With the injury last month I had decreased the amount of exercise I had been doing as I was out for both netball and running which after a couple of weeks was starting to really do my head in.
We also changed our gym programme near the end of the month with some new splits and exercises which the body took a little bit to get used to.
1st – Lower Body Workout
2nd – Upper Body Workout
3rd – Upper Body Workout
4th – Rest
5th – Lower Body Workout (New Stiff Legged Deadlift PB!)
6th – Rest
7th – Lower Body Workout (Woo getting back closer to my PB for squats, slowly but surely. Still can’t lunge though)
8th – 10km Walk to test my ankle
9th – Upper Body Workout
10th – Lower Body Workout
11th – Rest
12th – Upper Body Workout
13th – Rest
14th – Lower Body Workout (Reached my Squat Goal)
15th – Rest
16th – Upper Body Workout
17th – Legs @ the Gym & a lot of walking, estimate around 10km.
18th – Rest
19th – New Program – Back & Chest & Short 2.5km Run! (Wahoo, it’s been a while!)
20th – Rest
21st – New Programme – Arm @ Gym
22nd – Rest
23rd – Lower Body @ Gym
24th – Lower Body @ Gym & Netball game (hurrah)
25th – Rest
26th – Chest / Back @ Gym
27th – Rest
28th – Lower Body @ Gym
29th -Lower Body @ Gym
30th – Rest
31st – Chest / Back @ Gym
As you can see from the above, I met a couple of Personal Bests (PB’s) which was awesome, and managed to go for a run once and netball once. Slow progress, but progress none the less. I am getting REALLY frustrated that my ankle is still giving me grief and I haven’t been able to do a long run (or even a full length short run) in some time and there is not a lot of time left till the half!
Did you do anything new exercise wise this month?
You are so impressive to someone like me haha.
I waited until the last day of the month to exercise properly! Still counts? 😉
Hopefully it’s the start of a better routine. I huffed and puffed my way through a 2.5km ‘run’ where I had to slow down and power walk constantly (between my husband and I we had a dog and a toddler to push) – bit unfit! I’m strong but my cardio has so been lacking.
Definitely still counts, here’s to putting in place good routines for April 🙂
I’ve started doing something I’ve found on Pinterest called “Tuff Butt April” where you start doing 5 lunges, 5 squats and 5s lunge hold and then slowly work up to 50/50/60s by the end of the month. I’m hoping I can keep this up every day!!
That’s really cool, a little every day will add up and form habits as well 🙂
Don’t you hate injuries! I had a few last year which was frustrating. Looks like you’ve got a good plan sorted though.