Workout: Biggest Loser Cardio Max dvd
Time: 30:00
Weight: 124.4
I need to know why Bob Harper has a personal vendetta against me and why he is trying to destroy my body. Holy schmoly these workouts kick my butt.
This one and the one I did yesterday (bootcamp) both heavily emphasize exercises that get your heart rate up & work large muscles at the same time. So there are a whole lot of squats and lunges. My hamstrings are sore! And while I'm doing it, I feel like I'm breathing so loud that I could wake up the girls! There is absolutely no rhythm to my breathing like there is with running, it is just huffing.
I have been eating well, but have been under on my calories for the past couple of days. I'm not too upset about that as I'll tend to go over on Saturday/Sunday. Happy to see my weight stay consistent in the 124's and hope to see it drop into the 123's next week - I feel like it might finally happen now that I've stopped running.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Thursday March 24, 2011
Workout: Biggest Loser Bootcamp
Time: 30:00
Weight: 124.6
Bob Harper is going to make my thighs as hard as rocks. Ouch.
Got my three BL dvds in the mail yesterday and was pretty excited. Today was a regularly scheduled yoga morning, but I was too excited to try my new videos. I had no idea what to expect and I'm glad I chose the bootcamp for today because its not a huge cardio workout (although it did get my heartrate up for the entire 30 minutes)... its more of a strength/toning workout - a lot of lunges, squats, and upper body strength moves done at a quick pace and/or at the same time (upper and lower body together) in order to increase calorie burn & fat burn. There were some brief cardio bursts in there - and my heart rate was already slightly elevated. Its a great workout. I didn't add the 2nd or 3rd workouts yet, which is another really nice feature - the ability to customize the workout. All in all I'm very, very happy with it.
I've been doing well with being consistent this week. Tuesday I did Jillian Michaels' Yoga Meltdown and wanted to jump into the tv and punch her. Yesterday I did Tae Bo again.
I'm also tracking my calories on myfitnesspal.com. This is such a user friendly site - I love it! All of my aldi foods have been added in already by someone else, so I'm not constantly having to add my generic food nutritional values, which takes a lot of time. It also accounts for the calories I burn that day - so on a non exercise day I should have 1260 calories (in order to lose .9 lbs/week). But on an exercise day it adds in my calories - so today I have 1486... that was something that I really didn't like about sparkpeople. They had you fill in how much you thought you would exercise and then averaged it out... just never thought they came up with a good number for me and I think I was right because running burns a lot more calories than these videos and I wasn't getting many more daily calories on spark people than I am now.
ANYWAYS... I feel good about my consistency and my workouts. I don't feel the same as when I run - which I feel good about all day - but this is what I need to do for now and its good.
I'm not sleeping well this week and am wondering if it has to do with my cycle - I recently read that hormones can affect a woman in this way. I'm going to start tracking things because this is driving me absolutely batty.
Time: 30:00
Weight: 124.6
Bob Harper is going to make my thighs as hard as rocks. Ouch.
Got my three BL dvds in the mail yesterday and was pretty excited. Today was a regularly scheduled yoga morning, but I was too excited to try my new videos. I had no idea what to expect and I'm glad I chose the bootcamp for today because its not a huge cardio workout (although it did get my heartrate up for the entire 30 minutes)... its more of a strength/toning workout - a lot of lunges, squats, and upper body strength moves done at a quick pace and/or at the same time (upper and lower body together) in order to increase calorie burn & fat burn. There were some brief cardio bursts in there - and my heart rate was already slightly elevated. Its a great workout. I didn't add the 2nd or 3rd workouts yet, which is another really nice feature - the ability to customize the workout. All in all I'm very, very happy with it.
I've been doing well with being consistent this week. Tuesday I did Jillian Michaels' Yoga Meltdown and wanted to jump into the tv and punch her. Yesterday I did Tae Bo again.
I'm also tracking my calories on myfitnesspal.com. This is such a user friendly site - I love it! All of my aldi foods have been added in already by someone else, so I'm not constantly having to add my generic food nutritional values, which takes a lot of time. It also accounts for the calories I burn that day - so on a non exercise day I should have 1260 calories (in order to lose .9 lbs/week). But on an exercise day it adds in my calories - so today I have 1486... that was something that I really didn't like about sparkpeople. They had you fill in how much you thought you would exercise and then averaged it out... just never thought they came up with a good number for me and I think I was right because running burns a lot more calories than these videos and I wasn't getting many more daily calories on spark people than I am now.
ANYWAYS... I feel good about my consistency and my workouts. I don't feel the same as when I run - which I feel good about all day - but this is what I need to do for now and its good.
