Olympic Team TIU Challenge Day 5 and Winners!

Hello athletes! First off I'd like to offer my congratulations to Team GB's Men's team Artistic Gymnastic squad for their bronze medal yesterday! It was our first medal in Gymnastics in 100 years! Definitely worth celebrating. Silver was cruely and bitterly taken from us but us British do not let anything get us down!

Team GB Gymnasts - good looking bunch of boys!

I'd also like to congratulate two swimmers; Missy Franklin from Team USA and Ruta Meilutyte from Lithuania who both achieved something remarkable yesterday!! Missy won gold in the 100m womens backstroke final, just 15 minutes after competing in another heat! Ruta is just 15 years old and won the first ever gold for her country in the pool during the 100m Womens Breast Stroke final. Both athletes are truly inspiring and I loved watching their events.

Missy Frankling and Ruta Meilutyte with their Golds

Now on to our winners! I was gratefully reminded that I forgot to announce the winners from Sunday's challenge! I wrote yesterday's post in such a hurry that I totally forgot!! Without any further ado, Sunday's Running Medals go to;

Bronze; Jen! (@SummerGrl375) I loved the enthusiasm in your tweets! Congrats!!
Silver; Sophie! (@SophieHowl27) Your video was great!! I love that you continue to challenge and inspire others
Gold; Jennifer (@jenn_toland) You are so inspiring! I love that despite the crappy day you had you still went out and knocked down 5k!! Make sure to email me your address so I can send you your prize :)

Now for yesterday's Motivational Music prize - the only medal (which is gold - of course!) goes to Gabriela Mina! I loved your reasons for your music choices and I totally agree with so many of your song choices!! Particularly LMFAO!! That one always gets me going! Make sure you email me your postal address!! <3

Challenge 5!

We're back to training, athletes!! The athletics is drawing ever closer!

Following Team GB's historic Gymnastics win, I want you guys to hit the GYM (get it haha - I'm sorry - you can blame my mum!) and get in a 90 minute workout; 60 minutes of cardio (with at least 15 minutes of HIIT) and 30 minutes of toning.

You can do split sessions!

Check the machines at your gym because a lot already have pre-programmed HIIT workouts.

If not here are some of my favourites;

Treadmill: Intense Speed or Incline for 1 minute
Recovery Speed or Incline for 2 minutes

Elliptical: Intense Resistance as fast as you can go for 2 minutes
Recovery for 3 minutes

Stairmill: 30 seconds at level 1 resistance, 30 seconds off; increase the level each time!

Rowing Machine: Fastest 500m you can manage! Rest for 30 seconds and go again!

Bike: Varying resistance; 20 seconds intense, 40 seconds recovery

For your toning workouts, go to ToneItUp.tv or I also like Blogilates :)

I will leave you with these two videos - I saw them and I love them!! Great job from both Team USA and Team GB - and you also get to see Tom Daley's abs! What more could you want? :)

Team USA; Michael Phelps or Ryan Lochte can call me maybe ;)

Team GB: Tom Daley is definitely sexy and I don't care who know's it!!