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Mindset Training & Conditioning Welcome to Mindset Training & Conditioning! "Be your own Hero" with Belinda Angus (Personal Traine

I haven't thrown some weight around for over a month now, so it felt bloody good to push my body through a tough session...
02/02/2021

I haven't thrown some weight around for over a month now, so it felt bloody good to push my body through a tough session. And she responded well!

The thing is, I'm human just like you. As a wife, mother, daughter, farmer, volunteer, friend, and business owner (amongst other hats 😝) it's hard to put yourself first. It's also hard to kick my own arse when I'm my own program writer and personal trainer. It's hard to schedule in an hour in between everything else. It's hard to get uncomfortable on your own in the gym. It's hard to acknowledge that you are just as important as every family member and client. It's hard to spend most of your days alone. It's hard to find balance and recovery. It's hard to get enough sleep and be organised enough to make good nutritional choices. I lost the love of lifting and hitting because everything got "too hard".

But I'm still showing up and I'm still stumbling and falling pretty much every day. Nothing worthwhile was easy, so I've just got to keep pushing through the "too hard" because my body, head, and soul need me to. And so does yours.

Get to it Heroes!!

02/09/2020

Quick HIIT program today - 20 seconds on/10 seconds off x 5 rounds. Go get it Heroes!
- med ball squat to toss
- walk out to push up
- glue bridge march
- jump lunge
- straight arm med ball crunch
- kettlebell swing
- med ball shoulder toss

28/08/2020

Who's up for a new upper body workout?

This one's a keeper, I loved the variations and intensity and the sneaky little finisher. Let me know if you give it a crack!

4 x 8
Band assisted chin up variations (bicep, neutral, wide, bicep)

4 x 12
Single arm DB clean and press (L then R)

DB Chest Press
Rolling med ball push up

Wide Lat pulldown
Straight arm pulldown

BB tricep extension to pullover
BB bicep curl to overhead press

5 rounds (20 on/10 off)
Battle ropes
Side plank hip dip (L then R)

25/08/2020

Back at it 😉

Let's keep it real Heroes... I've been crook for a week now. The sort of crook that keeps me on the couch with no energy...
24/08/2020

Let's keep it real Heroes... I've been crook for a week now. The sort of crook that keeps me on the couch with no energy or appetite and a box of tissues and ibuprofen as entree, main course and dessert. This may surprise you, but I don't do "nothing" well 😜 And with children to care for, a farm to manage (we're in the middle of lambing season), and life to juggle, it's difficult to rest enough to recover fully. For me, exercise has always been the glue that held me together - take that away, and I unravel pretty quickly. With no strength workouts in nearly three weeks, and no activity of any kind in nearly seven days, I knew I would be close to falling part. So today I attempted a workout - it was a quick 20 minute HIIT program to test out my chest/ lungs and see what my energy was like. It wasn't pretty, I was nowhere near true form, and I battled my head the whole time. But I didn't die, and I got "something" done. So, over the next week or two I'm going to practice what I preach and be gentle with myself while I recover. Happy Monday heroes.

Meet The new member of the Mindset Team! Likely to induce more pain, suffering, yet stellar progress in this badass body...
13/08/2020

Meet The new member of the Mindset Team! Likely to induce more pain, suffering, yet stellar progress in this badass body of mine. I'm willing to share the love, so watch out heroes!!

04/08/2020

Let's talk about box jump burpees, heroes! I know you're all screaming "WHYYYYY?" but trust me on this one! Hate cardio? Box jump burpee! Hate core work? Box jump burpee! Want an all over workout that delivers results quickly? Box jump Burpee!

I'm currently finishing my leg day with 10 sets of 10 box jump burpees (superset with 10 Weighted Russian twists). I'm three weeks in on this program and for the last two weeks, I've dropped nearly four minutes off my total time to complete this set.

So crank some beats nice and loud and get to work!

