I must say, this CamLite thing feels like it’s going well. Granted it’s only the second week, but I can see progress. There’s still a few kinks, but my body seems to be coping a bit better with the daily torture of changed diets and ALL.THIS.EXERCISE…

Workout 5. Tuesday, 26 Jan. Weights #2

I’ve figured I’ll keep counting my weights workouts. I don’t think it’s necessary to keep a running tally on my runs.

The first weights session I got half-way through, berfore feeling faint and really horrid for the rest of the night. So, with that in mind, I golfed up a banana on my way to gym, to grab some extra energy. Hitting the floor, we started on some body-weight squats, doing 2 sets of 20. After that we were going to do lunges but I cramped on the first one.. ha. so we didn’t.

Then some hamstring exercises where I lay on my back with one leg in the air, one leg bent – and lifted my pelvis.. those things. 3 sets of 12.

After that, I did some calf raises – 2 sets of go-till-you-can’t-anymore which I failed to count.

With legs done, we moved onto arms and chest- starting with 3 sets of go-till-you-can’t, weights 40kg on first, 45kg on second 2 & 3.

Next up was some bench press, and this is the embarrassing part – First set was about 12 reps on about 20kg with bar (~10kg). Then 2 sets about 7 then 4 reps on 40 + bar… so that sucked a bit, but let’s give it some time.

We walked on over to the free weights section, and started with “standing snow angels” 3 sets until I couldn’t do any more on 4kg each arm.

3 sets dumbells until I couldn’t do more (8kg). After the first set, I started feeling a little bit lightheaded. Not badly – just a bit – so, Justin ran off and got a small bar one and then kept saying how wrong it looked for me to be eating a chocolate on the floor.  I did feel quite uncomfortable hehe – but I only ate half of it – and it did seem to help up the levels a little. I figure that as I get into it, my body will get used to it.

I finished the session off with some tricep exercises – lean against the bench then lower/raise body a few times… 2 or 3 sets I think of dunno.. – 6 or 7, probably – basically until I couldn’t – I cant remember how much that was – definitely less than 10 each.

Workout 6. Wednesday, 27 Jan. Cardi-o!

Run today – munched half a banana before I got to gym. The run went like this: Ran for 6min – then my lace was untied.. so had to stop for 20- then ran on until 11 min. Then 2min walk. Ran for 4min to 17. Walked for 1min then got confused in my head, and thought I was near the end – so ran for about 30s, sprinted for 30s… Had a very confused 20s fast walk.. Then ended the last 40s on a run… A bit of a fail, but feeling better and actually didn’t feel that trashed afterwards. Feeling that I could have done it better – didn’t actually leave feeling as wasted as I have the last few times – either I’m getting fit – or it was the half-banana… not sure. Maybe both. Will push for 12 or 13 min next… Found watching something on the tv really helps – like a cricket or soccer match..

I also took the distances so I can figure out how far I’ve been running. Seems on 9, I’m doing about 147m to the minute. On 5, around 80m in a minute.

And I ran a total of 2.8km today. Yay!

Looking forward to start road-running but need to get my shoes sorted – hurt the last time I ran. Another thing that’s bloody confusing.. As is water bottles/hydration… I’m not sure what’s best for me with either.. so need to get that sorted.