Good evening. Nice to see you all again.
Gym Ninja is taking the evening off the gym tonight.
*gasps*
She has had a very full high-intensity weekend of workouts. 2 intense Spin Classes in 2 days and both extremely enjoyable. 2 weights sessions ...one upper body and one lower body over the weekend,,plus 1 run too. So now Ninja needs a rest! The rest days are JUST as important as your training days for your results to still continue, hence her taking tonight off.
Well, that reason, and also the fear of the Newbie Crush! Gym Ninja thinks too many people will stuff themselves into the gym tonight and she does not wish to be unable to find any equipment to use! Not just new people of course. No, old members who may have become a little slack at attending over the past few months and see January as the boost they need to get back on track. They too will be heading back there today after their first day back at work. Either way, it will be like The Boxing Day Sales at Harrods!!!!!! But less green.
So instead Gym Ninja decided to do a little bit of rummaging around to see what freebies are out there for us fitness folk. Oh, and also what bargains!
Firstly, she began with the basics. A gym! Now gyms do not give anything away for free usually so it is kind of hard to find a deal, especially in January when they are usually overwhelmed with enquiries. They do not NEED to give away a free trial in January. Nope. Yet Gym Ninja was WRONG! She found a deal. Yep. She has even added a little link to the right hand side of this blog for ease of locating as she thought it may be fun to do!
GYM FREEBIE
Apparently you can get yourself a FREE one-day pass into any of the Fitness First Gyms across the UK this month. Kind of like a 'try before you buy' scenario? Now Gym Ninja happens to think this is a rather good idea for those people looking to start at a gym or switch to a new gym. You need to go in, try out the equipment and see how you feel when you train there. Having a guided tour just isn't enough to be honest. You need to see what kind of people go there, what range of classes they have, what the showers are like when you use them, how clean the toilets and changing rooms are. You need to see how attentive and friendly the staff are, what the cafe facilities are like (if that is important to you and it is to some people), whether it is easy to park and so on.... See? A free trial is a good idea no? Even if you are NOT looking to move to a new gym, it's worth taking them up on their offer. It'd be rude not to. Think of it as a kind of 'holiday' from your usual gym routine. A new place to work out shakes it up for you. Gives you new enthusiasm and new ideas. Appeals generally to your nosiness. That way you can maybe return to your usual gym and think "It's not so bad here after all". or maybe even "Hmm, time to move on"? So...AFTER you have finished reading this click on the logo banner thingie with Fitness First on it and claim your pass. Let's all see what Fitness First think is SO amazing about their gym that they want us all to turn up! Psst-also, this may be a good option if you have to spend time away at a hotel with your job this month but don't want to miss out on a workout? See if there is a Fitness First near your hotel and grab your free day pass!
So...what else can Gym Ninja find that is free today?
EXERCISE CLASS FREEBIE
How about....'GET FIT FOR FREE', courtesy of Sweaty Betty? Gym Ninja couldn't find a flash side panel for that so has added the link to the highlighted name for you! Get fit for FREE Online and in store apparently. Oooooh. HANG ON! It offers an online blogger to get you inspired? Isn't that what Gym Ninja is for? Grrr! Do not abandon Gym Ninja for Sweaty Betty blogger! However, DO attend their weekly free exercise classes if there is a store near where you live. Plus, if you win the £250 in clothing vouchers then you will get a free gym wardrobe too eh?
DIET AND NUTRITION PLAN FREEBIE
Gym Ninja's beloved Maximuscle are offering everyone in the entire universe (ahem), a free nutrition plan that will take into account your goals, be they to increase muscle, burn body fat etc, and then give you a diet plan based on what to eat and when. Takes all the guess work out of this, plus they certainly seem to know what they are talking about as they sponsor God knows how many athletes, teams plus the Gladiators...ROAR!
*waggles sponge finger*
They chuck in FREE delivery if you order their supplements and FREE welcome pack if you are new to ordering from them. Oh and you can get free advice on exercise too. Now as well all knows, Gym Ninja is mightily happy with her Maximuscle supplements and has wasted oodles of cash on bad or poor quality supplements elsewhere so that YOU do not have to, my little Ninjarettes! This is why she has also added the cute banners on this blog and has made sure they show her favourite supplements so if you want to see why she loves them so much you can just click straight on them. More fun than the in-bedded link in the text. Prettier too...! Oh, and something she didn't know but found out....apparently if you ordered say, chocolate something or other and then hated the taste, spat it out and cursed the stuff, then Maximuscle let you return it to swap it for another flavour!!!!!!! YAY!
