Exercise routines, tips and chatter?

[AngelPunks]

I'm not doing weights now coz I get all blokey and actually get bigger - I really don't need my legs any bigger than they are now - they're still quite muscular.

Since we're coming into summer, I might start swimming again or even water running.

[Bloom]

Hey ladies,

How are you going post challenge CQ?

Sorry to hear that you're not feeling great with PMT Hoobley. Hope the move went well!

Pumkin - hi! Good to hear you getting out walking - what time of day do you go? It's getting hot!

I'm off to the gym this morning but I can't decide if I should do the new pump release or just cardio..
The other day I tried some interval training: 8 seconds sprint and then 52 seconds at normal intensity. I managed for 10 minutes before I caved. Tough. I'm going to try again. My gym buddy can sustain it for 20 minutes.

Hope you are all well!

Ruth

[C~Q]

Hello everybody!!! Havn't been here for a while!

How is everybody? Ruth - did you do the new Pump? I don't do Pump anymore but my friend said it was really hard!

I have changed my timetable up and around a bit as they closed one of the gyms that I used to go to so I'm doing more weight training which is good. I've gotten bigger in my arms and I like that! This is how my week looks now...

Mon - Upper body weights/Step
Tues - Boxing (am).Combat (pm)
Weds - Combat/Lower body weights
Thurs - Step/PT
Fri - Attack/Balance
Sat - Combat/PT

There's not much else to report really! We have the 12 Week Challenge dinner on Fri night where they will announce all the winners but a friend of mine has seen the finalists for the club i'm at and didn't say I was one of them so i'm assuming i'm not! I was upset initially but now i've realied that i've gontten what I wanted out of it and so I am a winner!

What news does everybody else have???

ETA - I now have a new gym partner who I have told to come in here...Boomba!!! I'll get her posting in here very soon!!

[AngelPunks]

ok I've got a pedo now, on days I'm not walking home from work, I am going to have to push myself to walk more, it is 4800 steps from work to in the front door. On a non-walk-home day I'm doing about 7000 steps so I'm going to have to pump that one up a bit, but I've worked out if I catch a different bus I have a 1300 step walk home.

Have to start doing situps etc to get the baby belly gone.

[C~Q]

I was thinking about what you said Shaz about not doing resistance training because you bulk up too quickly, but I really think it's important to assist in weight loss. The more lean muscle mass you have the higher your metabolic rate so you're burning more KJs even when you're sleeping!

There are 3 main ways to program for resistance training - Muscle strength, Muscle endurance and Hypertrophy (muscle growth) - if you train for muscular endurance you will get some growth but not a lot. So if you work with low weight and high reps you should see some results. Let me know if you want more info or a program hun

[AngelPunks]

CQ you felt the muscle in my leg, that is left over from hockey (ice & field), gym (I leg press into the 3 figures) and now from walking.

I'm going to bite the bullet in the new year and join a gym, may even join the chain you are a member of CQ since we get discount because of where I work. I'd love help with organising a plan.

Hard thing when I go to the gym is I love pushing myself to lift the heavy weights ... which of course doesn't help in the wish to NOT build bulky muscle.

[C~Q]

Ooh yes join join join!!! I can come into the City sometimes and work out with you!!!

IKWYM about heavy weights - I love it! I can now leg press 170KG!!! I;m lucky (in a way) though, that I will never really bulk up that much. I'll have a chat with my trainer and ask him about you...maybe you can do heavy weights with really, really low reps.

How exciting! I love it when people get started on a new exercise kick yay!!! And the new year is a great time to start, although you started on the new (or real) you a way back!!