Weekly summary

So last week was a very good week.

Monday 1 hour strenght training. With my personal trainer David. Started off with 10 minutes warm up on the bike got 5.8km so it was more of a sprint than warm up but it did the job. Going through lounges, squads and push-ups I felt strong and good throughout the whole training. Ending with 3x one minute sprints on the rowing machine.

Tuesday, pennants squash (that I lost, see previous post).

Wednesday 1km swim. Went to a swimming pool that is in 15 minutes walking distance from my house. It has a 50m pool and a lot of lanes all marked for different skills. Fantastic facilities, cant believe I havent been using it. Going in the water was a strane feeling. I have not done any swim training for a year or so. Did the first 100m lap and thought I would die! My breathing was irregular and my forearm strength was gone. I stuck with it and managed to finish 1km, but averaged about 2:20 per 100m which is veeery slow. But the feeling of swimming was so good, the lungs the muscles, the mind just all felt so good. Cant wait to get to my previous swimming form (which wasnt spectacular but at least decent).


Thursday In house squash competition. My opponent didn't show. Rather dissapointing. Played the same person I played last week. Got a bit complacent as I have beaten that person 6 times without dropping a set. This time it was two sets each and I ended up winning by a single point. Not exactly a stellar performance.

Friday 1 hour strength training. Another session with my trainer David. We usually do just one training per week but the lucky b****rd is going to spend this week in Thailand so we did two trainings last week. Everything was going well until a third set of a routine which had 20x squats with a overhead lift, 20x lunges while twisting weights and 20x pushups then 1 minute rest. In the third set I suddenly felt a sharp pang of pain in my left elbow. I tried several times but I could not get any weight from that side on my elbow. On the other hand we moved to reverse pushups and that was no problem. The pain dissappeared and never came back, I did pushups both Saturday and Sunday without any problems... wonder what it was, a nerve maybe?

Saturday 1 hour walk. I meant to go for a swim but somehow plans changed and I ended up walking along a beautiful beach. White sands, sun slowly receding in the sky, boats floating around the river. It was so beautiful. Ans although I did not get my excercise I ended up walking for just over an hour which is a nice rest day.

Sunday 2km swim. Went back to Beatty Park. Took the first kilometer and went for the showers, in the showers I felt this urge to do more so I jumped back in and did another kilometer. Not fast, not pretty but hopefully I will pick up my errors and fix them sooner than later.

2 weeks of training done and just today I had three seperate people commenting on how much stronger and fitter I looked, that must be a good sign (or a sign that I was really out of shape!)

Have to keep it up this week with my trainer away!

Tomas