Yes, I still go to the gym. When I recently visited the gym I had to take this photo of a dumbbell. Now I know what’s in a dumbbell – just raw metal.
Also this week, I ended up attending a workout class called “Cardio Burst”. From the name you can tell there were cardio exercises involved. The first part of the class included using the treadmill and setting the incline to 2.5 and changing the speeds from 4km/h (walking), to 10km/h (running) to 14 km/h (sprints). We had to change this to these different speeds (the instructor said to change it to those as the max speeds). By the end of the treadmill session I was literally sweating. We then entered the training room and just did some core/strength exercises which included, scissor legs, dips and pushups and skipping (with no skipping rope). Overall it wasn’t too bad and given that I have a membership that allows me to attend any of these classes I’m decided to try different ones throughout the year.
At the end of each gym workout, I run for 1km before I hit the showers. This week I also decided to try burst runs and this was the speeds I used:
- 12km/h – up to the 2nd minute
- 14km /h- up to the 3rd minute
- 12km/h – up to the 4th minute
- 16km/h – till I hit the 1km mark
- I managed to complete the 1km run in 4:44