HARDCORE HOME CIRCUIT FREEBIES
Yep. You guessed it! You can get FREE circuit sessions almost on a DAILY basis from www.bodyrock.tv website. Gym Ninja has spoken of this site before and has even partaken in some of the workouts herself, and can recommend them for being hardcore and burning up calories! There is a whole back catalogue on that site that will keep you exercising for months. Ideal for working out at home, or even if you have to travel with your job and are stuck in your hotel room with just a laptop for company. (also, it'll stop you looking at things you shouldn't on your laptop in your hotel room!!!!)
Hey!
Gym Ninja has saved you MONEY today!
Now you can get a Gym Session, a motivational blog that isn't as good as Gym Ninjas (ahem), a weekly aerobics class, a daily online aerobic circuit workout, plus a nutrition and workout plan and delivery on your supplements FOR ABSOLUTELY NO CASH WHATSOEVER!
No excuses Ninjarettes! How can you turn down all of that eh?
Okey dokey-off Gym Ninja pops. She has a chicken stir-fry to do before settling down to so some revision on Hypertension! Now you get busy with your link clicking and claim whatever you like that is free!!
(Sorry that GN could not provide cute banners on her blog for ALL offers. but hell, she saved you some time with the ones she has provided eh??)
Toodle pip
Gym Ninja xx
PS
Would you rather have FREE gym sessions for life or FREE creamcakes for life?
(you KNOW the answer to that one!!!!!!!!)
Showing posts with label Bodyrock TV. Show all posts
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Monday, 4 January 2010
Sunday, 27 December 2009
Hermit Ninja
Today Gym Ninja decided not to leave the house. At all. Whatsoever. Nope.
She would stay home, tidy up, de-junk her wardrobes which are currently collapsing under the strain, photograph and eBay the stuff she didn't want any more, then tidy the house, revise and generally relax. Oh, and not forgetting her at-home workouts she'd planned.
So...that was the plan.
The reality?
Reality was, that she was woken at 8.45am by the BIN MEN! Grrrr! Now the Bin Men collect on a Friday, and obviously with it being Christmas Day, this meant no collection. But had there been notification of when it would be collected? Nope! Well, she 'says' no, but apparently 4 houses in her road HAD put their bins out, on a SUNDAY, and it was the sound of the alcoholic households bottles clattering into the bin lorry that woke her. NOW Gym Ninja has to wait 2 weeks for the bin to get emptied-this understandably made her Grumpy Ninja for at last half the day...so she got up and set about her 'plan' for the day. First stop, internet....
But wait! Oh bugger! Her internet connection was down, thus scuppering her hopes of mass eBay flogging. She failed to realise this until half the contents of her wardrobe were strewn across the floor. So instead she did some tidying up, which always means things get worse before they get better, no? So after an hour or two of this, she decided she was ready for her workout. That'd be skipping outside followed by a bodyrock tv workout.
Gym Ninja got her rope, got changed into her sports gear and headed into the garden.
Gym Ninja then immediately turned around and came back in. Windy weather!!!!! No good for skipping or you get smacked in the face by your rope. Oh well, the circuit would have to do....
Today Gym Ninja tried the '15 minute Hot Body Workout'. She thinks it is so called due to the fact it makes you sweat like a pig. here is the link....
15 minute hot body workout.
So...the side jump lunges were fine..but it was the evil Reptile Push Ups GN struggled with. Her body did not want to seem to lower as her knee came up to her elbow. Lazy body! But she struggled on regardless...
As usual, one of her cats came to watch. With a look of quiet disdain upon his face. he sat right in the Reptile Push Up area until I had to force him out of the way...
Luckily Gym Ninja has a JML Iron GymPull Up Bar at her home so she could happily do the Hanging Knee Raises. They are well worth buying as they are only £30 and you can take it with you as you travel (if indeed you are weird like GN).
All in all, she had boxed off a half-decent workout burning about 100 calories within 15 minutes. Not bad going eh? Plus, she was back on the Clean Eating path again, and felt SO much better for it.
