Well, legs and cardio, but the cardio also involved legs. It was a run, running (for me at least) involves my legs. I’ll start with the run, mainly because it happened first. Although this is not always the case, I do tend to stray from the chronological these days. And the point, I seem to… Read More Project Energise: Days 14 & 15 Focus on the legs
So, I seem to finally be managing to find the motivation / will power to get back to the big heavy lifting workouts that have been conspicuously absent from recent weeks! Of course I enjoyed them once I got going, I knew I would I just needed to find the impetus to start. Which means… Read More Project Energise: Day 11 – 13 getting back to the shed gym
I have a new toy to aid with my strongwoman training. It is a Mirafit 50 – 75kg sandbag which is the smallest one they do… It only has 40kg of sand in it, which makes it too floppy to handle easily. The plan was to use this as a substitute atlas stone, and it… Read More Project Energise: Day 6 a sandbag
Hello log press my old friendI’ve come to lift you up againBecause a competition is loomingonce the lockdown is endingand the strength that I gained during last yearstill remainswithin my body somewhere. Sorry about that, Now I feel like I have to aplogise to all Simon and Garfunkle fans everywhere for that terrible rewrite…It’s ok… Read More Project Energise: Day 3 – 5 Hello log press, my old friend…
Or to put it in terms that a new reader of this blog might understand… a new squat personal best 😁 I decided it was leg day in the gym, and was feeling particularly enthusiastic so I thought I’d try a 90kg squat! It went better than I expected and I managed 3… then another… Read More Janathon 2021 day 17: a squat Paddington
After Tuesday’s progress, I only managed to walk on Wednesday followed by nothing on Thursday or Friday… this was due to what turned out to be my first migraine in over a year! It took me until Wednesday lunchtime to give in but then I slept for quite a lot of hours! The good news… Read More Janathon 2021 day 13-16: a migraine…
This time last year (almost to the day) I got an overhead press PB of 31kg. I was so pleased because my overhead has always been my weakest lift. I had ignored shoulders for years and ended up with a bit of an injury so this was me starting out on my journey to get… Read More Janathon 2021 day 12: progress is progress!
Cheaty catch-up post here I come… well, what counts is the exciting exercise I have been doing… or, on some of the days, the exciting resting! Rest is important too you know 🙂 I have exercised every day, but not as many different forms as I would like…still it I am building back up from… Read More Janathon 2021 days 8 – 10: Janathon catch-up in pictures
It was leg day in the shed gym, but I’ll get to that in a moment… first I’d like to celebrate the fact that I managed to get up before work and do yoga!! Getting up was hard work but the yoga mostly felt better than yesterday! Following that there was a long interlude where… Read More Janathon 2021 day 4: leg day in the shed gym
Happy new year and all that! Of course, as is now tradition, I will be taking part in Janathon this year, for the uninitiated amongst you, Janathon is an event (in the loosest sense of the word event) whereby I have to partake of exercise every day, and blog about it, also every day! So… Read More Janathon 2021: Tour of the shed-gym and some deadlifts…
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