Week 1 Day 5 - Circuit

I carried out my Week 1 Day 5 circuit at the gym yesterday and had some good results. As I'm repeating Week 1, I made it slightly harder for myself by reducing the recovery time to 45 seconds between exercises and 2 minutes between each of the two rounds I did.  Here are the results:

• Cardio warm-up on the bike for 10 minutes - easy pace, low incline (3.45 km/44 calories burned)
• Mobility drills completed
• Push: floor push up from knees - 27 + 24. I started way too fast and ran out of steam half way through. I found the second round really tough even though I tried to pace myself better.  
• Squat: using fitball - 15 + 17. I was deliberately slow as wanted to maintain my technique especialy as my back is still slightly sore.
• Pull: using the basic band - 26 + 32. I could feel the pull but it was a little easy - I think I need to use the less stretchy band next time.
• Deadlift: basic hang lift - 17 + 17. 

After the circuit I wanted to push myself a bit more, so repeated my 1km timed walk/run from a few days ago to see if I could go faster ... and I smashed it!  My previous time as 10:14 and this time was 9:13. The running is definitely becoming a little easier - though I still had to break it down into chunks and walk for a while to catch my breath, I seemed to be running further in each block and faster too. I guess my next goal is to get to sub 9 minutes!

My achilles tendon is still a little sore but no worse, so I am just stretching it out as much as I can and keeping active and I'll be happy if it doesn't get any worse.