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"   Who&amp;#039;s seen the trailer for Fast Girls? It&amp;#039;s not out until 15th June but I was lucky enough to catch a sneaky screening with my fellow Cosmo fitness gal pal, Natalie. The film tracks the journey of a British female sprint relay team and centres around Lenora Crichlow and Lily James, who come from different worlds (of course!) but the two come face to face on the running track. A sporting film isn&amp;#039;t my usual cup of tea but the trailer had me at hello - it looked like a good &amp;#039;girl power&amp;#039; film (scroll down to watch). Natalie and I sat throughout the film with MAJOR body envy. Seriously, the girls have bodies to die for (not literally mind, that would be weird) but it did make us want to sprint out of the cinema and on to a running track. It might be worth noting that we didn&amp;#039;t, we actually slow-walked to the nearest fast-food eating establishment - oops! The film, in large part, was the inspiration behind this blog. After I watched Fast Girls (which is blimming brilliant by the way) I decided to dust off those Nike trainers and get pounding the pavement with a morning jog. Cue pat on the back for moi! At first I thought this would be enough, but oh how wrong I was. The Fast Girls movie peeps sent me a training plan from the Olympic (yes, Olympic) runner Jeanette Kwakye. She helped train the actresses in the film, and I was her next protegee. Gulp. Essentially, the training program that the girls followed ahead of filming was VERY intense - we should know, we interviewed Lily James and she told us all about it. And they followed a programme similar to one that an actual athlete would follow - yikes. Thankfully I got a watered down version, phew.  Before I started I was under strict instructions that this was a four week training programme, I must have no injuries and I should be completely comfortable with the exercise. Hmm, not sure I&amp;#039;d use the word &amp;#039;comfortable&amp;#039; but let&amp;#039;s give this a whirl... Here are the rules: No alcohol No cigarettes Minimum 2 litres of water a day No frying of food. Friday/Sunday rest days Warm up and cool down Here is an example of a week activity: Monday/Wednesday Before breakfast: 4x10 sets of press ups 5x25 sit ups/crunches Evening session: Boxing/pad work circuit for 30 mins or 45mins spinning bike session. 4x10 sets of press ups 5x25 sit ups/ crunches Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday Before breakfast: 20minute jog at an easy pace, 3 sets of 10 press ups and 4 sets of 25 sit ups/crunches Evening exercise: Warm up with light jogging for 10 minutes, 60m shuttle runs/sprints on grass - 2 sets of 4 runs. With 45 seconds recovery in between runs and 3 minutes between sets (fast as you can), 150 bench to bum squats to be done in sets of 25 - 90 secs recovery in between sets - varying arm positions, hands on hips/above head/in front. Plus, 3 sets of 10 press ups and 4 sets of 25 sit ups/crunches The verdict Eeek! When I first looked at the training programme I knew it wasn&amp;#039;t going to be easy - especially for a fitness-phobe like myself, but I gave it a good go. But it wasn&amp;#039;t for me, I&amp;#039;m not sure whether it was our rubbish weather, or my terrible lack of motivation, but I&amp;#039;ll be honest with you, it just felt so exercise-ey. Yes I know this is a fitness blog and YES, it&amp;#039;s not supposed to be easy but I need something fun, something energetic and something that doesn&amp;#039;t require press-ups - shudder.  Hmph, I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ll ever be a fast girl\u2026 but I might go sit on my bum and watch the film again...      I rarely tweet about fitness but hey, follow me on twitter anyway @leannebayley READ OUR FULL INTERVIEW WITH FAST GIRLS STAR LILY JAMES  VOTE ON LENORA CRICHLOW&amp;#039;S PREMIERE STYLE "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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