Exercise: Weekly Goals

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I LOVE my heart rate monitor! Best exercise tool ever! I love knowing exactly what I’m burning and also love the weekly summaries tool on it.

Below are the past four weeks worth of exercise, showing the total time, number of sessions and calories burnt (with the exception of the Fast 5 Netball Tournament from last week as I didn’t wear the HRM).

This week is the final Indoor Netball for the season, which I am glad about to be honest. We seemed to often get stuck with the 7.30 games meaning I didn’t get home till after 8.30 and it felt like all I had time for was to exercise and work.

Saturday netball starts with an opening day in two weeks time and next weekend we have a Tournament in Levin. We have also started practicing on Wednesday nights.

Between the late night games, fatigue and generally trying to look after myself better I have decided I MUST implement a rest day, and it has to be a proper rest day at least once per week.

I did it this week and it felt so much better going in to the gym after two days off (1 rest day and 1 was a walk up and down the stairs).

My exercise plan from now until when I get up to Auckland is now;

4 * gym sessions per week including 20-30 minutes cardio.
1 * Netball Practice (generally not that strenuous – If I’m feeling enthusiastic and it’s not raining I may implement a short 4.7km run before practice each Wednesday it isn’t raining)
1 * Netball Game (generally 3/4 of the game)
1 * Complete Rest day

I also have an unwritten goal to burn a minimum of 2000 calories per week, which incidentally with the amount of sessions I’ve been doing it hasn’t been an issue.

I also had a very average reassessment at the gym which has got me thinking about food and trying to fine tune that as well, thank you my fitness pal 😉