Uh oh!
Gym Ninja was hit by a 'human' moment yesterday. Yesireebob she was! The old food craving came a-knocking (damned hormones eh?). Well, Gym Ninja 'says' it came a-knocking but in truth it had a sledgehammer and one of those police-style battering rams...
As you are aware, Gym Ninja planned an outdoor run Saturday. No Spin as the fab instructor was off, so Gym Ninja got her running gear on, set her Polar Heart Rate monitor to 'go go go' and off she went...
Run to the end of the road....round the corner and round another corner towards the road that takes Gym Ninja to the promenade and...
Oh!
Gym Ninja found herself detouring to the left, along a side street and appeared to be heading towards her parents house. They live about 15 to 20 minutes of run time away and Gym Ninja had suddenly decided that she'd go combine her run with a visit. Nice eh?
But this wasn't Gym Ninja's true reason. NO! There was a naughty Nutella Pixie in Gym Ninja's head. Gym Ninja's mother (Mum Ninja) had bought her some as a 'surprise'. NO! Nutella is BANNED in Gym Ninja world due to it's 'more-ish' nature, so had insisted it stay at her Parents house for safety reasons, yet and NOW look what was happening? Her run was being dictated by the call of the Hazelnut........
By the time Gym Ninja had reached her parents house she was salivating at the thought of Nutella. A quick 'Hi' to Dad Ninja as he was sitting outside in the sun, straight into the house, the kitchen and...
*cue lights, angelic choir music and circling cherubic Nutella Pixies*
There it was! A big jar too, the blighter! Sitting there, waiting.......
Gym Ninja grabbed a spoon and delved in!
Within seconds Sister Ninja appeared and stood at the door. Gym Ninja stopped, with a spoonful of Nutella hovering by her lips.
"Er, won't you be sick if you try & run after eating that?" Pointed out Sister Ninja sensibly.
"Noooooo it'll be fine I'm sure!" Gym Ninja brushed off the warning and ate about 4 spoons of the chocolately evilness before forcing herself to back away from the jar.
*POW*
Well hellooooooooooooooo guilt! Yep, Guilt rolled up. A big FAT Guilt Pixie fluttered next to GN's ear and started to whisper the following...
"Oooh, what did you go and eat that for? You know you've a photoshoot in less than 10 days time"
Grrr. Gym Ninja screwed up her eyes.
"I can see it sticking itself to your arse and hips you know" Continued Guilt Pixie.
"You may want to reconsider the bikini photo you planned...? It's for the best...."
Seriously, who needs self-control when you have a Guilt Pixie? That was it! Gym Ninja didn't fear the Barf Monster (aka being sick on route home). She was headed out of the door before the final spoonful of Nutella had secreted itself along her thighs....
Run run run.....hmm, no feeling of sickness yet...........run run run run run....oooh, still no feeling of sickness.....and so the return 20 minute run continued. Not once did Gym Ninja have to stop to regurgitate the Hazelnut horrors of Nutella....not once! Remarkable! Meanwhile, throughout the run there was an in-ear commentary from the ever-charming Guilt Pixie...
"Yeh right, like this 20 minute run is even gonna touch the sides of burning off what you just ate Pig Face!"
However despite swearing she'd never ever do this again (remember the last time when Gym Ninja stated this eh?) the Guilt Pixie hung around all day long and all night too. In fact, he was there this morning when Gym Ninja got out of bed and headed to the shower.
"Was that fat there yesterday?" Enquired the Guilt Pixie 'helpfully', passing Gym Ninja the shower gel.
F*CK OFF Guilt Pixie! Goddamit, that Nutella was SO not worth this!
So today Gym Ninja plans on getting her Inspiration File out and adding to it. She may even do a 'Nutella' Section at the back...maybe some investigation on what the fat does and the sugar content does, and pictures of wibbly wobbly legs etc? Oh, and a shot of the Gilt Pixie, smiling from ear to ear doing a 'thumbs up' pose....
Gym Ninja x
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Sunday, 2 May 2010
Saturday, 1 May 2010
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
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
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Ruuun Ninja ruuuuun!
As promised, yesterday's gym visit blogatised (or whatever the verb is?)
Hmm, yesterday. So far away in Gym Ninja's memory. What DID Gym Ninja do yesterday at the gym then? Goddamit, it can be tough trying to recall information that's not more than 60 seconds old. Maybe Gym Ninja was a Goldfish in her previous life...?
Ah yes, t'was cardio and upper body at the gym yesterday. Oh, and Gym Ninja even managed to find one of the nice treadmills that wasn't either broken or busy. Remarkable! This of course was made even better by the fact that Gym Ninja now had her beloved Polar Heart Rate Monitor back in action. Without actually knowing what zone you are in, it is easy to waste one's time when it comes to cardio. Who actually wants to waste time when at the gym eh?
