Thoughtful Tuesday - 25

Okay so I've decided to get back to my training at the moment. Yesterday was a bit of a "not exactly sure what I'm going to do" kind of day. It was legs day so squatting was a definite. Basically my brother and I walked in to the gym which was refreshingly quiet for once. and there was 100kg on the squat rack with no one squatting. We both looked at eachother and almost simultaneously said "GVT?"

Now I'm sure most of you don't know what GVT is so I shall explain. GVT stands for German Volume Training. It is a training system of a standard 10 sets of 10 reps on a weight which should be around 50-60% 1RM and the rest should be between 60-90s. (they're lifting a little more than me!)

So we had a quick warm up and then went for it on the back squat, we were keeping our rests to around 60s, sometimes a little over especially towards the end when our sets were naturally getting longer. I think the whole workout took us 17mins. That's 100reps on 100kg in 17mins. This is by no means easy and it's very demanding on a lot more than your muscles. It is, however, extremely good at getting a large amount of work done in a very short period of time. Lets just say that today I'm walking at a slight slant!

On another note I made some almond bread the other day (although I think I got the mix slightly wrong and it came out more like cake) I'm still perfecting the recipe so I shall report back when I get it right. It will be a great substitute for our poor excuse of "normal" bread. It's a fantastic low carb alternative, plus it's stacked full of fibre and good fats. Win win in my book!