Butter Ninja

So...a late blogging update. AGAIN!
Seriously, where does the time go now that Gym Ninja suffered the Fondant Fancy (see older blogs for what that means!)? Remarkable!

Anyhow, Gym Ninja may as well update you as to the Monday and Tuesday gym sessions, as neither one alone is able to sustain your greedy hunger. Both combined may suffice..?

Monday.

Gym Ninja was in a bit of a playful mood Monday. Having eaten a tad carb-heavy over the weekend, GN decided it was back to 'Eating clean keeps me lean' (to be chanted throughout the day). That plus bionic level workouts should sort any carb hangover out good and proper (as the saying goes).

Most of the day was spent writing up a fitness and nutrition plan for a new online client based over in America. It's really time consuming as every person and their requirements are different, so not only does Gym Ninja have to ensure that the programme will help them reach their goals, but  also needs to take into account any available equipment, preferences, time restraints etc. Once that was done, it was time to hit the gym.

Now for some reason, Gym Ninja had an attack of the 'smirks' whilst driving. As she pulled into the car park, something amusing fluttered through her mind, causing her to break out into a big grin...exactly as she passed a rather alarmed looking guy. PAH!
Now Gym Ninja looks simple!
However, now Gym Ninja found this to be amusing too, got out of the car, walked towards the main doors (still grinning like a looney) and BAM!
Spotted by another person.
PAH!
Gym Ninja will surely be branded as one of those weirdos who walk along smiling 'out loud' to themselves....Best snap out of it and go into 'Workout Lockdown' mode ....

Gym Ninja's run was effortless today. Probably due to the excess of carbs over the weekend that would ensure the muscles were full of glycogen to fuel the run, but mostly due to the excess of buff arms sported by equally buff men at the gym. It makes for a very scenic treadmill workout. ;-)

Once the rather 'scenic' run was complete, and as the gym was busy, Gym Ninja decided it would be foolhardy to linger in the main gym simply because of the arm candy, so headed to the safety of the ladies only gym.

Once in there, Gym Ninja selected the weights required and set up camp at the corner of the room. In the corner of her eye, Gym Ninja noticed a Personal Trainer meandering around the room.....

Now this PT is older and Gym Ninja has noticed does tend to be one of the few who target the women only area (clever guy)...wandering around, approaching women and offering to show them a few moves (ooer!).

 Today he had a resistance tubing move and he was hand picking women to 'play with his tube!' 
*Insert your own Frankie Howard/Benny Hill/Sid James style voice here*

As Gym Ninja attempted to work her legs, she could not help but watch as the PT became VERY hands on. Now being hands on is often essential to guide a client into the correct position or to help them get the mind/body connection. You ask the client if they are OK with it? They  then say yay or nay.

However this guy was ALL Over the women. Touching ALL the time. Not in any dodgy areas, but all the same, excessively. It really started to unnerve Gym Ninja. Made her feel all uncomfortable. At one point he got so hands on that Gym Ninja feared the client was one hand-span away from becoming a Glove Puppet.....!
In the end, it was no good. GN would have to cut her workout short and leave the room. It was like an Open Day for Midwifery in there.......

Tuesday

Ahh, Tuesday my old friend.  It seems like SO long ago.
Well Tuesday brought a big fat job interview. Yep.
OK so less 'interview' and more 'informal discussion' regarding another location where Gym Ninja could potentially work out of as a PT. Of course fees always need to be paid, so Gym Ninja was interested to hear what the guy had to say.
Pimp Gym Ninja out Mr!

As this was a non-active interview Gym Ninja was unsure as to what 'theme' she should be? No point rocking up in fitness gear now was there? Plus the location (luxury waterfront hotel) meant that she'd probably not get past the door if she did. Hmm.
Of course, the whole 'suited and booted' option was too OTT as well. So..what to wear?

In the end Gym Ninja decided to go as a 'girl'. Black knee length dress, black peep-toe heels and a cute belted trench coat. Now Gym Ninja felt a little like a French Spy!
Spy Ninja!

