yesterday i felt like crap, so just stuck with my cycling to work and back, and my usual ten hours there running about and working hard.

didnt do one of my dvd’s because my head was banging, i felt sick, and i dont know, i just felt awful!

but luckily im much better today. just one of those 24 hour things obviously. my ”workout” today, apart from cycling etc, was a half hour stretch routine, and wow, did i ever stretch those muscles! it just proves how much i ignore that part of my fitness regime.

back to cardio or circuit burnout tomorrow. been concentrating on the strength side more, but i cant ignore the other stuff!! :p

..sue xx

today was meant to be the ‘cardio’ dvd, and that was fine, i was planning to do it, but i have had to cycle to the sofa shop (a good route with lots of hills) and back, which has taken me over an hour, and ive also been called into work today to do an extra shift, which i will be cycling to and from.

so i really dont have time to fit in an hour of cardio too. i have to set off in exactly an hour, and im certainly not doing it when i get home at eight thirty tonight.

so what im going to do, is juggle the routine around a bit and do the leg routine when i get home. i think resistance training at that time would be better than mad cardio. either that or i will do the stretching routine, because my shoulders and neck have been aching quite badly. anyway, one of those, i will see how i feel when i get home.

so no, im not using excuses and having the day off, i am working around what today has thrown at me and making it work for me!

as long as i do all the routines, even if i juggle a couple of them around a bit, thats ok right? surely it wont make a massive difference on the first week. im doing something different every day, so thats good enough.

..sue xx

so today was meant to be a leg day, but i had a really bad hypo last night that has left me weak and feeling quite sickly, so i have swapped it for arms. no biggie. i will just do my legs on the day i was meant to do arms!

so yes, a good fifty minutes of a few different variations of bicep curls, hammer curls, push-ups, tricep dips, tricep extensions, military presses etc.

i actually thought i was going to throw up all the way through, but thats how i felt before i started, nothing to do with the exercise, but i didnt let it stop me or even slow me down.

i would feel sick whether i did the workout or not!

im really loving this fitness programme, it was definitely worth the small amount it cost (a quarter of what insanity or px90 would have cost).

on to cardio again tomorrow, then ”hardcore” (that terrifies me, its already pretty hardcore!!), then legs, then stretch.

it certainly keeps your body guessing! its making me feel great to be back into regular fitness :)

…sue xxx

wow its only just nine pm, and i am EXHAUSTED!! haha. i could seriously fall asleep standing up! (not that i am currently standing up, but hey, you get my point!)

i am SO happy to be back working out every day, even though today seemed to literally last forever, and i almost gave up a couple of times, but i kept going, and thank goodness i did!

it was a really difficult one, and probably more because it was such a long routine! an hour and 20 minutes really is a long time when you are moving and jumping, and pulling up, and squat thrusting, and lunging and all the other stuffing i was doing :p.

im not sure what tomorrows routine is, i think its either arms or legs, which i can deal with.

im pretty sure its legs and arms (whichever way around it works) and then stretching, and then back to the beginning, with yoga coming into it at the end along with the stretching this time.

if i dont see results with this one after a few weeks, then there’s something wrong somewhere!!

but anyway, yeah, im gonna sleep tonight!! just get these little kiddies into their beds (haha, yeah, i cant really call my 15yr old that anymore i suppose!! but stuff it, he doesnt know im doing it here) and then collapse into my own bed myself!!

..sue xx

done a good hour-long chest and back workout today on my xtrain-fit programme (as well as my 40 minute cycling to work and back). some of it i found quite easy, but i decided to do it with lower weights, and build up, as im pretty much starting my fitness journey again from the beginning.

but some, like staggered push-ups, were REALLY hard! where you have one arm in the normal straight down position, but the other one further out. not pretty! haha.

tomorrow its ‘circuit meltdown’ (i think its called - something like that anyway), so that sounds quite scary! but im totally commited to sticking to this, i really am. nothing is going to stop me, and i have no intention of having any days off (some days will just be stretching and/or yoga, so thats fine for a ‘day off’ technically).

