What am I grateful for today?

1. A later start to my morning, even though I was awake a bit earlier than usual. I just stayed in bed, telling myself not to leave the house in the dark for a change.

2. Finally trying out the foam roller we've had since xmas. No idea what good it might have done, but it felt good.

3. Trying a new direction. I'm going to be an avon lady 😂.

A fabulous day, including the heavy training I wanted to get into today. Plus a separate S.I.T session after lunch.

Heart Rate Through the Roof: At Home HIIT Workout

This workout will challenge your cardio and your leg strength. It will make you burn a lot of calories in a short period of time. It focuses on fundamental movements that help increase speed, strength and balance.

This circuit is 5 exercises back to back, 1 minute each and 20 seconds of rest at the end of each round. Aim for 3 to 5 rounds.

Leg stretching 

Tuesday's 3 reasons to smile -

1. Talking on the phone to two of my boys already this morning, and the other one yesterday too. My boys - my life 💜

2. A fresh, albeit wet morning walk. I'm so glad I got into this daily habit. I very rarely miss it out, and only ever for very specific reasons.

3. My big, fluffy dressing gown! Home comforts. Little things? There is no such thing as a little thing.....

I'm not training heavy for upper body any more, as I said the other day. So I'm now focusing both my heavy lifting sessions on lower body.

Today was quads and calves. On to hamstrings and glutes on Thursday.

Excellent training session, finishing with five Squat to to Kick "sprint intervals".

Big salad for lunch not long after that. Corned beef. I sipped on sunflower seed protein powder during my workout.

Yay for hard work and nourishing fuel!

I went back out into the rain, again this afternoon.

It has rained endlessly for the last few days! But I'm still doing my thing, no matter what the weather throws at me.

Then I made myself a "chai latte". Never had that before. Perfect drink when it's time to relax!

Back to legs.

Had to add that last pic to show how tricky it is positioning that weight between my feet for the seated extension!

Excellent workout.

And it was great to get that sunrise in after that.

Dressed ready for a bike ride. Around 40 miles.

Yep, it's all about my legs today!

Well, it's a very long time since I did such an early workout!

Surprise, surprise, my blood sugars went the entirely opposite way. Been low literally ALL night. What the actual??

Anyhooo.....

I gave up after waking up fully at 3.30 and lying there for an hour before deciding I may as well get my weight training out of the way.

Didn't go heavy. The hydrants actually felt the heaviest.

Then I made myself a decaff (waiting til breakfast for that REAL coffee) and I'm sitting by candlelight in my huge dressing gown before waking the boss up.

After last night's "yeah, it's not happening" phase, I'm getting myself back round.

Shorter fast, but not by much. I only knocked an hour off my target. I could have actually got to my usual 15hrs, but it was a timing thing. Before I realised how close I was, my coffee was already made. And I pushed against my obsessive mindset of "you can microwave it! Just wait those 20 minutes!!". I'd given myself that allowance, and I shook that nonsense out of my head.

I got up later, too. I took my decaff outside BEFORE my workout.

I usually have that sitting up in bed.

No sunrise on this wet and dull day, sadly.

Then heavy squat pyramid training this morning. Blimey 😳.

Made progress.

Less reps altogether, more weight.

Ended with 4 reps at 70kg. They were tough reps!

Plus I made progress on my wall sit finisher too. Quite a big jump from 90 seconds last time to 120 this time.

It was both a relief and a challenge getting out of position after that 😅.

Then after all that, I'm having my breakfast inside by the big window.