Gun show Thursday!
It’s not much considering my arms are like, never worked out anymore, but I’m okay, today’s upper body workout was intense.
My notebook with my workout feels heavy!
Also, weight today: 153.8. Down a pound, so at least that’s good, right?
I was SO good today.
My eating was on target, I went to the gym, and I didn’t go out to eat!
I went to my favorite Zumba instructor’s class, then I went to hot yoga!
Although, hot yoga was NOT that hot. It was only 95 degrees! I barely sweat and the instructor didn’t do a good enough job of guiding what we were doing. I was lost a lot. Might have to stick with my yoga studio for yoga, not my gym…
Never thought I’d say this..
But Zumba kicked my ASS today.
I wasn’t going to go because there was a sub for my favorite instructor, but I decided to have an open mind. It might have been that I haven’t done Zumba in forever, but I think the instructor made it quite hard too.
And it was fun and I loved the music! I’ll definitely take classes from her again. Glad I went!
So health-wise, today was a good day!
I woke up early and hit the gym!
Went to spinning class for the first time in well over a year! So hard. I was dying the whole time. It was hill day, and we ended up doing like 6 or 7 climbs.
After that, I hit the weights, did the first day of Jillian Michaels’ Making the Cut exercise program (AGAIN), it was hard. I normally don’t do weights after cardio, but since I showed up late to spinning and I didn’t want to be super tired for my first day of spinning anyway, I did it after.
I was hoping to go to Zumba tonight because my favorite instructor was teaching, but I’ve been having car trouble and I finally got a guy to look at t it and he was fixing it.
Who would have thought having to replace your power steering fluid every ten miles was bad (well, I did but didn’t do anything about it)?
Also, since it’s Monday I will mark this as official day 1 of working out again and trying to do what I can to look good for Miami, I weighed in today at a horrid 154.6. Also hadn’t seen that in over a year.
Day 2-ish.
So I did the day 2 of Jillian Michael’s Making The Cut book’s workout. Slightly easier than day 1, but probably had something to do with my weight training professor stopping my workout during the first circuit.
Circuit 1:
Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns: 20-12-8 @ 55-65-70 lbs
Dumbbell Rows: 15 reps. 17.5 lb db’s.
Lunges: 25 reps/leg. 15 @ 12.5 lbs, 35 @ 10 lbs
1 minute sprint: 2 laps
Circuit 2:
Low DB Rows: 15 reps. 20 lbs db’s.
Seated Hamstring Curls: 15 reps. 70 lbs.
Step-ups: 20 reps/leg. 10 lb db’s.
1 minute sprint: 2 laps
Circuit 3:
Crab walk: 15 steps forward
Reverse plank w/leg lifts: 5 leg lifts/leg
Crab walk: 15 steps backward
Reverse Plank w/leg lifts: 5 leg lifts/leg
Supermans: 20 reps w/ 20 sec hold midway
Reverse Crunches: 25 reps
Mountain Climbers: 1 minute
Circuit 4:
Pendulum Lunges with Hammer Curls: 10 reps/leg with 10 lb dumbbells
Hammer Curls: (to failure) 17 reps w/ 12.5 lb dumbbells
Static Lunges with Reverse Cable Fly: 10 reps/leg, blue band
1 minute sprint: 2 laps
Circuit 5:
One-Legged Pelvic Thrusts: 15 reps/leg
Toe touch crunches: 25 reps
Mountain Climbers: 1 minute
My workout today kicked my butt.
I decided to try a challenging workout, and I remembered how hard the workouts in my Jillian Michaels 30 day workout book were, so I decided to attempt day 1 (though probably not the smartest of my ideas since I have 20 miles to run tomorrow).
I was DRIPPING in sweat. Like, the way you sweat when you do 100 burpees kind of dripping. Or yoga dripping.
It had 5 circuits, and I modified some of the exercises because I couldn’t figure out how to do them with just text descriptions.
Circuit 1:
Dumbbell Presses on Body Ball. 20 reps. 15s.
Dumbbell Flys on Body Ball with Crunches. 15 reps. 12.5s.