Gym Ninja is still working out in the Hypertrophy rep range right now. Upper body is so much fun when one is building muscle...sarcoplasmic hypertrophy it may be, but it makes Gym Ninja's muscles look good thank you very much! To begin with, Gym Ninja headed over to the Assisted Pull Up Machine. The one where you can duplicate pull ups but with a bit of help. So Gym Ninja set the 'help' up, climbed onto the machine and grabbed the bar.
Oh bugger!
Gym Ninja had forgotten that this particular Assisted Pull Up Machine has handles the thickness of aubergines. This is NOT conducive for a good pull up session as far as Gym Ninja and her small hands/faffy grip combo is concerned. Looks like this workout may be tougher than anticipated.
So began Gym Ninja's Pull Ups....her hands struggling to grip the bar as she dragged her body up and down. Damn you aubergine handles! 4 sets of 8 and Gym Ninja is left with pink hands and wobbly forearms.....oh and a decent lat workout of course.
Continuing on with the back, Gym Ninja did some supine grip barbell rows which just about finished off her back. Chest work and some nifty shoulder work followed. Due to a shortage of exercise benches, Gym Ninja had to use a swiss stability ball in order to perform her lying lateral dumbbell raises for her delts. Lying down doing this (or at a jaunty 45' angle using the stability ball) gives the delt/arm tie-in a bit more detail. That curvy side-on look where your side of your shoulders curve out and then in to your arms...you know the one. You want it? Do this then! But be warned, you will need to ensure your feet are stabilising you as you lie on your side on the ball, by doing scissor stance wedging your feet against the wall. If you don't then prepare to roll across the gym floor like a dodgy circus act!
By the time Gym Ninja had worked up a sweat, her entire upper body was finished off nicely. A quick refuel using a promax shake mixed with a mini scoop of Creatamax and GN could go home.
The next day (That'd be today) Gym Ninja had planned only an outdoor running session. The stress that GN ended up feeling meant that by 5.30pm she was more than ready to get her trainers on (other clothing as well of course!) and sweat out the stress. Nothing like a nice long sweaty run the evening of the day you got your hair cut and blow dried eh? Talk about timing! With the Scott Mills podcast downloaded onto the iPhone, Gym Ninja set out on the scenic route from her house to her parents house via the promenade.
Off Gym Ninja ran...it takes a while to get into the stride but GN was soon happily running...until she was burnt up by a runner guy pushing a 3 wheeler pram with a baby in it. Grrr! 'It's NOT a race Mr Runner Dad!" HOW annoying is it when someone passes you as you run?
As per usual the prom was full of meanderer strollers and people walking dogs. Dogs not on leads who get overly excited when they see Gym Ninja running towards them. NOT wise considering today Gym Ninja has accidentally managed to step on one of her cat's paws 3 times! Yes, 3 times! So stay away animals or Gym Ninja's clown feet may squash you flat!
Having avoided the dogs, Gym Ninja had to make a sudden swerve as an oncoming child, seeing Gym Ninja running towards him, decided to boot his football in her path. Kids! Wipe that angelic smile off your face football boy. Gym Ninja saw the evil glint in your eye before you aimed at her....
What is it with outdoor running? Personally, if Gym Ninja sees a runner she looks and then looks away, disinterested. But no! Not the locals here! They all share a 'Look! A runner! A RUNNER! Let us ALL STARE at the runner without diverting our gaze, unashamedly, until she feels incredibly uncomfortable!' type of a view. gym Ninja hates that part of outdoor running. Gym Ninja also hates gangs of 14 year old boys who cat call and whistle as she runs past.
After 40 minutes of running, Gym Ninja made it to her destination...her parents house. Excellent! This way GN could have a nice cup of tea and a sit down, then happily accept a lift home from her mum.
AHHHR!
Gym Ninja's parents were out! Good job GN has the key! A quick sup of water and a detour past the sweet drawer (well, just this once Gym Ninja required CHOCOLATE-yes, GN ate chocolate buttons- in order to refuel her unplanned run home!) and Gym Ninja headed back out to run home.
Luckily there IS a shorter route that only took 15 minutes and was away from the prom and the various kids/dogs/weirdos. Enough to burn off the buttons eh?
Tomorrow Gym Ninja is travelling down to Fit Pro for the annual Spring Convention. Plenty of lectures and industry demos to attend for two whole days. Should be fun! Not sure if GN will get a chance to blog but notes will be made and if not updates occur then rest assured you're all in for a treat upon GN's return!
Toodle pip
Gym Cadbury Button Ninja x
Hmm, yesterday. So far away in Gym Ninja's memory. What DID Gym Ninja do yesterday at the gym then? Goddamit, it can be tough trying to recall information that's not more than 60 seconds old. Maybe Gym Ninja was a Goldfish in her previous life...?
