...maybe. One day.

Unfortunately, my contract at my current gym ended today, so as I'm no longer working there I no longer have use of the facilities so my training will be taking a severe slump for the next week of so. Don't get me wrong, I'll still be doing some as I have some equipment at home, but it won't be anywhere near as heavy or varied until I get into a new gym.

Suffice to say, today is a day off while I whisk my CV everywhere. Watch out London. Here I come

Thursday 22nd January 2009
Aim: Shoulders Strength / Hypertrophy

11:10am: Trip to work

1pm: Main Workout


1. Using a Smith Machine, you take a seated postition, unhook the bar, control the weight down around three to four inches and then hold until failure or 15 seconds before hooking the bar back
2. Go into a handstand (against a wall if nessecary) and do inverted shoulder presses, bringing your head right down to the ground before pushing up again
3. Triple set of Frontal Raises, Lateral Raises and Shoulder Presses at a much lower weight to exhaust the muscles

10:00pm: Trip home from work

Wednesday 21st January 2009
Aim: Day Off

12:30pm: Trip to work

4:00pm: Trip home from work


Sometimes it's nice to have a day off

I thought it would be useful if I actually list my current physical statistics so you can better visualise the shape I'm in, and if the training I do will help you achieve the kind of figure that you're after or not.

Vital Statistics as of Tuesday 20th January 2009

So, as you may be able to tell I'm all about the "lean and mean" approach. My six pack means more to me than ever being hugely built. Give me Brad Pitt's Tyler Durden over Daniel Craig's Bond any day of the week.

Oh, and if you're wondering what all of these statistics look like on an actual person; well that's me to the left.

I'll get some new better quality pictures soon, but this one was taken just before Christmas (about five weeks ago) so gives you a pretty fair indication.

My lower back is still aching after yesterdays strength deadlift / clean superset, but I thought I'd work on my back today so that it all aches at once and then has the rest of the week to rest.

Tuesday 20th January 2009
Aim: Back Hypertrophy

11:10am: Trip to work

1pm: Main Workout

*Performing an inverted row whilst your feet are on a stability ball. Very hard.

5:45pm: Teaching Spin Class


10:00pm: Trip home from work


All in all, a knackering day considering the amount of high intensity work, but it feels good.

I thought it might be interesting for the first month of my new training blog to list all of the training that I do as a personal trainer on a daily basis in order to keep in shape; so that's what I'm going to do; starting from today.

This is how my posts will work. Firstly I'll start my listing the aim of the day such as "focus on chest" before going on and breaking down all of the training I planned, as well as what I actually did (the 'record'). Some days will have one session, but most days will have more depending on the classes that I teach (I take part in all of my classes), the time I go to work, the number of clients I have that day etc etc.

So, on with the show.

Monday 19th January 2009
Aim: Whole body workout but with main focus on legs

3pm: Workout Routine

*EROM SB - Extended Range-of-Motion Stability Ball - This exercise involves having both of your hands on raised benches to allow a greater range of motion when your body passes between then whilst having your feet on a Stability Ball.

The hardest part of this routine is supersetting the deadlift with the clean at the start. By the time you've done a strength deadlift, your legs are killing so the cleans then become especially hard.
Putting bounds straight after that means your glutes get completely finished off, so when you come to do the lunge jumps, your quadriceps take all of the effort and get a really hard workout.
The EROM SB press-ups and the pull-ups were just added at the end to engage some upper body muscles and raise the metabolism a little higher rather than working them really hard.