Ujumine – Lehekülg 39 – Nourish, Train & Flourish

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts.

Monday: BodyPump. Our instructor was abroad (or something like that) so we had a young man called Priit substituting. He was good and really friendly but I like Maris’s classes better.

Tuesday was strip aerobics day and we had a new routine. It was pretty good, I had a though time memorizing everything but I think I got it.

Since I haven’t been enjoying Wednesday‘s body conditioning classes so much as I used to, I switched it up for BodyPump. The instructor that time was Florian and he is seriously awesome. Enjoyed every second of that class! I increased some weights that day, so my currents weights are (keep in mind that the bar itself weighs 2,5 kg):
Warm-up: 3,5+3,5 kg bar
Squats: 7,5+7,5 kg bar
Chest: 3,5+3,5 kg bar
Back: 6+6 kg bar
Triceps: 3 kg dumbbell, 5 kg weight
Biceps: 3+3 kg dumbbells
Lunges: 5+5 kg weights (in my hands, I have better balance with weights in my hands rather than a bar on my shoulders)
Shoulders: 3+3 kg dumbbells, 3,5+3,5 kg bar
Stomach: 3 kg dumbbell

When you’re the last person to be leaving after BodyPump, you have to take some selfies before heading home I guess 😀

Thursday was rest day. Made lovely late night walk with my mom and dog, an hour of walking and almost 5K.

Friday morning started with a small 30 minute walk with my dog and in the evening I had a Zumba class with my friend. I had so much energy, I just wanted to keep going. Could it have had something to with the fact I ate more calories and carbs (2000 kcal and 40 g total carbs) than usual the day before? Maybe.

Saturday was running day. The weather was miserable: cold at 5 degrees Celsius with light rain and strong wind for the first 4 kilometres. I had a goal to be under 7:30 min/km and I reached that goal, my average pace ended up being 7:18 min/km which is really good for me. I keep wishing to get nice autumnal weather on a Saturday to enjoy my only run of the week more but I guess nice weather is over for this year.

Sunday began with a 45 minute swim with my mom. I swam 100 metres of breaststroke as warm-up, then I did 1000 metres of front crawl (time: 28–29 minutes, not really sure because it was measured by this wall clock that was very far away from me) and finished it with 400 metres of backstroke. All together 1500 metres, I can be proud of myself 🙂 In the afternoon made an hour long walk with my dog.

All together:

45 minutes of swimming

50 minutes of running

2 hours of BodyPump

2 hours of dancing

2 hours 40 minutes of walking

Overall a really good week. 4 weeks until the last running race this year.

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts.

Monday was once again BodyPump day. I decided to add some weights and pump my warm-up weights from 2,5 kg to 3,5 kg and also other weights increased a bit then. It was tough but I managed and got a great workout. Our instructor (the superwoman Maris) was injured so she had time to really look at out technique and say what was wrong. One or two girls were in her place in the front for us (one for the whole class and then the second girl changed during class) to see good technique at all times and they all did great!

On Tuesday I was a little sore and did my strip aerobics class but the real soreness came on Wednesday. Nothing as bad as the end of last week but still a little uncomfortable. Body conditioning was pretty intense, I had sweat dropping from my onto the mat and step bench nonstop.

On Thursday I had this 3 hour gap between the end of school and my bus home. I decided to fill it with… (drumroll please!)… working out! Went to BodyPump. First week ever to fit 2 Pump classes in it. I did good and I was glad to see my instructor had recovered from her injury. In the evening I made a 30 minute walk with my puppy dog.

Friday was a miserable day: it was raining, cold and grey. We made a 50 minute walk with mister Dog and were both soaked when we got back home. My coat and boots were drenched. In the evening I had a Zumba class with my instructor-friend aka best friend over a very long time. Loved it!

Saturday was running day. There was wind, rain, hail and cold temperatures (about 3 degrees Celsius). It wasn’t all that enjoyable (small pieces of ice hitting my face etc) but I did it and still felt good after my run.

On Sunday I wanted to go swimming with my mom. My dad was so nice and got me a pair of new goggles so that I don’t have to keep pouring water out of them every 50 metres like I did with my old ones. But when we got to the pool we found out that there had been some unexpected accident with water there and we couldn’t go swimming. I was genuinely ANGRY because my plans had been messed up. So I came home and went for a 1,5 hour walk with my dog. The wether was cold but beautiful and sunny.