Nye's fitness blog

It's taken me a while to get back into going to the gym. BiCon really wiped me out. I have been doing a bit of jogging and quite a lot of walking though.

Tuesday:

Jogged to gym.
Upper body workout (back and chest).
Walked home. Walked to Holborn and back, then walked to Fitzrovia and back. Total walking: 5 miles.

Wednesday:

Booked weightlifting/powerlifting course.
Walked around Bloomsbury, walked home.
Walked to Camden Town via the canal/Kentish Town.
30 minutes HIIT on the exercise bike.
(Ate too much food, bah.)

Today: vague plans for exercise. Need more concrete ones! I have work later, so I don't want to do something that uses my wrists too much. Maybe a longish jog?

Went to the gym today after work, partly because I was about to have a vegan ice-cream date! (In the end, I ate most of the ice cream.)

Reclining exercise bike: 5 mins warm-up, 35 mins intervals.

Abdominal work: skissor kicks (big and small), leg raises (big and small); opposite elbow to knee thing, crunches focusing on one side then the other, crossing my leg at the knee and using that as a focus point (there's got to be a quicker way of describing that, right?)

Exercise bike: 10 minutes.

Walked home from Camden Town to King's Cross via Somerstown (I usually go down St Pancras Way/between St Pancras and the British Library).

Yesterday was my birthday. I decided to have my first taste of Poutine, and made sure to go to the gym beforehand.

Ran a mile to the gym, did a quick legs/shoulders/triceps workout with free weights. Increased some of my weights. Was squatting with 2 12kg dumbbells, walking lunge with 2 10kg dumbbells - this was an increase of 6kg per dumbbell from last time. Front deltoid raises: 3kg * 12, 10, 8. Seated shoulder press: 4kg * 12, 10, 8. Overhead triceps extensions: 2kg * 12, 10, 8. 2kg is still difficult with my left arm. Single triceps push back: 3kg * 12, 10, 8. 10 minutes cool down on the reclining bike. *really* short workout, but I had fun stuff to do.

Walking: walked around Covent Garden, then home to King's Cross, then to Angel and back. Probably 4 miles total.

Had a good exercise day today! ( Read more... )

Defo deserved a protein shake after all that!

The last couple of days my exercise has been of the useful variety. On Friday I walked to the WISH office near Old Street and back home via a drop-off near Smithfields Market. Saturday was a hide from the world day, and my ankles swelled up because of a combination of my obesity, the hot weather, and the lack of exercise that day. They didn't swell up as much as they used to when I was 20 stone though, so that's a good thing really.

Today:

• Weight-lifting at home. Insufficient warm-up followed by bent row, standing flyes, shoulder press, bicep curls, standing tricep extensions, weighted calf raises and weighted squats.


• Bit of a run to/along the canal. Didn't go far because it was really horribly sunny and hot. Ran up Pancras Road, Camley Street, Regent's Canal to Royal College Street, where I collapsed in a heap for 5 minutes. Then ran down Royal College Street, and Midland Road to St Pancras Station where I had a delicious dark cherry mocha frappuccino.
• walked to The Pembury in Hackney via the Regetnt's Canal (6 miles) and back home the direct route (4 miles).

My food has been *crap* today. I don't usually talk about it in in this journal. Have a cut.( Read more... )