#BaldysChallenge - Day 24 and a NEW exercise

For those who don't know what #baldyschallenge is, here's a quick explanation:

On New Year's Day, whilst most of the world was in bed sleeping hangovers off, I got chatting to a few people who wanted to start getting fit. It struck me that an easy way for people to get into a new routine was to start bit by bit, and gently get the body used to exercise. Mentaly, it's easy to take small steps and have lots of short term goals that get you towards your longer term goals. So I proposed #baldyschallenge.

Jan 1st = 1 Press Up, 1 Sit Up
Jan 2nd = 2 Press Ups, 2 Sit Ups
and so on, just adding 1 rep to each exercise a day.

There have been dozens of people following and doing the challenge, either as their exercise for the day, or as an extra set of exercises to their normal training.

Last night, my friend David Speed recommended we add bodyweight squats to work on the lower body. Sounds like a great idea, and not impossible for people to add in at this stage.

So, today's challenge is:

JAN 24 = 24 Sit Ups, 24 Press Ups, 24 Bodyweight Squats

Once you've done it, either like my status with this Blog Post link so that others can see you're still with us, or if you are a Tweeter, ReTweet my Tweet with this link.

If you have any comments or questions about the challenge so far, leave one below!

Stay with me people, you should really start to feel the benefits next month. Toned bum and thighs, pert pecs, no bingo wings - who needs surgery?!

Stabbed in the glutes

Stabbed in the glutes - exactly how it feels right now after tonight's training session. OUCH!

Plan was to try and beat 18:09.6 for the 5k to go ahead of Kirtis Bell from the gym, it didn't work out though.

First I did a gentle 2000m warm up to get the juices flowing. Felt ok.

Got to 1000m and it was starting to feel like I couldn't breathe, took it through to 2000m @ 1:49.8 pace and called it off.

Did a 1000m @ 1:49.3 on a low drag factor (101) and it actually felt much better, but I knew I was too tired to go the whole 5k so decided to wait for another day.

Then - I thought "I haven't done any leg strength for ages, let's do some squats". What I should have done was stick 60kg on first and knocked out 20 to let he body know what was going on. I didn't - I went straight to 110kg and did 10 reps, ass to the floor. When I put the bar back I thought "Oh Oh" I could feel the sharp intense pain already. What did I do? 8 more reps, and then 3 but the body decided firmly that I was going to stop putting it through any more.

Leg Press - 3 x 10 ouch
Leg Extensions - 3 x 10 not so bad

Then a lot of stretching, then 10 mins on the bike to warm down.

I am currently sitting on the couch. I may still be sitting here tomorrow at this rate! My glutes and hamstrings feel like, well, like someone sliced my hams up with a carving knife and then stuck it in my butt cheek and found another and stuck it in the other one too!