Short & sweet today Ninjarettes. Gym Ninja is hoping her new trainers and workout gear arrives in the post soon so she can test drive her kit! Oh, and at some point this coming week GN will do the obligatory Goal Setting for New Year blog.
Gym Ninja xx
She would stay home, tidy up, de-junk her wardrobes which are currently collapsing under the strain, photograph and eBay the stuff she didn't want any more, then tidy the house, revise and generally relax. Oh, and not forgetting her at-home workouts she'd planned.
So...that was the plan.
The reality?
Reality was, that she was woken at 8.45am by the BIN MEN! Grrrr! Now the Bin Men collect on a Friday, and obviously with it being Christmas Day, this meant no collection. But had there been notification of when it would be collected? Nope! Well, she 'says' no, but apparently 4 houses in her road HAD put their bins out, on a SUNDAY, and it was the sound of the alcoholic households bottles clattering into the bin lorry that woke her. NOW Gym Ninja has to wait 2 weeks for the bin to get emptied-this understandably made her Grumpy Ninja for at last half the day...so she got up and set about her 'plan' for the day. First stop, internet....
But wait! Oh bugger! Her internet connection was down, thus scuppering her hopes of mass eBay flogging. She failed to realise this until half the contents of her wardrobe were strewn across the floor. So instead she did some tidying up, which always means things get worse before they get better, no? So after an hour or two of this, she decided she was ready for her workout. That'd be skipping outside followed by a bodyrock tv workout.
Gym Ninja got her rope, got changed into her sports gear and headed into the garden.
Gym Ninja then immediately turned around and came back in. Windy weather!!!!! No good for skipping or you get smacked in the face by your rope. Oh well, the circuit would have to do....
Today Gym Ninja tried the '15 minute Hot Body Workout'. She thinks it is so called due to the fact it makes you sweat like a pig. here is the link....
15 minute hot body workout.
So...the side jump lunges were fine..but it was the evil Reptile Push Ups GN struggled with. Her body did not want to seem to lower as her knee came up to her elbow. Lazy body! But she struggled on regardless...
As usual, one of her cats came to watch. With a look of quiet disdain upon his face. he sat right in the Reptile Push Up area until I had to force him out of the way...
Luckily Gym Ninja has a JML Iron GymPull Up Bar at her home so she could happily do the Hanging Knee Raises. They are well worth buying as they are only £30 and you can take it with you as you travel (if indeed you are weird like GN).
All in all, she had boxed off a half-decent workout burning about 100 calories within 15 minutes. Not bad going eh? Plus, she was back on the Clean Eating path again, and felt SO much better for it.
Short & sweet today Ninjarettes. Gym Ninja is hoping her new trainers and workout gear arrives in the post soon so she can test drive her kit! Oh, and at some point this coming week GN will do the obligatory Goal Setting for New Year blog.
Gym Ninja xx
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
The 500 Workout
Welcome. As always.
As promised, Gym Ninja is reporting back having tried the first of many of the circuit style slaughters shown on www.bodyrock.tv .
She participated last night after finishing her work for the day and before suffering the nightmare that is Asda on the run up to Christmas. Coincidentally, by trying the workout, she also discovered an excellent method of delaying switching on your central heating in sub-zero temperatures. No need for heating when you have one of Bodyrock's circuits to try!
Gym Ninja picked the 500 Workout to begin with. It looked at an intermediate level with nothing too taxing nor any requirement for skipping. The thing with skipping is that GN's home does not have 40 foot high ceilings, so she would need to skip outside. Skipping outside when there is snow and ice is not tempting enough somehow....
The workout ran as follows... allow Gym Ninja to elaborate how she got through each stage..
After a Dynamic Stretch Warm Up, Gym Ninja was raring to go. Kind of. It was, after all, a tad nippy but she knew it'd be pointless switching the heating on as she'd bake in about 5 minutes doing this workout. So, with her 'wannabe Zuzana style crop top', off she went...all in the comfort of her living room, just to the left of the Christmas Tree.
Prisoner Squats 50 reps
Hands on heads and squat down. Easy enough. No problem. Off we go....
Oh. Oh I seeeeeee....it does start to take it's toll somewhat as you are doing the reps nonstop and the hand position means no momentum to help. Ah well-probably because this is the first exercise so Gym Ninja may not be fully warmed up? What's next?
