Back from Holiday
I had a great break away in London and trained at the YMCA off Tottenham Court Road and a Virgin Health Club in West London. My best workouts were in the YMCA. a good range of dumbells and barbells and a good vibe to training hard. Not so good at the Virgin (leisure) club, but I have also come down with a cold, so thats maybe why. I did the usual chest and back, legs and shoulders and arms.
I ran around Hyde Park for a 10km run for 50 mins (better than my summer time).
I tried Bikram Yoga (a room that is 40 degree heat and humidity). I enjoyed the dynamic side of the class but was ready to pass out exactly 1 hour and 10 mins into the class (had to wait another 20 before I could bolt out!!!) Tried it again a couple of days later and wanted to bolt out exactly the same time again. I didn’t. I stuck through it, but it was really challenging to work out in that kind of heat. Muscles felt great for all the flexibility stretching and mind was exhausted ‘being right here, right now!’.
Back to work now, my pictures have arrived and I hopefully will get them on site by the end of the week. They were taken a few weeks after my finals up in the fresh air on Dartmoor.
Trained Legs and shoulders with James this morning. It was really good to shake this cold! We did incline legs press superset with plyometric jump lunges. Stiff leg deadlifts into jump squats. Bench hops, to load up and warm the shoulders (both hands on the bench and loading the body weight onto the hands and shoulders to jump/hop both legs over to the other side and as soon as you have landed, straight over to the other side). Next up was standing military shoulder press superset with cable lateral raises and a couple of sets of handstand push ups. Then a combine boso ball/fit ball plank to challenge what core we had left. A brilliant workout!