was all excited when I posted the last blog, looking forward to laying down multiple vlog posts with some nifty little exercises that you can do in your living room, with limited equipment...
...And then, a few weeks later, whilst sat in my own living room, baby number III decided to make an early entrance!
So, this next instalment is somewhat belated!
Picture the familiar scene: you want to exercise today but trying to fit a gym session into an already hectic schedule is just too much of a stretch. Then you reach your humble abode and you’re faced with the prospect of completing a full body workout in an already cramped space. Suddenly, the desire to exercise can disappear swifter than the ever-elusive remote control.
This is mind, over the next few blogs I am going to focus on routines that you can do in a space that is the size of your average exercise mat. This vlog's full body conditioning programme, works on your quads, glutes, arms, shoulders and core.
It’s Roald Dahl Day! Brilliant! If you also want some motivation to kick off your #transformationtuesday, just heed the words of Danny the Champion of the World:
“It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.”
To help you to train, eat well and feel all twinkly today, here's a leg workout and yummy recipe to get you on the right track…
If you exercise regularly, it’s perfectly reasonable that you might scoff at the idea that something the size of a lime is going to change things. If you’re lucky, it may not.
However, for the vast majority of us, the prospect of first trimester training is like asking a five-year old Benjamin Button to run a marathon after eating a bad prawn. Having just made it through the first 14 weeks with Number III, the tiredness, tummy troubles and umpteen toilet trips are recent enough that I feel qualified to talk about this (endlessly).
After a bit of time out, this week has been spent reacquainting myself with some awesome clients. It’s been brilliant. Every session has started with a giddy catch up before the hard work puts chit-chat out of reach.
With all but one client, that is (you know who you are!). Rather than her standard bounding towards me, she was hobbling over, manically shouting ‘Ni”.
I felt like an extra in The Holy Grail.
Understanding why you have hit a plateau involves taking the time to question what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. If someone has provided you with a programme to follow, you might feel pretty strongly that it’s their strategy that’s flawed, not you. But before you rip it up and start again, my advice would be to go back to first principles and look at whether you’re overlooking some things that, if tweaked or more fully explained, might reignite your progress and start to make the programme make sense.
