Not Just a Man's World

I’m definitely not quite well and possibly a little overtrained too.  Goodness knows how since I’ve not done anything excessive recently other than squeezing training in between walks so I wondered if the workout was getting tired and ready for mixing up. Anyway, my first workout of the week was dreadful and I thought I [...]

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No post last week.  It turned out that the walk not only ended up filling my entire week (thanks to half a day sat in traffic trying to get home at the end) but it also completely broke me.  I was knot filled with tight glutes, tight soles of my feet, knots in my calves [...]

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I had set out this week to do 3 workouts but I was a bit broken by Saturday, picked up the bar for my first warm up weight, did one rep and promptly walked out of the gym again.  Mentally I wasn’t in the right place and physically I felt really creaky and not quite [...]

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As expected I only got one workout done and it happened right at the end of the week, the day after getting in from four days of walking. It was a tough walk so I was surprised that I managed as much as I did on my return.  However, a week of eating larger meals [...]

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I unexpectedly squeezed in three workouts this week.  The nice thing about this summer-period workout is that I felt I had it in me to do the extra workout, rather than needing several days to recover.  In this way I feel better about missing workouts next week when I’m off walking again. Results for last [...]

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This week was the test for the new programme.  Could I go away for a 4 day walk and get back and straight into the gym.  Would I have retained strength based on the lighter programme I did the week before? As it turned out, the workout went well and I even got an extra [...]

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Having put up a plan last Monday for this week everything changed.  I realised that this was my final week before I start my full schedule of summer walking for the walking company, so I needed to spend this week perfecting and finalising my summer maintenance plan.  I’m aiming for a single, effective workout that [...]

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Another week in training and another week where I slowly work my way back to pre-walking strength.  Squats are still a little bit ropey on the heavier, lower-rep ones so I might repeat these weights for 4 and 3 reps in a fortnight, bringing 6 and 5 reps up to being in sequence 2kg behind [...]

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This proved to be a disappointing week.  The first workout was fantastic: good form, excellent strength.  All the ingredients of a perfect workout.  However, my next workout was a bit of a disappointment.  The day after my workout I had awful DOMS in my glutes.  It wasn’t a surprise as I had done my partial [...]

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No post last week.  The snow I was trudging through on my trip away was so deep and soft that it took me several days to recover after I returned and I was definitely not in a fit state for a workout.  I was too sore and my gym performance showed a few days after [...]

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