Posts Tagged ‘abs’

Training Journal: Friday 13th March 2009

Friday - shoulders
I would usually do shoulders on a Thursday but I had too much stuff on yesterday to do my workout in the morning and was playing squash in the evening, so opted to move my workout to today which fits in well because I am working out with Dan tomorrow morning.
Next week, I’m [...]


Training Journal: Thursday 5th February 2009

Thursday - HIIT and abdominals

Just a quick session of cardiovascular traininig followed by some abs work today. For the cardio, I did a 25 minute session of high intensity interval training, this consisted of:

5 minutes at 9.5kmh
30 seconds at 15kmh
1:30 at 9.5kmh
Repeated for 8 intervals in total
Last interval did 1 minute at 15kmh
Finished wtih three [...]


Monday 2nd February 2009

I did a 8 minute ab workout today. I did slow exercises and tried to emphasise the contraction at the top of the movement. I find this really works your abs. I usually alternate a slow ab day/session with a faster one to include variety.
I did my usual spinning class. This lasts 45 minutes (including [...]


Training Journal: Saturday 31st January 2009

Saturday - interval training and abs
I’m continuing with my high intensity interval training twice a week. My first session was on Tuesday, and I found it to be a brilliant cardio workout. I went for another session today, though I added an extra cycle of intervals to the workout, so that I did six intervals. Before [...]


Training Journal: Saturday 24th January 2009

Saturday - cardio and abs
Run
Just a quick 25 minutes on the treadmill today, bit of interval training but wasn’t breathing very well. I seem to have developed some severe synus problem which inhibits my breathing through my nose, as such I’m under-performing when doing cardio work as I’m not able to get enough oxygen into [...]


Training Journal: Tuesday 20th January 2009

Tuesday - CV and abs
It was dark by the time I got back from my meeting, so I decided to go down the gym and go for a run on the treadmill, followed by some ab work.
I could only manage a twenty minute run on the treadmill, for some reason felt really tired and out [...]


Training Journal: Tuesday 6th January 2009

Tuesday: run and abs
Run
30 minute run on the treadmill, 10 minutes at 10.5 km/h followed by 10 minutes at 11 km/h then finished with 10 minutes of intervals, 10 km/h for two minutes then 12 km/h for 2 minutes, and repeat until done.
Abs
I don’t really like training abs, so I tend to do as little [...]