Stepping the training up another notch

One of the trainers at my gym convinced me to take his spin class (Tour De Covent Garden) last night. Its meant to be one of the hardest in the area (im gonna say London as a whole, haha), and after 45minutes out of the seat I can tell you its pretty intense.

This morning I took the bike out for 15 miles to meet my friend Kevin, who's over from Malibu to mix a new Iron Maiden album. He was the original motivation behind my charity cycles. Looks like next week we're gonna head out to my parents place in the Cotswolds and see if we can push some big miles. Either that or do the 120-mile London to Canterbury ride that was stage 1 of Tour De France.



So after the spinning last night, I went straight into another class (Kangoo Kick), you know, why not... Another challenging workout with these strange Kangoo Jumps boots. Wow, now thats a weird experience... haha. Quite embarrassing in a room full of girls who are literally kicking my ass while we're bouncing around on these strange boots to an old-skool rave kinda movement (now that brought back childhood memories!) and doing a mixture of kicks, punches and head spinning. (Head spinning due to my incredible balance on these things ;) hehe).

So, I decided to follow that with yet another class, haha... Yea, I know. 3 back to back classes at 45 minutes each was a great way to mix up my usual routine. The gym is certainly growing on me and everyone likes to drop words of encouragement or training tips while winding down in the sauna, for 30minutes :)


Im looking into all the different kinds of protein shakes, following one of my sauna therapy sessions. If anyone has experience with them, would love to hear some advice. My brother used to be big on the MaxiMuscle ones, but that made him a little crazy and he would forget his entire workout :/ haha, so I think i'll avoid that. Although he was taking creatine for a while too, and ive got the feeling it was that that did it...

Maybe next week ill have the khutspe to try out one of the more intense (MORE intense?) sessions with swords... Or, maybe not. MUAY THAI is enough for now I think :)

Peace Ya'll.