So, yesterday I picked up a new MacBook.
I’ve been promising myself one all year, and I finally gave in yesterday, following a pretty stellar performance review that pretty much guarantees me my bonus I decided that interest free credit would be the way to go and took the dive. I’m very pleased that I did, it’s a lovely machine, and my 4 year old G4 was starting to show it’s age, although only because people had stopped developing software for the PPC architecture, had it not been for the switch to Intel I think it would have been good for another could of years. Anyway, I digress.
I’m a geek, and as such the lure of the new gadget is difficult for me. As much as I love training it was difficult last night not to simply go home and rip the box off of my new toy. I did resist though, and instead spent a very good 40 minutes in the gym working on my arms. I’ve been working on a new routine, concentrating on super sets for all of my workouts, and yesterday was no different, super setting six exercises in groups of three. It means that I can pack a lot more training into a lot less time, and makes the muscles work harder in the process.
It seems to be working, I ache like hell, although that could be the product of having taken two weeks away. But I have to say I feel much tighter and am happy with the new routines so far, it’s nice to be back in the gym and feeling energized by my workouts.
My new trainers also arrived yesterday, which is excellent news, I’m already planning a 10K run on Saturday afternoon that should prove a nice “welcome to the family” for them.
Today I played touch rugby at lunchtime, which was much harder work than I had previously thought it would be by virtue of the fact that there was only 6 of us… total. 3 on 3 makes for a fast paced game, you really have to work to find the gaps and differences in fitness really start to show through. I was left feeling pretty good at the end, having run 5 over, and I felt that I had taken a pretty good sprint session out of the game, which left me pretty upbeat for the afternoon.
Tonight is going to be our department Christmas meal, so I will have to skip the gym for the evening, regrettably. I don’t really mind though, I have had a great few days training and I know I shouldn’t overdo it on my first week back. I have already trained today as well, and if I had gone to the gym it would have been legs, which would have blown any chance of a weekend run out of the water.
Look at me, justifying myself.
I also have the day off tomorrow, so I can train a little longer than normal in the gym, which I’m planning to, to make up for the lack of workout tonight, a little light legs tomorrow shouldn’t hurt my run on Saturday.
