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Lorn Pearson
Lorn Pearson is a motivational and enthusiastic Running Coach and runner based in Glasgow. She has run all distances from short distances to 10ks, half marathons, marathons and ultra marathons and wants to inspire and help others to take up and enjoy running as much as she does.
Lorn posts lots of helpful tips and information on her blog and on her Facebook Page. She also teaches swimming, and enjoys being active in many other forms of exercise including strength work, circuits, high intensity interval training, spinfit, swimming, hiking and hill walking.
Lorn has a very positive, energetic and fun outlook on life and hopes to inspire and motivate others to take up exercise, be positive, believe in themselves and be the best they can be. :-)
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Wk2 – Crazy Intense Circuits wi Gill
Wednesday morning and I was at Bella at 630 to do 50 minutes worth of my Crazy Intense Circuits with Gill. As usual I did the timings with my iPhone and Tabata HIIT app . We did the 2 sets of … Continue reading
Lorn’s Intense Crazy Circuits – II
I’ve created a new Intense Crazy Circuits routine for me and Gill to do tomorrow morning…mix it up a bit. – still the same format: Warm up: 7 exercises repeated 3 times. Main set: 3 sets of 4 exercises, repeated … Continue reading
Wk39 – Circuits wi Gill
Wednesday morning and I met Gill at Bella for circuits. Last week I thought it was pretty easy so I thought I’d introduce sprints in every circuit we did. It did the trick…made us work hard and had the following … Continue reading
Posted in Circuits, Intervals
Tagged bellahouston, circuits, gill, intense, intervals, sweat
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Wk38 – Intense Interval Circuits with Gill
Wednesday morning and it was circuits with Gill. We haven’t done my Intense Interval Circuits since before I went away on holiday, so I’d kind of forgotten the format of it. We started off with 4 x 30 second sprints, … Continue reading
WK31 – 5M treadmill hills then Insanity Day 14
Wednesday night and it was pouring so I decided to run on the treadmill. I like running in the rain, but I knew I had to do an Insanity workout after my run, so I didn’t want to do it … Continue reading
Posted in Insanity Workout, Run
Tagged 94%, cardio, circuit, hard, Hills, insanity, plyometric, run, sweat, treadmill, workout
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Wk31 – No double spinfit :-(
Tuesday night: double spinfit night and I got a text from our usual spin instructor Helen saying her cover had phoned to say she couldn’t make it. Helen is laid up with a broken leg just now, so we had … Continue reading
Lorn’s Intense Interval Circuits
My friend Gill has tasked me with coming up with an ‘abs’ circuit so that she can ‘lose her belly’ (not that she has one. but anyway…) I imagine she is expecting a circuit filled with crunches and sit ups … Continue reading
Posted in Circuits, Intervals, Tabata
Tagged basketball drills, circuits, gill, hop squats, intervals, mountain climbers, push ups, sweat, tabatas, thursday, workout
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Wk29 – Insanity Day 7: Cardio Power & Resistance (plus stretching)
After the 8.5 hour hill climb on Sunday I was tired. Most of me felt ok, but my quads were sore and I was just plain tired from all that walking on Sunday. I’d thought about taking Monday as a … Continue reading
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Tagged cardio power and resistance, day 7, hard work, insanity, sweat, workout
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Wk27 – 60 min Spin, Insanity Day 3
Saturday morning and I was up early to get to Bella gym at 8am. I got on a spin bike in the empty spin studio again… same as last week. Luckily today I sat on a bike which was close … Continue reading
Posted in Bike, Insanity Workout
Tagged bellahouston, bike, cardio, resistance, saturday, spin, sweat, workout
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Wk27 – 21M Cycle then Basketball
Thursday night and I made it over to Tollcross for about half 6. There were no bikes available so I got on a treadmill, only for the lady on the bike behind me to get off the bike – it … Continue reading









