Hannah\’s Blog

Its raining! Lovely weekend weather here. Just cooking my turkey burgers in my coconut oil and winding down. Worked today and set my week up and had SJ took me through my A workout. Chins and weighted chins, wide and reverse grip pulldowns. My back gets a pump now staright away, it switches on quite easily, has taken a good few years hard work but now it works well for me. A new exercise called a kneeling J’pulldown for my back, more like a kneeling staight arm pulldown, it was good. Pushdowns, overhead rope ext and std hammer curls which gave my arm a good pump and a set of incline sup curls to finish off.

Cant wait for legs on Tuesday, got to hit my hams more!

Looking forward to working with clients this week, busy week coming up ahead. All planned so rest tonight.

5 weeks till pre-contest diet starts!

What a week! Back a work, teaching, running my site and clients. My training took a side step which was wrong and my program is changing again as I have about 5 weeks before My pre-contest diet starts. Looks like I am going back on a A B and C’. 2 x upper and 1 lower. Starting with Upper on Sunday and I am very excited about that.

Unfortunately, I am not going to see Monica Brant at end of the month. We have early births, marriages, honeymoons, late house move and staff holidays suddenly merging on my trip. Needless to say I am gutted and disappointed but I have a site to run and it is my job. I hope to go out but it looks like it wont be at least till after my show in October now as pre-contest starts soon and I have to focus on the competiton.

My clients have done well. Here’s’a few well dones to some. Lucie lost a couple of pounds, cardio and coconut oil seems to have helped. Chantel has her mojo back and has booked on the 10km run we sponsor in August! Yey!! Bekah looks in great shape and last nights jump chins were superb, 5 on her own! Tammy is back in body and mind. Well done girls!!!

I have trained ARMS this week and had a tri set of 2 biceps and 1 triceps and then 2 tris and 1 bis. I got a real good pump and in this climate I findit much easier as you get warm so much quicker. Seems to be more blood flow enabling blood to get into the working muscle. I am off all supps this week and having a break from oats, mct oil and shakes. The rest has done me a lot of good. I have been swimming and stretching lots.

Dont know if I mentioned it but my trip to Texas with Monica Brant is on for the end of June, so I am so looking forward to that. Brilliant news!!!

Having breakfast out and writing my blog and its a gorgeous day. Today is rest day. Yesterday I trained shoulders, back and chest and I can feel it! My back is the most sore. The lateral raises for max reps for 1 min x 2 was good and into heavy db shoulder presses. But it was the 1 min pullovers into wide machine pulldowns x 3 that got me. I can feel it right in my insertions. The rest was good, reverse pulldowns and flyes x 1 min max reps and db incline chest presses. Rest day again and stretches for me and then tomorrow is heavy volume
Arms.

Looking forward to hearing about your successes!
P.s’hamstrings still a little sore! Def a part that need working on more!!!

I am away on holiday and am enjoying a great break. Lots of swimming to help me rest and recover. I am catching up on my Oxygen magazines and I have a few back copies to get through which is great. I have heard from Monica Brant and it looks like my trip is on!!!! Yey!!! Really looking forward to my next trip.

In the meantime, my hamstrings are in bits!!! Started my new routine A,B,C’and D. I started A before my break which was Arms-heavy and yesterday I trained Legs. Heavy db squats replaced bb squats 1 x 12 and then 2 x 8 into single leg squats 2 x 30, lying leg curls 2 x 1 mins test (ouch) and then straight leg deadlifts and calves with abs. My hamstrings are in bits today. I am working on really giving them some shape, especially at the top. They are ridiculously sore and tight today. The idea behind this programme is aimed at my arms, i lift heavy and then rest them for a couple of days before going in for volume, I dont have too long left before pre contest diet starts in July.

To all my clients - I hope you are working hard without me and I look forward to the promises you have made to me about the changes you are making to yourselves.

Happy Training x

Today was the last total body, I start anew workout from next week and if I can squeeze it in before I go on annual leave I will.  Although I am taking my new programme with me for my break.  I kept to 3 x 12 reps and started with squats into stiff legged deadlifts.  Incline chest press, seated row.  Incline machine shoulder press and cable curls and pushdowns.  I have covered 3 extra classes again this week, so certainly have been busy what with work and clients.  Looking forward to training clients this afternoon and evening as the weather here is lovely and we can train on muscle hill and the outdoor gym!

