Group PT

Up early this morning for another gym session.  We’d booked in for the 5.30am group PT hoping that this week someone would come…and yay they did! (about 5 mins late though) It was a great session on the synergy 360 so we did a number of things like squats, weights, pull ups, prone hold etc etc.  It was pretty tough! My abs are starting to get sore already and think I’ll be feeling it tomorrow!  After 25mins and 37 secs I burned 221 cals.  Not too bad!  Will be going to zumba tonight.

Keeping it up.

Heading into week 2 of the gym membership and now I think it's going to get harder to keep up the motivation.

Last Thursday prior to attending ignition, I just did 30 minutes on the treadmill...which involved about 10 minutes of running! It actually wasn't too hard.  Not sure how many calories I burned as I kept my watch going while we did the Ignition.

Ignition is basically a trainer just showing you how to use the equipment.  So after 1 hour and 11 minutes, I burned 650 calories!

I then had 2 days off...which was well needed as I was sore everywhere! Friday was our Christmas party which was bigger than planned and I ended up with a hangover yesterday...not good when you go to a meditation course!  Anyway, after a lovely lunch and a catch up with my family last night I was back at the gym today.

Today I did all cardio, 30 minutes on the treadmill, 20 minutes on the stepper and 10 minutes on the cross-trainer and burned 651 calories.  The 30 minutes on the treadmill was week 6 of the couch to 5 k which I've been meaning to do so thought I should start around the week I think I can handle.

Really need to start doing weights, but it's a bit hard without any guidance.  Hopefully the PT will show up tomorrow morning for the group PT.  Then I hopefully won't feel so lost!

Gym

Have signed back up at a gym even though I vowed I never would again. Joined Go Health after hearing about it from my friend Sandi.

Went with anther friend Marnie and we both ended up signing up for 3 months plus 8 sessions of PT.

We went Monday morning bright and early (5.30am argh!!) all ready for a PT session...but they didn't show! :| Not a good sign.  So we just went on the treadmill.  I was pretty impressed as you can pick from all sorts of programs and it has an inbuilt tv.  So after 35 minutes and 12 seconds I burned 243 calories.  Did a program where I walked at 6.2km/h and the treadmill changed its incline.

As I still have classes valid at Mad Dance House I ended up going on Monday night to Zumba.  It's still enjoyable but even after not going for about 8 weeks I still remembered all the steps! After 45 minutes I burned 331 calories.

So Monday was a success exercise wise.

Tuesday morning comes and again we decide to go to a 5.30am class...this time body attack.  Thank god this was only a 30 minute class as we had no idea what to expect.  It was a high intensity, high impact (think those are the right terms) class where my heart rate was 170-180 bpm!!! FAR OUT! So good though.  After 29 minutes and 6 seconds I burned 317 calories!

Today, Wednesday...I've had a 36 hour break and it felt like every muscle in my body was aching.  But I had booked in for an Ignition class (where they show you how to use the machines) and I also had it in my mind to do another class.  Ignition didn't happen because of a double booking (wtf?) so met up with Marnie after her 5pm class and did some machines instead.  (I also think it was wishful thinking if I was going to do another class!) Did 20 minutes cross trainer, 10 minutes bike and 20 minutes treadmill.  The cross trainer alternated difficulty, bike was just difficult full stop (legs were so sore by this stage) and treadmill was a similar program to Monday.  Kept my HRM going the whole time and after 55 minutes and 20 seconds I burned a whopping 521 calories!

Now I am so sore. Ideally I'd like to have the next 2-3days off but we're booked in for Ignition tomorrow night.

So far the gym isn't too bad. Organisation wise so far isn't great as the group pt and the ignition haven't happened, but it's only week 1.  At this stage, all I can say is I'm glad I've only signed up for 3 months!

Hi...

So it's been weeks. Have not done anything for ages and it's time to check in...starting at Go Health Club tomorrow!

Previously I was:


Chest: 81.3cm
Waist: 68.5cm
Hips: 85.5cm
Thigh: 54cm
Weight: 57.5kg (approx - don't have digital scales)


Today I'm:
Chest: 81.5cm
Waist: 69cm
Hips: 85cm
Thigh: 54cm
Weight: 57kg

Not too bad considering!