Zach and I always walk on Saturday mornings. I neighborhood... aka "the hood"... gets a little boring. Our hood is only is small. One time around the hood is just 1/2 mile. One loop over and over and oooovvveeerrr again. Pretty boring.
Yesterday, on the way to work, Zach asked if I would want to walk in a 5k instead of around the hood. SURE! We got up this morning did our little workout and then got ready for the walk. We knew that rain was possible but what's a little rain going to hurt???
Of course, it started sprinkling as soon as we headed to the race. The race was called "Just have a Ball." It was to help fight against childhood obesity.
Now, anyone who know me knows that I have no desire to run. I use to and I enjoyed but after 2 knee surgeries, my knee is a little too priceless!!! Thankfully, Zach doesn't like to run either. We got in the walkers spot and got ready for the horn to blow. We took off with the rest of the peeps.
I am obviously not a fast walker. I like to stroll. Zach and I got a little competitive with the other walkers. Shhhh... don't tell them! We had people in front of us and we were determined to beat them and that's EXACTLY what we did!
We finished in the rain in 44:40!
I ran into a great friend, Jessica! Her husband came in second over all.
AND.....
Zach and I won our age group! We were pretty pumped!
It was a great morning. We had fun and enjoyed every moment.
The only thing I didn't like was the refreshments at the end of the race.
Pizza, cookies and fruit.
Okay, I can understand the fruit but HELLO!!! we are at a walk to help FIGHT childhood obesity NOT promote it! Let's get it together peeps!
Now, I think I will be lazy for the rest of this rainy afternoon.
Yesterday, I struggled through the 95degree heat to bust out a great workout! I do my workouts on Fridays in the afternoon because I get a "flex meal" afterwards. I might have to start doing these in the gym... a real gym... because its only going to get H.O.T.T.E.R.
I tried one un-assisted chin up before I got started. Lets just say...EPIC FAIL! I refuse to give up though. I will get it! Just gotta keep working at it.
I went up on some of my weights and was able to get a few extra reps on each set of push ups! I did 3 rounds of these exercises.
(I forgot to record the renegade rows... they were before the push ups.)
After my workout, I struggled inside inhaled a Lara Bar (my flex meal had started!), showered and then enjoyed this...
Open faced pulled pork lettuce wrap with homemade low carb slaw and orange and white sweet potatoes.
(This pic doesn't even make this food look as good as it was!)
For dessert, I ate partially frozen bananas, topped with crumbled chewy choco chip cookies, dark chocolate chunks and crushed almonds. SO.GOOD.
The last couple of training sessions have gone really well. I have been very pleased with my progress. Lots of strength gains! As a matter of fact... in 3 weeks my front loaded reverse lunges have gone up 30lbs!!
This morning I woke up before my alarm and got to work.
Here is how it went down...
Front Loaded Reverse Lunges
95lb
3x5
Hip Thrust
Well... I was trying to be all big and bad and stuff and went straight for 225lb! Oh yeah!
OH.MY.GOODNESS!!!!
I managed to get out 3 reps. I am pretty impressed with my 3 reps but knew immediately that I needed to knock it down to get a complete 3sets of 5. I started switching the weights and put what I thought was 195lb on the bar.
Started the hip thrust over.... first set with "195" I thought to myself...
"you are having a really bad day."
Some where, some how managed to get 2 out of the 3 sets.
I got up to hobbled over to get some water and looked at the barbell sitting on the ground.
I started calculating the weights in my head again. I even wrote them down to add them again.
Can someone please send me to Math 101???
I had a whopping 215lb on that bar!!! This entire time I thought it was 195lb. All I could do was shake my head and adjust the weight so I could get my last set done. I ended up bumping it down to 185lb for that last set. This really sucked every bit of my energy out of me!
But at the same time, I realized that I can do a littleLOT more than I think I can!!!
Barbell Military Press
75lb
3x5
Band Assisted Chins
I have moved down to one mini band. (I have been using 2.) I am on a mission to do one full body weight chin.
4x1
Back Extension
3x15
Tabata
Burpee/Push-up
KBswings
I still can't get over my error this morning but am pretty excited how much weight I lifted.
So, if there are any math majors out there that would like to help me learn how to add again...
May 24th, my family took our yearly vacation. This year we took a cruise from New Orleans to Cozumel, Mexico! We had a fantastic time. Weather was 95% perfect.... we had about a 2 hour down pour at the end of our day in Cozumel.... food was delicious, company was wonderful!
Pics to come soon...
Zach and I had already decided that we were still going to workout as if we were home. Each morning we were at the gym when it opened at 6am, busted our hineys for about 45mins, and then enjoyed the rest of our days.
Friday was the end of week 1 of my new program. Either I was tired and a little dehydrated(didn't drink much on Thursday due to traveling) or this workout was a toughie. I left drenched in sweat. Oh... and my calves were super sore from walking flights and flights of stairs from the previous day. I managed to push through and get it done.
Saturday, we made it to Cozumel, Mexico around 8am. Zach did some weight training while I just did 30 mins of fasted steady state cardio on the elliptical. We spent several hours in Cozumel shopping and playing in the ocean.
Sorry the pic is so foggy. My camera was fogging up from the heat.
Sunday, Zach hit the weights some more and I did 10mins of the elliptical, 10mins of KB Swing intervals, and finished up with another 10mins on the elliptical. We spent the rest of the day lounging by the pool soaking up some vitamin D.
Monday, Zach and I woke up super early... as usual. We headed to the dining hall (where you could find us some A LOT!), he had his coffee and I enjoyed some warm lemon green tea. Since we were cruising the Mississippi River at this point we decided to head to the front deck and check out the scenery... even though it was pitch black outside.
Well, well, well... what do we discover??? A different entrance to the gym. The door was unlocked so Zach and I made ourselves at home.
What were they going to do?!?!?
Kick us off the boat???
We had the gym all to ourselves.
I wasn't going to wait and train at home but since we had so much time on our hands and an empty gym...
I knocked it out!
I had to modify some exercises because of the limited amount of equipment but was still able to get a good session in.
Please ignore my outfit... I thought I was just going to do cardio.
We were finally able to get off the boat after waiting at the dock for about 2.5 hours. Like I said earlier, we had a fantastic time. I love my family vacations and am already looking forward to our trip for next year... whatever that may be!
I completed my second workout this morning. On paper, this workout looked like it was going to be not so bad.
WRONG!!!
It was a little LOT harder than I thought.
Front Loaded Reverse Lunges.
One mission I have with this 4 week program is to do a body weight chin up. Today, I had to do several isometric holds. I jump up the bar, hold myself there for about 5 seconds and then as slow as I can, lower myself down. I had to do 3 of this... that 3rd one was a killer.
Negative Chin-up
I am sending my videos off to be assessed. This way I make sure that my form is as close to perfect as it can get. We all need a little constructive criticism, right?
Well, I want it! Good or bad. I want to know what I am doing wrong.
Here is my video... It downloaded all out of order again. The Tabata was the last thing that I did.
This time tomorrow I will be on the Carnival Elation cruise ship heading to Cozumel, Mexico!!!
