Greig's workout log

[Greig]

Monday 12/1/09

First day at the gym for the year.

Morning

1x 50 push ups
1x 50 crunches
1x 50 leg raises
30 side crunches on each side

Evening

Fitness testing at gym.

2x 2 minute rounds of skipping followed by a good stretch.

Beep test - bailed out about half through level 8. Wanted to make level 9, but my bad knee was giving me some pain, plus I was blowing like a freight train. I was about the third or fourth guy out - just didn't want to be the first!! Some fit fucker called Chris (nice guy really) made it to level 15.

Sit up test - these are done with some CD's that count you through. I did 83 full up and back sit ups which for some reason was where the test stopped.

Push up test - again, the same muppet counts you through the push ups but the guy goes so slowly that you find yourself holding yourself up. Normally I can do two sets of 50 no bother, but could only get to 25 tonight. Partly because of the CD's slowness and partly coz I was already fucked from the beep and the set ups... This exercise picked an even more random number to stop at - 57

4x 2 minute rounds of shoulder sparring. It's like a footwork exercise where you try and tag your opponents shoulders while employing proper movement.

4x 2 minute heavy bag rounds, although to call the last 2 'rounds' is a bit of an illusion, as I couldn't have blown out a candle by that stage...

1x 20 bicep curls with 10kg dumbell
1x 20 shoulder presses with 10kg dumbell


Hopefully the knee pulls up ok, I had an ACL reconstruction a few years ago to fix an old football/soccer injury and it has never really been 100% since.

*** Should also mention that I have been alcohol free so far in 2009 (well, since having my last pint of Redback at about 1.30am new years day anyway)