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8 Week Challenge - Day 39

My name is Dutsji and I am an addict!

There you go! I admit that I am addicted… to exercise. Not being able to go to the gym because of a broken down car is horrible. The car dummy did some research on the internet and turns out that my car needs some serious fixing by a mechanic. Problem is that I can’t get the car into a garage until after Eastern. Yikes!!!

So I have been desperately trying to think of a way to go to the gym. There is no public transport that will bring me there. I can not afford to take a taxi there. I don’t own a bike so I can cycle to the gym. It is too far to walk over there; if I walked over to the gym I would have had all the exercise I need for that day (and more) and still have to walk back. But… there is light at the end of the tunnel. With a bit of luck I can ‘borrow’ a car for the next two weeks. Fingers crossed!

In the mean time I have to work out at home on my stationary bike and by using my body weight for resistance training. Yesterday I did not have the time to get on the bike because of all sorts of appointments. Good thing is that I did a lot of walking between the appointments.

Another annoyance is that I can’t weigh myself. I don’t own a weighting scale and only weigh myself in the gym. Now I can’t check the numbers to see if I am still on track.

Body Weight

• 10 Burpees
• 50 Push ups
• 50 Squats
• 50 Crunches

Any tips on working out at home are welcome!

8 Week Challenge - Day 38

Yesterday when I came back from an appointment with my GP I think I blew up something in my car. Car dummy as I am, I have no idea what. All I know is that all of the sudden - without any signs of warning - I saw a massive amount of smoke coming from the exhaust. A couple of hundred meters down the road - when I was about to pull over - the smoking stopped. I managed to get home.

This morning when I started the car a fair bit of water was spitting out from the exhaust. I didn’t dare to drive to the gym in case I do more damage to it. So no gym visit today, I am so disappointed about that. But tonight I jumped on my stationary bike at home to make up for the missed body combat class.

Cardio

• 60 min. Bike riding - 25/26 km/h

8 Week Challenge - Day 37

After two days not exercising I was eager to get right back into it with my PT session. I worked pretty hard and my muscles were so sore, but to be honest I wouldn’t want to have it any other way.  My PT session went for an hour and after that I did another hour of cardio.

Cardio

• 15 min. Cross trainer - level 6/7 - 13/14 km/u
• 15 min. Bike riding - level 7 - 90/95 rpm
• 30 min. Treadmill - 5.6 km/h - 2.5 incline

Resistance/Weights

• 3x 12 reps Leg press 180 kg
• 3x 12 reps Chest press 30 kg
• 3x 15 reps Seated row 30 kg
• 1x 15 reps Bicep curl 7 kg
• 2x 15 reps Triceps cable 25 kg
• 2x 15 reps Hip abduction 40 kg
• 3x 10 reps Squats

8 Week Challenge - Day 35 & 36

Sunday was my usual day off. Monday I had an appointment with my PT at 7 am, but I rescheduled it to Tuesday. The MotoGP season has started again and as a huge MotoGP fan I didn’t want to miss the races. The first race - the 125cc class - started at 3.30 am and the last race at 6 am.

In the afternoon I had an acupuncture appointment and after that I went to bed to catch up on some sleep.