04 fitness assessment day

I last had a fitness programme done for me about five years ago. Today, the awesome Ron Lewis wrote up a new programme for me and took me through it.

We talked initially about some goals, where I'm at now with my exercise, and took some standard measurements.

Blood pressure = 150/85
Yip, a bit high. It always seems to be a little on the high side when I get it measured. I guess the circumstances have some bearing on that, but I'm sure I can bring it down myself too.

Waist/hip ratio = 0.85
Yip, also a bit high. This should be somewhere around 0.7.

My programme involves very little machine work, which is kind of cool. A bit of swiss and medicine ball work, and using free weights. Finishing with the dreaded tricep dips, which as I said to Ron, I've always found really hard to do. Yes, I have weak girly arms.

I do a bit of a cardio warm up, and some specific stretching at the end, but because I do a lot of other cardio, it's pretty much all about the strength and conditioning. All up, it should take me no more than 45 mins to do my programme. I'm keen to get in there at least one morning a week, and maybe after work one day too. But I'll talk more about my weekly exercise schedule in another entry :)