www.tarafitness.com Before Gym Ninja starts today's blog, allow her to offer a Clown Watch update:
Clown Watch:
Hair is still 'essence of parrot' akin to hair of a clown. After much boosting of nerves, Gym Ninja bit the bullet & rang to ask her hairdresser to correct it. Hairdresser is off until Thursday.......Noooooooooooooooooooo!
So...today was all up & down, highs & lows, back to fronts and Parrot hair. Understand?
Nope?
OK, so essentially Gym Ninja is still distracted with 'other private goings on', but also distracted by her clown hair, aka Parrot Hair. But today's blog is NOT about hair of the clown you'll be pleased to hear. Today Gym Ninja fought back her fear of being seen with the clown hair, and went to the gym.
OK, so maybe she wasn't that brave. Maybe it was because she thought (thought being the operative word here) that she'd packed her baseball cap. But when she got into the changing rooms, no cap was found. It was instead, still sitting on the end of the stairs bannister at home. *Gulp*
Needing to run off the stress of the day, Gym Ninja again decided to get a push elsewhere and again did the iTrain workout of sprint intervals for half an hour. Gym Ninja really needs to upload more of her iTrain library into her iPhone or else she'll get mega bored of this running session with it's naff music. Luckily one is too busy sweating her eyeballs out to notice the music that much...so the job was done, endorphins were released and Gym Ninja even managed to ignore (for the most part anyway) the woman on the cross trainer in front of her who had so much 'bounce' going on that she feared her head may bang the ceiling at one point!
GN then started her weights session. T'was Upper Body today. The shoulder is virtually 100% back to normal, although Gym Ninja is still playing it carefully and not overloading too heavily on anything that may set it back a bit. Good Gym Ninja!
Gym Ninja really does need blinkers at the gym sometimes. As much as she was trying to focus on her ow training, she was distracted by a number of things.
SHOAL! Yep, The Shoal was in again everyone. A group of 4 young girls all moving in unison as one gaggle of girls. 1 did half-hearted moves on a piece of resistance equipment whilst the others sat on the surrounding equipment using them like chairs whilst watching the leader train. Then, they'd all swap places. Must take em days too finish a workout!
Of course it wouldn't be a day with a Y in it if there wasn't someone on the Chest press machine using the Easy Start Pedal as part of the exercise now would it? That goes without saying. There were a few new moves though. One woman decided to always stand in the most awkward of places wherever anyone needed to get past. She positioned a Swiss Ball bang next to the free weight stack, and then just bounced up and down on it for a while. A bit like that 0898 advert (or whatever the dial prefix is nowadays) you see on late night satellite TV with a girl in a bikini bouncing on a space hopper mouthing "call me big boy!" She (the woman at the gym, not the one on the advert!) then grabbed some dumbbells, lay back on the ball and waggled them around for a while. Next, she stood up, grabbed a dumbbell inbetween her hands, raised them up above her head as if about to murder someone with it, and then nearly tipped backwards as the dumbbells lowered themselves without any control from her, behind her head in a sort of triceps extension. Cute! She followed this up with a tug-o-war using the high pulley cable machine & the rope attachment. Gym Ninja thins it again was supposed to be an attempt at a triceps move. It wasn't. If anything it would have worked her lats and maybe biceps...but mostly momentum.
Gym Ninja listened to the latest edition of the freebie Podcast, 'The FitCast'. You should really subscribe on iTunes to it if you haven't already as they discuss all the latest developments and tips in the fitness industry. Very informative it is too, if you can stop giggling at the bits where they make each other laugh.
After her workout and cool down stretches, Gym Ninja mixed up her Chocolate Maximuscle Promax protein powder to help maximise what she'd just done at the gym. God, Gym Ninja seriously misses Choc Mint flavour. Oh and she's not as of yet tried the powders now rebranded for women by the same company, called Maxitone. Gym Ninja is waiting for Tara to try that and then review them: you all know Tara and her blog now don't you? We're all chums together here after all. Shame Tara didn't steal Gym Ninja some freebies eh Tara? Shame on you! ;-)
Hmm, Gym Ninja needs to stock up on some stuff actually. She may as well pootle off to the Maximuscle website in a moment. Choc Mint Protein powder plus a tub of Creatamax 300 is a callin'! Must also have a mooch and see what offers are on special this month too.
Anyway, Gym Ninja digresses....Oooh talk of the devil, Tara has just sent Gym Ninja a link on Facebook..must go peruse it! Oh and seeing as GN doesn't have comments activated on her blog, maybe any kind readers who also want Gym Ninja to try some Maxitone freebies would suggest that on Tara's blog comments for her please? After all, Tara is a Maxitone Body of 2009 finalist and if anyone can nab a free water bottle it's her...
Mwahahahha! Sorry about that Tara!!!!
Ok, toodle pip. Clown Hair is making Gym Ninja feel 'funny'...
Gym Ninja Clown x
Showing posts with label iTrain. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Friday, 22 January 2010
Gymtastic!
Cor Blimey!
