A positive spin on it

I have always preferred getting out of bed as soon as I wake up which is often before 6 and so getting training sessions in first thing before work isn't too much of a struggle. This is fine when the roads are clear and the sun is up as I can get out of the house for a run. However, with the dark mornings and ice on the pavements I have to train indoors which isn’t popular with the family at 6am. So today I took advantage of the fact that my local gym have introduced early morning spin sessions and so I kicked off the day off with a spinning session followed by a short burst on the running machine to complete a brick session. Legs felt fine and I was pleased that, despite some challenging routines during spinning, I was able to keep my heart rate in the target zone.

One of the things that I am trying to is to be creative in my training and that includes taking advantage of the situations that present themselves. This evening I had taken my son to his evening class and had a couple of hours to spare until I collected him again. Rather than kicking my heals I hunted out a gym near by and thanks to a kind receptionist managed to blag my way in without having to go through the dreaded induction process. It was great to work my way through some free weights, abbs and to use the leg press etc (slightly concerned that one leg is stronger than the other so this is helpful). Re-visited the fit ball again which is something that I have let lapse recently, must add it in to the programme