IN DA PINK: A Good Start to the Week

Hi hi my lovelies! I started this week with a hardcore morning workout. It always feels extra great to be sweating on a Monday morning, it feels like a fresh start as if you're sweating out all the bad stuff you had during week. Do you feel like that?

I did 1.15 hour of weight training concentrating on my core muscles and upper body and then 45 minutes of spinning straight after. To ensure I can last throughout the whole intense workout I made a super protein milkshake; silken tofu, soya milk, hemp protein powder (the green stuff), manuka honey and banana.

Weight Training:
Upper Body

Started off with 50 reps of lat pull down- all in one go
2 sets of 30 power cleans
2 sets of 30 curls with dumbbells in each hand
2 sets of 30 shoulder exercise- I don't know what you call this, but you hold the bar with both hands in the middle and pull up to your chest.
2 sets of 10 pull ups- weight assisted, still not able to lift my own body weight. Arghh!!

Core Muscles

50 reps of leg raises-all in one go (it felt good that I was working my lower abs. It's so hard for me to get my lower abs in shape)
50 reps of bicycle crunches
50 reps of Russian twists with 3kg medicine ball
2x 1 minute planks

Cardio- Spinning

I wanted to challenge myself by doing an intense cardio session straight after weight training. To save myself some energy for this I didn't do any leg workout prior to spinning as you've probably noticed.

I didn't think I could do it but I did. I managed to keep up with the resistance, the jumps and standing. However, I couldn't sprint like I normally do. In fact, half the class wasn't doing very well either today. I think its to do with the music, it does play a big role in workout like this. I just wasn't feeling the music today. To push all of us, the instructor had to get off her bike, stood in the middle and shouted at the top of her lungs saying, "COME ON!! FASTER FASTER. YOU CAN DO IT!!" That did work a bit.

After the workout, I was exhausted but felt good!