On route, however, Gym Ninja found herself to be incredibly distracted by a trailer trash style denim bikini, on sale for a rather bargainous £12.  It'd seem rude to pass up on that eh? Yes, only Gym Ninja can buy an unnecessary bikini on route to a job interview....

The bikini bought, Gym aka Spy Ninja, then stood by the Shopping Mall lifts to check on her mobile emails. Oooh an email! Excellent! Best reply to it straight away.

"Excuse me. Does this lift take you down to the carpark love?" Asked a woman with a pram.

Spy Ninja looked up.

"I've no clue, sorry" Before continuing with her email.

"Do you know if it goes to the store level then?" Continued the woman.
"Only I need the car park you see"

OMG!

Spy Ninja stopped emailing and looked at the woman.

*Deep Breath*

"To be honest, I have NO clue where the lift goes, as I am in no way related or linked to the lifts in any way, shape or form, so unfortunately I cannot be of any assistance".

AHHHR! People!

Spy Ninja made her way to the venue, slid into the hotel lobby and ordered a cup of tea.

"I'll bring it over" Said the man at the bar, so Spy Ninja took a seat in the lobby to wait for the tea, and the Gym Pimp to arrive.

2 minutes later Spy Ninja had a teapot, cup and saucer and a rack of egg timers in front of her...

Apparently when the black sand ran out that meant that the loose tea had steeped long enough in the pot and her cuppa was ready.
Wow!

Spy Ninja's first thought..
"OMG how impressive?"


Spy Ninja's second thought..
'I'm SO not gonna be able to afford to pay for this...!"

As Spy Ninja sipped her billion pound cup of tea that was only just lukewarm, she spotted a figure in the distance that appeared to be the Gym Pimp. What to do?

A) Go over and risk looking as if GN was doing a runner from the billion pound cuppa?
B)  Stay seated and miss out on a job interview.

A or B?
A or B?
Decisions....

Ah well. Who needs an interview?

Luckily Gym Pimp came over and introduced himself, and a rather interesting discussion commenced which has now resulted in a follow up practical session next week. Stay tuned........ Oh and in case you are wondering, Gym Pimp offered Spy Ninja a second cuppa (this time without fancy egg timer) and so when Spy Ninja departed she walked out with a 'He will pick up the tab' kind of a face.

Yep!
Did a runner!!!!

Later that evening Gym Ninja headed to the gym. Today it would be Cross Trainer cardio, and oooh, lucky lucky Gym Ninja managed to get the Cross Trainer next to the Worlds Nosiest Woman who HAD to look and stare and turn her head around like an owl to look at every single person that walked past.

Gym Ninja was also to drop her iPhone for the first time next to Nosy Woman. The first of 7 times it was dropped during that workout! Seriously! What is WRONG with Gym Ninja? Admittedly 2 of those times happened after GN had done some Zottman Curls and Spider Curls for her biceps, but it was just utter clumsiness  prior to that!  Plus it had to be clumsiness as Gn also managed to loop and twang her earphones over various pieces of resistance kit 3 times.

Ahh, not much of the gym stuff in that was there? This is why Gym Ninja fills you all up on faffy interview fodder instead.

More tomorrow...as you will then get the follow up to LAST week's Gym Pimp Midget story..... ;-)

Gym Ninja x

Sunday Snooze day

OK Ok, so Gym Ninja obviously has a problem getting up on time at weekends lately, as yet again she found herself running late for the planned Gym Session. Of course, having a sudden urge to exfoliate using 'Hot Butter Fudge' scented exfoliation scrub in the shower may have slowed her down somewhat...but what are you supposed to do if you suddenly feel 'rough'?

Galloping yet again to the gym, half asleep and with no energy shot drink to quaff, meant GN wasn't looking forward to an hour of Extreme Spin Climb. The day after Leg Training too....badly planned.

