This is a quick rundown of last weeks workouts. My friend Elspeth and I are using a Google Drive document to make a note of our fitness sessions, so we motivate each other to keep going and hold each other accountable when we slack off! So far it’s working really well 🙂

Monday – REST
Tuesday – REST (my sister was staying last weekend!)
Wednesday – 1.7miles, 20mins, av pace 12min/mile
Thursday – REST
Friday – 1.5miles, 17:46mins, av pace 11:45min/mile
Saturday – REST (day trip to Brighton)
Sunday – Long walk around Bushy Park. GYM- 20min elliptical workout. Weights session.

I’m making a point of increasing my running mileage slowly after having such a long break over Christmas- I really don’t want to injure myself as I’m determined to make it to the She Runs Windsor 10k!

I’m also really trying to remember to stretch and foam roll every day as it makes a big difference, but I’m so terrible and always forget!

How to foam roll your calves- my main area of tightness from running!

On Sunday Mark and I had a really good session in the gym- it was super quiet so we were able to do some weights without too many beefy posing guys huffing all over the place (haha).

I did this elliptical workout to get my heart-rate up and get sweaty 🙂

And then this weights session…

I used a bar with 12.5kg for the bicep curls, 15kg for the chest press and squats and a 10kg dumbell for the single arm rows.

Here’s a description of the medicine ball passes:

8. V-Sit with Rotation and Pass: This one’s double trouble, for sure. Sitting on the floor about 1-2 feet away from your partner, with knees bent, hold the medicine ball to your chest with abs nice n’ tight. Next, both recline back a few inches and rotate one way and then the other (maintaining that rock hard core!). Return to starting position, and throw the ball to your partner. They’ll catch it and repeat the movement. Repeat for reps or time (90 seconds is no joke). Source

You can do it solo just by twisting and touching the medicine ball on the ground either side of you instead.

Finishing with lots of stretching!

Here’s to another fitness-filled week- I just went on my first lunchtime run at work today in the sunshine and it was lovely 🙂

Beki x