Okay, its Thursday. I am over the hump and the end of the week is in sight.
My plan to come in early has been foiled by sleeping in and I will have to squeeze it in at the end of the day. In other bad news, todays workout is the full body beasting, my second least favourite of all of the Rushfit workouts.
By half way through the warm up I am questioning whether I can make it through but I have to hand it to GSP, he knows how to motivate you and Erik constantly encouraging you to 'get after it, only 30 seconds left.' Really helps. Erik is a dictator of fitness and getting through todays work out feels like a real team effort.
After the workout I had a really healthy dinner of Prawns and M&S Rainbow Salad. But gave in to temptation and ate chocolate cake and drank rose wine! IT WAS AMAZING! Although might have to lie to Behar about it on Tuesday!
I need to rediscover my will power!!!
Friday, 30 March 2012
Another early morning
Having been delayed by the Northern Line I finally got to work at about 9.15, a far cry from the 8am start at the gym I was hoping for but time for a workout anyway...
This morning is the day of the Abdominable work out. Its hard but enjoyable and I am in and out in record time. I am really getting into the hip heist sit ups and my technique is improving every time I do the work out!
I am tired though. Really really tired. All over!
This morning is the day of the Abdominable work out. Its hard but enjoyable and I am in and out in record time. I am really getting into the hip heist sit ups and my technique is improving every time I do the work out!
I am tired though. Really really tired. All over!
All in the numbers
So we're back to Tuesday and the second week of numbers based results! I have lost 1kg of weight and 1.3kg of fat!
Having gone through my food diary with Behar and been somewhat judged by my fairly awful choices over the week, I was delighted. Bahar believes that exercise only accounts for about 25% of fitness with about 60% being attributable to your diet. But he is also a strong believer that all bodies are different and there aren't any hard and fast rules.
In order to reduce the judgement bestowed upon me, I didn't fully divulge my weeks food intake. For instance I didn't go into dealt on the chicken with rice being a Chinese takeout or the fact that I drank a whole bottle of Sauvinon Blanc on Sunday or the night that I skipped dinner I actually replaced dinner with beer, gin and cake! So when the results were announced, I agreed whole heatedly that I'd gotten away with it! But hey!!! It was my moving house and suffering from a cold.
However, as I said in my last blog, if I want results, I need to try harder.
I was toying with the idea of changing from the beginner to the intermediate plan, but then decided that was probably not advisable at the almost halfway mark, so instead I decided just to try harder with the current plan. By doing the occasional double rep on a squat thrust or using weights in the fight conditioning workout I will feel the benefit more.
He has advised I don't run as my cardio as I don't have the physique for it and will just injure my joints, I don't really agree but will reduce the running a little to make sure I don't injure myself.
Having gone through my food diary with Behar and been somewhat judged by my fairly awful choices over the week, I was delighted. Bahar believes that exercise only accounts for about 25% of fitness with about 60% being attributable to your diet. But he is also a strong believer that all bodies are different and there aren't any hard and fast rules.
In order to reduce the judgement bestowed upon me, I didn't fully divulge my weeks food intake. For instance I didn't go into dealt on the chicken with rice being a Chinese takeout or the fact that I drank a whole bottle of Sauvinon Blanc on Sunday or the night that I skipped dinner I actually replaced dinner with beer, gin and cake! So when the results were announced, I agreed whole heatedly that I'd gotten away with it! But hey!!! It was my moving house and suffering from a cold.
However, as I said in my last blog, if I want results, I need to try harder.
I was toying with the idea of changing from the beginner to the intermediate plan, but then decided that was probably not advisable at the almost halfway mark, so instead I decided just to try harder with the current plan. By doing the occasional double rep on a squat thrust or using weights in the fight conditioning workout I will feel the benefit more.
He has advised I don't run as my cardio as I don't have the physique for it and will just injure my joints, I don't really agree but will reduce the running a little to make sure I don't injure myself.
Monday, 26 March 2012
Week 4, Day 1
So despite my best efforts to maintain the Rushfit, my eating was bad last week and having thought about some of the sessions, I feel that I might not have really given it my all.
Now yes, I had other things to worry about. But my initial buzz that I kept it up despite packing and moving and being a bit out of whack soon disappeared when I thought about it realised I am not feeling the post gym burn that I had been getting in the first few weeks. I toyed with upping my level to intermediate, and then I decided that mid programme that would be a bad idea.
But something's got to give for this to work.
In the past week I have been on the booze 4 nights out of 7 and fair enough, not like before Rushfit, but in a measured way where I might drink 2 or 3 drinks and call it a night. That mixed with not achieving my calorie count, eating too many carbs and generally disappointing myself and wasting all that effort has made me think of how I can do better this week!
So here is the plan..... This is the week of the improvement, I have dug out the nutrition guide again. And as for the workouts, I don't have the stamina to go to intermediate and my arm is too sore... so I am going to compromise.
