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, 3 May 2016

22MHC 38/54 - Cardio 1 and Core 2

Still not 100% with my cold but got it done.

Cardio went really great and although I used the power stands to modify burpees, I stepped the 1st round of 25 but did the 2nd and 3rd round properly i.e. jumping feet. including the 22 extra ones in the burnout ;)
Got all the rest of the reps in and in good time too so pleased with progress.

Core 2 is still really tough on some of the moves but each time I do it I get a little better ;) today my roller boat seemed much better.

I think I also worked out while my push ups are feeling weaker and weaker - they are not getting any recovery! We only work them in resistance workouts  and not cardio ones so you think you must be resting them, but each cardio workout it chased with a core workout and core 1 and 2 have a push up move in there so either 11 or 22 push ups with a concentrated eccentric move (plus a roll). The eccentric part, which I always work hard at because I know eccentric moves make the concentric stronger, but it means that I'm working this same muscles every day!! No wonder!!!!
It's probably no problem for those with good upper body strength that can do push ups no problem but for me I'm not sure its helping as my push ups don't feel like they are improving like the rest of me - so in core and 1 and 2 I will now just be going into forearm plank to get the core work and take the push up out to see if that helps.

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