Ah yes, t'was cardio and upper body at the gym yesterday. Oh, and Gym Ninja even managed to find one of the nice treadmills that wasn't either broken or busy. Remarkable! This of course was made even better by the fact that Gym Ninja now had her beloved Polar Heart Rate Monitor back in action. Without actually knowing what zone you are in, it is easy to waste one's time when it comes to cardio. Who actually wants to waste time when at the gym eh?
Gym Ninja is still working out in the Hypertrophy rep range right now. Upper body is so much fun when one is building muscle...sarcoplasmic hypertrophy it may be, but it makes Gym Ninja's muscles look good thank you very much! To begin with, Gym Ninja headed over to the Assisted Pull Up Machine. The one where you can duplicate pull ups but with a bit of help. So Gym Ninja set the 'help' up, climbed onto the machine and grabbed the bar.
Oh bugger!
Gym Ninja had forgotten that this particular Assisted Pull Up Machine has handles the thickness of aubergines. This is NOT conducive for a good pull up session as far as Gym Ninja and her small hands/faffy grip combo is concerned. Looks like this workout may be tougher than anticipated.
So began Gym Ninja's Pull Ups....her hands struggling to grip the bar as she dragged her body up and down. Damn you aubergine handles! 4 sets of 8 and Gym Ninja is left with pink hands and wobbly forearms.....oh and a decent lat workout of course.
Continuing on with the back, Gym Ninja did some supine grip barbell rows which just about finished off her back. Chest work and some nifty shoulder work followed. Due to a shortage of exercise benches, Gym Ninja had to use a swiss stability ball in order to perform her lying lateral dumbbell raises for her delts. Lying down doing this (or at a jaunty 45' angle using the stability ball) gives the delt/arm tie-in a bit more detail. That curvy side-on look where your side of your shoulders curve out and then in to your arms...you know the one. You want it? Do this then! But be warned, you will need to ensure your feet are stabilising you as you lie on your side on the ball, by doing scissor stance wedging your feet against the wall. If you don't then prepare to roll across the gym floor like a dodgy circus act!
By the time Gym Ninja had worked up a sweat, her entire upper body was finished off nicely. A quick refuel using a promax shake mixed with a mini scoop of Creatamax and GN could go home.
The next day (That'd be today) Gym Ninja had planned only an outdoor running session. The stress that GN ended up feeling meant that by 5.30pm she was more than ready to get her trainers on (other clothing as well of course!) and sweat out the stress. Nothing like a nice long sweaty run the evening of the day you got your hair cut and blow dried eh? Talk about timing! With the Scott Mills podcast downloaded onto the iPhone, Gym Ninja set out on the scenic route from her house to her parents house via the promenade.
Off Gym Ninja ran...it takes a while to get into the stride but GN was soon happily running...until she was burnt up by a runner guy pushing a 3 wheeler pram with a baby in it. Grrr! 'It's NOT a race Mr Runner Dad!" HOW annoying is it when someone passes you as you run?
As per usual the prom was full of meanderer strollers and people walking dogs. Dogs not on leads who get overly excited when they see Gym Ninja running towards them. NOT wise considering today Gym Ninja has accidentally managed to step on one of her cat's paws 3 times! Yes, 3 times! So stay away animals or Gym Ninja's clown feet may squash you flat!
Having avoided the dogs, Gym Ninja had to make a sudden swerve as an oncoming child, seeing Gym Ninja running towards him, decided to boot his football in her path. Kids! Wipe that angelic smile off your face football boy. Gym Ninja saw the evil glint in your eye before you aimed at her....
What is it with outdoor running? Personally, if Gym Ninja sees a runner she looks and then looks away, disinterested. But no! Not the locals here! They all share a 'Look! A runner! A RUNNER! Let us ALL STARE at the runner without diverting our gaze, unashamedly, until she feels incredibly uncomfortable!' type of a view. gym Ninja hates that part of outdoor running. Gym Ninja also hates gangs of 14 year old boys who cat call and whistle as she runs past.
After 40 minutes of running, Gym Ninja made it to her destination...her parents house. Excellent! This way GN could have a nice cup of tea and a sit down, then happily accept a lift home from her mum.
AHHHR!
Gym Ninja's parents were out! Good job GN has the key! A quick sup of water and a detour past the sweet drawer (well, just this once Gym Ninja required CHOCOLATE-yes, GN ate chocolate buttons- in order to refuel her unplanned run home!) and Gym Ninja headed back out to run home.
Luckily there IS a shorter route that only took 15 minutes and was away from the prom and the various kids/dogs/weirdos. Enough to burn off the buttons eh?
Tomorrow Gym Ninja is travelling down to Fit Pro for the annual Spring Convention. Plenty of lectures and industry demos to attend for two whole days. Should be fun! Not sure if GN will get a chance to blog but notes will be made and if not updates occur then rest assured you're all in for a treat upon GN's return!
Toodle pip
Gym Cadbury Button Ninja x
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