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The exercise update ...

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So Maxine and I are now firm friends , meeting up twice weekly to put me through my strength training paces.

And my favourite exercise of the lot is the spider crawl.

Hook yourself up to the cable weights machine with a harness right at ground level.

Then get on your hands and feet, and crawl forward with opposite hands and feet until you can't go forward anymore ; and then come back in the same way.

Sounds weird, and like a bit of contraption, and it is.

With some weight attached though, it's damn near impossible to move without working your core ; and it's exactly the same motion you'd make if you were doing bicycle crunches .... just a whole lot more fun.

I am so loving my training time with Maxine, that I forget to come home and blog about how much I hate exercise ...

Although to be fair the lack of blog posts could be more indicative of my 12 hour days and 7 day work weeks .... possibly.

Anyway - back to the point, which is I have lasted since March - which gives us 8 months with the same trainer , and I am up to 2 weekly strength training sessions of 45 minutes.

I'm also waiting for Melbourne to decide to stop raining so I can take the bicycle out and start pedaling to get some extra cardio in.

Bring on the warm weather Melbourne, bring on the warm weather
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