Soccer time in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Food food food.  It is greatly underestimated and overlooked by how much we get from food.  We get our energy, recovery, happiness and so much more from food, but yet we all neglect to eat properly all the time.  Today, I probably didn’t start the day off very well with nutrition.  At the B&B I managed a coffee and a small sweet cake, probably the size of an egg. Unfortunately no other breakfast was up for offer.  After not finding any cafes or diners to drop in on the way from Lunenburg to Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) I decided I may as well get my workout out the way before checking into the hostel.  You know, didn’t want to look like a weirdo in my gym gear and all, oh and more importantly, I knew that once I got some food and drinks into me there wasn’t a hope in hell I was working out!

·         Tabata situps (20 secs on, 10 secs rest – 8 times through)

·         5 x 6 handstand pushups freestanding (person holding legs).  I struggled to hit 6 after the second set, but continued the full range of movement assisted with my partner helping.  It seems I need to practice these as I can do these unassisted against a wall no problem!

·         5 x running suicides (or doggies if you know them by that) of half a soccer pitch (touching each line on the pitch) with 10 pushups and 10 air squats in between each complete suicide

Finish up with a suicide of the entire soccer pitch touching each and every line.  Ouch!

Due to the nature of this workout it wasn’t a time based workout so I can’t report a time I’m afraid. 

Now it is time to hit the town and see what Halifax has to offer!

So, what better way than to get the heart going by starting with a Tabata workout.  Bless the person who invented these puppies!!!  I found a soccer pitch amidst the gardens in the centre of Halifax.  The ground was very well looked after I must say.  One thing I have noticed in my travels is that there don’t appear to be any pullup bars or general outdoor workout areas which can get annoying if you fancy some pullups.  Anyway, unfortunately, I couldn’t even use the soccer goals to do some pull-ups on as they were made out of PVC piping?!? What the?  What happened to metal goal posts like I used to play with? Anyway, back to the workout...