..sue xx

that was a great cardio session! a good hour of sweating and jumping up and down, running around, and just burning masses of calories!

feel so good that ive finally broken my exercise ‘fast’, and im not going to give in, im going to follow the programme like a bad-ass, not going to miss one day.

..sue xx

sorry guys, havent been around much over the past few days, life does tend to get in the way sometimes! but thats ok, its better to have one, right? :p

anyway, so my dvd programme got here, and im excited to start it!

the separate workouts are:

CARDIO

CHEST AND BACK

CIRCUIT BURNOUT (sounds scary haha)

LEGS

ARMS

HARD CORE (i think thats a full body thing, i havent got in front of me at the minute)

STRETCH

YOGA

those last two interest me, as i dont do anything flexibility related, and its way overdue!

im starting today as ‘day one’ with cardio.

if i dont die or anything, i will let you know how i go!

..sue xx

its called x-trainfit

im going to commit to do the full programme, try and wake my body back up again! ive messed about for long enough now.

..sue xx

no cardio today (thank god haha), and i havent done it yet, but its lower body day today, so this is what im going to do:

STRENGTH:

50 squats (2x5kg)

50 plie squats (2x5kg)

30 (each side) reverse lunges (2x5kg)

30 (each side) lunges (2x5kg)

30 (each side) one leg squats (2x5kg)

50 supported plie dips

30 (each side) side lunges

..sue xx

havent had time for any strength training today, but ive done:

3 hrs cycling

45 mins horse riding

90 mins walking

and i forgot to post yesterdays workout, which was:

CARDIO:

30 mins walking

40 mins cycling

STRENGTH:

35 bicep curls (2x5kg)

35 hammer curls (2x5kg)

20 shoulder raises (2x3kg)

30 lateral raises (2x5kg)

30 front raises (2x3kg)

25 (each side) tricep kickbacks (5kg)

..sue xx

so ive just done my leg portion of todays workout.

wow, amazing how just after a week off, you lose it!!

but im SO glad to feel that ache after so long of not feeling it.

now onto arms…..

..sue xx

not done it yet, but this is what im GONNA do:

CARDIO:

90 mins walking

STRENGTH:

30 squats (2x5kg)

30 plie squats (2x5kg)

25 (each side) lunges (2x5kg)

25 (each side) standing side leg raises

25 (each side) standing rear leg raises

50 crunches

40 (each side) side bends (2x5kg)

50 dumbell curls (2x5kg)

50 hammer curls (2x5kg)

30 (each side) tricep kickbacks (5kg)

30 (each side) concentration curls (5kg)

that will do for my first day back i think.

..sue xx

just because its my birthday, doesnt mean i get to be lazy! (i almost was going to be though haha)

CARDIO:

45 mins walking

STRENGTH:

50 squats (2x5kg)

30 (each leg) one legged squats (2x5kg)

30 (each side) backward lunges (2x5kg)

30 (each side) side leg raises

30 (each side) back leg raises

50 straight leg deadlifts (2x5kg)

40 calf raises on step

50 supported plie’s

upper body today for strength

CARDIO:

40 mins cyling

60 mins walking

STRENGTH:

50 bent over rows (2x5kg)

50 bicep curls (2x5kg)

30 (each side) concentration curls (5kg)

30 lateral raises (2x5kg)

30 front raises (2x5kg)

40 (each side) tricep kickbacks (5kg)

50 lying chest presses (2x5kg)

50 lying chest flyes (2x5kg)

that’ll do for today.

..sue xx

as yesterday, im writing it all down BEFORE i do it, so i make sure it actually happens!!

50 crunches

30 (each side) bicycle crunches

30 (each side) standing oblique crunches

3 x 30 second planks

50 side bends (2x5kg)

30 (each side) waist twists

only a small workout today, but i dont go mad on core stuff,  i just think thats enough for that area.

..sue xx