Air Squats. 50 reps.
1 Minute sprint
Circuit 2:
Plank: 10 seconds
Close Grip Pushups: 5 reps
Side Plank with Inner Thigh Raises: 10 reps/leg
Plank 5 seconds
Close Grip Pushups: 5 reps
Side Planks with Inner Thigh Raise: 10 reps/leg
Burpees: 10 reps
Sumo Air Squats: 50 reps
1 minute sprint
Circuit 3:
Plank Leg Crosses: 30
Squat Jumps: 20 reps, then hold a static squat for 30 seconds
W Shoulder Presses with Leg Extension: 10 reps/leg. 15 lbs.
Jump rope for 1 minute
Circuit 4:
Bench Dips: 20 reps
Tricep Pressdowns: (AMRAP) 25 reps. 70 lbs.
Static Lunges with Lateral Shoulder Raise: 10 reps/leg. 8 lbs.
Mountain Climbers. 1 minute.
Boat Pose. 30 seconds.
Circuit 5:
Jump rope for 1 minute
Bicycle Crunches. 50 reps.
Plank. 30 seconds.
My hair a la windy and sans hair product/straightening. Somehow still somewhat presentable!
So I forgot to tell you guys yesterday: I started day 1 of the 0 to 1650 swimming program.
Things I learned about swimming: makes me feel dizzy, doesn’t help headaches, and makes my stomach feel swooshy (that’s a word now). Oh, and it’s super hard.
The workout was 4x100 yards, with 12 breaths between each 100. I wasn’t able to do that exactly. The first two laps I managed to do without stopping, but after that I would have to take a few breaths at each end of the pool. Plus I felt awkward because two lifeguards were eating lunch while watching me and that made me uncomfortable.
I also did some leg and ab work, but didn’t really do any weights because it was packed and I didn’t feel like dealing with people. Also ran half a mile on the indoor track (which I hate, it’s 13 laps for a mile! How weird!).
So yeah. Swimming is hard.
Active recovery!
I’ve been meaning to try doing the whole active recovery thing for awhile but hadn’t gotten around to it.
So today I had time, so I went and lifted and stuff.
Warmed up with rowing, then did upper body weights.
Followed that with an hour-ish of cardio.
1.55 miles on the treadmill. 17 minutes.
8.6 miles on the bike. 45 minutes.
Biking is hard.
[Also, great job everyone today on your races. You guys rock. Wish I could’ve been there in NOLA. Looks awesome.]
Workout related!
Worked out after my weight training exam. Realized a big reason I am not liking myself is because I have barely worked out in the last week. Changing that because my clothes need to fit.
Warmup: 518 m row, 2:40
Weights:
Bench press: 12-12-10 @ 45-55-60 lbs
Cable row: 12-12-12 @ 55 lbs
Pushups: 3x8
Inverted row: 3x8
Dumbbell Flyes: 3x12 @ 17.5-20-20 lbs
Handstands against the wall: 3x30 seconds
10 queda de rins pushups
I then followed this with 18 minutes of HIIT (30 seconds on/off at 8.9 mph), which includes a 2 minute warmup and 1 minute cooldown.
Good start to my workout week!
I love my newest capoeira shirt. This was from this past batizado.
I have one negative thing about me to say, and then I have some positive things.
Negative. I feel myself getting bigger. I’ve been trying to deny it because it hasn’t affected my capacity to do anything, but I feel it in my clothes and see it in my (lack of) muscle definition. I weighed myself this morning and saw a number I wasn’t happy with. At all. And ironically I drank less this weekend than last weekend. I don’t get it. I’m eating healthy, not indulging in anything, I’m hoping it’s just because I need more capoeira and to follow my training better.
But still. Nutrition is the key factor in losing weight, and I keep thinking I’m doing things right, but maybe I am eating too much. I eat all the time. Good, nutrient dense, healthy food. I just don’t know.