Once in the Spin Studio, Gym Ninja found herself wit verbal procrastination disease..helpfully pointed out to her by Dangly Cross Man who mentioned how much GN was making excises and moaning before the class had even started. Yup! Too right!
Tiredness + Knackered legs = Moany Ninja.

And thus followed an hour that saw Gym Ninja with legs on a 'go-slow'.
MOVE faster legs!
"Shan't" They said, on their Go-Slow protest.
It's times like this that GN wishes they made Tandem Spin Bikes, so she could hop onto the back of someone elses.....

Staggering out of the hour class, Gym Ninja discovered she'd missed a call from Tara. That was a nice surprise. Tara & Gym Ninja had discovered each other when entering the Maximuscle Body of 2009 competition & stayed in touch. In regular email contact yet never actually spoken.until today. Tara had gone on a food-run for her family & wasn't about to scoff a  'definitely no not hers, really honestly not hers it is someone elses no I swear its not mine I have something else to eat and mmm'.. Panini (haha Tara you SO knew I'd wind you up about that!)  So Gym Ninja chatted to Tara whilst refuelling after the tough Spin Session and before starting the upper body weights session.

By now GN needed to rattle through her weights due to time constraints, & was only distracted twice...once by a girl on the seated row machine who dragged the handles back with all her might...and then found herself almost parallel to the floor she'd moved away from the pad and was leaning back so far. Hmm, that's NOT working your back muscles lady!  The second distraction was a girl who was doing all manner of old-school style ab work whilst wearing dark denim mid-thigh length shorts. The type you'd wear outside of a gym. How odd!

As Gym Ninja replaced a set of dumbbells between exercises, she happened to peer out of the window that overlooked the pool. In the Hydro Pool (aka giant jacuzzi) was a guy with his back to the large water jet. That'd be a HAIRY back. Yes, SO hairy that GN could see it all in great detail despite being a level up and far away......eww. Just when Gym Ninja was thinking how horrid a back full of thick black hair looked, something horrid happened.........the huge fan of water switched on (hence why the guy was below it waiting) and the jet of water parted the hair on his back like a hairy old parting of the Red Sea.
Bleaurrrh!

After the gym, the next stop was to good old Sports Direct to pick up some last minute 'accessories' for the photoshoot next week.

• Lime Green legwarmers: Check! 
• Red Boxing Gloves: Check!
• Backless (!) weights gloves: Check!
• Day Glo 80's style wrist sweat bands: Check!

Well, Gym Ninja isn't really sure what her look will be in some of the photos so may as well blow all of £17 on a mad assortment eh?(yep she got a whole bag of stuff, including the boxing gloves, for that!).

So now Gym Ninja is sat down wondering what to cook up for dinner? Maybe some more turkey stir fry? Her latest craze? Or something easy and quick like steamed veg and cottage cheese? Hmm, in retrospect stir fry is kind of easy and quick too.......decisions decisions decisions.......

Ahhh what the hell.......Stir Fry it is.......

Have a good Sunday people! Remember.....eating clean keeps you lean!!!!!! Yum!

Gym Ninja x

Bank Holiday Ninja

Good news!

The Nutella Pixie is dead! Gym Ninja spent 3 hours yesterday sat in the same building as a jar of Nutella & none passed her lips! Oh and 2 hours today. See? Cured thanks to the Guilt Pixie (who reminded Gym Ninja that with an arse like hers there would be no more Nutella for the foreseeable future!)

OK, so Bank Holiday today. Wooohoooooooooo! Another Muppet-free day.  Now Gym Ninja had a few plans. Off to Lidl, to track down some cheap yet highly effective (apparently) face serum, followed by a trip to the gym. But first GN had to run the gauntlet of the disapproving neighbour who was out in the front garden (that is linked to GN's front garden). She'd already pointed out Gym Ninja's dandelion invasion once...GN couldn't face another lecture!

The moment the neighbour went into her house, GN sneaked out of hers and drove off. YAY! Success!