Sit Ups 50 reps
OK-full sit ups-old school eh? Off we go, using the zebra striped rug that is currently covering up the ceramic tiled floor of her living room. Off we go.....and er.....oh. Hard work. 50? This move is covering Gym Ninja's outfit in zebra print fluff off the rug. Damned rug. Zuzana doesn't get covered in fluff doing her workouts, grrr.
Backwards/forwards lunges 50 reps (25 per leg)
Ah this is kind of fun. Lunge forward then with the same leg immediately backwards as one rep. Do one side first. legs begin to tire and GN starts to wobble towards the Christmas Tree. Quick! Concetrate! But legs are getting tired...Cue the most pathetic panting and gasping akin to the type on Bodyrock tv. AHHHR! Gym Ninja thought the panting was purely for the male audience! Who knew that the actual workout induces this kind of adult-esque noise? After much wobbling and stumbling and a near bauble experience off the tree, GN moved on to the next exercise...
Push Ups 50 reps
Uh oh! GN HATES push ups! She struggles to do them-more to do with wrist issues as she never feels comfortable. Oh, and yes, because they are hard! GN had to do this in stages. As many full push ups as possible, maybe with a few seconds rest inbeween each batch, before switching to the girly embarrassment of the adapted push up so she could complete the set without dying...
By now Gym Ninja was starting to suffer from zebra print fibers in her eyes. CHEAP rug! EVIL rug!
Reptile 50 reps
So....never tried this move before. Looks easy enough on the video....
Are you familiar with the phrase 'spoken too soon?'. Gym Ninja actually had a near death experience carrying this move out. Not only were her arms shot from the batch of push ups she'd just undertaken, but the exercise is actually evil! Tiredness and eye fibers caused her to lose her balance more than a few times, so that there may have been (ahem) a tree-scraping incident on about rep 17. NOT particularly comfortable if the fairy lights have been on for a while and one head-buts a bulb! Zuzana never scalds herself with Christmas Tree lights! *fume*
Turkish Get Up 50 Reps
By this point GN was done with humiliation and knew if she attempted this dodgy looking move she'd fall headfirst onto the tree and be heading to A&E with a cinnamon parcel decoration embedded in her nostril. So, due to H&S (and NOT laziness!!!!!! ... well...maybe not much....) she skipped this part. Ooops!
Side V Crunch 50 reps (25 each side)
Phew! A move she found relatively easy. Easy if you do not include the burning fiber-filled eyeballs. Easy if you do not count a curious cat who decides to investigate close up what you are doing as he drags his tail under your nose in a Hitler-esque style moustache.
Split Push Ups 50 reps
Grrr. ENOUGH with the push ups. Gym Ninja renamed these the Split Push Up/Jelly Collapse as this is, in effect, what she did. She managed maybe 3 reps before stopping, 2 more then collapse, before a burst of 4 then near death...and so on. By now she had an audience of cats. Well..2. Watching with a look of pity on their furry faces....
Jump forwards Jump Back 50 reps
Grateful to not have to do anything more with her arms, GN dragged herself to her feet, panting in the Adult-esque way, covered in half a rug of fibers, and started to jump. Jump forwards, 2 jumps back = 1 rep...easy peasy a blessed relief. Yep?
Nope.
The first 10 were fine. Then GN's legs started to rebel. They didn't like the move. They wanted to shimmy her over to the Christmas Tree for a final 'make her fall into it' type finale. Gym Ninja had to reposition herself before flopping elephant-style into the ground with her heavy-footed jumps time & time again to avoid the Christmas Tree attack! Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn!
Reverse Plank Knee Tucks 50 reps
With a flop worthy of a drunken man, Gym Ninja collapsed onto the zebra print rug. She was past caring about the fibers that covered her workout clothes. She didn't care if she was perilously close to the Christmas Tree and it's red hot bulbs. Brand her head like a cattle-see if she cared! This was the last exercise and on the video....yep...she said it....it 'looked easy enough'...
Cue much panting, more collapsing than holding strong, plenty of rests and a major struggle to complete the required number of reps. Holy cow!!!!! A killer to finish!
So, with wobbly limbs and a fine covering of zebra, Gym Ninja slowly stretched out her limbs and cooled down. THAT, ladies and gents, was a lower-intensity session. Gym Ninja is scared of the next one....but she will do it...will you????
'Would you rather have jelly legs you cannot control that will always thrown you into any nearby tree, or be covered in man-made fibers that flake off into your eyes?'
