Day 4 - gym buddy is back

Day 4 and I got my gym buddy back! 

I've been working out with my friend for several months now, it's great to have another person you can go with so you can encourage each other. It's not essential by any means but it sure does help. 

So today we did the shoulder workout and it was absolutely fine. There weren't really any modifications we had to make. She found, like I did that I had to drop the weight a bit at towards the end workout because the muscles were so tired; I'm quite pleased about that as it means I am not unusually weak or going mad 😜.

So that's it, week 1 DONE! 

Day 3 - leg day

So today was leg day and squats which I was really happy with. Legs are normally one of my stonger areas. 

I was in the middle of my second set of squats when a personal trainer who was admittedly bored as there was no one in the gym decided to come over and give me a hand. She was very polite and started spotting me and then encouraged me to add more weight. I was doing 40kg at the time. Now I appreciate this isn't a lot, but I have a dodgy knee and I like to have the best form I can manage and go as low as possible. The PT encouraged me to do more and by the end I was doing 50+ kg although it wasn't the best form in my mind, she said it was fine. She then basically took over my workout and me being British, I was too polite to tell her it wasn't necessary as I had a training plan. So, I then did weighted donkey kicks and weighted flute raises instead. Oh well!