So far we've had two personal training sessions from Patrick Vuong from Fitness Town.
It's amazing what you learn when guided by a professional. Disciplines that you thought you were doing correctly weren't necessarily the case.
Case in point, my usual 30 second warm up.
Patrick put me through a proper 10 minute warm up which consisted of using a travel roller to loosen up and fire up the muscles. It's amazing how alive they felt afterwards.
After I was good and ready he put me through an "all over body" workout. At 42 I'm not concerned about having huge hulking biceps and pecs (although my wife might want otherwise). He trained me on my first superset in probably over 15 years. I forgot how difficult these were to do.
What is a superset? A superset is two exercises which are performed consecutively with minimal rest in between. When I say minimal, I mean walking from one station to the other. They help increase muscle size by boosting the release of anabolic hormones such as testosterone in men and increases of growth hormones in the blood of women. These growth hormones help stimulate new tissue growth and break down fat to use as energy.
Wow, who wouldn't want that!
Patrick stresses the benefits of push-pull strength training for an overall balanced physique.
Push-pull training is a way of dividing up your strength training into different work outs where "push" exercises are movements in which you push the weights away from your body and "pull" exercises where you pull the weights towards you.
Jodie said her training session went better than expected. I wasn't there to see any of it but she was quite thrilled to get advice on nutrition and exercise. Same advice as mine; balance your workouts and don't target one area all the time. As we were both going to fight over the last training session Patrick was kind enough to split it between the two of us and will put us through another workout next Wednesday.
I'm SO sorry I've been lagging behind on our 21 day cooking challenge. I can tell you though it's still going strong. Jodie has now taken over choosing healthy alternatives for us to make. Well....for me to make. I'll be updating pics and recipe's soon!
To come a secret gluten free muffin recipe from my sister. You guys will love these!
Cheers
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