Monday, January 2: After a longish overnight flight to Adelaide I really needed a workout to dust away all those travel cobwebs. Thankfully my hotel, or rather its sister hotel down the street, had a small gym which I visited around 9 p.m. after a long post-flight afternoon nap. Rowing machines are rare in Korean gyms, so I jumped straight on and rowed two gruelling kilometres, and then I finished with 20 minutes on a spin bike:
Wednesday, January 4: My next workout took place in Adelaide University’s gym where I walked, jogged, and ran 5 kilometers while watching the cricket on TV. That was followed by a brief chest, shoulders, and triceps workout to end the day’s exercise:
Thursday, January 5: More cricket watching while exercising at Adelaide Uni, this time on a spin bike for 30 minutes. A legs workout after that wrapped up my exercise in Adelaide for the year. I had planned to exercise Friday and Saturday but it didn’t happen:
Sunday, January 8: Back in Canberra I decided to up the intensity after seeing some photos from Friday night in which I looked bigger than I expected to^^. 6.5 kilometers on the treadmill followed by a great legs workout. Then I had to leave the gym rather suddenly to catch a 12 p.m. 3-D showing of Tintin with my nephew Matthew, but I returned later in the day for a super-intensive back, traps, lats, biceps, forearms, and lower back workout:
Monday, January 9: A 2 kilometre swim in the morning and in the evening a chest, shoulders, triceps, sides, and abs workout!
Tuesday, January 10: A very sweaty and thirsty 8 kilometre hike/jog/run on the treadmill followed by a legs workout:
Wednesday, January 11: A 1.5 kilometre swim followed by an intense traps, biceps, forearms, and abs workout with a couple sets of calf raises thrown in because they weren’t sore from yesterday’s workout:
Thursday, January 12: Seven kilometres in 44 minutes, jogging the whole way for a change:
Friday, January 13: An early morning weights workout at Randwick before heading up to Gosford to catch up with the Shields: back, biceps, lats, calves and abs.
Sunday, January 15: Four treadmill kilometres followed by a legs, chest, shoulders, and triceps workout to work off last night’s huge chocolate dessert:
Monday, January 16: A 2-hour session consisting of 6.5 kilometres on the treadmill, abs, sides, a 2-kilometre row, and weights for my back, traps, biceps, forearms, and lower back!
Thursday, January 19: Back in the Keimyung College’s gym bright and early at 6:40 a.m. after a day’s rest to recover from 22 hours of travel! Six kilometres on the treadmill at a pretty decent pace followed by a legs, sides, and abs workout, And then it was back to work to start the second half of my initial contract.
Friday, January 20: Just a quick chest, shoulders, and triceps workout after work.
Saturday, January 21: A big exercise day ahead of an anticipated exercise break of the Lunar New Year period: 1.3 km swim, 3.5 km inclined walk/jog/run, and weights for back, traps, lats, abs, legs, calves, and biceps. And all that left me very sore the next day:
Wednesday, January 25: Chest, shoulders, triceps, a 7.5 km inclined walk/jog/run, and a legs workout to bring up my 400th cardio workout since photographic record keeping began in September 2009!
Thursday, January 26: I rested today in honour of Australia Day.
Friday, January 27: An early morning intense weights session before work: back, biceps, traps, lats, forearms, abs, sides, and lower back.
Saturday, January 28: Back on a spin bike today to give my lower legs more time to recover from recent running. A nice sweaty 35 minutes on that spin bike to get the weekend off to a healthy start:
Sunday, January 29: A nice long 2.1 kilometre swim after lunch:
Monday, January 30: A 7.5 kilometre jog (which resulted in perhaps a slight calf strain) followed by a legs workout:
Tuesday, January 31: I ended the month with a traditional chest, shoulders, and triceps workout. And that was quite a month!
