we would both enjoy. Im hoping when my divorce is out of the way I will be more motivated. In the past, exercise has always been a wonderful motivator and anti depressant for me, so hopefully this will return soon! *Kicks LGB again for exercising and enjoying it*
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Apr 4, 2007 10:03:37 GMT
Tuesday G-Camp - Good class, no pads, just throw and return sparring. Learnt some great throwing techniques and practiced blocking. Can never get enough of that - blocking is not really one of my strong points! Bench - I was convinced I had benched last tuesday, so went for the 5x5 again, to find out when I got home it was only friday I did the 40 kg Nevermind, got the 5x5 anyway, and hopefully, if I can manage to actually go a whole week without benching, I may even get somewhere close to 42.5 kg for 5x5 next. Bench 20 kg: 3 30 kg: 3 35 kg: 3 41 kg: 5x5 - last rep was a real fighter. PB ;D Dips - 5,5,5 Machine rows 42 kg: 6 49 kg: 6 49 kg + 7.5 lb half block: 6, 6, 6 35 kg: 10 ,10 (barndoortastic) 10 mins cycling Good session, yet again. ;D I'm wondering whether to take a back off week because my tendons, knees and elbows are all a bit sore.....but on the other hand, I don't feel overtrained mentally at all and don't really want to take time off yet, when things are going so well. But if I don't then the inevitable will happen, i'll get injured and then have to back off. Oh decisions, decisions
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Apr 4, 2007 10:12:49 GMT
Oh dear, it sounds like you may be a wee bit demotivated with it. Is there something you can do instead (classes, run outside etc)?? Bah!!! *kicks LGB grumpily* I actually have a gym instructor qualification and until about 7 months ago, worked in my local gym. However, Ive been bored with the gym for about a year now. I used to spend every morning at the gym, swimming and/or body pump or yoga classes. I also used to run about 8 miles a day about 2 years ago. I dont know why, but I have no interest in the gym any more. I would like to get back to swimming again and we have cycles, so we cycle at the weekends. When I moved in with Pob, we discovered we both liked walking and exploring places, so camping and hiking is an option I think we would both enjoy. Im hoping when my divorce is out of the way I will be more motivated. In the past, exercise has always been a wonderful motivator and anti depressant for me, so hopefully this will return soon! *Kicks LGB again for exercising and enjoying it* I don't think it is that unusual for gym instructors to loose intrest in training themselves, i've seen it quite alot. It's so easy to beat yourself up about not wanting to train, especially when you know it *would* make you feel better and you *should* be doing it. But of course, it's a totally unprofitable exercise, because then you are not training AND making the stress worse! I have had extended periods of inactivity with some nasty bouts of chronic fatigue. It's only been when I have accepted the situation I begin to feel like dealing with it I personally used to suffer from 'if I can't train regularly, then there is no point' syndrome..but (I guess you probably say the following to your clients!!) it's true that 5 mins is better than no minutes, and once a month is better than never. I would say, just do what you can (hiking, walking, cycling occasionally) until the urge takes you to challenge yourself again - you obviously have enough challenges to deal with right now anyway And if you never go to the gym again?? So what, life's too short to do things you don't want to
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Post by littlegirlbunny on Apr 4, 2007 20:16:57 GMT
Wednesday Deadlift Day ;D Speed work session 50 kg: 10 (no CV warm-up coz I wasn't going to loose the decent bar for love nor money once I had grabbed it) 70 kg: 5 90 kg: 2 100 kg: 1 106 kg: 5 singles. All felt good, the third rep particularly flew. Plate pulls - all with straps, had no skin left again 70 kg: 5 90 kg: 3 110 kg: 1 PB 120 kg: bottled out at the bottom LOL. My back and glutes were about to ping, and decided it wasn't worth the risk. Rack pulls (step plus 2 plates) 70 kg: 3 90 kg: 3 110 kg: 1 120 kg: 1 PB from this height - pleased with this one Cycling 30 mins My back was tight to start this session from yesterday's rowing, and now it is totally stiff - I know for sure I have worked hard this week ;D Two days off weights planned now
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Post by malckiera on Apr 5, 2007 20:21:50 GMT