I'm not sleeping well this week and am wondering if it has to do with my cycle - I recently read that hormones can affect a woman in this way. I'm going to start tracking things because this is driving me absolutely batty.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Monday March 21, 2011
Workout: Tae Bo
Time: 25:00
Weight: 125.6
Last week was an epic fail in terms of working out. Actually, I think I worked out 3 days, but ended the week with a big goose egg. The tendon around my right knee is hurting a lot and I felt like I had strained my hamstrings. I was pretty much a mess, so I opted to stay in bed and rest. And then, because I'm brilliant, I ate garbage all weekend long. Like cookies, chocolate, M&Ms, parmesan bread sticks, chicken nuggets, french fries and a frostry. Pretty much if it was healthy, it wasn't going into my body. Horrifying how I lose self control so easily and excuse myself from getting back on track until Monday.
Saturday I really didn't miss running 10 miles, but I did miss burning the 1000 calories and I missed that pride that I did something ridiculously hard (for me). I'm realizing that I have a completely different self-confidence when I've run, than when I'm taking time off. I feel strong and confident and accomplished when I've run. When I haven't, I struggle to feel good about myself. I need to get over that.
Last week I ordered 3 Biggest Loser dvd's - Boot Camp, 30 Day Shred, & Cardio Max. I figure if Jillian Michaels can kick my butt in yoga for 30 minutes, she most certainly will kick my butt in cardio. I can't wait - because I need something hard core.
I did the getting started workout on my Tae Bo Get Ripped dvd. After futzing around with different Tae Bo dvd's this morning, I finally found the one that I used to feel was the most effective. It seems contradictory that the getting started workout should be the best workout, rather than the two advanced workouts, but it definitely is. I did one of the advanced workouts last week and hardly felt like I raised my heart rate. I started another one this morning and remembered that it was crap. With the getting started workout I'm definitely raising my heart rate a lot higher than the others. So I'll do that until I get my BL dvds.
I'm refocusing my efforts on my eating. I've joined myfitnesspal.com (which is a whole heck of a lot more user friendly than spark people) and I'm going to start tracking my food. My biggest frustration is that because of my size, I'm only supposed to have 1200 calories/day (in order to lose LESS THAN 1 pound/week). Thats what? Like an apple & a salad? Ridiculous. I'm an eater - I can put the food down and not feel hungry afterward. I need to stick with this and get myself disciplined again. I think not running will help me with that because I won't have a constant built in excuse to eat more. I'm going to try to get a little more protein in my day because it is something that I really lack... so tuna will now be my best friend.
I just want to lose these last 5-10 pounds that I've struggled to get off while training for races. I'm comfortable at 125, but I've been hovering between 125 & 127 for a long time. I would lOVE to get to 115, but never have and am never committed to doing what it takes to get there. Ideally, if I could hover between 118-123, I'd be happy.
Time: 25:00
Weight: 125.6
Last week was an epic fail in terms of working out. Actually, I think I worked out 3 days, but ended the week with a big goose egg. The tendon around my right knee is hurting a lot and I felt like I had strained my hamstrings. I was pretty much a mess, so I opted to stay in bed and rest. And then, because I'm brilliant, I ate garbage all weekend long. Like cookies, chocolate, M&Ms, parmesan bread sticks, chicken nuggets, french fries and a frostry. Pretty much if it was healthy, it wasn't going into my body. Horrifying how I lose self control so easily and excuse myself from getting back on track until Monday.
Saturday I really didn't miss running 10 miles, but I did miss burning the 1000 calories and I missed that pride that I did something ridiculously hard (for me). I'm realizing that I have a completely different self-confidence when I've run, than when I'm taking time off. I feel strong and confident and accomplished when I've run. When I haven't, I struggle to feel good about myself. I need to get over that.
Last week I ordered 3 Biggest Loser dvd's - Boot Camp, 30 Day Shred, & Cardio Max. I figure if Jillian Michaels can kick my butt in yoga for 30 minutes, she most certainly will kick my butt in cardio. I can't wait - because I need something hard core.
I did the getting started workout on my Tae Bo Get Ripped dvd. After futzing around with different Tae Bo dvd's this morning, I finally found the one that I used to feel was the most effective. It seems contradictory that the getting started workout should be the best workout, rather than the two advanced workouts, but it definitely is. I did one of the advanced workouts last week and hardly felt like I raised my heart rate. I started another one this morning and remembered that it was crap. With the getting started workout I'm definitely raising my heart rate a lot higher than the others. So I'll do that until I get my BL dvds.
I'm refocusing my efforts on my eating. I've joined myfitnesspal.com (which is a whole heck of a lot more user friendly than spark people) and I'm going to start tracking my food. My biggest frustration is that because of my size, I'm only supposed to have 1200 calories/day (in order to lose LESS THAN 1 pound/week). Thats what? Like an apple & a salad? Ridiculous. I'm an eater - I can put the food down and not feel hungry afterward. I need to stick with this and get myself disciplined again. I think not running will help me with that because I won't have a constant built in excuse to eat more. I'm going to try to get a little more protein in my day because it is something that I really lack... so tuna will now be my best friend.
