Welcome to my fitness log

I've created this to keep everything to do with my fitness journey in one place for easy reference.
I've listed links to places I visit regularly or places I think are interesting or valuable resources.

I started doing Crossfit September 22nd 2009 and I loved it - it's totally awesome and it made me a better person in so many different ways!

After nearly 4 years of Crossfit and wrist injury I tried a home fitness DVD for a change and something new - Rip 60 was really great and then I found Beachbody / Tony Horton's P90X!
It's THE best home fitness program ever!!!
It changed my body in so many amazing ways and got my cardio fitness, my core and overall strength including push up strength better than ever before!!

I now do many Beachbody programs as they are all so great.
I 'm a big Tony Horton fan because he makes me work hard but makes me laugh at the same time.
After I completed P90X, I did P90X3, P90X2 and some P90X+. I''ve tried other Beachbody programs including the P90, Piyo, Focus T25,
21 Day Fix Extreme, Country Heat, BodyBeast and Insanity, The Aslyum 1 and 2. Completed 21 Day Fix and 22 Min hard Core.

Did some Insanity Max 30 and Core de Force but my knees can't handle jumping every day so I have to mix them in.
Shift shop is great and looking forward to the new 80 Day obsession.

I'm the fittest I've ever been in my life and still getting stronger every day!

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Rip 60 Week 7 Day 2

 After a few mins with my mum after asking about burpees it was clearly made obvious to me that on cardio movements as opposed to strength movement my form can very quickly for out the window ;(

So today maybe a little slower but concentrate of holding that stomach in so much more and position shoulders correctly for push ups. Also burpees are bad because I let my core go so doing them at a higher position will help alot.


Muay Tai Knees down to 4kg DB as 5kg was just a little tough yesterday, 4kg DB for Vsit with rotation as touching the floor. Stayed at 7.5kg for KB swings.
Single leg Hip raises were still tough but a little better. I put the weight downa nd tried with more stabililty with hands on floor and they were easier but still tough on the ham strings.

Burpees I tried much harder to hold core and set my shoulder to concentrate on push up part also did them on push up bars on 2 blocks and a step = a little above knee height. I'm disappointed as I feel I've lost a fair bit of push up strength during the last 6 weeks but I have gained alot of stabilization in my shoulders and core and my legs and feet are much better at jumping.

Reverse Crunch went pretty well and tried 2 partial range push ups again, but I put my knees down a couple of times trying to set my shoulders and core better


Heart rate monitor on today - just under the 59 mins on the clock  491 Calories.
Max HR was 172 = 92% of Max and Ave 137 = 74%
Didn't push as hard and keep going regardless as form is more important, I worked harder on my push ups as the height was still a little high and so the push ups were tough (may know to them tomorrow) but still burnt around the same amount of calories as yesterday with better form.

I'm aware of my back muscles more tonight so that interesting I obviously was using them more and they are not used to it, although I did go for a nearly horizontal lat pull, before coming a little way, and then up a little more.

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