Now, GN had deliberately not painted her fingernails today so she would 'fit in' at the no frills Lidl store. Well, GN 'says' fit in, however she'd  never quite fit in. Anyway, the point was, GN wanted this serum that is supposedly better than the magical Boots serum. In she went...what a silent store?  No music or noise whatsoever. An odd assortment of food and drink was piled into shapes either side of the aisles. Well, whilst she was here GN decided to go mooch at the fruit and veg section, but only managed to track down organic bananas. Everything else was radioactive (as in non-organic).

Annoyingly there was no serum, but they did have the magical face cream so GN picked up the Day Cream and Night Cream at £1.99 per jar (!) and will report back on how good it is in 3 weeks when she is looking 10 years younger......

Once at the gym, a 10 minute run was squeezed out and then it was time for a couple of lower body exercises. Lunges onto a step, followed by Romanian deadlifts. Despite the car park being rammed, the gym was surprisingly quiet? Maybe everyone was in the pool or the Hydropool  (aka Pervpool)? Once quads, glues and hams were worked then it was back to another 10 minute run. Time to mix things up you see.....the body isn't used to splitting cardio into 10 minute bursts! Then, back to the weights, Wide stance plié squats with some weight plates, then off to the leg press.

The leg press was loaded with 4 x 25kg plates either side, so GN started to strip off two of them as she only wanted 2 plates either side to begin with. As she did so, a rather large muscular guy popped up (not literally! That'd be saved for a blog entry all of it's own!!!!!!) and started to strip off the plates from the other side in an act of chivalry to help Gym Ninja. OMG, how nice was that?  Oh and how nice to help Gym Ninja too ...;-)

Gym Ninja did 4 sets of 10 for the leg press today, noticing the man with the chicken legs on the next leg press was pressing one third of what GN was. That is exactly WHY you have chicken legs Mr!

Some ab work and variations on deadlifts plus leg extension (may a well burn those quads right off eh?) finished the session, and so Gym Ninja went to the changing rooms to get showered and dressed.

AHHHR!
Great! Gym Ninja thought her gym bag was smaller than usual. She'd packed her jeans and underwear but no top and no shoes. Not exactly the ideal look is it? So that meant GN had to head home to shower, and sloped off supping on her Choc Mint Promax as she did so......

That afternoon, after a flurry of weeding (ahh the guilt!) GN decided she wanted to be a farmer! Yep. Grow her own veg! So, calling her Mum and coercing her into a trip to B&Q, they both mooched around the vegetable growing section........

Gym Ninja selected the following seeds:

Carrots & pumpkins (for the orange section of Gym Ninja's farm)
Turnips & mushrooms (for the white section of Gym Ninja's farm)
and Beetroot (for the beetroot coloured section of Gym Ninja's farm).

She then picked up a  3 meter long cloche (which in normal persons terminology is a big plastic cover in the shape of a tunnel to help speed up the growth and stop pests, aka Gym Ninja's cats, from tramping the produce!) and a bag of ORGANIC (of course) plant food.

At the till, having watched her mum pay for her items (also a cloche & organic plant food but a variety of different seeds) it was Gym Ninja's turn. The sales assistant scanned the items...

*Bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep...*

The sales assistant stopped when she reached the packet of mushroom seeds.

"Have you grown these before?" She asked, a look of suspicion on her face.

Gym Ninja felt panicky! OMG are mushrooms really hard to grow? Do you need a licence for them? AHHHR!

"Er, no", Answered Gym Ninja, a tad wary.

"Oh" Said the sales assistant and then carried on.....bizarre!
Seriously, what was THAT about?

Anyhow, now Gym Ninja is a farmer! Organic home grown veggies in her garden! HOW exciting! Maybe the plant food will make them into those humungous ones you see on TV shaped as rude things?  So far the mushrooms are planted. In a box, covered in damp newspaper (as per instructions) and in the shed! If they haven't sprouted into thousands by the morning GN will be most disappointed! Meanwhile, to save on unnecessary digging, GN has sectioned off an area of grass in the garden with a sheet of plastic bin bag with the wheelie bin on it, hoping that the grass will die off in time for next weekend when she can sow her seeds!!