Gym Ninja x
As promised, Gym Ninja is reporting back having tried the first of many of the circuit style slaughters shown on www.bodyrock.tv .
She participated last night after finishing her work for the day and before suffering the nightmare that is Asda on the run up to Christmas. Coincidentally, by trying the workout, she also discovered an excellent method of delaying switching on your central heating in sub-zero temperatures. No need for heating when you have one of Bodyrock's circuits to try!
Gym Ninja picked the 500 Workout to begin with. It looked at an intermediate level with nothing too taxing nor any requirement for skipping. The thing with skipping is that GN's home does not have 40 foot high ceilings, so she would need to skip outside. Skipping outside when there is snow and ice is not tempting enough somehow....
The workout ran as follows... allow Gym Ninja to elaborate how she got through each stage..
After a Dynamic Stretch Warm Up, Gym Ninja was raring to go. Kind of. It was, after all, a tad nippy but she knew it'd be pointless switching the heating on as she'd bake in about 5 minutes doing this workout. So, with her 'wannabe Zuzana style crop top', off she went...all in the comfort of her living room, just to the left of the Christmas Tree.
Prisoner Squats 50 reps
Hands on heads and squat down. Easy enough. No problem. Off we go....
Oh. Oh I seeeeeee....it does start to take it's toll somewhat as you are doing the reps nonstop and the hand position means no momentum to help. Ah well-probably because this is the first exercise so Gym Ninja may not be fully warmed up? What's next?
Sit Ups 50 reps
OK-full sit ups-old school eh? Off we go, using the zebra striped rug that is currently covering up the ceramic tiled floor of her living room. Off we go.....and er.....oh. Hard work. 50? This move is covering Gym Ninja's outfit in zebra print fluff off the rug. Damned rug. Zuzana doesn't get covered in fluff doing her workouts, grrr.
Backwards/forwards lunges 50 reps (25 per leg)
Ah this is kind of fun. Lunge forward then with the same leg immediately backwards as one rep. Do one side first. legs begin to tire and GN starts to wobble towards the Christmas Tree. Quick! Concetrate! But legs are getting tired...Cue the most pathetic panting and gasping akin to the type on Bodyrock tv. AHHHR! Gym Ninja thought the panting was purely for the male audience! Who knew that the actual workout induces this kind of adult-esque noise? After much wobbling and stumbling and a near bauble experience off the tree, GN moved on to the next exercise...
Push Ups 50 reps
Uh oh! GN HATES push ups! She struggles to do them-more to do with wrist issues as she never feels comfortable. Oh, and yes, because they are hard! GN had to do this in stages. As many full push ups as possible, maybe with a few seconds rest inbeween each batch, before switching to the girly embarrassment of the adapted push up so she could complete the set without dying...
By now Gym Ninja was starting to suffer from zebra print fibers in her eyes. CHEAP rug! EVIL rug!
Reptile 50 reps
So....never tried this move before. Looks easy enough on the video....
Are you familiar with the phrase 'spoken too soon?'. Gym Ninja actually had a near death experience carrying this move out. Not only were her arms shot from the batch of push ups she'd just undertaken, but the exercise is actually evil! Tiredness and eye fibers caused her to lose her balance more than a few times, so that there may have been (ahem) a tree-scraping incident on about rep 17. NOT particularly comfortable if the fairy lights have been on for a while and one head-buts a bulb! Zuzana never scalds herself with Christmas Tree lights! *fume*
Turkish Get Up 50 Reps
By this point GN was done with humiliation and knew if she attempted this dodgy looking move she'd fall headfirst onto the tree and be heading to A&E with a cinnamon parcel decoration embedded in her nostril. So, due to H&S (and NOT laziness!!!!!! ... well...maybe not much....) she skipped this part. Ooops!
Side V Crunch 50 reps (25 each side)
Phew! A move she found relatively easy. Easy if you do not include the burning fiber-filled eyeballs. Easy if you do not count a curious cat who decides to investigate close up what you are doing as he drags his tail under your nose in a Hitler-esque style moustache.
Split Push Ups 50 reps
Grrr. ENOUGH with the push ups. Gym Ninja renamed these the Split Push Up/Jelly Collapse as this is, in effect, what she did. She managed maybe 3 reps before stopping, 2 more then collapse, before a burst of 4 then near death...and so on. By now she had an audience of cats. Well..2. Watching with a look of pity on their furry faces....
