I have recently started going to the gym. I know nothing about such exploits, so have basically just been doing as I was told on my induction.
I started out just doing CV stuff:
5 min warmup on bike
Some stretches
20 mins on cross trainer
1000m on rower
20 mins on treadmill
The induction guy told me when I was managing the full 20 on x-trainer and walker to book another appointment with him and he'd take me through weight training.
This has now happened, with him giving me the following weight exercises:
15 x Lat pulldowns
15 x chest press
15 x leg raises
15 x leg press
15 x curl and press (free weights)
15 x something I don't know the name of (holding a medicine ball in both hands ahead of you and swinging torso around to left and right
15 x something else (oblique somthing or other) a bit like sit ups, except diagonally.
2 sets of that combination. I'm slightly reluctant to say what weights for each thing, as they're probably really wimpy (I have no idea)
He has told me to do the CV one day and weights another. Problem with this is that I'm exercising alongside my wife, and the weights sets probably only take about 20 mins, when we're there for about an hour.
Is there any reason not to just get rid of the treadmill work (because it is BOOOORING) and do the weights and CV together?
I'll be asking the gym guy next time I see him, but thought I might as well ask opinion on here.
I did the weights for the first time on Friday, and the chest press nearly killed me! My upper arms were aching all weekend. But then I did the same last night, and feel reatively fine. Must have just been use of unaccustomed muscle groups.