Today was the start of week 4... some more fight conditioning. But this time I was doubling up on sprawls and using 1kg dumbells when throwing punches to increase the effectiveness of the movement.
That as well as doubling up on the squats and plank calanetics that occurs in between rounds.
So tomorrow we have cardio again and as I am nearing the half way point, I am really starting to get excited about achieving the 8 weeks of rushfit!
Now yes, I had other things to worry about. But my initial buzz that I kept it up despite packing and moving and being a bit out of whack soon disappeared when I thought about it realised I am not feeling the post gym burn that I had been getting in the first few weeks. I toyed with upping my level to intermediate, and then I decided that mid programme that would be a bad idea.
But something's got to give for this to work.
In the past week I have been on the booze 4 nights out of 7 and fair enough, not like before Rushfit, but in a measured way where I might drink 2 or 3 drinks and call it a night. That mixed with not achieving my calorie count, eating too many carbs and generally disappointing myself and wasting all that effort has made me think of how I can do better this week!
So here is the plan..... This is the week of the improvement, I have dug out the nutrition guide again. And as for the workouts, I don't have the stamina to go to intermediate and my arm is too sore... so I am going to compromise.
Today was the start of week 4... some more fight conditioning. But this time I was doubling up on sprawls and using 1kg dumbells when throwing punches to increase the effectiveness of the movement.
That as well as doubling up on the squats and plank calanetics that occurs in between rounds.
So tomorrow we have cardio again and as I am nearing the half way point, I am really starting to get excited about achieving the 8 weeks of rushfit!
Hey Sports Fans.... guess who's back online?!
Okay so I am aware that I haven't blogged since Thursday and so the last workout that I wrote about was Wednesday night.... Well in that time, not only have I moved house, but I have also managed to not mess up the Rushfit! Fair enough, I was without internet connection in my new place and I have been busy with packing, but am totally delighted that I haven't tapped out!
So where have we been....
Thursday, moving day and Abdominables day!
Friday, quick cardio and stretch for flexibility workout before going out for the evening. I was really happy with this cardio as I jogged for the full 30mins non-stop with a few sprints added in for good measure.
Saturday saw the introduction of a new video. The Full body strength and conditioning workout. Now that was a hell of a thing. Doing a plank or a one arm press while leaning on the handles of weights is just awful! But got there in the end and quite enjoyed using my new spare room as a gym.
And what do you know..... I made it to Sunday! Which with all the unpacking was not very restful!
So where have we been....
Thursday, moving day and Abdominables day!
Friday, quick cardio and stretch for flexibility workout before going out for the evening. I was really happy with this cardio as I jogged for the full 30mins non-stop with a few sprints added in for good measure.
Saturday saw the introduction of a new video. The Full body strength and conditioning workout. Now that was a hell of a thing. Doing a plank or a one arm press while leaning on the handles of weights is just awful! But got there in the end and quite enjoyed using my new spare room as a gym.
And what do you know..... I made it to Sunday! Which with all the unpacking was not very restful!
Thursday, 22 March 2012
A bit of a break
As my shoulder, neck and back are a bit sore with this injury and I'm moving house between Thursday and Saturday I have been worried about this week of workouts for a while now.
Tonight was the Fight Conditioning Workout, and I do enjoy the fight conditioning workout and having not worked out since the previous morning I decided that it counted as a rest. It all went okay, the Uchiyama or whatever its called never goes well and I really think I need to spend yet more time getting better at the moves but all in all, not bad! Quick stretch and I am done. Time to go home and pack up for the move!
As the evening progresses, the aches kick in. By the time I wake up on Thursday morning after a very short sleep on account of the packing I am as a stiff as a board. Stairs have become difficult and the though of moving let alone Rushfit is enough to insight an audible groan!
I cannot wait until Sunday!
Tonight was the Fight Conditioning Workout, and I do enjoy the fight conditioning workout and having not worked out since the previous morning I decided that it counted as a rest. It all went okay, the Uchiyama or whatever its called never goes well and I really think I need to spend yet more time getting better at the moves but all in all, not bad! Quick stretch and I am done. Time to go home and pack up for the move!
As the evening progresses, the aches kick in. By the time I wake up on Thursday morning after a very short sleep on account of the packing I am as a stiff as a board. Stairs have become difficult and the though of moving let alone Rushfit is enough to insight an audible groan!
I cannot wait until Sunday!
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Numbers are in!
Okay so last week (week 2) I got weighed by the nutritionist in work and I followed this up today....
After all of this.... I lost 1 pound! Half a kilo! As much as I am totally disappointed by this, it turns out that two thirds of that was just fat and Behar, the nutritionist said it was an excellent result! Although I do feel a wee bit disappointed!
After all of this.... I lost 1 pound! Half a kilo! As much as I am totally disappointed by this, it turns out that two thirds of that was just fat and Behar, the nutritionist said it was an excellent result! Although I do feel a wee bit disappointed!
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