Gym Ninja had a fantastic cardio-only gym session yesterday. She felt that she was long overdue a hardcore cardio session, as usually you will recall, she has her weekly Saturday Slaughter Session whereby she slowly dissolves into a puddle of sweat. Well, she's not been able to do that for 2 weeks, so she was chomping at the proverbial bit due to only managing 20 minutes or so of cardio during her usual gym visits.
She'd also done a fair bit of driving mileage this week and found herself eating more than usual just to fuel her long bored hours in the car. Nothing sinful though. Oh no! Gym Ninja DOES occasionally stuff sinful things into her mouth, but nothing food related and that is NOT for this Blog without a 9pm watershed ;-)
DAMN those Endorphins!
They just made Gym Ninja turn into Frankie Howard with her innuendos! Apologies........what she was trying to say was, that although she can fall into the snacking-through-boredom trap, her snacks are still healthy. But as we all know, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference whether they are healthy or not if her calories IN exceed her calories OUT. Thus, GN needed to get them out, so to speak! (See? There she goes again with her innuendos!).
She headed to the gym. She'd packed her 'spray on' running leggings as she knew that things like that made such a difference if she knew she had a long session ahead. Excess fabric flapping around and soaking up sweat like a sponge can hinder her workout, so once she was all 'lycra-d up' she warmed up for 10 minutes on the X-Trainer whilst watching some iTunesU video lectures on anatomy courtesy of her iPhone.
It's a tad 'dated' (as GN doesn't think that the Professor is in 70's fancy Dress) but it helps her with her Anatomy Revision no end! The iTunesU stuff is fab actually. There is one lecture (audio) about 'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers?' (or something like that-fascinating and FREE!)...
Once that was done, she moved to the treadmill for a 20 minute fast, yet 'steady state' (as in pretty much the same pace throughout) run. Oooh, it was tough going to begin with as most workouts are, however Gym Ninja knows that she needs to give herself at least 5 minutes to get used to the idea of running, and then once that 5 minutes has passed well, she can just carry on. So she did. Of course, within moments someone who had bathed in Deep Heat turned up & floored all gym goers within a 2 mile radius...WHY? Please-if you hurt THAT much that you need Deep Heat slathered all over your body, then maybe rest up at home?
The 20 minute run seemed longer than 20 minutes. Maybe the man strolling on the treadmill next to GN made it seem longer? He was walking at 'window shopping' speed. Maybe GN needs to ensure she only uses a treadmill next to someone moving fast?? After 20 minutes Gym Ninja hopped off the treadmill and nipped off for 'a slash'...no, it's NOT a very ladylike term, but deal with it OK?
Once Gym Ninja's nose was powdered, she headed back to the treadmill. You see, there was still an ounce of energy left in GN and she planned on working herself harder than usual. She passed a Shoal by the Resistance Machines. If you recall, the Shoal was a gaggle of young girls who swarm across the gym in a shoal-like fish formation, never once leaving each other alone. They were stood millimeters away from another shoal-this time a male Shoal. This Shoal consisted of 5 teenage boys, all in matching white vest tops and bermuda shorts. They too were moving across from machine to machine in a formation, and as one trained the rest huddled around him in a semi-circle. The Girl Shoal watched the Boy Shoal and moved as they did...with a safe space of 2 machine widths between them at all times of course. Bless. Gym Ninja made a mental note to NEVER even attempt to go into the Hydropool if both Shoals were in...could be like a teenage 'behind the bikesheds' moment in foamy hot water format! EEEK!
Back on the treadmill, Gym Ninja scrolled through her iPhone (that is now sadly broken, but that is too traumatic to talk about seeing as her replacement one today immediately then developed the exact same identical fault as the original, so is still 'ongoing' *sob), and decided she'd do a constructive interval run. She picked iTread Set 21, 30 minutes of Run Intervals....downloaded as a pay as you go option from www.iTrain.com which is a fantastic site if you fancy a bit of someone shouting in your ear as to what speed and incline you should be walking/jogging/running at! The music is totally naff, but the workout you get is hard! So off she went...run run run, upping and lowering the speed, as per instructed. You can ONLY imagine how much of the old Endorphins were galloping around Gym Ninja's system after completing that! Fantastic!
Today, Gym Ninja made another juice...took photos to show you all, yet due to the problem with her iPhone and it having wiped everything off her handset, the photos are sadly lost *sigh*. T'was a concoction that mixed 4 carrots, 2 sticks of nasty old celery (NOT a celery fan), 2 leaves of cabbage, a good old beetroot and an apple. Tasted fab again and was a gorgeous frothy red colour. Not sure what it was supposed to do other than kind of rinse you out, but it did make Gym Ninja's tongue turn red. In fact, maybe GN should also post tongue picture to go along with juice pictures? Have YOU bought your juicer yet?
Right-Ninja Over & Out as she needs to hot-foot it back to Apple to get this issue sorted once & for all! She will be back tomorrow with an update as to her new scales weigh-in. Ooer!
