My GO-TO Workout Routine
We all need one. The workout routine for when you haven’t been able to make it to your class. For when you haven’t enough time to go to the gym. Or for when you day has run away from you and it’s 8pm and the kids are asleep.
We all need one. The workout routine for when you haven’t been able to make it to your class. For when you haven’t enough time to go to the gym. Or for when you day has run away from you and it’s 8pm and the kids are asleep.
Watch the video for details on how to perfect this move.
I’ve lost my training MOJOIt’s been brewing for a bit really. The signs are easy to spot: missed training sessions, training sessions cut short and generally a feeling of fear and loathing before any training session.So I was sitting in the car outside the gym willing myself up and out. I’d already bailed on this session last Monday, when it was supposed to be scheduled, because of some lame excuse. And this was the last chance to catch up the session.But as I thought through my plan, there was not a single exercise I was looking forward to… I’ve really lost my mojo.
A few weeks ago I told you about my sore shins back in January, and how frustrated I was that I couldn’t train.Eventually I got back to jumping, and it was pretty good.The best bit was some 60m sprints In which I ran a whopping 0.3s faster than my best last year. In 60m, this is significant. It got me thinking about what had generated this leap…
As you may have heard at the time, I got hurt In January. A moment of distraction that turned into a horrible graze and big bump to my shins…It really angered me because I knew it would upset my training week. So I went home, festering in my bad mood. Ate a tonne of Doritos, and the kids’ chocolate. The next day, I was equally grumpy. Especially when I knocked it again.
Baby it’s cold outside…
Oh yeah, –2 degrees as I write this on a Thursday morning.
Now of course, you know that this not a reason to skip training. But there are ways to make yourself more comfortable. As my ex-USSR coach used to say (cue bad Russian accent) “Der is no ting as bad weder. Der is only bad cloving…”
So here are my top tips.
5 Reasons you should take your workout outdoors
Yes, we might still have a few chilly weeks ahead of us, but the benefit of working out outdoors are considerable! So as tempting as it is to snuggle up and hibernate, here are 5 reasons you should head outside.
Why You Should Break Up with your Gym this January
Here we go again. It’s the New Year and love it or hate it, everyone will be looking for ways to improve their health, lose additional weight gained over the holidays, get fit. Often the starting point for many of us is to join a gym and resolve to go there 2,3,4 times a week.
But why we do it every year? Year after year? Because inevitably, we are failing. We are not getting fitter, or losing the weight, and yet come January 1, we will make the same resolution and expect a different result.
Why you won’t ever catch me doing things on a Bosu…
First of all, what’s a BOSU… It stands for Both Sides Up. Because guess what, you can use it either way up.
It’s a tool used to create instability, i.e. it wobbles. The theory is that because it creates instability, it makes training harder. So, for example, if you can normally squat, I dunno, 40kg, you’d struggle to get more than 25kg on a BOSU. The theory is you work harder to fight the instability and you need to activate your core more.
Which would be extremely useful if the world was made of jelly, but, thankfully it’s not.
Injuries, tweaks and twinges.
It’s that time of the year. We start to see an increase in the number of tweaks and twinges… For the most part, they are not serious, but they are annoying. Especially when you have life that needs living, and they do set you back.
But they can be avoided.