I just want to lose these last 5-10 pounds that I've struggled to get off while training for races. I'm comfortable at 125, but I've been hovering between 125 & 127 for a long time. I would lOVE to get to 115, but never have and am never committed to doing what it takes to get there. Ideally, if I could hover between 118-123, I'd be happy.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Monday March 14, 2011
Workout: Tae Bo Total Fat Blaster
Time: 55:00
Weight: 124.8
I have officially dropped out of training for the River Bank Run. And I have stopped running entirely at least until Easter (although I may give in and run once while Dave and I stay downtown over my birthday). This is kind of drastic for me, but it needs to happen.
Last Tuesday I ran 5 miles and felt really good about it. Wednesday morning when I woke up - before I even left my bed - I could feel that my ankles were sore and the bottoms of my feet were sore. Really sore. Really painful. So I need a break. I believe I need new shoes, too, but I don't think that new shoes will magically make my ankles & feet feel better - I think I need to take a break and let them rest and then I can try new shoes and try to run again.
Regardless, I'm in desperate need of a change in my thinking about everything anyway. I've gotten too high maintenance with my running, which ultimately drives me crazy. Mapping out runs, making schedules, being overly concerned with pace, trying to put the pieces of a puzzle together to figure out how this affects that. I know that these are my issues and I need to step back from them and get a little more balance back.
So I thought about when I first started getting in shape after each of my pregnancies. Because thats when I just worked out and dieted to lose the weight. Three years ago I decided that I wanted to "be a runner" and have been doing that ever since and have had tunnel vision, which has not been good. I've gotten out of balance in my fitness - I've let weight training be a non-existent part of my routine and I can feel that I've lost a lot of strength. I've focused so much on running, running, running and getting better at that, that I've lost the real focus: being healthy.
I came up with the following schedule (because I want to make sure I work out every day and try to get enough cardio & enough weight training in):
M/W/F - Tae Bo
T/Th - Jillian Michaels yoga + push ups, squats, situps
S - P90x yoga
In addition, I would really like to get out of the house every night around 8:00 and go for a 2-3 mile walk. I really, REALLY wish this was something that Dave and I could do together, but not entirely sure that I feel comfortable leaving the girls home by themselves (Nora is only 9 1/2). My grandparents walked together every night - I want it to just be a part of our lives, but I also know that it is going to be difficult to push myself to leave the house at 8 as that is the time that I want to just sit.
Those are my plans.
So I did Tae Bo total fat blaster or whatever this morning. I now remember that I did not like that workout. It uses resistance bands and I never felt like I was getting a good cardio workout. Wednesday I'll try to Get Ripped video again.
Time: 55:00
Weight: 124.8
I have officially dropped out of training for the River Bank Run. And I have stopped running entirely at least until Easter (although I may give in and run once while Dave and I stay downtown over my birthday). This is kind of drastic for me, but it needs to happen.
Last Tuesday I ran 5 miles and felt really good about it. Wednesday morning when I woke up - before I even left my bed - I could feel that my ankles were sore and the bottoms of my feet were sore. Really sore. Really painful. So I need a break. I believe I need new shoes, too, but I don't think that new shoes will magically make my ankles & feet feel better - I think I need to take a break and let them rest and then I can try new shoes and try to run again.
Regardless, I'm in desperate need of a change in my thinking about everything anyway. I've gotten too high maintenance with my running, which ultimately drives me crazy. Mapping out runs, making schedules, being overly concerned with pace, trying to put the pieces of a puzzle together to figure out how this affects that. I know that these are my issues and I need to step back from them and get a little more balance back.
So I thought about when I first started getting in shape after each of my pregnancies. Because thats when I just worked out and dieted to lose the weight. Three years ago I decided that I wanted to "be a runner" and have been doing that ever since and have had tunnel vision, which has not been good. I've gotten out of balance in my fitness - I've let weight training be a non-existent part of my routine and I can feel that I've lost a lot of strength. I've focused so much on running, running, running and getting better at that, that I've lost the real focus: being healthy.
I came up with the following schedule (because I want to make sure I work out every day and try to get enough cardio & enough weight training in):
M/W/F - Tae Bo
T/Th - Jillian Michaels yoga + push ups, squats, situps
S - P90x yoga
In addition, I would really like to get out of the house every night around 8:00 and go for a 2-3 mile walk. I really, REALLY wish this was something that Dave and I could do together, but not entirely sure that I feel comfortable leaving the girls home by themselves (Nora is only 9 1/2). My grandparents walked together every night - I want it to just be a part of our lives, but I also know that it is going to be difficult to push myself to leave the house at 8 as that is the time that I want to just sit.
