I’ve also been doing some interval training lately after reading up on how effective it is at burning fat and raising cardiovascular fitness. I’ll write about my findings in more detail soon but they generally tally with Tristan’s research. I’m looking forward to his imminent free E-Book!
I copied Tristan’s recent sprint training yesterday and it [...]
Shoulders
Started off with a few warmup sets of shoulder press, 40kg, 50kg, 60kg for 10 reps each set. Did some stretching exercises and rolling of the shoulder joint to make sure that it was all warmed up and loose before doing my working sets.
70kg x 10 reps
70kg x 10 reps
70kg x 10 reps
Next up for [...]
Got up this morning and went for sprint interval training before breakfast. Well, actually, I had a protein shake and a banana before my run, watched an episode of Scrubs (my favourite!) while I was waiting for my shake and banana to go down and then went down the lanes before 8 am.
Where I [...]
Chest
Started off with bench press today, my aim was to increase the weight up to 70kg after doing two workouts last week at 60kg. I was doing 70kg (just) before the end of my last period so it made sense that after a week to load on creatine I should be able to get back [...]
Having had an absolutely rubbish night’s sleep last night, it was with some trepidation that I went to the gym today, not really feeling like I wanted to punish myself by lifting heavy weights, but I somehow mustered up the energy to do so! I guess this is part and parcel of doing weight training, [...]
Shoulders
My first shoulder and leg workout together today, it went well, though I did have a bit of fun trying to workout how much weight I needed to put on the shoulder press machine. In this gym they have these APT machines (advance plate loading technology) which means rather than moving a pin in a [...]
I went out yesterday evening for a sprint interval training session. Unfortunately I don’t have a running track nearby so I just go down the Somerset levels and run along the farmers roads. Luckily there is a stretch of road that’s almost exactly one mile long, so I use this as a good way of [...]
Started off with my chest, choosing to do 3 sets of bench press. I started off with a warmup set, just the bar (20kg) followed by a set with 20kg on the bar, stretching the muscles and warming up the joints in between each warmup set.
60kg x 8 reps
60kg x 8 reps
60kg x 8 [...]
My second bicep and tricep workout in my new gym was also my last workout of my current training period. I’ve split my training up into eight week periods, during which I supplement with creatine monohydrate, followed by one week where I don’t do any weight training and I come “off” creatine. So next week [...]
After the success of my first sprint hill interval training session on Tuesday evening, I decided to go for another session today. My aim was to do about twenty minutes again, similar to Tuesday, but this time I opted to do the session on the flat instead of up a hill!
Where I live, down on the [...]