Gym Ninja xx
Gym Ninja had a fantastic cardio-only gym session yesterday. She felt that she was long overdue a hardcore cardio session, as usually you will recall, she has her weekly Saturday Slaughter Session whereby she slowly dissolves into a puddle of sweat. Well, she's not been able to do that for 2 weeks, so she was chomping at the proverbial bit due to only managing 20 minutes or so of cardio during her usual gym visits.
She'd also done a fair bit of driving mileage this week and found herself eating more than usual just to fuel her long bored hours in the car. Nothing sinful though. Oh no! Gym Ninja DOES occasionally stuff sinful things into her mouth, but nothing food related and that is NOT for this Blog without a 9pm watershed ;-)
DAMN those Endorphins!
They just made Gym Ninja turn into Frankie Howard with her innuendos! Apologies........what she was trying to say was, that although she can fall into the snacking-through-boredom trap, her snacks are still healthy. But as we all know, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference whether they are healthy or not if her calories IN exceed her calories OUT. Thus, GN needed to get them out, so to speak! (See? There she goes again with her innuendos!).
She headed to the gym. She'd packed her 'spray on' running leggings as she knew that things like that made such a difference if she knew she had a long session ahead. Excess fabric flapping around and soaking up sweat like a sponge can hinder her workout, so once she was all 'lycra-d up' she warmed up for 10 minutes on the X-Trainer whilst watching some iTunesU video lectures on anatomy courtesy of her iPhone.
It's a tad 'dated' (as GN doesn't think that the Professor is in 70's fancy Dress) but it helps her with her Anatomy Revision no end! The iTunesU stuff is fab actually. There is one lecture (audio) about 'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers?' (or something like that-fascinating and FREE!)...
Once that was done, she moved to the treadmill for a 20 minute fast, yet 'steady state' (as in pretty much the same pace throughout) run. Oooh, it was tough going to begin with as most workouts are, however Gym Ninja knows that she needs to give herself at least 5 minutes to get used to the idea of running, and then once that 5 minutes has passed well, she can just carry on. So she did. Of course, within moments someone who had bathed in Deep Heat turned up & floored all gym goers within a 2 mile radius...WHY? Please-if you hurt THAT much that you need Deep Heat slathered all over your body, then maybe rest up at home?
The 20 minute run seemed longer than 20 minutes. Maybe the man strolling on the treadmill next to GN made it seem longer? He was walking at 'window shopping' speed. Maybe GN needs to ensure she only uses a treadmill next to someone moving fast?? After 20 minutes Gym Ninja hopped off the treadmill and nipped off for 'a slash'...no, it's NOT a very ladylike term, but deal with it OK?
Once Gym Ninja's nose was powdered, she headed back to the treadmill. You see, there was still an ounce of energy left in GN and she planned on working herself harder than usual. She passed a Shoal by the Resistance Machines. If you recall, the Shoal was a gaggle of young girls who swarm across the gym in a shoal-like fish formation, never once leaving each other alone. They were stood millimeters away from another shoal-this time a male Shoal. This Shoal consisted of 5 teenage boys, all in matching white vest tops and bermuda shorts. They too were moving across from machine to machine in a formation, and as one trained the rest huddled around him in a semi-circle. The Girl Shoal watched the Boy Shoal and moved as they did...with a safe space of 2 machine widths between them at all times of course. Bless. Gym Ninja made a mental note to NEVER even attempt to go into the Hydropool if both Shoals were in...could be like a teenage 'behind the bikesheds' moment in foamy hot water format! EEEK!
Back on the treadmill, Gym Ninja scrolled through her iPhone (that is now sadly broken, but that is too traumatic to talk about seeing as her replacement one today immediately then developed the exact same identical fault as the original, so is still 'ongoing' *sob), and decided she'd do a constructive interval run. She picked iTread Set 21, 30 minutes of Run Intervals....downloaded as a pay as you go option from www.iTrain.com which is a fantastic site if you fancy a bit of someone shouting in your ear as to what speed and incline you should be walking/jogging/running at! The music is totally naff, but the workout you get is hard! So off she went...run run run, upping and lowering the speed, as per instructed. You can ONLY imagine how much of the old Endorphins were galloping around Gym Ninja's system after completing that! Fantastic!
Today, Gym Ninja made another juice...took photos to show you all, yet due to the problem with her iPhone and it having wiped everything off her handset, the photos are sadly lost *sigh*. T'was a concoction that mixed 4 carrots, 2 sticks of nasty old celery (NOT a celery fan), 2 leaves of cabbage, a good old beetroot and an apple. Tasted fab again and was a gorgeous frothy red colour. Not sure what it was supposed to do other than kind of rinse you out, but it did make Gym Ninja's tongue turn red. In fact, maybe GN should also post tongue picture to go along with juice pictures? Have YOU bought your juicer yet?
Right-Ninja Over & Out as she needs to hot-foot it back to Apple to get this issue sorted once & for all! She will be back tomorrow with an update as to her new scales weigh-in. Ooer!
Gym Ninja xx
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