Training Log Archive: Olivia

Not a super tough one, but it was fairly physical, most of the time you were either exercising with or running with an 18kg dumbbell (we were told it was 10kg but it said 40lb on it). Lots of squats and lunges so will probably be feeling it tomorrow

Came home and put some dry running kit on and back out to run the dog. We headed to drumkeeragh to get a few hills in and cos Hillsborough is getting a tad boring. My chest felt quite tight so I struggled on the hills and the flat but the downhills were lovely.

Took the dog for a run round Hillsborough to try and loosen the legs off, everything seem to return to normal except the quads, they are still very tight. It's time to invest in a foam roller me thinks.

Very gentle class tonight, it was lots of gently paced core work with some dips and the occasional run. Just what I needed, 0 leg work!

Apparently last nights training wasn't as tame as I thought, ouch!

Very similar to last nights with lots of lunges and squats. New shoulder exercise that really hurt even if Susan was being 'nice'

Was promised a super tough session but the mud meant we had to tone it down a bit. Started off with a fairly gentle warm up, once round the tree(200m) then a whole load of spotty dogs, jumping jacks and squats. Then into the session proper, 5 cones placed at varying distances with the furthest one at 40m away. 'Sprint' to each cone then 10s of the set exercise and onto the next one, once finished we sprinted back to the start, 8 burpees, bench sprint (50m) then onto the next round. Started off with a set of spotty dogs, one of jumping jacks then three squats followed by 2 jump lunges. 15 burpees and a tree sprint and onto the next group set of planks and mountain climbers but bear crawling between each cone. Another set of 15 burpees and a tree sprint and time for a water break.

8 burpees and a bench sprint to warm up again and into the next set of squat thrusts followed by press ups. 15 squats, sprint to the bench, 15 dips, sprint back x2 followed by a minute of flying, 10 press ups, being the resistance for my partner flying the another 10 press ups. 2 sets of lunging between cones
with squat jumps at each cone, followed by a set of alternating press ups and squat thrusts whilst bear crawling. Finished off with 3 sets of 10s jump lunges, squats and press ups followed by 40 dips just to rub in the shoulder work.

I've been promised tougher tomorrow so fingers crossed

Track was an ice rick again so round and round the grass as a warm up

John mixed it up tonight intervals bounced from long to short, started at 5 mins then 1.5, 4.5, 2, 4, 2.5, 3.5 and 3. Since we were trying to avoid any piece of the track we ended up running in a horseshoe shape on the grass, which meant quite tight turns and the track got slipperier and slipperier and I got more and more cautious going round them. Next time it looks like its going to be a cold evening ill throw some spikes into the car. I wasn't particularly happy with how I ran but I'm blaming the track!

Quick warm down since it was freezing and I didn't bring enough clothing with me