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My form today was

• Sit-ups – 13
• Planks – all complete

Difficulty was about 7/10

In other news, I’m moving out to my brothers house as soon as I can. The person I live with is really ill and wants my bed for people to take care of her who want to stay over. This is fair enough and I agreed. I will likely move into my brothers house as this was the long-term plan anyway. One good thing about this is that I will still be able to come back here and use the internet and at my brothers he has a set of weights that I could borrow off him each day to improve my workout.

I usually take a picture straight away after my workout and upload it to this page so it might be a bit more difficult to do this whilst moving out and living elsewhere but I will try my best to get a picture uploaded everyday.

One thing that will come out of this is that I will be moving things to my brothers house and riding my bike a lot which will give me great exercise. I really could do with the use of weights too because like I’ve said in previous entries, my workout is becoming non-challenging and stale.

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Pretty average day today to be honest. I would give it difficulty of 6.5/10. I’m considering just doing this for 30 days as a 30 day trial instead of the original 6 weeks. Because if I continue at this rate I’m just wasting blog space. I’m not improving becase I haven’t got the equipment yet. The first 5 days, I woke up with physical pain the next day, the good type but since then it’s been easy coasting.  It’s just an idea at the moment anyways.

Todays form was

• Squats – 13
• Calf Raises – 35

Good form but it seems to have stagnated and I get those numbers pretty much consistently. I’ve got a job interview cleaning after hours at a school today too in Eccles.

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Ok. Decent workout today with a difficulty of about a 7/10. Todays form was

• Bicep Curls – 19
• Push-ups – 7

I’m getting better at push-ups which is a surprise to me. The first round I did about 17 but slowly went down to 7.

Form so far for both exercises is

• Bicep Curls – 2, 6, 11, 17, 19
• Push-Ups – 8, 6, 4, 5, 7

Push-Ups is a strange one because I seem to have gone down for 2 weeks and then up for 2 weeks. Bicep curls is showing a marked improvement week on week. Went out last night so only went to sleep at roughly 1am. This is the hardest workout of the week for me and to see marked improvement with a highest ever score for Bicep Curls and a second highest ever for push-ups makes me really happy.

Lee never came jogging yesterday. He had to see his brother which is fair enough. He couldn’t contact me either. I have a lot of chores to do today this morning to keep me awake including some hoovering. I presume that if I keep myself busy in the early hours it will be a habit that will stick with me when I get a job.  I’ve not rode my bike for a few days now. Ill go to the shops on it later though.

Tomorrow is Legs Workout, my favourite!

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I apologize about todays picture quality. Youtube was down so I had to use Facebook Video (groan). Today was an ok-ish workout. Difficulty 7/10. Not too difficult. My form was

• Sit-ups -13
• Planks – all complete

I used the 2.5kg weights once again for doing the sit-ups.. Really just feel like I need a better workout as there is no challenge any more and I need the challenge. I’m going for a run with Lee today and biking to and from that will be a workout in its own. Will write up how far it is tomorrow.

I decided that when I get weights I will do a workout of starting at a medium difficulty weight. I will then do 15 reps of perfect form. When I can do this comfortably with this weight I will add on another 5lbs and just go from there. I aim to keep the Tabata Routine though, as in Mondays = legs etc.

Tomorrow is arms!

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Had a great invigorating workout today. My form was

• Squats – 13
• Calf Raises – 35

My calves and legs both feel really tired and I actually felt a little sick after doing this workout and did a 1 minute walking warm down. I would give it a difficulty of 9/10. I still cannot wait the 23 days until I get a set of weights and my JML Iron Gym set.

Got that job interview today so I’m off to iron my shirt and pants. I’m a little nervous but I will write up tomorrow and tell you if I got it. Tomorrow is Abs workout!

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I went for my run today. I went to the green room and back again listening to some Andre Rieu this time . I did it in about 15 minutes so that’s about 6.68mph which is OK for jogging speed but 1 minute slower than last week. It feels great coming out at Sunday morning 5:30am and people seeing you running. It’s an inspiring site. I had a huge meal of lasagna, garlic bread and pizza at my Dads last night. It was really nice but I felt terrible after it and didn’t know how the run would go this morning. Turned out well but I felt a bit sickly. Difficulty was definitely a 9/10, and there is no form.

