Nye's fitness blog

I had a 're-focus' session at the gym today with a personal trainer I'd not worked with before. Fred is a middle-aged guy who's been in the industry for years, and has a rather sexy bod. I'm not sure if I'll go with everything he suggested, but he's talking about sorting out three separate programmes for me for different areas of the body, which'll be useful. I suck rather at knowing which exercises are for which areas of the body (apart from the very obvious), and having a split programme that is really obvious should help with that.

The more thought that goes into my regime, the better. If I just go at it without thinking, I end up knackering myself before I get to the interesting little exercises that can tweak things in interesting ways. (Tired, vocabulary therefore gone to sh*t.)

( more detail than you'd probably want to read unless you're me )

While I was at the gym I did a quick session.

20 mins reclining bike (5 mins warm-up, 15 mins intervals)
Squats on the Smith machine. 15kg * 8,7,7
Walking lunges with dumbbells. Up and down the width of the gym twice with 6kg dumbbells then once with 4kg dumbbells. Ouch.
Squatting calf-raises, 10, 14, 14
Cool down on the silly floating platform thing. (Hey, I was bored, plus I find it difficult.)

Ooh, then I lugged a not-very-portable massage table to Eltham. Go me!