Ellava-Painful!
It's Week 2!
My first session this week was on Monday; what a way to start your week. I think my body’s getting used to this idea of exercise or my mind is blocking out the pain, either way I arrived to another circuit style training session called Tabata aching slightly less! This time, instead of completing rounds, you perform 1 exercise 6 times, 20 seconds at a time with a 10 second rest in between. “Jesus”, I thought, how am I going to do that when I passed out just doing them 3 times? Turns out I like this one! You focus your energy on that one exercise, go as hard as you can, GOL like hell then you don’t have to do it again! You end up really working that particular set of muscles then you move onto the next. One exercise in particular meant that I was carrying a 5kg medicine ball whilst sprinting as fast as I could, I quite enjoyed it! It’s nice to do something different, something I would never think of, or have the equipment to do by myself at home. It also makes a change to be exercising, gym-style, outside. I would hate to have videoed myself doing this; lycra leggings, heavy balls and manic thumping create only an image unconditional love could appreciate, but it was fun and I was out of breath so cheers to that!
My first session this week was on Monday; what a way to start your week. I think my body’s getting used to this idea of exercise or my mind is blocking out the pain, either way I arrived to another circuit style training session called Tabata aching slightly less! This time, instead of completing rounds, you perform 1 exercise 6 times, 20 seconds at a time with a 10 second rest in between. “Jesus”, I thought, how am I going to do that when I passed out just doing them 3 times? Turns out I like this one! You focus your energy on that one exercise, go as hard as you can, GOL like hell then you don’t have to do it again! You end up really working that particular set of muscles then you move onto the next. One exercise in particular meant that I was carrying a 5kg medicine ball whilst sprinting as fast as I could, I quite enjoyed it! It’s nice to do something different, something I would never think of, or have the equipment to do by myself at home. It also makes a change to be exercising, gym-style, outside. I would hate to have videoed myself doing this; lycra leggings, heavy balls and manic thumping create only an image unconditional love could appreciate, but it was fun and I was out of breath so cheers to that!
For my second session of the week I was going to be doing what Ella called, 10 to 1; you do 10 repetitions of one exercise, then 1 of the other. You then do 9 repetitions of the exercise, and 2 of the other, and so on and so on. Sounds fairly simple right? It’s actually pretty awesome because you start to ache in one area and then as the reps go down on that exercise and up on the other, the ache shifts to the other area of the body! We did multiple combinations of this one so ending up with a full body workout.
My last session of the week was my favourite merely because I felt proud of how hard I worked. I’m calling this workout “Isolation Station”. For this one we’d focus on one area of the body i.e legs, do a mini circuit for 10 minutes then change the area of focus to another area of the body i.e arms. It’s a killer! Ella loves the way I build up to an exercise because I say “okay” as if I’m psyching myself up to go get em! I don’t think I’ve “okay-ed” myself as much as I did during this workout. The cardio section was by far the worst, you got it, Burpees. I, like everyone else I’m sure, despise burpees. Yes they’re hard but I think the fact that I resemble a sea lion out of water is the part I dislike the most. I did it though and my God I felt fantastic afterwards!
For the love of food!
As I said previously, I spent a couple of days in Bristol this week and was saving my treats for eating out with friends. As it happens, I didn’t end up indulging much at all, the only thing I did have was a chicken, falafel, hummus and salad wrap which was rather large but not necessarily unhealthy. I still met with my friends but chose to meet for a coffee instead of a meal time - I even resisted the urge to inhale a banoffee brownie!
I always believed being in a relationship meant it was easy to get chubby because you eat out, cosy up on the sofa with a takeaway and relax a little with your weight watching. Again, it’s all about mentality. If you let yourself get comfortable you’ll obviously put on weight, but if you make the effort to consider treats as treats, and keep yourself in check you shouldn’t struggle. Sometimes people focus too much on what they can get out of a relationship rather than what is already good about it, they don’t take the time to appreciate what they have in front of them, instead they constantly look at what’s next, what needs improving. Maybe we, and I include myself, should chose to put the time and money normally spent on food, into investing in our relationships, i.e don’t get a takeaway but buy ingredients to cook a dinner together, don’t go out to dinner, take dinner out to the park, save the money and put it toward a weekend away! Too many of us live to eat rather than eat to live; how many more experiences/Bucket List ticks could we achieve if we cut down our food budget? Obviously I don’t speak for everyone, maybe not even anyone other than myself, but I am going to make a conscious effort from now on to invest my energy and money into more fruitful aspects of my life.
I live and breathe social situations; I love seeing people, meeting new people and generally having fun, so I’m determined not to let healthy eating stop me. However, it is difficult. Perhaps if I wasn’t working the hours I am it would be easier; split shifts, working until 2:00am and living 10 miles away from work, all mean I have to prepare my food sometimes days in advance, constantly carrying multiple packed lunch boxes with me. I think I’ve done really well so far, but on Saturday I did decide to use one of my treats as a meal out. I had 4 hours in between shifts so I used it to spend some time with the boys and grab some food (I had gammon, egg and chips - but I didn’t eat all of the chips Ella!). Obviously I wasn’t drinking but it was great fun watching them turn into giggling messes! (shoutout to BDK Kensit and Janbury). Also, I don’t know whether this is complete bullsh*t but I had’t had lunch so does combining lunch and dinner into 1 meal out even count as being naughty? I’m going to say no. Ella what do you think?
So I’ve excused myself from that but I’m not sure I can to what happened after work. We
had a wicked live Skar band in, we danced from the start of the shift to the end, it was
awesome! We were all having such a good night we decided to pop to the club after work -
why not? A bottle of beer, shot of sambucca and 3 (maybe 4) voddie sodas later and I’ve
well a truly smashed through my treats limit. I basically danced solidly for 7 hours though so
we’re good right Ella? The Sunday roast I was forced into having the next day was just a
way to get my 5 a day in. Bugger. I’ve just realised Cauliflower cheese has cheese in it.
Crap, that’s my cheese limit spent too. If nothing else I had a great weekend!!
Other than my night/day of weakness, I’m fortunate to have found myself very busy this last week, (I’m currently working 2 jobs, plus writing) so phantom-boredom-snacking hasn’t been an issue. However, there was one night I happened to be at home for the evening, it was a toughie. I ended up brushing my teeth at 8:00pm and vacating the kitchen where all temptation could be avoided, an early night was definitely on the cards. It’s a nice feeling to actually wake up hungry and ready for breakfast though!
Hmmm....
I’ve come to the conclusion that I am the problem. This is obvious, but I mean for a specific reason. I’ve realised that the reason I eat out so much is because I suggest eating out so much. Every time I see a friend I encourage meeting for lunch, dinner, ice cream, whatever it is! Since I’ve been limiting indulgences, I’ve noticed that the opportunity to scoff an Indian, burger or fish & chips has been less apparent and it’s because no-one else ever suggests it! Bloody fool. I wonder how much money I’ll save?
So an interesting week! Incredible work-outs, a bit of naughtiness and I lost 2 lbs and 2.75 inches! More importantly I’m not miserably hungry or dreading each session, they're the highlight of my day :)
This is me trying to stretch my quad, no pain no gain huh?
#fitness
#healthlylifestyle
#theunit
#nopainnogain
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