Well, I didn’t go for the run on Saturday. 
I woke up bright and early, as I was going into the local city for some shopping. I was only planning it to last 2 hours max, but due to parents it took about 5. When I got home…Well, I can’t remember exactly why I didn’t go for a run. I’m pretty sure it was raining though. I’m nearly certain there was another reason, but I can’t remember it. And, as always, I’m now cursing myself for not doing it. But hey, you can’t change the past, I just have to look forward to this Saturday (when I’m not going into town!).
As for Sunday, I was working from the time I woke up until 5PM, and by the time I got home and had supper, I realised that a) it was school tomorrow and b) I had a lot of coursework to do, which I hadn’t even started. Plus, I was knackered after work. So no workouts on Sunday (although Sunday is normally my rest day anyway).
Wow, this really is starting to seem as a blog of excuses! I really must change that, and I swear I’m going to.
Tonight after school I had to go into town again, and didn’t get home until after 6PM. Once again, I had loads of coursework to do. I sat down and did it, but then decided I had to do a workout of some kind. Due to the time, it was cold and pitch black outside, so again I had to do an indoors workout, a quiet one so as not to dusturb my parents. I recently read about the 500 chinnies challenge on the RossTraining forums, which is basically do 500 chinnies as fast as you can. I thought this sounded great, as chinnies really get my heart going, plus they’re a good core exercise. Two birds with one stone, as the saying goes. The problem came when I actually started though – I couldn’t count how many I was doing! My mind couldn’t keep up. So I stopped, and modified it. This time, it was do as many chinnies as possible in a 5-minute time limit. This worked much better as I could time it with my Gymboss timer.
I wasn’t able to carry on for 5 minutes straight, and had, I would guess, about a dozen breaks in the 5 minute period. I only stopped when my heart felt like it was going to burst and I couldn’t go on though, and I kept the breaks short (most were about 5 seconds). When I restarted I went as fast as possible again, so I know I got in a large amount of chinnies. By the end I was hot and sweaty, but I felt great! Probably not the best idea to do it in my pyjamas, but oh well! 
Anyway, the workout itself (warmup then main):
- 50 jumping jacks
- 50 ropeless rope jumps (same as rope jumping, but without the rope, meaning I can go faster without having to worry about catches)
- 60 seconds jogging on the spot
- 20 pushups
- 20 squats
- 5-minutes of chinnies
I have boxing at the Exeter Boxing Club tomorrow so expect another update then.
Oh, and as I side note I ordered Ross Enamait’s latest product, Full Throttle Conditioning, today. It’s a book and DVD dedicated to conditioning exercises, and if it’s even half the products his previous two were it will be amazing. And most of the people on the forums are saying it’s even better than his previous two, so I can’t wait!
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