Lessons are Learned

C25K: Started Week 8, finished day one (28 minutes running)
Push-ups: Did not finish sets (1 set from the top bracket).
Squats: Did not finish sets (4 of 5).

Today is what you'd call a learning day. I've learned two things:

• You should have more than one day off between sessions, at least when starting
• I should be in lower brackets.

For the push-ups, I had no chance of finishing my sets in the top bracket, so I switched to the mid-bracket. Even then, I couldn't finish my sets there either, possibly due to the fact I'd already done one and a half sets of the top bracket. So next time, I'll be starting from day one again, in the lowest bracket.

For the squats, it seems skipping to week three was an okay choice, but I just about couldn't finish my last set (of five) in the mid-bracket. So, I'll be in the lowest bracket of week 3 next time. Looking at the number of reps per set, I can probably get away with moving on to day two of the week, so next time I'll be in the low bracket for day two of week three.

I found that my legs and arms didn't want to play today, possibly having not fully recovered from the stress test. I will wait two days before picking up these programmes again. However, the jogging went fine, with 28 minutes clocked up. Next time, I'll be jogging for 28 minutes again. The time after that will be the first thirty minute run, I'm looking forward to it!