Week 7 Day 2+3

Day 3

Personal trainer session with Cath at 7.30am approx... alarm set for 5.30am, quick breakfast then back to bed for 50 mins or so. Snoozed a bit so out a bit later so out of the house ~7am and gym by 7.15 ish.

According to Cath, doing a PHA Session this time?
Never heard of this before... Pheripheral Heart Action ... (more details see here)

Allegedly lets you train smarter, hard effort but in less time, working very hard pumping the blood alternating sets between upper and lower body resistance exercises then doing some cardio and back again to do another set.

So might be 20-30 reps bench press, 20-30 deadlifts, 20-30 weighted squats, then 5 minutes cardio with the aim to keep the heart rate up at the end then start another set. Could easily do this at home though, gym not needed.

Anyway, whatever it was.. PHArd!

Football at lunchtime later on, sun beating down, very tiring but good. Nice balanced game.

Used my garmin again but without the heart rate strap... estimated calories, 320... but with the heart rate strap a few weeks ago was 600+ calories... so proves that it does work.. heart rate shows your effort level far more acurately.

Tomorrow is a rest day before my long run of the week on Saturday. Knees a bit sore so definitely need a little rest.


Day 2
Something light after Tuesday's harder run, maybe.

30-35 mins of jogging plus some hill intervals, nice to go up Bidston Hill/ road a few times then fly back down. Approx 3 miles, different paces, but not at my maximum.

Back to the gym, 2-3 minutes to 6 just in time for a fast 30 minute circuit class.

5-6 work areas setup around the gym, 4 exercises on each, move from station to station every minute or so. Pretty good, nice and fast. Could really push since it was only a half hour class.

Positively whizzed up the army crawl section - 6 months of the Sunday class with Liam paying off maybe.