My February edition of Zest arrived yesterday, and in the back were four fitness plans to do at home. The one I am following for the next two weeks is "kickstart your fitness" which consist of 3 circuits which include 15 reps of each of these exercise: Bent over row, High knee step ups, bench dips,toe squats, ball pull overs and side step ups. You have to do this circuit twice a week and on the other days a 30 min interval cardio set, or a 45 min cardio steady session.
As it was chucking it down with real gusts of wind outside, thought I would give the circuits a whirl. Easy Peasy thought I, how wrong can a person be???
Bloody hell I am much more unfit than I thought, I was huffing and puffing on the first circuit, by the time I was on to the 2nd I was dripping in sweat and the third set completely wiped me out. Legs were like jelly, heart was pounding, in fact my whole body was shaking.
As it is Janathon, I decided I needed to do a little more to keep the wobbles at bay, so I strapped on leg weights, put a huge bag of spuds in my backpack and took the dogs for a 1.5 mile walk round skipwith common. I enjoyed it, not sure they did , even with their coats on they were shivering and looking at me in disgust.
I hate doing those sort of exercises so i take my hat off to you...good luck with Janathon!
ReplyDeleteI hate them too, but my Plantar is really limiting my choices and the weather does not help either
ReplyDeleteWell done for putting on all the extra weights to go dog walking - dedication!
ReplyDeleteWeights and spuds well done you. I like Zest too and another good one is womens running magazine. Congrats on weight loss
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