Jump forwards Jump Back 50 reps
Grateful to not have to do anything more with her arms, GN dragged herself to her feet, panting in the Adult-esque way, covered in half a rug of fibers, and started to jump. Jump forwards, 2 jumps back = 1 rep...easy peasy a blessed relief. Yep?
Nope.
The first 10 were fine. Then GN's legs started to rebel. They didn't like the move. They wanted to shimmy her over to the Christmas Tree for a final 'make her fall into it' type finale. Gym Ninja had to reposition herself before flopping elephant-style into the ground with her heavy-footed jumps time & time again to avoid the Christmas Tree attack! Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn!
Reverse Plank Knee Tucks 50 reps
With a flop worthy of a drunken man, Gym Ninja collapsed onto the zebra print rug. She was past caring about the fibers that covered her workout clothes. She didn't care if she was perilously close to the Christmas Tree and it's red hot bulbs. Brand her head like a cattle-see if she cared! This was the last exercise and on the video....yep...she said it....it 'looked easy enough'...
Cue much panting, more collapsing than holding strong, plenty of rests and a major struggle to complete the required number of reps. Holy cow!!!!! A killer to finish!
So, with wobbly limbs and a fine covering of zebra, Gym Ninja slowly stretched out her limbs and cooled down. THAT, ladies and gents, was a lower-intensity session. Gym Ninja is scared of the next one....but she will do it...will you????
'Would you rather have jelly legs you cannot control that will always thrown you into any nearby tree, or be covered in man-made fibers that flake off into your eyes?'
Gym Ninja x
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
'The Plan'
Welcome back.
As promised, Gym Ninja is to reveal her fitness plans for over the festivities. A way of staying on track, accommodating the time constraints and social calendar that can get in the way of her usual regime, plus a fantastic way of kick-starting her enthusiasm and shock her body into responding. Always good to shake things up!
The Plan is a simple one.
Circuits.
At home.
Killer Circuits.
Gym Ninja will use the marvelously splendid www.bodyrock.tv website and select specific workouts from the database, and also harvest part of other workouts and mush them all together into a more individual session. This is Ninja effectively saying that she may not be able to participate totally in one of Zuzana's nightmarishly difficult sessions, so may remove some exercises and add in others...purely in the interest of staying alive you understand. That is NOT to say GN will NOT attempt them. Oh yessireebob she will. She has already earmarked her first 'challenge'... The '500 Rep Workout'.... O.M.G. Check out the link!
Before you do (maybe GN is too late with her warning?) DO try and get past the gratuitous filming technique and Zuzana's pants and gasps. If it were not for her amazing body which in itself proves she does work hard, then it would be easy to laugh off the whole website. But all Gym Ninja asks you to do before you 'dismiss' the whole thing, is to just try one or two of the 'easier looking' moves and then make your decision.....
Some you may wish to look at (as GN has shortlisted some for now) are:
20 Minute Interval Cardio Workout
Extreme Challenge 1 (and so on)
In fact-Why not go and rummage around yourselves? If you are rummaging at work (!) then do be aware that although this IS a legitimate workout site, any colleagues passing by and hearing gasps as a pneumonic blonde bounces her way across the screen may initially question what you are doing! So...if at work mute the volume and men-just be aware that your mouth is most likely open as you watch the videos....
Zuzana also has various articles on nutrition on her site-Gym Ninja has not perused them all just yet but plans on doing so. It is always worthwhile to read and learn and then form your own opinions. Gym Ninja, having not yet read everything on this site, cannot say if she agrees with it yet ok? But one article you may all find useful is the one entitled '5 Ways to Explain Real Food'. This is ideal for us fitness folk who constantly have to justify why they eat how they do....
Good heavens! GN is apparently doing some sort of advertisement for Bodyrock TV! Or so it seems. But no-she is merely spreading the word on sites that may help you stay on track over the festivities AND all year round. This is not to say GN won't be at the gym. She will. But she will also be trialling these circuits too....be prepared for the write ups after the various workouts and learn (no doubt) from Gym Ninja's mistakes!!!!
As an additional tip, the Bodyrock site also has still photographs of the exercises with descriptions that really help when you cannot see the correct 'form' for Zuzana's jiggling and panting. You may also use the camera on your mobile to video off the screen some of the moves of the exercises you cannot remember-you can then watch them at the gym or wherever you are working out to remind you how it is done again.
