Today's Gym Session

[southernsoftie]

Just checked out some of the above posts, where do you fit the runs in?!

Early mornings - either 5am from home or 7:45 round York when I get to the office. Then hills at the weekend. Generally tend to do quite intense row routines as warm up to my gym session which is excellent cross-training for running as well as being slightly less stressful on the joints.

[Stagger]

2k row
10mis on cross trainer
4x25 crunch's
4x25 leg raises

All I get time to do. Work gets in the way of my training.:thunbdown:

[TheReverand]

Early mornings - either 5am from home or 7:45 round York when I get to the office. Then hills at the weekend. Generally tend to do quite intense row routines as warm up to my gym session which is excellent cross-training for running as well as being slightly less stressful on the joints.

I definately agree with you that gym work / cross training that helps the body achieve an all round good level of fitness and strength, has got to be a good addition to any training plan. Ive had 2 weeks off running in a bid to clear my legs of injury, and in that time ive been doing some gym work, tonight I did 30mins on the cross trainer at level 12, maintaining rpm of 85-95 throughout, then 5km rowing maintaining 35 something or other! It seemed like hard graft to me! I was going to do some weights but was to sweaty!!

[ukhursty]

Just been on the mountain climber in the cardio suite for the first time today.

Absolutely mental! Proper knackers you out, works the quads massively. Will be going on that again!

[southernsoftie]

I definately agree with you that gym work / cross training that helps the body achieve an all round good level of fitness and strength, has got to be a good addition to any training plan. Ive had 2 weeks off running in a bid to clear my legs of injury, and in that time ive been doing some gym work, tonight I did 30mins on the cross trainer at level 12, maintaining rpm of 85-95 throughout, then 5km rowing maintaining 35 something or other! It seemed like hard graft to me! I was going to do some weights but was to sweaty!!

Think I've said elsewhere on here, that when I was off for a couple of months last year with my ITB, all I was doing was hitting the rower - mixture of long endurance sessions with 500m intervals and shorter sprint/burpee sessions. When I started again, I was getting PBs all over the place with relative ease. Job's a good'un!

[southernsoftie]

- Destroyer Sprint sesh: One cycle = 5 sets of 10 burpees/150m (no rest between burpees & row). 3 cycles of this with 2min rest between each. No focus on pace really, just as fast as I can & whatever it takes to get to the end.

This ^, followed by deadlifts 5x6 @ 60kg; corner-presses 5x6 @ 30kg; plank cable rows; weighted back extensions 2x10 @ 10kg

[southernsoftie]

Eavesy, join Twitter, if only to follow @BobbyMaximus of GymJones. Regularly posts pics of his training sessions, like this one:

http://twitter.com/#!/BobbyMaximus/s...227648/photo/1

[The devil's own]

Eavesy, join Twitter, if only to follow @BobbyMaximus of GymJones. Regularly posts pics of his training sessions, like this one:

http://twitter.com/#!/BobbyMaximus/s...227648/photo/1

Looks interesting SS, i'll check it out.

Off to the open day of a new gym tomorrow. Looks cracking www.trainmanchester.co.uk. Inov8 sponsored, sounds like it has a great selection of (useful) equipment and classes. Trainers look top notch too.
I'll post my findings tomorrow night.

[The devil's own]

Well I'm throughly impressed with the set up over at train manchester. Appeared to be very much like Rob Orlando's Hybrid athletics. Equipment available included a large number of squat racks, a large rig, a number of plyo boxes, 4 floor to ceiling ropes, a bouldering wall, campus board, atlas stones, kegs, benches, full range of kettle bells, 2 concept 2 rowers and some other stuff i've forgot. Will definitely be working out there in the near future. The beast that is Samantha Briggs is one of the trainers so thats another plus point.

[southernsoftie]

Sounds great, all the better if you can get there and use on a regular basis.