Running to Fitness

Mixed up my workout today - I did a 5 min jog to warm up followed by an upper body workout on the weights which lasted around 40mins. I then did 30mins on the cross trainer at a steady pace and then 8 minutes of HIIT. To finish off I did some stretches and an [...]

Did a hard workout today on the weights followed by 10 minutes cross trainer and then 10minutes HIIT. The HIIT is really hard if you do it properly and I was exhausted - I do 1minute easy followed by 1 minute really hard, I do this 5 times and its more than enough.
After that I [...]

Well on saturday I ran a 10k in 1hour 5mins, nice workout but the time was a bit slower than my best of 1hour 2mins but never mind - then yesterday I did a long slow run of 13.5k in 1.30mins, this my longest run ever and I could have done a lot more - [...]

I hadn’t done any weight training for ages so I started off the gym session today with a full-body workout on the machines, didnt go near the free weights as I wanted to ease myself back into it - I forgot how hard the weights are if you do them properly with heavy weight and [...]

Did a quick 40minute run yesterday covering 6km and today I did a 40 minute HIIT session on the cross trainer - its definately more fun than doing slow cardio, the time seems to go a lot quicker. I cant seem to get below 15stone 1pound, I’ve been stuck at this weight for 3weeks or [...]

As Im off running for a while, today was my first HIIT session on my cross trainer. For those who don’t know, HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training and can be perfomed in a number of ways - running, rowing, cycling, cross training etc - anything where you can mix high intensity with low [...]