Before she goes, GN may as well remind you about Podcasts that she listens to. Podcasts are free and easily downloaded onto your mp3 player. Top of her list relating to diet and fitness are:
The FitCast
Turbulence Training
Ask Leigh
All found in iTunes and all worth a listen when training at the gym/driving on the motorway/cleaning the house/walking the dog. Sometimes it's tough when you do not know many like-minded people around you, so listening to others enthuse about the things you enthuse about can help you through those moments of 'why do I bother?'
Right-Gym Ninja has work to do. She may well attempt one of the circuits later and report back (if still alive) tomorrow.
Before she goes, she would like to know...
"Would you rather look lie a snowman or look like an elf?"
Gym Ninja x
As promised, Gym Ninja is to reveal her fitness plans for over the festivities. A way of staying on track, accommodating the time constraints and social calendar that can get in the way of her usual regime, plus a fantastic way of kick-starting her enthusiasm and shock her body into responding. Always good to shake things up!
The Plan is a simple one.
Circuits.
At home.
Killer Circuits.
Gym Ninja will use the marvelously splendid www.bodyrock.tv website and select specific workouts from the database, and also harvest part of other workouts and mush them all together into a more individual session. This is Ninja effectively saying that she may not be able to participate totally in one of Zuzana's nightmarishly difficult sessions, so may remove some exercises and add in others...purely in the interest of staying alive you understand. That is NOT to say GN will NOT attempt them. Oh yessireebob she will. She has already earmarked her first 'challenge'... The '500 Rep Workout'.... O.M.G. Check out the link!
Before you do (maybe GN is too late with her warning?) DO try and get past the gratuitous filming technique and Zuzana's pants and gasps. If it were not for her amazing body which in itself proves she does work hard, then it would be easy to laugh off the whole website. But all Gym Ninja asks you to do before you 'dismiss' the whole thing, is to just try one or two of the 'easier looking' moves and then make your decision.....
Some you may wish to look at (as GN has shortlisted some for now) are:
20 Minute Interval Cardio Workout
Extreme Challenge 1 (and so on)
In fact-Why not go and rummage around yourselves? If you are rummaging at work (!) then do be aware that although this IS a legitimate workout site, any colleagues passing by and hearing gasps as a pneumonic blonde bounces her way across the screen may initially question what you are doing! So...if at work mute the volume and men-just be aware that your mouth is most likely open as you watch the videos....
Zuzana also has various articles on nutrition on her site-Gym Ninja has not perused them all just yet but plans on doing so. It is always worthwhile to read and learn and then form your own opinions. Gym Ninja, having not yet read everything on this site, cannot say if she agrees with it yet ok? But one article you may all find useful is the one entitled '5 Ways to Explain Real Food'. This is ideal for us fitness folk who constantly have to justify why they eat how they do....
Good heavens! GN is apparently doing some sort of advertisement for Bodyrock TV! Or so it seems. But no-she is merely spreading the word on sites that may help you stay on track over the festivities AND all year round. This is not to say GN won't be at the gym. She will. But she will also be trialling these circuits too....be prepared for the write ups after the various workouts and learn (no doubt) from Gym Ninja's mistakes!!!!
As an additional tip, the Bodyrock site also has still photographs of the exercises with descriptions that really help when you cannot see the correct 'form' for Zuzana's jiggling and panting. You may also use the camera on your mobile to video off the screen some of the moves of the exercises you cannot remember-you can then watch them at the gym or wherever you are working out to remind you how it is done again.
Before she goes, GN may as well remind you about Podcasts that she listens to. Podcasts are free and easily downloaded onto your mp3 player. Top of her list relating to diet and fitness are:
The FitCast
Turbulence Training
Ask Leigh
All found in iTunes and all worth a listen when training at the gym/driving on the motorway/cleaning the house/walking the dog. Sometimes it's tough when you do not know many like-minded people around you, so listening to others enthuse about the things you enthuse about can help you through those moments of 'why do I bother?'
Right-Gym Ninja has work to do. She may well attempt one of the circuits later and report back (if still alive) tomorrow.
Before she goes, she would like to know...
"Would you rather look lie a snowman or look like an elf?"
Gym Ninja x
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