Hurray for Friday!

Is it just me or does this week feel like its majorly dragged? I'm so glad Friday has arrived!!

Yesterday was a pretty good day. I burnt of a respectable 354 calories in the gym, this was 15 minutes on a light resistance on the Cybex (to try and recover feeling in my left hip) and then various new exercises with the gym instructor to take into account my dodgy shoulder.

I'm quite pleased with the things that we have planned. I'm not sure if this is all of what we went through (as its from memory) but I'll be picking up my schedule later today.

The new gym instructor has been through physio for exactly the same shoulder injury (he's a pro ice hockey player) and he specialises in fitness for recovering from sports injuries - SCORE!

We've concentrated on keeping my shoulder locked in place without having any weights pulling it down out of the socket. The types of exercises we planned were:

Weighted Squats - 15kg Plate across chest (narrow squats, wide squats, ballet squats, ATG squats)
Weighted Squats - 12kg ViPR tube across chest (works biceps too)
Weighted Lunges - 15kg Plate across chest, one foot behind and on bench
Leg Press - 110kg
Leg Extension - 6kg
Leg Curl - 3kg
Single Leg Calf Raises no weight
Calf Raises with one foot on step, foot on floor jumping (with 5kg plate on chest)
Side Lunges Across step - 3 x 10
Side Lunges with 12kg ViPR tube
Front Lunges with 12kg ViPR tube
Roman Chair side cruches + 5kg weight on chest
Variety of different sit ups (from my regular routine with added weights)

Then I plan to continue with things like butt raises, side leg raises, etc.

So proper lower body beasting! Hopefully some of these exercises will also help keep my arms in shape.

I'll obviously continue with running outside of work and will probably stick to the cross trainer for my warm up cardio at the gym.

Not sure how often I'll be able to do this at the gym as its clearly lower body intensive, but I generally go to the gym 4 times a week. Will have to see how the next week works out for me as I'm hoping to do at least 2-3 runs a week as well. Will see how I feel after doing this programme today and how I feel tomorrow morning!

Yesterdays dinner was a little different to plan, we ended up having our turkey stir fry, but with a really tasteless shop bought sachet sauce (it was 100 calories for the whole packet so I didn't think that really mattered), and some homemade egg (non) fried rice. It felt like a pretty treaty meal, even if the sauce sucked. It would have been much nicer with a sweet and sour sauce. For pud I had a big bowl of strawberries with 1 tsp of sugar.

We spent 90% our evening trying to update my iphone to IOS4. It took FOREVER! We've been trying and failing for the last week to get it done in an evening but have always had to give up before completing the upgrade. Yesterday we managed it and then spent another hour or so trying to restore all my photos which don't automatically show up after the upgrade. We downloaded this snazzy piece of software called 'iphone explorer' so I was able to backup all my photos before trying to restore them (as they go all the way back to our NYC honeymoon in May 2009). Finally it worked and it was literally time for bed!!

Back to the present and my food plans for today.

Breakfast: 200ml Skimmed Milk Protein Shake, 30g Jumbo Oats, 1 tsp G&B Cocoa Powder, 2 tsp Sweetener, 1 tsp Flax, 150ml Skimmed Milk, 150ml Berocca.

Mid Morning: Banana

Lunch: Rocket, Tomato, Cucumber, Grape, Fiery Chilli Houmous, Cheese, Ham.

Mid Afternoon: Grapes & Strawberries.

Dinner: Pizza Wraps probably as Mr H is going out to band practise, so we need something quick and easy.

In other slightly un-related news. I've eaten practically everything under the sun this week and I was hoping that it was because AF was on her way. I *think* that she's going to arrive today which means that my cycle this month was a measly 31 days. I came off the pill 9 months ago and my cycles have been proper fucked, first cycle was 42 days, second was 51 days, third was 60 days (I had started to wonder at this point whether I was forming a pattern of increasing in 9's!), fourth was 91 days and fifth is probably 31 days. Clearly with such wide ranging cycle lengths theres no point getting my hopes up that this short cycle means anything, but I really hope it means that my body will start being a little bit more predictable.