Had a lush weekend in the sun and trained hard with SJ on sunday with upper body.  My arms were really PUMPED and I was really happy with how they looked.  I am now on a ‘de-load’ week where I can either do 3 x 12 total body (just for me and my state of mind) fresh air, surfing, bike etc.  I had a huge outdoor coastal walk in the sun yesterday which was great and couldn’t help myslelf, but I was back in the gym this morning after teaching PUMP doing a total body.  Extension, curls, db presses and flyes, pulldowns (reverse and wide) sup curls and o/h extensions and hammers and rope pushdowns.  It was good but actually felt quite hard!

Just off to teach PUMP again.  Well done Sarah and Jemma.  You are both working really hard and I am so pleased with you both, got to stick at it and enjoy it all.

The weather has been gorgeous here, so I hope you are making the most of your training and setting goals for that ‘bikini body’ and remember nutrition is really the key to it all too.

I trained legs yesterday and managed to get my 3 sets of 20 rep squats out.  I wanted to get the 20kg done, but was a little concerned about my ankle so stayed on the 17.5kg a side.  It was good and my legs were shaky after.  I also did seated leg curls 12/10/8/8/(strip and heavy weighed abs.  I am looking forward to Sundays training.

Well done Bekah, last night she pressed for shoulders the 12.5kg and did 3 sets of jump chins, 8/6/6.  So much stronger in the last month and looking in fanstastic shape. Well done!

Have a lovely weekend, it looks like its going to be gorgeous x

I  hope you like my front page, just refreshed it a bit.

Went body boarding Saturday in North Devon as ankle still not 100% but it was great and amazing to be out in the sun, sea and fresh air all day. It really re-charged my batteries. Worked today and set up my week and had another great training session with SJ. Wide machine pulldowns and reverse grip pulldowns for the thickness of my back, back was sore and pumped, did negatives as well! Ouch!! 2 sets of strict overhand grip row for 12 reps. Power room for biceps! Ez bar bicep curls into rope hammer curls. Tri set for triceps, pushdowns, overhead rope extensions into g
Close grip pushups. Incline chest press, 1 min of functional trainer flyes, dropping down the resistance and neutral grip db shoulder press! Loved it! Cankt wait to train tuesday! Grow, grow, grow!!!

SJ got new updated site www.all powercomesfrom.com

Have a great week, still waiting to hear from Monica, hopefully she is now back in the States!

Its been real fun teaching in Newton Abbot this week, I have done 2 PUMP class and 1 BODYBLAST.  We did this mornings class BODYBLAST outdoors.  It was great, we had the grass/steps/db/bands/outdoor music system, the works.  The ladies really enjoyed it and it was so refreshing to be outside in the sun.  I should really make a training dvd soon.  It was great fun!

Clients are having a blast with their training, they are so switched on.  Lucie has been great and has really got her motivation back and is lookingin great shape.  Chantels head is back onto her shoulders and she looked fab training yesterday (even if she was still wearing her label on her new top!!).

It been a good and busy week so far and after the class this morning I trained Legs.  Still having treatment for my ankle and I have been doing so many squats and lunges with the extra classes, I trained heavy on Leg Extensions 12/10/8/8/(8) and the same with Seated Leg Curl, and then heavy weighted abs.  I have bought a hand blender for the gyms and it is a delight blending the oats with the protein powder and mct oil and my digestion system is loving it.

All good….

I trained upper body with SJ on Sunday and was not quite so sore this time round, felt strong though and I got a real good pump.

I am covering classes this week and next in Newton Abbot gym, 2 x PUMP and 1 x BODYBLAST which is fun to do.  This morning I took PUMP and it went down really well.  they have a head mike with no leads attatched and that was lush using that today!  Then I went into the gym and trained upper body again.  After last week I had decided that the workout on Tuesday was not as intense, but I was clearly mistaken as I obviously wasn’t working hard enough!!  It was a good session, despite having the hour class warm up and I completed it in 45 mins.  I felt strong, so I added in the drop set of db lateral raises 8/7/6/5/4 kg for 8 reps each after I had used their new incline shoulder press machine which had totally burnt out my shoulders on the first exercise!  Overhand seated rows, pullovers were intense and then it was arms, hammer/conc curls and s.a. o/h extensions and a hard weighted circuit for abs!

Clients are on track this week and Rachel, well doen for the drop raises down the rack today for shoulders!  what a strong girl you are!  Good luck next Tuesday for the ‘dog handling’ interview with the Police, you are going to so get the job, you deserve it!

Waiting to hear back from Monica Brant whether I go to texas in June for either 1:1 training or the the fem-camp she runs, depends on her tme scale and I need to be back in the UK by July to start dieting, so we’ll have to see.  either way, I am very excited to go and learn and be INSPIRED…