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Gym reopened!!!
Leach opened back up, and I was there! Ran with Deric, did half my circuit.
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over break
I ran 2 miles, around my house. no machine.
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Revolved Half Moon
I wanted to run BEFORE Yoga. But that did not happen.
Yoga was great. I wish I could practive everyday though! I am losing my poses. Pigeon is so painful now. And my shoulders are not even close to being square. And I make the omg ouch face when I'm in it. WTH? I feel really out of practice and it suxorssss. Maybe since I stopped doing sun salutations upon waking every day. I should be practicing more on my own. I wanted to fall over in revolved half moon today.
did 2.5 miles on the treadmill. yay. New goal...making a point to run 2 times a week at lunch time. and 3-4 times a week mornings
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Workout 6A
Squats 3/10/80lb
Pushups 3/10/45degree
Rows 3/10/55lb
Stepups 2/10/15 1/10/17.5
Jacknife 3/12/bw
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Workout 5B
Deadlift 80lb
Shoulder press 2/10/12.5 1/9/15
Lat Pulldown 3/10/55
Lunge 3/10/12
Crunches 3/12/8lb
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Slooow weekend
I was DETERMINED to go to the gym Friday, Saturday and Sunday. But unfortunately, I only went Friday and Saturday and then my determination ran out. Oh, well. My Saturday workout was pretty lame too (20 minutes elliptical and 30 minutes squats situps pushups dips pullups and a few ab exercises. I remember having omg-kill-me-now feelings the whole time at the gym. So I woke up on Sunday, looked outside at the awful rain and didn't even think twice about staying home. But that wasn't even the worst part. The WORST part was that my mother had a large bag of CHEDDAR AND BACON flavoured Lay's chips lying around. I usually have a ton of willpower when it comes to not eating chips (my favorite, STILL), but it was right, there, looking, at, me. All bright orange and cheeesy and salty and full of calories. So I ate half the bag. (*&^(&*%$#@~!!!! I was soooo proud of myself because I hadn't had any chips (MY FAVORITE, STILL!!!!!) since forever (ot at least what seems like it), and I sabotaged it. So I've resolved to not eating any junk this week (or at least wait until the weekend), and doing major gym time whether I like it or nat!!!
I am still feeling guilty about those chips. 250 cals per 27 chips but I just could, not, stop. *(@&%^#%@ x 1000.
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quick update
busy, busy monday.
Workout: ride the Zone 9:30-10:30: Marion. My girl was on it...I love the monday morning energy. I totally fell into my own zone during the last sprint....love it.
What I've eaten so far today: hot water with lemon and agave, almonds, grape tomatoes, peppermint tea, two scrambled eggs, whole sweet potato sprinkled with flax seed and a small bit of organic butter. lunch probably soup. dinner probably fish.
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I Hate When Classes Are Full
Went to Crunch yesterday excited to take spin class only to walk in and find out that it was full! wah wahhhhh. Total buzzkill.
I had no idea what to do with myself, but managed to do 20 min on the elliptical followed by squats, situps and pushups for the challenge. Then I used the assisted pull up machine to practice my pullup and dip.
Killercadoogan was working and told me I needed to practice doing negatives on the pull up bar, except I am so weak that I can't even hold myself up. So he came over and helped by supporting like 85% of my body weight while I tried to hang on for dear life. We must have looked hilarious to other people around.
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On Long Breaks, Self-Defeatism, and Starting Fresh
Hey y'all, was that really a full month that I was away? Actually, it feels more like two or three. So here's the story.
The end of winter is a bitch. Even when I'm taking really good care of myself, like I did this year, sometime around mid to late February I start losing motivation. When that combines with the couch-potato-fest that is the Winter Olympics and a massive project at work that eats up all my mental energy, I end up without the energy to push myself into a workout. And since it's cold and rainy/snowy/sleety/hell outside, it takes about twice as much energy as usual to do a workout.
So I stopped for a week. And because workouts are really good for my general mental health, I lost motivation for the next week. And the next. And the one after that.
But spring is almost here, and I'm tired of feeling bloated and tired and gross and dull, so I'm starting fresh from the beginning.
Couch to 5K plan, beginning today. Running every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday (with Friday as an alternate if Saturday involves both work and after-work socializing). If I can't run in the morning, then I WILL run in the evening dammit. I may not make 20 workouts in a month for a while, but I'm going to get back there.
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Getting outside.
Went disc golfing in the afternoon.
Walked last night.
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Run/Walk and more!
Saturday was my first trip to the Leach. I did my run/walk and got in some assisted pull-ups and dips. :)
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I did this? No, seriously, I did this. Please look at the pic.
For some unknown reason, I woke up completely refreshed at 4:45am?! Huh?! Is my body getting used to the ridiculous timing of my Monday morning workouts?! Well, whatever…I was just pleased that I didn’t feel like a complete zombie as I was getting my stuff together, making a wild breakfast and lunch, feeding the kitty, and so on. I got to the gym by 6:30ish and did a super-light warm-up on the treadmill (mostly walking and a few minutes of jogging). Then, I had my session with Trainer Mike.
Uhm…Trainer Mike was off his rocker today. No, seriously. I think he was delirious from lack of sleep, too much partying, winning the football play-offs he was in, and quite possibly a number of other reasons. Most of the session was pretty standard: alternating arm kettle bell swings, sit-ups w/ a 12 lbs medicine ball on a swiss ball (75 total), alternating step-ups onto the plyo-bench, squats (60 total) with hip abductor exercise, incline push-ups (40 total), more hip / glute exercises, tricep dips off the bench, etc. But, at one point, who knows what inspired him…he had me do this: push-ups with the TRX while my entire body was suspended and my feet were against the wall. WTF?! Check out the pic above! I did 3 x 12 of those and now I’m officially adding “bad-ass” to my name. Msh “bad-ass” 258. Yes, I like it.
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Martelo yo'face!
Muay Thai, roundhouses all day. Elbows and stuff too. I love practicing elbows but its not like we can use them...hmmmph. We did a drill where we did 1 on each side, then 2, then 3. Which burns u out, but I remember once upon a time when I used to do up to 10! but counting down bc its easier.
Capoeira, most of the class was roda play and it was fun though I felt rusty and am a little scared to do backbends bc when I do them fast I fall. My teacher was totally trying to kick all of our asses in the roda. My new fav kick is quexada to martelo. I want to martelo all day.
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vinyasa
Yes, I did get to yoga in the monsoon. (Full disclosure: studio was on the same block as the restaurant where I was due for girls' brunch and the nail salon where I was going for a mani/pedi. I had no excuse not to go.)
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Soccer = Puke
I puked 2x during my soccer game last night. I haven't done that in a long time. Although I will admit that it wasn't due to the insane workout (although it was), it was because of the hacking cough I've had for the last 2 weeks.
Great workout though and slightly motivating to do more since I hadn't worked out since last Tue. Very sore today though.
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hum drum
Did 30" on arc trainer. burned 821 cals and 15% fat. Started new 6-week cardio program. The time/duration for each session on this program is only 30" and I'm conflicted given my love-hate relationship to cardio (I feel like I should be doing more). The difference is that I'm doing more "heavy" days in terms of speed and resistance and keeping heart rate higher. It's also conflicting because I can definitely get my heart rate higher than my target heart rate, but my trainer is very insistent that I don't do that... patience, kornflowers... patience (maybe I'm also feeling effed-up this morning cause I ate a lot of sugar and salt this weekend, and the scale is showing a huge weight gain. While I "know" it's temporary, it messes with my head in a really bad way.)
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miserably unplugged
52 minutes for the walk and the joints are still complaining