January 19th

Christ my ankles hurt this morning! Must have been all the skipping. Still, apart from that I felt good, so was able to do a full on workout.

Diet
Breakfast: Oatmeal with nuts and honey
Mid morning: Tuna, rice-cake, apple
Lunch: Daal with steamed veg
Mid afternoon: Tun, rice-cake, apple
Pre-workout: CNP Flapjack (High protein bar specially designed to be eaten before exercise. Didn't taste terrible, but was expensive at $3)
Post-workout: Chocolate milk
Dinner: Salad and grilled salmon
Supplements: Glucosamine, multi-vitamin

Good diet day, apart from the salmon which was a bit oily. We went out for dinner to celebrate Kirsty getting a promotion :)

Exercise
Warmup: 1 km row plus strecthes
Circuit 1: 10 burpees/10 pressups/10 squat thrusts/10 crunches. Repeat as needed for a full 2 minutes. 1 minute rest, repeat 3 times. Very hard, but a good way to do the exercises since there's no incentive to rush the reps or introduce shortcuts. For example, burpees can be made very easy if you only kick your legs back a few inches.
Circuit 2: 1 kg punches. Continuous speed punching for 2 minutes, rest 1 minute, repeat 3 times.
Circuit 3: Planks. 1 minute front, quick switch to 30 seconds right side, quick switch to 30 seconds left side. Rest 1 minute, repeat 3 times.
Circuit 4: Interval rowing. Sprint for 2 minutes (2.07 / 500m), rest 1 minute, repeat 3 times.
Finished with 40 half-pressups on my knuckles, as advised by the trainers to strengthen the wrists, a particular concern for me.
Stretches

I concentrated on training in 2 minute rounds with a minute between each stint. This is the format for the fight, so getting my body used to 3 short bursts of intense effort is certainly the order of the day. Buying the timer has made it much easier to concentrate, just work till the bell rings.

Before bed I'm going to see how many pressups I can do in a row. When I started training it was 20, and who knows, 21 might not be out of the question after all my hard work.

Back at Vanda tomorrow.

81 days to go...