As there was a new gym opening up which was offering a special price of £10.99 per month inc classes, open 24 hours a day with no contract I knew I would be silly not to sign up.
On Friday I popped along for my induction. This was awful as expected, group inductions are useless and really not helpful when you have a million questions to ask about running and how you can use the gym to enhance this and some people in your group have never set foot on a treadmill. Anyway I've decided I will book myself in for a PT session, that way they can help me set up a programme.
Anyway here is what I've done so far.
Fri:
Induction
2000 metre row - 10 minutes 4 seconds
20 min spin session
Monday morning (Who would of thought I would ever be hitting the gym before work):
Cross trainer - 15 minutes (Interval Training)
20 reps of 10kg barbel squats x 3
10 reps of forward lunges (3kg) x 3
20 reps of 4kg chest presses x 3
20 reps of 4 kg tricep stretches x 3
20 crunches x 2
And a good old stretch.
Wednesday morning:
Bike - Level 4 - 9 miles - 43 minutes
Treadmill - Varied levels - 1 mile - 11 minutes 45 seconds.
And a good old stretch
Saturday morning:
Treadmill - Varied levels - 1 miles - 11 minutes 55 seconds.
Cross Trainer - Interval training - 15 minutes
I actually decided to take myself home after this. I've been feeling run down & I shouldn't of gone really as I just couldn't put any effort into it. I really hope I can make up for it this week. Come on body don't let me down now!!
I was in two minds about joining the gym, but I'm really glad I have no. It's really nice to be able to break up running, I'm still running three times & week and intend on keeping this up (except for this week - as I said I'm full of a chesty cough so only managed 2 this week) but I really feel like the extra cross training will really benefit my running.
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