(In case you're wondering why I'm just wearing socks...I find I'm more stable through my ankles and activate my glutes better in bare feet. For squats and deadlifts, you get much more grounding and muscle connection too. So most of my leg day is done minus shoes! A flat shoe works well too, but I find if I'm in my running shoes, my ankle has more movement and my foot has more cushioning which changes the movement and muscle contraction. But it was 4 degrees this morning, so bare feet wasn't an option!!)

29/07/2020

A message to my younger self:

You can’t hate yourself into wellness.
That “wellness”, is a journey not a sprint.
The perfectly manicured girls on Pinterest are selling you something, the models on Instagram aren’t real. The fittest women don’t look like that everyday.
Health won’t look like you thought it would.
The scale means much less than you think it does.
Drinking isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and you’ll feel better when you don’t.
Speaking of drinking, water, drink that.
Some days will be much harder than others but you’ll never be upset you got up and tried.
Moving this body at every size will teach you how to love it.
You have to eat. I mean it. Especially carbs.
I’m not kidding about carbs dude, they’re magic energy bombs so just eat the damn bread.
Bodies are supposed to look different from each other and throughout time.
It’s ok to change.
No calorie deficit can change what’s not working in your head. You have to take care of all of you.
This vessel just carries what’s really important about us, our heart and brain.
You really will feel better if you treat yourself better.
Some days it won’t feel like you’ve made any progress, I promise you have.
You’re getting stronger everyday.
We got this. 💕

(Borrowed with Permission from Jessica RG)

28/07/2020

What's the point of working out if you can't have fun, right? Playing around with some moves to finish off leg day...20 cycles, 10 second hold and repeat off the other side. Ideally repeat 2-4 times but I was knackered 😂😂 Why do this move? Total body workout - you use your arms/ shoulders to maintain the "hang" position, your core keeps you stable, and your legs are moving then fatiguing in the static hold! Bang for buck in a few minutes...I call that winning!

TGIF! This was actually a wicked little number, lots of mind- muscle contraction and loads of dancing in between sets be...
24/07/2020

TGIF! This was actually a wicked little number, lots of mind- muscle contraction and loads of dancing in between sets because the sun is shining and it's Friday!! Go get it Heroes!

Scaled back my training last week to try and give this ageing body a chance to recover from some niggles! Most of the ti...
21/07/2020

Scaled back my training last week to try and give this ageing body a chance to recover from some niggles! Most of the time, the gym is my ultimate happy/safe place to balance my life. But sometimes, my other "hats" drain so much from me emotionally and mentally, that I have nothing left to leave on the floor. Usually, it's these times where technique fails and my body responds with aches and pains that sideline me for a bit.

So I took the week off and refocused. I've decided to taper back the weights and work on proper technique under lower weight but higher frequency. Keeps the body guessing, corrects any subtle poor form in posture or technique, and allows me to build back up with 100% certainty that the right muscles are working!

Back to legs today with an awesome finisher that had me wondering whether my legs were attached to my body đŸ€Ș Happy Tuesday heroes!

3 x 12
Smith machine squat
Jump lunge

Bulgarian split squats (L/R)
Kettlebell jump lunge

Leg press
Plyo tap downs

Elevated heel goblet squad
Farmer carry

Finisher: 10 x 10
Box jump burpees
Weighted Russian twists

09/07/2020

This one's gonna bite me in the arse! Shoulders and chest session that I need to back with Muay Thai tonight and tomorrow morning. That will be interesting 😛 This little number was a solid burn for the whole chest and shoulder muscles. Go get 'em heroes!

3 x 8 Superset
Barbell Chest press
Dumbbell neutral grip bench press

4 x 8
Seated dumbbell shoulder press SUPERSET
4 x 15
Single arm external rotation with press (see video)

4 x 8
Single arm dumbbell sn**ch SUPERSET
4 x 15
Lean away lateral raise

4 x 10
Six way dumbbell lateral raise

4 x 30 seconds
Weight plate bus drivers SUPERSET
Push ups MAX

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