This evening was another session of the NROL Hypertrophy A programme. I started this programme at the start of January, but then had to take a couple of weeks hiatus about three weeks in because of some slight chest concerns.

The Hypertrophy programme uses a system called undulating periodization which means that one session you’ll be doing two sets of 20 reps and the next you’ll be doing 3 sets of 12, or 5 lots of 6 or whatever. It’s hard work and gauging the weight is tricky, but it feels productive. I was able to come back to it after the break and go through the different combinations of programme with heavier weights – which I suppose is the point.

That said, I think that I’m going to move on to Hypertrophy B next week — mainly because I’ve got to the end of my patience with this set of exercises after two months. I’d originally thought that I’d work through the whole set of programmes when I re-started a few weeks ago, but I’ve changed my mind. I think I need to do something different. I’ll work something out and might even post it here.

There’s still Wednesday and Friday to do, so it’s not quite over yet.

I also walked.

I’d had a good day powering through work. I sat down this morning with the Pomodoro app primed and knocked out the work in half-hour chunks through the day. By 3:45pm I’d got everything done and it was time to head out.

I felt like a bit of a cheat driving to the school. The children had been so tired this morning that I had to wake Joel from a snooze after breakfast and before taking them to school. He hadn’t slept well, despite getting to bed at a normal time and so I didn’t think it would be fair to walk over to the school and make them walk back. Instead, I parked up near the school and then walked into town, around a bit and then back to get my 30 minute walk finished.

It went fine, nothing much to report apart from doubling towards the end and then walking around the parish centre car park to add 20 seconds and pass the 30-minute mark before I got to the car. The map in Runkeeper looks like I had no idea where I was going.

More of the same tomorrow, I expect.