Attack of the DOMS!

Hey guys!  I cannot believe it’s almost the weekend already.  I don’t know where the time disappears to these days, especially this week, it has just flown by.  Or maybe that’s because it has been non-stop at uni for me this week?

Yesterday started with a yummy bowl of Dorset Cereals tasty fibre flakes with Kara coconut milk, raspberries and blueberries.

I loved this and went way over the 30g suggested serving size, in fact I went for another bowl.  Me, greedy…surely not?!?!

After breakfast I headed to the gym for a fab cardio session that consisted of 30 minutes of interval training on the treadmill, 15 minutes on the cross trainer, 15 minutes on the adaptive motion trainer (that I have been calling the new machine) and 20 minutes on the bike.  The interval training was hard and really put me through my paces.  I did intervals of 30 seconds at steady state and high frequency bursts of different speeds.  It was way more challenging than staying at a steady state level and I actually felt like I had been running for 60 minutes and not 30.

For lunch I raided the freezer for some of my Curried Cauliflower and served it with some steamed hispi cabbage and some kale.

For afternoon snackage I had a bowl of chopped pineapple and half a mango with some Rachel’s Organic coconut yoghurt.

I’m addicted to this yoghurt right now.  It’s so rich and creamy…yum!

Dinner was fast and speedy consisting of curried vegetables served with steamed savoy cabbage and Peshwari style socca.

The socca was delicious and made a much lighter and healthier alternative to traditional Peshwari naan bread.  I just took inspiration from ingredients that you would usually find in this type naan bread such as cumin, sultanas, desiccated coconut and almonds.

I love how socca is so versatile!

This morning I woke up early to fit in my new toning workout.  It’s pretty much based on my old workout, but I’ve extended it by doing it twice and adding some arm exercises:

Abs

• butterfly crunches x 30
• standard crunches x 30
• reach throughs x 30
• reverse crunches x 20
• v-sit x 2 for 30 seconds each
• plank hold for 75 seconds

Legs

• reverse lunges x 20
• lunges with bicep curls x 20
• sumo squats x 20
• plie squats x 15
• side step into a squat x 15 on each side

Arms

• push ups x 15
• tricep dips x 15
• wood chop x 15
• dumb bell hammer curls x 20
• isolated tricep raises x 20
• overhead extension x 20

Even though I only have 4lb dumbbells at home, by the time it came to repeating the arm section I could already feel how heavy my muscles had become.  I even managed to work up a sweat.  I have some serious DOMS right now!

I refueled with a massive beet, carob and pb smoothie.

This thing was huge and I had to have a separate bowl for the amount that wouldn’t fit in my glass.  It was soooooo tasty!

Ingredients

• four small beetroots
• 2 plums
• 1 celery stick
• handfuls of spinach
• 2 tsp of agave nectar
• 1 tsp of xanthan gum
• 1 tbsp of peanut butter
• 1 tsp of carob powder
• 1 tsp of ground flax
• 2 tbsp of acai berry juice
• Kara coconut milk

Beets and pb sounds weird but it’s a winner!

For lunch I had a bowl of butternut squash soup with lots of fruit.

Dinner tonight was a huge vegetable stir fry that included broccoli, red pepper, sugar snap peas, baby corn, bean sprouts savoy cabbage and flaked almonds.

A huge plate of veggies…yum!!!  I made an awesome sauce using sweet white miso, soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce and sesame seed oil.  The sweet white miso was amazing.  I think I prefer it to my regular brown rice miso.

For dessert I had two sliced apples and an amazing Pure Organic chocolate brownie bar from America and some raw chocolate covered raisins.

The Pure bar was seriously good!  It was dense and rich and had pieces of walnuts in it-what’s not to like?

I just wanted to say thanks for the fab response to guest post on the blog.  I really want to make in a once or twice a month thing.  If you want to feature on the log then drop me an email…don’t be scared!  The post can be anything at all fitness, nutrition, health, a recipe, your healthy living journey.  It would be great to have some fashion and beauty on the blog too. 

Well I’m off to do some marking.  I feel a late night is on the cards…euuugh!

Have you modified your workout recently?  How is it working for you? What kind of results are you seeing? My new toning workout and interval training in my cardio routine are really challenging my body.  I think changing up my workout so it is more intense was the right thing to do for me as my old routine was getting far too easy.

Have a great evening everyone!

Tagged as: Beet PB Carob Green Smoothie, Curried Cauliflower, Dorset Cereals, socca