Watch this space! These things had better grow or Gym Ninja is going to get all stroppy! Now...off for a very lean and clean dinner. Not long now until the photos.............!!!!!!!!

See ya!

Farmer Ninja x

The blog with no title

Yep.

Yep yep yep.

Gym Ninja KNOWS that the last blog signed off with a promise of reporting back the next day with either a spinach bar update, Food Inc DVD update or BOTH.

Gym Ninja also knows that she didn't blog yesterday at all.
Gym Ninja is thus, a Blog Tease.

Sorry about that. The day yesterday had started well you see. Gym Ninja has decided to crank up her workouts for the next week, and decided that she'd get up and go for an outdoor run before sitting down at her desk and working from home (outdoor runs are still a rarity in GN world as she does like her roof/wall combo rather than sky/cloud/other people combo of outdoors).  But Gym Ninja was soooooo tired. She'd stayed up attempting the spinach bar recipe. In went frozen spinach, cottage cheese, egg whites and seasoning. In it all went into the oven for 40 mins.

PING!

40 mins later and the spinach sludge was just that. Sludge. Wobbly and non-bar-like. So Gym Ninja let it cook another 15 mins. Hmm, still sludge. GN is guessing she didn't get the measurements of the ingredients right? So she tried it anyway and it was really quite nice...creamy spinach. She ate most of it (bear in mind this was now about 11pm) and then ran out of time to do anything else.

Sleeping with half a tonne of cheesy spinach in one's stomach is not recommended. Disturbs the sleep process. So the next morning Gym Ninja had to force herself to go and run...

But she did! She ran for 40 minutes, getting in her 'LSD' training (long slow duration, or 'steady state cardio' as it's more commonly known as) and felt surprisingly good. Admittedly her eyes, shocked at being up and asked to move around so early, watered like mad! Big watery tears rolled down GNs face and she did get a few 'look at the crying runner' looks from dog walkers but hell, who cares?  By the time she got home she felt fantastic!

Working from home is tough. Motivation goes when facing the internet. But in fits & starts Gn did her work. NO communication off Muppet other than a very brief email though. No list of tasks! That's right, he'd  gone  quiet on GN!  But what is this mind f*ck game he is playing? NO list of impossible tasks? Gym Ninja was expecting to be asked to shave a Woolly Mammoth, collect a bag of nostrils and sprinkle Gordon Brown with desiccated coconut to name but a few things...ah well...

By the end of the day GN was raring to do her second workout, and got dressed and set out to the gym. The second workout would be upper body followed by HIIT (high intensity interval training). Woohooo!!!!!

Bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy bounce went Gym Ninja into the gym, still energised from the run that morning.
Then........

Pffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt.

Her energy left her. Gone! It had all be sucked out of her the moment she walked into the changing rooms! NO!
Gym Ninja pressed ahead with her weights session anyway, trying desperately to use muscular arm/delt tie -ins on random men to motivate and enthuse her. But the more lifting GN did, the more tired she became. It didn't help that she'd accidentally packed her 'girl' clothes. This is the kickflares with the pink stripes down the sides and a pink lycra gym top. Gym Ninja hates wearing pink. She now felt like a girl. She stood in the gym and was immediately in a 2 meter radius of 7 other women in pink and it really made GN feel weak and puny. Goddamit pink, you evil colour! Sucker-outerer of energy!!!!!

After the weights were done (and near the end Gn had to stop for a can of Diet Emerge energy drink which failed to do anything other than fizz into a giant ball of tiredness in GN's tummy) GN ignored her tiredness and hauled herself onto a X Trainer. High Intensity Intervals here we come...

