Call in the professionals

Just returned from our team's first session with the personal trainer... We'll be getting his help to keep us heading on the right track and building up our weaknesses between now and the TM. 

With that goal, he spent today 'testing us'. Urgh. Those words just fill me with loathing and as we walked out to the oval at lunchtime all I could see were two sets of cones, WAY too far away from each other...!!! This didn't look good...

So this was the punishment: 10 push-ups (all the way to the ground), 10 sit-ups, 10 burpees, run 600 metres. Repeat for 10 minutes. Rest for 5 minutes.

Then repeat the whole routine 2 more times.

Despite how much it sucked, it was actually a very logical setup, reflecting the TM experience. A hard session of upper body and core strength work, followed by running, leading straight into more strength work. The depressing part being that by the end of it as we were panting and glad it was over, the reality was we'd been active for only 30 minutes and 3.6kms.... I think our trainer really wanted to impress upon us the work ahead of us and it certainly worked!