Sunday, 26 July 2009

New Weights Routine

I devised my new weights routine last night and have tried my first workout tonight. I really enjoyed it and am pleased I decided to go back to full body for a while.

My routine for tonight consisted of:

Goblet squats
Good mornings
Standing calf raises
Close grip pulldown superset with
Incline bench press
Lying rear delt row
Tricep rope pulldowns superset with
Hammer curls
Plank to failure x3
Side plank to failure x3 each side

I am now tucking into my "ice cream" as a post gym snack - it's not really ice cream, but half a tub of quark mixed with half a scoop of cookies & cream whey, frozen for an hour or so - yummy!

My other full body routines are different from the one I did tonight - I wanted to incorporate as big a range of exercises as I could and by supersetting chest/back and biceps/triceps it won't take as long and will keep my heart rate elevated.

So, the other 2 routines look like this:

Lunges
Stiff leg deadlifts
Calf extension
Dumbbell bent over row superset with
Flyes
Military Press
Close grip bench press superset with
Concentration curls
Ball crunches


and

Bulgarian split squat
Standing or seated leg curl
Calf press
Seated Row superset with
Dumbbell bench press
Upright row
Lying tricep extension superset with
Barbell bicep curl
Pike on fitball

I'm really feeling this new routine already and all my favourite exercises are in there, along with some new ones. I can feel the aches in my quads already, I dread to think how they will be feeling tomorrow!

I had a message from a lovely lady who is part of the Thursday weighing in gang on WLR and I really hope she doesn't mind me sharing it with you - it completely touched me and made me smile so much, as well as giving me a much needed boost!

I was out with friends on friday night and one of them has just joined WLR after seeing how well I have done.She was telling me that she reads all the posts and looks at profiles and that "justagirl" is her inspiration! She has read your blog and looked at lot of your posts and quoted you a couple of times during our conversation (lengthy!) about diet and fitness. So thankyou for your great posts because you really do inspire people! (me included)
How lovely is that? It gives me such a buzz to know that the advice I am giving out is really helping people and that people find my advice/profile/blog an inspiration. So, to the anonymous lady that I am posting about - thank you so much :)

My food today has been lovely, I have enjoyed it all.

B: Porridge made with skimmed milk, 10g coconut & 15g pecan nuts, 1 scoop protein shake made with water
S: Nothing due to late breakfast
L: 100g roast beef, 2 small new potatoes (45g), 1 small roast potato (25g), 1 small yorkshire pudding with piles of broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots & green beans
S: Trek protein flapjack (my last one - I won't be buying more as I can't stop eating them!!!)
D: Half (100g) wholemeal granary baguette with 50g ham & tomato, with 100g cherry tomatoes
S: 125g quark mixed with 1 scoop whey - frozen to taste like ice cream
S: Protein shake

Drinks: 3.2L water, 3 cups of tea

Calories: 1860
Protein: 181g (39%)
Carbs: 165g (33.3%)
Fat: 57g (27.7%)
F&V: 7

Exercise: Weights - full body

7 Comments:

Just a Girl said...

Hey Ruby, thanks for reading :) Glad you are finding it useful. If you need any help with anything, give me a shout xx

Skatz said...

I totally agree, you inspire so many of us and I bet more than you could possibly imagine, I love your blog, it is very motivating ;o)

Caroline said...

You are always given good advice. And made me think about changing my diet and starting with the whey protein. And since I started this new regime I have lost most weeks. And feel so much better. So you are part of my succes!! :)

xxx

alibali said...

Your routine is looking good! What the bleep are goblet squats?? You are also a great motivator and giver of advice! I had a week off but back this afternoon and have entered a 10K charity run to mix it up.
x

Gem26 said...

I agree totally-you give such good advice and are also my inspiration!
You have inspired me to totally overhaul my diet and start weight training and I cant thank you enough for all your advice.

Gem xxx

Chocolatebutton said...

Hey updated routines are great!
ps. Loving the quark too! Tastes the same to me but a bit thicker!!
Sxx

Just a Girl said...

Thank you so much all, you guys don't realise how much you keep me going!

xx