OK. So you are all thinking 'no chance' right? Well you'd ALL be right! No chance indeed! This was an all-encompassing combination of hard run in the morning and too little rest/sleep the night before now showing its true (pink) colours.

GYM NINJA IN TOO TIRED TO TRAIN SHOCKER!!!!!!

With that, Gym Ninja left the gym and headed home (via Tesco which ended up taking ages as GN had barely enough energy to push the trolley).

So you see, today is good in that it is a chance for GN's body to catch up on sleep (check), avoid depleting itself in a tough hour of spin (check), to scoff porridge and carb-load a bit (check) yet to generate energy by expending energy courtesy of an outdoor run (check..well check after GN finishes blogging!). Sometimes you just HAVE To listen to the body!!!

SO...any plans for the Bank Holiday weekend Ninjarettes? Make it an active one eh? Oh and before GN goes...where has the French Ninjarette who reads this blog gone? Not seen your country flash up on the blog stats for a while! Come back you little French person you!

Right.......stop making Gym Ninja procrastinate! She's a run to do..........

Gym Ninja x

Clumsy Ninja

Today Ninja was blessed by a visit from The Clumsy Fairy.
Either the Clumsy Fairy visits at night or she gets up real early as straight from the off, Gym Ninja knew it was going to be 'one of those days!'

BANG!
Gym Ninja barged into the bathroom door having misjudged the doorway. Yep, that'd be the doorway that has remained that width for over 3 years now....

SPLAT!
A big dollop of cottage cheese fell out of the fridge as Gym Ninja opened the door...

CRASH!
Gym Ninja found herself body-slamming the bannister as she attempted to walk past it. WTF?????

SKIDDDDDDDD!
Gym Ninja hurtled across the tiles of the living room floor as she strode through the room......

THUD!
Gym Ninja stumbled down the step leaving the house....

AHHHR Clumsy Fairy! Go clear off & bless someone else.  Gym Ninja has work to do. Work given to her by Muppet the Line Manager, and today's list of work went something like this...

1.  Knit together half a cloud (white) with 2 rays of sunshine.
2.  Plait a lion's eyelashes together.
3.  Locate one of the original Umpa Lumpas that starred in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (the1970's version). This in fact was an impossible task due to the fact that Dwarves don't live to a ripe old age...grrr
4.  Sponge down the underside of a warthog.

So as you can tell, Gym Ninja was busy enough without being a Calamity Jane too.

Luckily there was a happy event about midday. Gym Ninja, on the THIRD attempt, had managed to remember to bring the tin opener with her and could at last dine on tuna with salad in the car at lunchtime.  That was until..

SNAP!
Gym Ninja snapped the top off the plastic picnic fork. GRRRR! To make matters worse, she then only had a teeny tiny plastic teaspoon with which to eat the remainder of her lunch. Oh, and then, in keeping with the 'feel' of the day, managed to chomp down on the broken remnant of plastic fork that was now nestling in a leaf of lettuce, hurting her mouth.

Incidentally, Gym Ninja would like to have a quiet word with 'Mr John West'.

Dear Mr John West,
Your can of 'Non Drain' Tuna is in fact more 'partial drain' Tuna. There is definitely always tuna brine that leaks out of the GODDAM TIN. Sort it out!
Thank you
Gym Ninja.  x

Now Gym Ninja checks Facebook & Twitter regularly throughout the day. It must have gotten to the 'crossing off sponging down the underside of a warthog' part of the list of daily duties when she read a Tweet from an online person who jokingly stated that Gym Ninja  was 'Like an Advertisement for Maximuscle'.

Hmm.

Gym Ninja agrees with this observation as indeed it must seem like that. Gym Ninja rarely blogs without mentioning their range, however just in case anyone does THINK that Gym Ninja is in some way working for/paid by/sponsored by(God PLEASE yes that'd be perfect!) Maximuscle then rest assured she is not. These are the reasons why she harps on about them...

1. Gym Ninja has tried a broad range of different sports supplements over the years, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Gym Ninja much prefers Maximuscle to any other.

