Good morning followers, normally this would be coming to you last night but in the absence of sleep I decided to hit the sheets a little earlier then normal.
Since last week what has happened.... A LOT!
As I mentioned in my last blog I was having a huge weekend coming up, a friends surprise birthday party on Friday night led me to having my first pastry and hard core cocktail binge in over 4 weeks since Europe (I cannot explain how good that pastry, tart, sugar tasted!) From here 'Date' night with my partner on Saturday night led me to some Chinese take out, some chillin at home and a great relaxation time on the couch. Sunday was catching up with girlfriends for coffee but passing on the 'sweet treats', I controlled myself by having an espresso instead.
However there was a weigh in on Wednesday morning pre this weeks PT session, a LOSS of 700g! A huge amount off and I can honestly say it was due to a HUGE effort on my part. Besides my weekend binge (and to be fair if worked out are completely OK to do every now and then) My exercise for the following week post my last PT session consisted of a Pump class at 5.45am last Friday, Sunday was a Step class with a girlfriend, Monday was a 5.5k run with my partner is under 30mins with a average heart rate of 174 (I thought I was going to die) and yesterday another PT session with the lovely Gab.
To break down my PT session as I always love to do:-
This week I drove to the park, lack of sleep was not helping me with energy today as I contemplated a boast from a sugarfree energy drink.. however drinking lots of water throughout the day may very well be on my side. A quick warm up in the form of two laps around the park (1.4k total) left me already feeling a tad fatigued, from here we burst into 50 (yes you saw right 50!!!) squats, 25 pushups (from toes then knees), then into another lap of the park (700m) before a 1 minute break whilst trying to get heart rate down, another 50 squats, another 25 pushups and another lap of the park (700m), 1 minute break, another 50 squats (yes again) another 25 pushups, from here however we decided that another lap of the park would be too much so went into ab work instead, situps, crunches and planks were the aim of the game. Some light stretching and we were done, 45 minute work out, 477 calories burned and a max heart rate of 186 (according to my heart rate monitor).
I have also discovered by a very helpful friend a great new application for my iphone called MyFitnessPal, which basically measures your intake of food v's your exercise v's your goals, this is FANTASTIC, I used to use an online program that was getting a bit dated but this little puppy I carry everywhere with me, so that extra espresso during the day is well accounted for. If you don't have it, check it out, it sets you up with a 1200 per day calorie count where you can enter every snack, breakfast lunch and dinner. Then enter your exercise and see if you are at positive or negative weight for the week or day.
My goal coming up over the next 6 week until the cruise, is to maintain 3 sessions a week of exercise (1 with personal trainer) this should set me at my goal of the final 2kg loss which is pre Christmas and pre Europe weight.
Thanks for reading, Stay Awesome.
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