Bouncing Back to form!

Like a self proclaiming prophecy, after my last blog, I took a few days off as the 6 days a week training for 2 weeks just took its tool.

The last three days back in training have been loads of fun! Feels great to get back into it.

Ive lost my training partner Ali to his girlfriend, so its just that little bit harder getting up at 6:00 to be in the gym when there is no one relying on you to train.

Started with the AR7 squat a back session, for those of you who have never done its horrible!

Basically leaves you with an end result of total of 110 Deadlifts, 110 Weighted Squats, 110 Jumping Squats in less than 40 mins.

I added on 10 x 10 second incline sprints on the running machine, then decided to run to my apartment, managed to run 10 flights of stairs and walked 2-this as it turned out, was a stupid idea as I couldn’t get from the stairwell to corridor because the fire door only works from the other side. The walk down 12 flights as I swore lots was very long.

The following day, was a AR7 chest session, which I always love.

I wanted to mix it up yesterday, so I did the Randy Couture Barbell workout.

Bent (Horizontal) Rows x 8

Uprows x 8

Military Press (NOT push press – keep knees stiff)  x 8

Good Mornings x 8

Split Squats/Rear Lunges x 8 (each leg)

Squat Push Press x 8

Straight-leg deadlift x 8

Then put the bar down and rest for 60 seconds and repeat 6 times.

I started with 10kgs each side of an Olympic bar, dropped to 5kgs straight after the first set!

Along with the Crossfit stuff, I absolutely LOVE this routine, you are in and out of the gym in no time, but it quite literally destroys you.

As I trained twice yesterday, I have given this mornings session a miss, but am going to head to the pool straight after work and see if can do a 1km swim.

I hate swimming, its the only exercise where my brain doesn’t switch off, all that goes through my head the entire time is stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!

Need to get a waterproof mp3 player, as the 40 min swim feels like purgatory! I am only doing it as its a low impact activity and works the whole body!

The highlight this week is that our story came out in UAE Outdoor Magazine, thanks to the fact that Nic can take a photo and I cant, Im in some pretty cool pics J