Kat’s Chats – Leg combos, I dare ya to try!

Hi everyone!

Wow, what a gorgeous day 🙂 I’m sipping my coffee and looking forward to a run along the Thames in the gorgeous sun.

I love weekends! I usually run, cook all my meals for the coming week, and generally get myself all organised – it’s a great feeling.

This week’s training I tried 2 different days of high rep legs –
Day 1 – Started with 550 walking lunges on the treadmill. I broke it up into sections, starting with 120 lunges, then walking at speed 6.5 for a bit, then 110 lunges, more walking, 100 lunges and so on down to 80 lunges. Instead of timing my walk between lunge sets, I just walked until I felt ready to lunge again – and clocked in the 550 lunges at 13 mins 49 secs. You can break it up however you want. I like the numbers reducing hence why I did 120, 110, 100, 90, 80 = 550.

Dare ya to give it a go and see how long it takes for you to get 550 lunges. I’m going to try and beat my time this week as this was a bit of a trial and I know I can improve on it.

I then followed this with 500 box jumps, broken down into sets similar to how I do my walking treadmill lunges.
I use quite a low step and just bounce up and down. Some sets i do forwards, and some sets I straddle the step and jump up in the middle – like a star jump.

In-between sets I did ab crunches with my legs hooked over on the Lat pulldown machine. You can lean right back and towards the end of the set I got a nice shake going on in my abs.

This week I did 120 jumps, 25 crunches, 110 jumps, 25 crunches, 100 jumps and so on down to 80 jumps at the end – making a total of 500. Next time I’m going to repeat it as it’s quick to do. I’ll probably time it too and try to beat it. I love beating things!

After this was powerplate combos with kicks and lunges. I really like high rep legs, you get a great burn as well as a good sweat up!

On other days I did my usual weight training nights, plus an outdoor run on Tuesday (from the Millenium Bridge along the Thames) and boxing Friday – I LOVE the boxing bag at the gym 🙂

Next week I’m doing a new plan of doing 3 part splits instead of 5. I’ve been doing 5 or 6 part splits now for a while now (don’t we just love our favourites!) and I want to get comfortable with the uncomfortable – so it’s time for a change! (The best workout you can do is the one you’re not doing!) I try to also apply this principle to my Personal Training clients.

So this week it’s –

Mon – Am. Outdoor run / Pm. Shoulders, arms, core

Tues – Am. Legs / Pm. Cardio

Wed – Am. Chest and back / Pm. Boxing, abs, powerplate

Thurs – Pm. Shoulders, arms, core

Fri – Am. Legs / Pm. Boxing, abs

Sat – Chest and back

Sun – Outdoor run or walk (depending how the bod is feeling)

Can’t wait!

Bring it on!

Kat