Friday, 1 April 2011

Screw the girls on the covers of ‘health’ magazines....we’ll show you real exercise!

Training Day: 2
Trainers: Alice and Lauren
Venue: The laboratory
Thursday training. The Health Journ class (bar one) was outside the HKE department at 12:50 to meet the trainers for the day.  We moved straight into a workout designed by Alice and Lauren.  The workout was not too tough yesterday and I am not feeling the after-effects as I did last time.  However, this workout was enjoyable and one that I can carry on doing at home:
The workout:
Hamstring curls – 2x10
Leg lifts – 2x 15
Lateral elastic raises – 2x18
Pec Dec - 2x15
Crab crunch – 2x15
Lunges - 2x10
Abductor/Adductor – 2 x15
Plank – 2x30sec
Dips – 2x10
If you are not sure what these moves are, don’t fear, I bring you photos (not great quality) but photos nonetheless.  A basic rundown though of the more ‘tricky’ names: the hamstring curls is with a core ball, Pec Dec is with a piece of gym equipment and the Abductor/Adductor also the Yes/No machine or ‘slut’ machine-apparently.  See pictures for more details and please note what woman doing exercise really look like: no make-up and really getting sweaty. So next time you follow a six week programme, from a magazine, which is sure to guarantee the results as the woman in the picture, please acknowledge that she most probably did not get her body from the six week programme and probably just has good genes.  On that note: keep working out!


Lateral Elastic raises

Pec Dec

Crab crunches

Dips

Plank


Megs (in blue) Hamstring curls. Me (in pink) Leg lifts


Lunges

Abductor/Adductor
Some Static stretches

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