Anyway. Positives. It was fucking cold outside today. 20ish degrees, with wind. And of course, tonight is Tuesday so I had my Jack Quinn’s 5k. I didn’t eat anything while there, and most importantly, I DIDN’T DRINK ALCOHOL. So that was good. I’m proud that I went even though most don’t, it was fun. I also met a kid in my A&P class that does the run and we talked (and he’s cute!). He ran in SHORTS. I was in two pairs of compression tights and yoga pants (might’ve been a bit excessive but I was okay). So yeah. Turned down beer and food. Then I went to capoeira and did the beginner and intermediate classes! It was interesting and difficult, as per usual.
Tl;dr: I ran in the cold, feel fat, and went to capoeira.
Spotted: Becky doing “work”.
I got recognized at the gym by an OkCupid guy that I’m talking to. He apparently saw me and was like, “If you were that girl, that girl was doing WORK!” He didn’t acknowledge me at the gym, said he was embarrassed.
But yeah. I decided to restart NROL for women because I’ve lost some strength since the last time I did it. Added some ab exercises but they ended up being random because they started moving cardio machines to where I was so they could buff the floors after closing time.
Squats: 5-10-15-15 @ BW-45-95-115 lbs
Pushups: 2x15
Seated row: 2x15 @ 70 lbs
Step-ups: 2x15 @ 17.5 lbs
Prone jackknife: 2x15
Back extensions: 3x10 @ 25 lbs
Bicycle crunches: 2x30
Leg lifts: 2x10
30 Russian twists
10 frog kicks
30 second plank
I would like to thank you guys. Also Dean Karnazes.
If it wasn’t for me having read about you guys and your crazy double digit mile runs (and in Dean’s case, triple digits) on the treadmill, I probably wouldn’t have made it past mile 2. I figured if you guys could do that, I could do my run.
5.006 miles. 51:07.
Wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, surprisingly. I didn’t have a tv or anything, my view was my sister’s messy garage. It was actually almost pleasant (for a treadmill run). The last mile I did in about 9 minutes. The first mile was 11 minutes, and the rest were at just over 10 minute miles.
So hungry.
I have not been eating anywhere near enough lately. I’ve been trying but laziness plus getting up at noon and not having money to buy food at the moment is not good. Which it has definitely reflected since my weight has not budged in a few days.
I am SO hungry. I’m about to cook a massive amount of food. I discovered some food hidden from me in the freezer so I’m having.. a lot. You guys will see.
So first run of marathon training complete. Did two hours of capoeira tonight as well. I am SO SO SO sore. The outside of my calves are just done from all the capoeira. I just want to sit and watch Biggest Loser but I have to cook. Sad day.
I’ll stop whining now and get to cooking.
Well, I definitely worked out today.
Holy crap I am hungry.
So I considered not going to CrossFit today, but then my friend Paola called me to see if I needed a ride. So I figured if I go to CrossFit I could go to capoeira after.
Well, today’s CrossFit workout was pretty difficult for me.
Our “warmup” was doing this baseline workout that they use to measure progress at the beginning of every month. I would’ve been fine with it being the workout. However, it was not.
500 m row
40 squats
30 situps
20 pushups
10 pullups (red and purple bands)
Time: 7:44
The actual WOD was called Josh:
21 OH Squats (20 lbs, my coach wanted me to work on getting my squats deeper so I barely lifted anything)
42 Pullups (red and purple bands)
15 OH Squats
30 Pullups
9 OH Squats
18 Pullups
Time: 13:51
After that we did some “core assistance”, which took FOREVER:
50 GHD Situps
100 back extensions
…and that was just CrossFit.
THEN, Paola left me at the studio, it was 5pm and the first class wasn’t until 7pm.
So I was just wandering around wasting time, when 6 came around and Anne, Mago’s wife and the other head instructor, asked me to help her out with the kids class because only one kid came. She made it just as difficult as an adult beginner class! It reminded me of how long it has been since I trained.
Then I had beginner’s class. And THEN, Mago was like, “Are your ready?” “For what?” “Advanced class!” I normally go to intermediate, so I was like, crappppp. Definitely kicked my butt.
So I did:
Kid’s beginner class.
Adult beginner class.
Adult advanced class.
I was going to take it easy today. Haha.
