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!
Showing posts with label Around the Block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Around the Block. Show all posts

Monday, 7 November 2016

Barstarzz PreProgram Wk 4-1 & 22MHC Cardio 1

Long day and not great eating but got it done thankfully.

Skills was neg chin ups with rip 60 again.

Workout was Around the Block again..
5 Sets/Rounds with 1 min break in between of
5 pull ups (Rip 60 Straps)
10 Tricep Dips (My wrist has been achey since last time I did tricep dips and I've been resting it since so I subbed lying tricep press/skullcrushers with 10lb)
10 Push ups (Rnd 1 All feet 5-3-2 but I felt like a strain in my left pec, Rnd 2 I played in safe and just did knees, Rnd 3 Knees again, 4 I tried tricep push ups instead 4-4 then 2 wide & 5 was 10 wide knees

Chased it with 22MHC Cardio 1 phew!!!


Barstarzz PreProgram Wk 3-4 & 22MHC Cardio 1

Long day and not great eating but got it done thankfully.

Skills was neg chin ups with rip 60 again.

Workout was Around the Block again..
5 Sets/Rounds with 1 min break in between of
5 pull ups (Rip 60 Straps)
10 Tricep Dips (My wrist has been achey since last time I did tricep dips and I've been resting it since so I subbed lying tricep press/skullcrushers with 10lb)
10 Push ups (Rnd 1 All feet 5-3-2 but I felt like a strain in my left pec, Rnd 2 I played in safe and just did knees, Rnd 3 Knees again, 4 I tried tricep push ups instead 4-4 then 2 wide & 5 was 10 wide knees

Chased it with 22MHC Cardio 1 phew!!!


Monday, 24 October 2016

Barstarzz Preprogram W 2-1 & BOD Core de Force MMA Speed

Start of week 2 of Barstarzz for me and it went pretty well.

Same as last week day 1.. Skill Training was Negative Chin ups - I did all harder this time and got a total of 13 negatives.

Then the main workout was Around The Block...
5 Sets/Rounds with 1 min break in between of5 pull ups (Rip 60 Straps - harder than last week)10 Tricep Dips (I did them on Power Stands Rnd 1 Straight leg, Rnd 2 1 legs, Rnd 3 1 leg, 4  & 5 straight leg)10 Push ups (Rnd 1 All feet 7-3, Rnd 2 was 4 feet & 6 Knees, Rnd 3 was 5 feet & 5 Knees, 4 was 4 f and 3-3 knees & 5 was 2f failed nearly face planted lol 3rd and 3-3-2 knees)Really please with improvements in just a week ;)
Then went straight into MMA Speed and loved it. 
Took my preworkout but didn't going as quick as I would have liked ie 1.5 hrs after instead of 30 mins and I knew to it towards the end of MMA Speed but pushed through as best as I could.



Monday, 17 October 2016

Barstarzz Preprogram W 1-1 & 22MHC Cardio 1

So I fancied a change and decided to invest in myself and bought the new Barstarzz BTX (Body Transformation Extreme ) 2.0 program.

I'm lacking my pull bar at the moment since moving house so I'm using my Rip 60 Straps for my pull ups and chin ups.

I'm starting the 4 week pre-program before I start the full 12 week program and today was day 1.

Skill Training was Negative Chin ups which went pretty well - I did them pretty tough for 8 and include the chin up then 6 really tough just focussing on the negative.

Then the main workout was Around The Block...

5 Sets/Rounds with 1 min break in between of
5 pull ups (Rip 60 Straps)
10 Tricep Dips (I did them on Power Stands Rnd 1 Straight leg, Rnd 2 Bent legs, Rnd 3, 4  & 5 straight leg)
10 Push ups (Rnd 1 All feet 5-5, Rnd 2 was 4 feet & 5-1 Knees, Rnd 3 was only 3 feet & 3-2-2 Knees, 4 was 3 f and 3-3-1 knees & 5 was 3 f and 2-2-2-1 knees )

Push ups were tough in the latter rounds but I actually really enjoyed it.

To add in Cardio I went straight into 22MHC Cardio 1 and loved it!