2. Gym Ninja has personally seen huge positive changes in her physique and performance in the gym since supplementing with their range.

3. Gym Ninja follows a healthy clean diet and a regular progressive exercise programme so therefore gains maximum benefits when using their supplements (which is how anyone needs to use supplements to be fair-they are not a quick fix, they are SUPPLEMENTS to other things like diet and exercise).

4.  Gym Ninja loves how they taste!!!

5.  Gym Ninja is a great believer in that you get what you pay for. Yes, their range can be at the higher range of the Industry average, however GN would prefer to know her supplements are tested and proven to do what they claim, than to risk saving a few quid and buying inferior 'as much use as a chocolate teapot with probably as much hidden sugar as a chocolate teapot' product range.

6. Gym Ninja ha recommended this range to others and also seen those people benefit, so she knows it's not just her!

All understand now? Good good!

On route down the Motorway Gym Ninja pulled in at a Motorway Services. In WH Smiths she clocked a copy of this month's 'Muscle & Fitness Magazine'! Fantastic! Lots of inspirational pictures and articles in here! However every time she went towards that section of the magazines, a gaggle of men (truckers, sales reps and general travellers) congregated. Grr, now Gym Ninja felt like a right pervert by picking up a magazine with a man on the cover who's chest was bigger than Pamela Andersons!!!!! As she leaned down to pick up the magazine, the gaggle of men parted like the Red Sea (oooh, biblical references now, you ARE being spoiled today) and just stared, open-mouthed at the smartly dressed suited and booted Gym Ninja who had picked up a copy of the 'Muscle pervert' magazine......

After work, Gym Ninja forced her tired body to go to the gym. It was FAR too much of a risk, in her Clumsy -Fairy-Blessed-state, to attempt both cardio AND weights, so GN decided that the most beneficial workout today would be weight training...

LEG DAY!!!!!!!!!

Gym Ninja warmed up, and as she did so watched one of the Gym Based Personal Trainers walk across the gym floor. His feet turned outwards at 45' angles as he walked. What have we all learned from reading Gym Ninja's blog on days where she's mentioned turned out duck feet before? Yup! Tight Piriformis (to name but one issue!)! Stretch yourself out Boy! *tisk*


The gym was scorchio today! Either the Air Con was on low or switched off altogether as Gym Ninja was sweating like a pig in a bacon factory! Yet a good lower body workout was done. Gym Ninja tempted fate and the Clumsy Fairy by performing single legged deadlifts (wobble wobble like a jelly on a plate-LOW sugar jelly of course). Lots of lunge combinations (wobble wobble again), single leg calf raises (stumble), Barbell cleans (teeter), resistance band work for adductors/abductors and glutes (wobble wobble splat) and finally, the leg press.......

Gym Ninja loved the leg press today! FINALLY no risk of being killed by the Clumsy Fairy either (although at one point when loading up the weight plates Gym Ninja did catch her finger on a shard of metal)! Gym Ninja also clocked herself being thrown a few 'impressed' glances from some of the guys in the gym who blatantly had chicken legs and couldn't even attempt to leg press what GN was...

Making sure to stretch out afterwards, Gym Ninja veritably bounced out of the gym in a way that a girl who has hammered her legs can 'bounce'......obviously more metaphorical bouncing than actual bouncing you understand? 

So you see? A visit from the Clumsy Fairy didn't scupper Gym Ninja's workout in any way, shape or form. NO excuses people! 

Fit, healthy, athletic and aesthetically muscular bodies DO NOT JUST GROW THAT SHAPE on their own! They are created. Created by the very discipline you have. Created by your motivation to train hard and eat clean. Created by the very food and drink you chuck down your neck on a daily basis. Created by hard work, sweat, dedication (cue Roy Castle's trumpet solo again!), discipline, nutrition and sleep. Oh, and in Gym Ninja's case.....by Maximuscle too ;-)

Toodle pip

Gym Ninja x