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My First Video Blog

My First Video Blog

Alicia Bell – Fitness Trainer with exercise band.

Hey guys! Im super excited to announce that my first video blog is live on my new youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/trainitright

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Another day down in the Gethin Hardcore Trainer. Today I was tasked with Calves and Abs but instead of Regular sets, Giant sets, or Super sets, Gethin works calves and abs in a circuit set.

I thought to myself, oh great, it will be nearly impossible to navigate to multiple machines in a busy gym. And on most days, that's true. In fact, today was one of the busiest days at Best Fitness I have ever seen. As soon as I changed, I headed over to the cardio machines to find that literally, every single machine was claimed. I always do my cardio first so I was baffled at the inability to get on a machine. The only machine I found empty was a row machine and I figured, why the hell not, it's still cardio. Before I could get over to it, a woman claimed the very last machine available.

Rather than standing there or walking around (which I had already done a few minutes prior) I decided to tackle weight training first and leave the cardio for the conclusion. Turned out to be a good choice because when I finished with training, I pickings weren't slim anymore.

In any regard, I was excited to get started today because Gethin decided to switch things up and try circuits for calves and abs. Anytime you switch things up, it keeps things fresh, new and different so I always welcome the opportunity for change.

Considering the gym was insanely busy, I knew it was going to be quite the task  navigating to multiple machines for 5 exercises. So I decided to consolidate a few of those exercises using the Smith Machine. Now I hate the smith machine for nearly every exercise except calves because Best Fitness doesn't have a true standing calve raise machine. So what I do is bring a plastic elevated step over to the smith machine and perform my calve raises on that.

Immediately afterward, I had to continue with calves via leg press machine. Now this is where I take a chance of leaving a machine alone. However, I left my phone behind as to claim that machine. So I rushed over and did my 20 reps of calve press mirroring the weight I just used for calve raise.

As soon as I was finished, I had leg raises. Since one of machines to do leg raises is in the other corner of the gym, I went back over to the smith machine, pushed the bar up to the very top and did hanging leg raises on the smith machine. And after that I had a set of 20 declined sit ups. Luckily for me, the sit up machine was right next to the Smith Machine and nobody was using it. So I banged out the 20 reps of sit ups and followed that up with twists for a minute. I figured I could do about 50 twists (both sides) in a minute so rather than measuring out an exact minute of twists as KG suggests on the workout log, I simply performed 50 twists each time.

Now keep in mind all 5 exercises were done successfully and in a circuit. I completed this circuit 4 times (4 sets each at 20 reps) making sure that I didn't have too much rest time in between each workout. I wanted to keep my heart rate up to ensure that I developed a sweat and that I was warmed up for the eventual cardio that would conclude my session.

By the time I got to cardio, I felt great. I had already decided that earlier in the day I would use the step machine for my sweat routine and I sure as hell hit it hard. I stepped on, chose a high level and climbed about 140-150 floors in 25 minutes. I was sweating so profusely, it felt like my cardio days when I hit it hard. However, cardio is a lot more taxing on the legs and joints than stepping is. At least in my opinion it doesn't feel like there is as much wear and tear. I was dripping with pleasure. Even though legs were sore from the previous day's squats, they weren't sore enough to take it easy in the gym.

I feel amazing this week. Even after yesterdays session I felt great, and I've been feeling really good about myself at work. Today was no different and it helped reinforcing my good feelings when the scale showed that I'm on good track for this Saturday's weigh in. Yeah I know, "Don't weigh yourself every day." But I haven't. Every couple days I check my weight but I don't make it official until Saturdays. This week just simply feels good. I know that come Saturday, I'll see favorable results and it just makes me feel that much more motivated to work hard in the gym.

Tomorrow morning, Nicole and I are going to hit up the gym at approximately 5:15am so I need to hit the hay soon. I decided that I'll do morning workouts on the few days Nicole wants to get up to go to the gym. Plus we will both be motivating factors for eachother. Going in the morning again will free up some of my time at night to either enjoy myself, or go to bed early. I'm glad shes going because shes been working too hard to lose weight only to be plateauing on weight watchers. I'm hoping the added exercise and activity in the gym will be that extra push for her body to continue losing weight. She deserves it!

Can't wait for tomorrows back, triceps and biceps routine. It's going to be an extensive workout so I'm going to need my rest. Can't wait to get swole!

The Workout

Circuit

Standing Calf Raises 4 sets of 20 reps

My Workout: 20x90, 20x110, 20x140, 20x180

45 degree Calf Press on leg press machine 4 sets of 20 reps

My Workout: 20x90, 20x110, 20x140, 20x180

Hanging Leg Raise 4 sets of 20 reps

My Workout: 20xbody, 20xbody, 20xbody, 20xbody

Decline Crunch 4 sets of 20 reps

My Workout: 20xbody, 20xbody, 20xbody, 20xbody

Standing barbell twist 4 set of 1 minute

My Workout: 50, 50, 50, 50

Cardio 25 Minutes

My Workout: 25 Minutes on Step Machine

Twists 150 reps, per side