Ok last night was TOUGH - 30 minutes HIIT on stepper (10 minutes more than last week and at higher levels).... then did about 35-40 mins of weights... combo of upper and lower at higher weights than last week.... as posted in "weight lifting" forum, I had to force myself to stay awake on the train ride home!... this happened last week as well... must be my body getting used to weights again.... i really was spent.....

This morning did a mad session of boxing - today we did heavy bag work combos, lots of ab work, medicine ball work... felt a little weaker than usual but prob due to doing weights last night...... I FEEL GOOD TODAY!!!

Sounds good Kat. One question, is there a reason why you do your HIIT before hitting the weights? Ive always understood that weight training before cardio was the way to go.

Hey there JW.... i guess its because I feel like HIIT is so hardcore that if I did weights beforehand I would have no grunt left for HIIT.... but I know everyone recomends weights first so on Wednesday night I will do weights first and see how that goes...

Either way is fine really.

Thanks Tony - I guess I will just try both ways and see how I feel.....

Did kickboxing this morning mainly working on heavy bag work: strength and sprint kicking, jump rope, push ups and plenty of ab work, lunges, squats....

Am feeling good but a little tired... jsut slammed down some oats with protein powder.....

Gotta get pumped for tonights weights then HIIT..

P.S: My arms hurt from wieghts on Monday night

You were curling all night with the guys huh?

hahaha ummmm yes!.... it was funny actually because I was the only girl in the weights room....

On a side note (I know I ramble on so much sometimes, ok most of the time but hey its my journal!!) I dont know why people attempt things like losing weight or bulking without educating themselves.... I am sure they wouldnt buy a car or take a job without researching, so why is a massvie fitness goal any different?...... I just want to continue to learn and push myself knowing that what I am doing is effective or in line with some type of evidence..... I know there is an eliment of trial and error and "everyone's body is different" etc but how can you say - hey I want to lose x amount of weight and blindly work towards something without actually understanding how to acheive your goal.....

Anyway ramble over! I am going to PUMP it tonight!!

Lucky guy I guess...

hahaha.... i should have seen that one coming!...

Good luck with NROL4W. You might also want to check out Ross Enamait's site too.

Thanks Stingo! I am growing so impatient waiting for NROL4W- Amazon really have dropped to ball, I have been waiting for weeks now as the book isnt available from bookstores is Australia .... oh well I will just have to keep trudging along on my own in the weights section doing basic lifts until then!

Thanks for the link too!...

I feel great!

Last night I did 25 mins of HARDCORE HIIT.... looking back I dont think I had "actually" acheived high intensity before last night.... I could barely function after that... the main difference was that I followed the heart rate recomendations from this forum.... I managed to get up to 175bpm during the intense phase and 150-160 during recovery.... I think this is the key... of course to get up to 175bpm I had to up the intensity again on the stepper.... wow.... i have never had that much sweat coming of me in such a short amount of time EVER!...

I then went on to do weights... I am already lifting heavier and i love it!....

I felt less tired after the whole session was over....

I went to boxing this morning... it was VERY strange... i am not sure if its my imagination but I feel so HOT... when i woke up this morning I was boiling then at boxing I was sweating a lot more than usual... my body temp right now is up there as well.... am thinking maybe its due to the HIIT??........

Ross trains boxers, and has some routines listed on his site, so thought you might be interested. His videos of him doing them are insane in a good way.

Thanks again Stingo - HE IS AWESOME!!

OK boxing was awesome this morning..... although I had a bad nights sleep, woke up with a extremely sore throat... but decided to go and try to smash my sickness out.... I felt great during boxing but now that I have showered and had brekkie and cooled down I am starting to feel sick again... which is SOOO ANNOYING becuase I think I will have to take it easy on the weekend - i.e not excercise....

Ok I spent the weekend "doing stuff" - was on the go the whole time but no excercise at all as was still really sick... am kinda clearing up now but am wondering if I should go and do my HIIT and weights session tonight or just give myself one extra day to totally recover....

This is probably a no brainer but would really love to go and train tonight......

I guess i will just see how I go...