Wednesday 28/01/09

I had a day off on Monday (because of how hard a fitness session I put in on Sunday) so it didn’t seem right that I should also take off my new designated Wednesday rest day off too. I wish I had though, The gym was the busiest I have ever seen it.

The Pectoral fly machine has been broken for a couple of days so I have avoided my exercises that accompany that machine. So it was the turn of the back muscles last night.

Warm up Rowing machine. 5 minutes today I couldn’t face spending any longer on this accursed machine. I’m going to have to speak to Fitness Stu the next time we update my plan to see if I can have another more interesting warm up.

Cable Row. 3 sets of 15. 10kgs. My forearm muscles were stronger last night and I was able to carry out the sets to completion so now my trapezius muscles on my upper back are pretty achy.

While on the cable machine I did the weighted crunches, targeting my abs. 3 sets of 20 at 7kgs.

Lat pull down inverted grip. 3 sets of 15. 39kgs. Pretty easy. I might even try upping the weight a notch next time to see how it feels.

Abs again. Twisted sit ups. 2 sets of 15 on each side of my body.

And then sit ups with the medicine ball. 2 sets of as many as I can do… Which was about 20ish.

Cardio. Cross trainer 30 minutes. Increasing the difficulty every 5 minutes… Only I didn’t manage thirty minutes. I did ten. I was feeling crowded out so resolved to finish my cardio session in the swimming pool. This was also a mistake as the pool was packed as well. I sat in the steam room for 20 minutes instead and got jolly hot.

I am thinking my ankle is fixed. It no longer aches when I drive and the bruising seems to have gone. I am going to have a go with the treadmill tonight and see how I cope. I might alternate treadmill and cross trainer for a little while so the joint isn’t subjected to 30 minutes of pounding ever single day.