The alarm went off at 6.25am. The loud alarm went off at 6.30. I somehow hauled myself out of bed around 6.45 and got some gym kit out. I'd packed up my bag with everything I thought I'd need, but it seemed oddly empty until I remembered I'd need a towel!
The gym was lovely and quiet by the time I arrived around 8am, so I didn't really have any problems getting onto the equipment I needed. I'd got a bit confused between gyms I'd been to in the past, and thought it had one of those machines where you kneel on a pad that's counterbalanced with weights, and haul yourself up from some handles, but it didn't. I also spent a while looking for the cable machines, gave up and did the exercises slightly differently, then immediately spotted them at the other end of the gym.
There was a stunningly attractive guy doing weights, which made the view while I was doing some of the exercises very pleasant. Unfortunately I then had to completely humiliate myself in front of him by switching out dumbbells for progressively lighter and lighter ones to find a set suitable for one of the exercises I was terrible at. I got down to 6kg and that was the lightest I could find and it was still too heavy really so I had to cut down on the number of repetitions before my arms gave out completely!
On the way to work afterwards, I regretted emptying out my water bottle, as I tried to snack on some chicken breast on the DLR and found it really rather dry. However, on arriving at work I made a mixture of grapes and blueberries in greek yogurt and that helped bulk up the protein - 60g just for breakfast! Maybe I'd actually get to my target today!
No spin class this evening as I didn't have time or space to bring kit for that as well as this morning's gym stuff. Plus I had yet more stuff to bring home as my new computer keyboard arrived!
Dinner this evening involved using the turkey breasts I had in the fridge. I couldn't think of anything interesting to do with them, so I wrapped them in bacon and had them with some rice and peas. It was... pretty dull, if I'm honest. I need to think of a good sauce or something to do with them.
Now having an early night to see if I can replicate the morning gym session tomorrow - which will be legs!
The gym was lovely and quiet by the time I arrived around 8am, so I didn't really have any problems getting onto the equipment I needed. I'd got a bit confused between gyms I'd been to in the past, and thought it had one of those machines where you kneel on a pad that's counterbalanced with weights, and haul yourself up from some handles, but it didn't. I also spent a while looking for the cable machines, gave up and did the exercises slightly differently, then immediately spotted them at the other end of the gym.
There was a stunningly attractive guy doing weights, which made the view while I was doing some of the exercises very pleasant. Unfortunately I then had to completely humiliate myself in front of him by switching out dumbbells for progressively lighter and lighter ones to find a set suitable for one of the exercises I was terrible at. I got down to 6kg and that was the lightest I could find and it was still too heavy really so I had to cut down on the number of repetitions before my arms gave out completely!
On the way to work afterwards, I regretted emptying out my water bottle, as I tried to snack on some chicken breast on the DLR and found it really rather dry. However, on arriving at work I made a mixture of grapes and blueberries in greek yogurt and that helped bulk up the protein - 60g just for breakfast! Maybe I'd actually get to my target today!
No spin class this evening as I didn't have time or space to bring kit for that as well as this morning's gym stuff. Plus I had yet more stuff to bring home as my new computer keyboard arrived!
Dinner this evening involved using the turkey breasts I had in the fridge. I couldn't think of anything interesting to do with them, so I wrapped them in bacon and had them with some rice and peas. It was... pretty dull, if I'm honest. I need to think of a good sauce or something to do with them.
Now having an early night to see if I can replicate the morning gym session tomorrow - which will be legs!
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