03 Aug 2012: Fire

Notes

When I made the change recently to make Sunday “day 1” of each weekly program, I hadn’t realised the implication for Friday of each week… The final session of the week involves about 3 hours at the gym, which meant I got up very early, spent 3 hours training, then put in a full day of work.

At the end of it I was knackered – I’m late writing this journal entry, so I can also note that cramming things in like this on Friday led to very low energy levels over the weekend. In the end I skipped the Sunday gym session, to recover and to reset things back to Monday being “day 1″…

That said, I really enjoyed this session at the time – it’s a great feeling to successfully complete the full 3 hour session and to know that you were able to push yourself through to the end. You get a bit of a physical buzz too, which lasts for a little while and then you’re left feeling very tired 🙂

Summary

Time to bed (previous night): 22:00

Time got up (today): 02:30

Mood (1 to 5):

Morning 5

Lunch 3.5 (tired)

Night 3 (very tired)

Journal

02:30 – 1 multigrain cracker, glass of water

03:00 – Gym (see below)

06:30 – Porridge, 2 slices toast. Orange juice

07:30 – Bus, nap

08:30 – Skinny long mac, few nuts

10:00 – Banana, few nuts

12:00 – Ham & salad roll

21:00 –  Chicken, vegetable soup, cheese

23:00 – Milk, bed

Gym

Warm-up: 5 mins bike

1000m row – 3m 46s

5km bike – 12m 06s

2km treadmill – 17m 33s

800m row – 3m 11s

5km bike – 12m 33s

2km treadmill – 18m 25s

600m row – 2m 22s

5km bike – 12m 25s

2km treadmill – 18m 12s

400m row – 1m 28s

5km bike – 12m 20s

2km treadmill – 19m 36s

200m row – 33s

Crunches x 20. Plank hold – 1m 01s

Ab Twists x 20. Plank hold – 39s

Bicycle legs x 40. Plank hold – 28s

Stretch