Gym = Feeeeeeeeeeelin' Good

Hey guys how's everyone's day been? Mine has been better than the past few, I was feeling low as can be, despite spending time with some of my favourite people (my gran and Mike's little sister).. I was settling in for the night feeling rubbish and thinking of cracking open the Jack Daniels and my mum rung me to see if I wanted to go to the gym with her. At first I said no thinking I don't feel like leaving the house again but she twisted my arm... I went...

1km on the dreadmill with 4 incline in just over 5 mins (not too much running due to sore legs and a run planned for tomorrow)
10 mins on the x trainer (cue sweating like mad)
5 Clean and press each arm with 12.5kg... some beefy men were using the 10kgs haha I hate using the free weights section when it's full of men, I feel silly :/
5 side bends with 22.5kg each side
A few machines... not sure which lol, some my mum was using
Lots of assisted push-ups and dips
5 minutes on the vibratey machine which felt horrible.... Don't usually use this but I couldn't go on anything else 'cause I got really dizzy towards the end of the pull-ups (I thought I'd eaten enough, maybe not...) so I decided to give it a try rather than just sitting and waiting for my mum... don't think I'll do it again it was so strange!

Anyway I got home and ate my leftover tofu from yesterday (nom) and had a nice hot bath... thoughts of Jack Daniels melted away... hurrah for healthy endophins instead of boozy highs! Plus since then I made another little meal and enjoyed it so much I went back for more! That 10 miles yesterday and gym sesh have done wonders for my appetite! oh yeah and hash browns on my new toy (George Foreman) are delish!! Just what I was craving! Night all.

04/03/10

Well the course I went on today went really well, it was really interesting. It's so I can start voluntary work as a mental health mentor. I've got a few work options in the pipeline I'm just waiting for my CRB to come back, annoyingly today I found out I need a separate CRB for this work so I'm going to have to wait even longer, I just want to get started... Have you figured out I'm not a very patient waiter yet haha. Anyway since I was at the training session today I wasn't able to fit a run in so I went with my mum to her gym. I can 100% say I HATE THE TREADMILL!! That thing was lying to me, it said I was running 6 minute miles without even being out of breath! Now I just don't see how that's possible... Unless the machine was telling me km? But the maths I'd done beforehand to figure out what speed I'd need to run at to do a steady 9 minute mile pace was still right according to the treadmill, so really I'm confused haha.. And I don't have accurate stats cause I accidentally hit the emergency stop halfway through!!

2.8+ miles (might have been more, that was the last time I looked at it, not sure of the time I started at a 9 minute pace and finished at 6.40)
3.2 miles in 20.58

Then I went on a funny rope machine called 'The Grappler' you basically had to pull it down as hard as you can, I'm not sure how long I did cause I didn't understand what the screen was telling me... I'm definately no gym bunny, give me low-tech equipment any day!

After that I saw the assisted chinning machine! Perfect! I was really excited to give this a go. I set the resistance to 10kg and did;
10 chin-ups
10 pull-ups

Then I tried it at 5kg and did partial reps just from my arms at full extention to 90 degrees - the bit I'm struggling with;
5 chin-ups
5 pull-ups
5 dips (it did dips too!)

After that I decided to check out the free weight section. I did 10 lunges each leg with 20kg and then a couple of guys came in to the section and they made me feel really awkward so I left.. I'm a wimp haha.

I went back to the chinning machine and did
10 neutral grip pull-ups
10 chin-ups
10 pull-ups
10 neutral grip pull-ups

So all in all not a bad workout, I won't be rushing to use the treadmill again though!

By the way UK readers Eddie Izzard Marathon Man is on at 10.30 on BBC3. It's the first of a three part series about him completing 43 marathons in 51 days, which I think is pretty damn awesome!