Active for Life Class
10 min HIIT plus cooldown. Highest speed 7.2 kph for a minute at a time. Hit 7 or above three times. Above 5.4 kph rest of the time. Making sure to cover over a km. Max heart rate 152 bpm.
Chest press for the first time in more than 40 yrs, so unsure of capability. 19kg. One set of 10; two sets of 5.
Apart from a bit of band work previously, I've not been working on the chest muscles and realised that I needed to.
Leg Extensions: 19kg. One set of 10, one of 8, one of 5. My knees are the problem - the thighs could have kept going for longer.
Hip Adduction: 15 at 40kg; 2 sets of 15 at 47 kg.
The leg work was to balance up the muscles I used last time in the gym. Access to machines continues to be a problem.
Our trainer is leaving at the end of March, though the classes will continue. Our loss is the NHS's gain. He's told me that he wants to give me more leg exercises.
I do not exaggerate when I say that that man has saved my life. I thought that I was on the road out before I started his Active for Health class. (You move to Active for Life afterwards.) I couldn't stand from a couch without using my arms at one point.
In the first year, I lost a stone without going on a diet.
Senior Flex Class: 40 minutes. All exercises seated. Band round the thighs for the majority of the time, plus using two 3.7 weights.
No idea what most of the exercises are called. Many involved working on legs plus arms simultaneously. Some abdominal work, some cardio requiring coordination.
Stretches to finish.
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