Friday was a tough one for me in terms of food. With colleagues going out for lunch to my favourite restaurant it took all my will power not to go! My food was much less exciting. So here is what I actually ate on Friday:
Breakfast: Bran flakes with almond milk - this was my first try of almond milk and it will be my last! Horrible stuff!
Morning Snack: A small banana
Lunch: Brown pita pocket with 2oz of chicken cooked in lemon juice with oregano and mushrooms (so tasty!)
I always miss my afternoon snack for some reason and skip straight to dinner! I know I shouldn't but I always just forget.
Dinner: Friday dinner is one of my favourites of the week. I get 2oz of steak with a cup of rice and some asparagus. I cook the steak with some chinese 5 spice and soy sauce for taste.
It was a good week for testing my resolve - Wednesday is sausage roll and doughnut day at work - I didn't have any, Thursday was a colleague's birthday so there was a huge chocolate cake and we already meantioned Friday.
So PT was 6-7pm on Friday which is a good time in the gym. There is rarely a lot of people in on a Friday which means we get to use any equipment we need. We always try to go a bit earlier so that we get a bit of a warm up on the treadmills just to start us off for the session. On Friday I wish we hadn't given ourself that extra work!
We started with some HIIT training. It is accumulative training which means we do 30 seconds of one exercise, rest for 30 seconds then do the first exercise again but add 30 seconds of a different exercise until we build up to 5 exercises each lasting 30 seconds then a 2 minute break. Our 5 exercises were:
1. Floor to sky jumps with kettlebells.
2. Weighted star jumps (free weights)
3. Weighted squats (bar - but for me kettlebell due to injury)
4. Stepped burpees
5. Planking (again, due to injury, altered to heel touches)
Once we did a continuous block of 30 seconds of each exercise and had our 2 minute break we had to start from the last exercise and do the whole block of 5 backwards, 30 second rest, then do 4 - so drop the floor to sky jumps off this time, then rest for 30, do 3 then drop one etc.
It was hard. There were times - going from the plank to the stepped burpees - on our way back I was just commando rolling myself to get off the mat. We were sweating like crazy and felt like there was no way we could keep going. But we did.
After our HIIT session was the stepper machine. One that (until now) I have not managed to work out before - I always just sink to the floor! I managed 5 minutes on that - boy were they tricky! Especially having done a fair lot of leg work during HIIT. The final step was 2000m on the rowing machine. By this time I must say I was clock watching - I just wanted to lie on the floor and recover.
Since Friday was weigh in day we decided to revisit our measurements for the first time since we started. This was a daunting prospect. I knew I had lost a fair bit of weight but I wasn't sure how that would look in centimeters. For me, a total of 9cms overall - 7 of those off my waist! That is a great result and one I am really chuffed with.
On Saturday morning I was feeling a bit sore and could really feel the workout that I had done the previous night. My legs were a bit tight and my back was really sore but it is all worth it. I'm not sure who had the idea (me or my OH) but we decided to get up early(ish) and head to the gym for a morning arms session. Something I am not great at due to my shoulder injury. We did a 10 minute treadmill warm up, I did some weighted squat jumps with free weights, we did some upper body resistance training on the resistance machine thingy (not sure of the actual words) and then ended with some tricep work with weighted pull downs on the same machine. It felt so good that we rewarded ourselves with a trip to the Nike shop for some new trainers!!
Next post: I will work out how to add photos! Cheat meal - what we ate, body pump - the after effects!
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