Anyway, not been here for a while, because of the good old reason of 'no time/energy'. I have had the time and energy to workout, just not to post about it. In the greater scheme of things I believe this to be the right attitude - rather than sitting on my backside posting about the exercise I'm not doing! Okay,so Saturday: went to the gym, wasted no time and managed a full body workout before body combat. Combat went okay so pleased with both Monday: TB. My shoulder is playing up again (something I literally woke up with about 3 years ago. It comes and goes but at the moment it is quite bad), which makes doing about 100 push-ups throughout the session a bit of a challenge. Did a combo of elbow, reverse elbow, low kick, but after the reverse elbow I'm consistently too close for a low kick. Got to work on that. Did flying kicks and knees again, which ain't going nowhere with me. I can't seem to get the technique right. Really frustrating Then on the other hand we got to do what I can only describe as a 'spinning high kck' - no idea if that's what you call it but that's what it felt like. Basically you come at your opponent, kind of acting as if you're going to punch them, then reach down as if you're doing a cartwheel but instead turn your body away while doing something like a roundhouse. Does this make any sense? Anyway, kind of got the hang of that, which I was obviously happy with Tuesday: TB again, same club, different trainer, and boy I don't like his style! The fact that just about everything didn't go right will have undoubtedly something to do with it, but he's one of those people who thinks he can make you work harder by saying that you're slacking and you're not putting any effort in it. Doesn't work with me. I get pissed off but in a bad way, not constructive at all. Did some defending of high kicks by moving your arm up and away, which then lands the kicking person on their backside. Didn't work for me but it did for LGB, who got me on the floor a few times. We also got to do a couple arm locks, and that was it for my shoulder; I was in total agony so sat out that combo. Not a very good session. Wednesday: went to gym, did a lower body workout, since my shoulder is still tender and don't want to risk injuring it more. Was alright, nothing special. Today, Thursday: went to the gym, did body combat. Felt good, went well I think. At least I get to practice my kicks and punches in the air at least a couple hundred times, can only benefit my thai boxing Was gonna do some more stuff, but my muscles let me know that they'd been worked yesterday already, and seeing as I want to have some muscles left for the coming days, to go for a few long-ish walks, I decided to call it a day
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Post by malckiera on Apr 7, 2007 22:14:04 GMT
Today our training for going up Ben Nevis started in earnest: me n the little'un went to Edale, home of many an outdoor pursuits enthusiast. I was told that going up Jacob's Ladder - as the path is called - is good practice. Now I've only walked Jacob's Ladder going down before, and always thought that those climbing up were slightly mad. But in the greater scheme of limbing the highest mountain in the UK it's nothing obviously. So we set of late this morning (note to self: get organised the night before and stop faffing about in the morning! ), on a 14-15 mile hike, with not one but two ascents in it! First things first: Kiera has a drink before starting the great uphill trek: Jacob's Ladder, about halfway up: TBH going up wasn't that hard, the going down, about 10 miles later on the way back however, was! Kiera doing what she does best: posing! "And how does one get down from this thing?" As per usual the B(iscuit)-word helped! ;D 2/3's into the walk and Kiera is knackered, bless her Mind you, this was the second ascent, up Kinder. We had turned right at the junction and climbed all the way up! (I think we'd done 8 miles by that time, normally by then the car's within sight!) Then we met a guy with a gorgeous GSD, carrying her own backpack! The guy was nice enough to take a picture of us On the way back down the same Jacob's Ladder, a lot more difficult than the way up! Because of the resident sheep, Kiera spent most of the time on her lead, and was an absolute angel! Every now and then I found it safe enough to let her have a bit of a pootle tho, but even then she didn't go far away and her recall was 100%! ;D Once back in the car she was completely zonked out, however upon arriving home and troughing a bowl of food she was straight back to her bouncy noisy old self again! Unlike yours truly, who can barely move! I've promised Mal a walk tomorrow though, so I hope my muscle soreness won't be too bad (in case anyone asks: yes I have stretched as much as I could be asked!
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Post by malckiera on Apr 9, 2007 8:07:01 GMT
Mal didn't get his walk yesterday I'm afraid - I was walking like an old woman who's high up on the waiting list for a hip replacement! We went to the local nature reserve for an hour's pootle along the river, which was nice, but boy I underestimated the wind! Was walking along in my t-shirt, with people wrapped up in vests and tops looking at me as if I was mad - probably not too far off Today I'm walking like an old woman who is being considered for a place on the waiting list for a hip replacement so we're making progress! I think me n Mal are going to investigate Macclesfield Forest!
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