#week 1b

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Day 4b: Cardio Recovery

First day of a group workout. I didn’t remember any of this workout from last time, probably because it’s not as scaring as the rest of them!

Didn’t get a chance to eat anything before the workout today, so my legs were shaking like crazy, but made sure to eat breakfast before I left for work this morning. 

Definitely think I prefer morning workouts to my middle-of-the-night ones back in 2014. Starting the day with one really helps wake you up, and since I have so few uni classes a week it means I can afford to have a nap in the late afternoon / early evening and still sleep at a decent time. 

Only think left to sort out this week is a main shop for insanity meals. 

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Day 3b: Cardio Power & Resistance

I skipped the morning workout at 8am today, I woke up at 7.45 and my hamstrings were completely seized up, so i rolled back over and went back to sleep. 

Just finished today’s workout at 9.15pm. I forgot about the globe jumps. Seriously hate them ahaha. Def not as hard as day 2 either, seemed to go a lot quicker as well!

The upside of doing it alone is I can strip down to a sports bra and socks in the privacy of my own room, even one layer of clothes gets way to warm for me, but training with 2 girls and 2 boys means the clothes will have to stay on!

When doing the push ups, looking down at my hanging stomach, it makes me push harder. I don’t have massive issues with my self-image, and I know that gravity is a thing, and there’s important organs in there that won’t get any smaller, but I want to 1. be more healthy and 2. tone my abs/stomach, but I have to watch out that my thought process of getting there isn’t entirely negative i.e. ‘my stomach hangs so much i need to loose this weight asap to look prettier’ --> ‘the more effort i put in the more it will show, both for physical and mental wellbeing.

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Day 2b: Plyometric Cardio Circuit

Well, that was difficult!

If you’ve read through my older posts, you’ll see I have this issue where my neck clicks when I’m jumping up and down. It’s not painful, just annoying and a tiny bit uncomfortable. 

On to the PCC, I had to stop a good few times, but I then reasoned with myself that it’s better to do it much slower than the video than to just miss 2 turns so I can keep in time. 

the deep stretch with the arm lifted really worked my shoulders, was quite difficult to try and get my arm going straight up 

suicide drills tho 🙃

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Day 1b: Fitness Test

Switch Kicks:86 Power Jacks: 50 Power Knees: 86 Power Jumps: 31 Globe Jumps: 10 Suicide Jumps: 14 Push-Up Jacks: 15 Oblique Plank: 54

I’M SO SWEATY

Honestly, the average student would be thrilled with the heating my accommodation gets, but even with the radiator off and the window open wide I’m warm af

I’m also pretty wheezy; I’ve been on and off inhalers the past few years... Was told I have mild sports asthma which I took as a polite way of saying unfit, but there is a history of asthma/COPD in my family. I have an inhaler here with me just in case, but I didn’t want to use it during this unless I was literally struggling to breath. 

That’s all for tonight, it’s 1.40am so I’m gonna get a cold rinse and then go to bed! 😰