For one reason or another I haven't been going to the gym that much lately over the past few months so now I've finally got back into it a bit. Since restarting I've found that I have put on a little weight and have definitely lost some fitness and strength.
The first few times I went to the gym I didn't get through everything I wanted to, was knackered and then sore for days. On Monday I made a few changes and feel a bit better for it.
My warm-up on the stationary bike is a piece of cake - 15 minutes fairly hard out on the cardio setting. Then when I hit the weights I dropped the weights I was working with quite a bit. This let me do full sets of all the exercises I wanted to do plus one extra. I was still working pretty hard and keeping my heart rate up but didn't take as long to recover between sets. When I had finished I felt great and was pretty pleased with myself. I plan to follow this routine from now on and only increase the weights once I feel I've made some gains.
I was fairly fairly good on Tuesday night but didn't want to push my luck at the gym two nights in a row so I rang Mark and we went for a bike ride instead. It was fairly windy so hard work at times but I still enjoyed the approximately 15km ride.
I decided to have a rest night tonight and intend to hit the gym again tomorrow night. Friday will probably be another day off as we are planning a decent mountain bike ride on Saturday - this will be a good test of my fitness...
Good to be doing something again and enjoying it!
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