I was going to run with the weights today but thought to myself that I would barely make the run due to the heavy meal last night. I think it affected me more because my body was getting used to a more fruit-based diet and then I hit it with lasagna and pizza! I also biked it to and from my Dads yesterday which has a big hill incline in the middle which was about 2 miles there and back.

Feeling good and fresh today and didn’t sleep at all during the day yesterday. Let’s see if I can keep it up today. Feeling good!!!

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Workout wasn’t so bad today. I really need those weights I’m getting for my birthday though.  Only 25 days left to go! I bought a bike off my brothers and fixed it u[ yesterday and got a lock etc. It’s in the back garden now. I’l be able to ride it into the town centre, to Mums, Dads, Nathans, Jordons and mabe even work when I get a job. We’ll see.  All that I’m bothered about is that it will get me some more exercise.

My form today was

My hands kept on slipping on the rock but I’m pretty pleased with this workout. Diffculty 6/10. Will get to ride my bike today to my Dads for the United game at 17:30.

Tomorrow is running. I might hold weights in my hands whilst running to see what it feels like. Either way it should be interesting. 15 minutes as far as I can go.

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Not a bad day today. I can’t tell if the difficulty is getting easier or I’m not pushing myself hard enough. I can’t wait for those weights. They will make a huge difference. I don’t feel comfortable unless I’m challenging myself, it just feels like a repetitive chore otherwise.

Difficulty 6/10

Form

• Sit-ups – 10
• Planks – All

For the sit-ups I held 2*2.3kg weights across my chest so that increased the resistance a little bit.

When I do sit-ups in the future when I have my dumbbells I can hold a weight plate on my chest to increase resistance. Maybe I could even buy a resistance band for this too. On Sunday when I have my run, I’m going to run with the 2.3kg weights in my hands to see if I can get some arm workout on the way too. Kinda all feeling a bit too easy at the moment. Maintenance but not growth.

Form so far for Day 1, 5, 8, 12 & today respectivel

Sit-Ups – 8, 11, 10, 10, 10*

Planks – All Completed

*with 2 x 2.3kg resistance.

I can definitely safely increase the resistance here. There is no point doing 40 sit-ups at low resistance. I’d rather do 5-15 at a lower rep count but higher weight. 26 days until my birthday. Argh!

Tomorrow is an Arms workout. They usually test me quite a lot.

I went around to my Dads yesterday and for my birthday he’s going to get me some dumbells/barbells. It’ll be a great present and this year is one of the few years I actually know what I want. If my mum asks me, I’m going to ask her to get me the JML Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar.  It can be bought on Amazon for £14.78 including delivery and is great for sit-ups, pushups, pull-ups, tricep dips etc.

My form in this workout was

• Squats – 12
• Calf Raises – 35

I’m definitely mastering this weight and need to ater my calf raise routine as its too easy. Maybe a slower decline and incline would work better?

In my last leg workouts on Days 4, 7, 11 & today respectively, I got…

Calf Raises – 21, 21, 28, 35

Squats – 6, 12, 13, 12

Definite progress on the calf raises. Part of this is down to improving my technique. The squats have improved a lot but maybe I’ve plateaued at this weight. I’m going to my Mums later tonight and will pick up some hand weights for holding when I go for my Sunday runs. That will be a killer!

Tomorrow is an Abs workout.

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I would give todays workout a hefty difficulty of 8/10. Glad I got that out of the way .

My form was

• Rock Lifts – 17
• Pushups – 5

With the push-ups I always start with about 17 then down to 10 for round 2. That’s what I’m supposed to do. Maximum exertion from the start but the low scores in the later rounds are frustrating.  In other news my rock lifts are going really well. I’m loving that I did 68 rock lifts today. Much better than previously.

Day 2, 6, 9, 13 respectively so far (arm workouts) have given me

Rock Lifts (Bicep Curls) – 2, 6, 11, 17,

Push-ups – 8, 6, 4, 5.

Interesting results. Rock lifts have gone up rapidly. Push-ups not so much. I think it’s because I’m actually going 100% in the first few rounds. on push-ups now so my score suffers at the end.

A side note, I’m looking at a £100 dumbbells/barbells set from Argos. These York Chrome sets would rapidly increase my workout development. I’ll keep you updated. Tomorrow is “Legs Thursday”. I can’t believe it’s nearly been 2 weeks at this! I’m equal with when I gave up last time in July but I don’t feel like giving up at all now.