It has arrived - the first challenge of the challenge. SICK CHILD!
Isn't it funny how life can be sailing along perfectly and a sick child just throws everything into chaos. Lack of sleep is mostly to blame. Grumpy mum who has to stay home all day with 2 tired kids and cranky dad who is exhausted from no sleep and working all day. Add to that the fact that our routine is totally thrown and for people who thrive on routine - well, it's a disaster.
Nutrition wise things are all good. A sick child has no effect on my eating. If anything, I have more time at home to prepare meals.
It's the training that suffers. I do all of my training at the gym which means I rely on the gym crèche to mind the children. Of course when they are sick, the crèche won't have them. That's fair enough. But it means I can't go to the gym! Yesterday was interesting. My husband wind trains on his bike on Monday nights so I was free to go to the gym after dinner. Having spent all day at home, by the time it got to 'after dinner', the last thing I felt like doing was going to the gym. But, because of this challenge, not going was not an option. So off I went thinking I would just do an easy run on the treadmill for 40mins or so. Cranked up the music in the car and somewhere in the 10min drive to the gym I actually got a bit pumped. So what started as a plan to do an easy treadmill run, turned onto a full blown legs session. Something I haven't ever done before as normally on weight days I do the whole body.
I didn't have a plan and had no idea of what I was doing. I just did every single leg machine/exercise that I could think of. And I remembered seeing a leg press workout on Max's muscle tv so threw that in too! Ended up doing:
- 5min treadmill, box jumps, push-ups and walking lunges for warm up
- weighted squats
- weighted lunges
- leg press
- calf press
- incline leg press
- leg curls
- leg extensions
and to finish off, a quick cardio set of:
5 x
- 5 floors on stair master (quickly)
- 10 pushups
Was a great session and was really proud of myself for turning a blah night into something worthwhile. Thanks to Max's muscle tv, the online forum, my PT and my fellow challengers on twitter, I am now getting the confidence and knowledge to just throw something together when I need too. I'm definitely learning a lot!
Today is the same again - a child too sick to take to the gym, grumpy mum, grumpy dad. Dad's gone to work and I have called the gym to cancel my PT session :( You have no idea how much that devastates me. But.........I just happened to watch Max's muscle tv when I got home from the gym last night and Sam and Janet did a cardio workout that can be done at home! So guess what I'll be doing today? Thanks again Max's! Perfect timing! I'll report back on how it goes.
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