Those are my plans.
So I did Tae Bo total fat blaster or whatever this morning. I now remember that I did not like that workout. It uses resistance bands and I never felt like I was getting a good cardio workout. Wednesday I'll try to Get Ripped video again.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Tuesday March 8, 2011
Workout: 5 miles
Incline: 2%
Time: 48:19
Pace: 9:40 (average)
Weight: 125.6
Just a normal run. Fine.
My feet have been hurting again. Making me rethink running - again. Just have to figure out if this is worth it. I don't want to be in pain all the time. Also thinking I need new shoes, but not eager to go out and spend $120 on them.
Incline: 2%
Time: 48:19
Pace: 9:40 (average)
Weight: 125.6
Just a normal run. Fine.
My feet have been hurting again. Making me rethink running - again. Just have to figure out if this is worth it. I don't want to be in pain all the time. Also thinking I need new shoes, but not eager to go out and spend $120 on them.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Monday March 7, 2011
Workout: stairs 30:00 + PU/SQU
Weight: 126.2
First day of my new schedule and my new workouts. I stayed home this morning and climbed our basement stairs for 30:00. It was boring, but I was going to do the stairmill at the gym on Mondays anyway, so I opted to stay home and try this. It was fine. I need a new playlist though, because listening to my running playlist when I'm not running really sucks.
I also did Week 1 Day 1 of pushups & squats. I did the following:
PU:
10, 12, 9, 9, max (12) with a 60 sec rest between sets
Squats:
13, 16, 9, 9, max (50) with a 60 sec rest between sets & an 8lb dumbell in each hand.
I will run 5 miles tomorrow morning & do situps (I'm going to do knee ups because of my tailbone).
On a side note: my in-laws moved back to town over the weekend and we were there Sat & Sun helping them unpack and am going back this afternoon. I'm going to get fat if I don't watch out - they eat crap and I'm going to have to be extremely diligent about not eating it when I'm there. I may have to bring some food with me, because I don't think I'll ever find a fruit or vegetable in their house unless I walk it through the door;) Am I wrong, Amy?
Weight: 126.2
First day of my new schedule and my new workouts. I stayed home this morning and climbed our basement stairs for 30:00. It was boring, but I was going to do the stairmill at the gym on Mondays anyway, so I opted to stay home and try this. It was fine. I need a new playlist though, because listening to my running playlist when I'm not running really sucks.
I also did Week 1 Day 1 of pushups & squats. I did the following:
PU:
10, 12, 9, 9, max (12) with a 60 sec rest between sets
Squats:
13, 16, 9, 9, max (50) with a 60 sec rest between sets & an 8lb dumbell in each hand.
I will run 5 miles tomorrow morning & do situps (I'm going to do knee ups because of my tailbone).
On a side note: my in-laws moved back to town over the weekend and we were there Sat & Sun helping them unpack and am going back this afternoon. I'm going to get fat if I don't watch out - they eat crap and I'm going to have to be extremely diligent about not eating it when I'm there. I may have to bring some food with me, because I don't think I'll ever find a fruit or vegetable in their house unless I walk it through the door;) Am I wrong, Amy?
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Saturday March 5, 2011
Workout: Long run - 7 miles
Time: 68:35
Incline: 2%
Pace: 9:47 (average)
Weight: 126.6
This run was awesome. I felt really good throughout the entire run - felt like I could run for hours, but I started chaffing under my left arm and had to stop. It is a step down week and the calendar said only 5-6 miles, but I felt so good I ran the extra mile and definitely felt like I could have run at least 3-4 more. I ran the first 3 at 10:00/ and the middle 2 at 9:40/ and the last 2 at 9:30/.
I watched The Sting with Robert Redford & Paul Newman while I was running. It was a very pleasant way to pass the time.
Wondering if cutting down my running days has been the reason I've felt so good in these last two runs. I think maybe I'll cut down to 3 days/ week and see how that goes. That way I can do a normal run at the beginning of the week of 4-5 miles, a tempo in the middle of the week and a long run on Saturday. I'll cross train and do yoga on the other days. And do my PU/SQU/SU challenge. I'll sit down this week and figure out the timing of it all, but that sounds good - I like how I've felt on these last two runs.
Time: 68:35
Incline: 2%
Pace: 9:47 (average)
Weight: 126.6
This run was awesome. I felt really good throughout the entire run - felt like I could run for hours, but I started chaffing under my left arm and had to stop. It is a step down week and the calendar said only 5-6 miles, but I felt so good I ran the extra mile and definitely felt like I could have run at least 3-4 more. I ran the first 3 at 10:00/ and the middle 2 at 9:40/ and the last 2 at 9:30/.
I watched The Sting with Robert Redford & Paul Newman while I was running. It was a very pleasant way to pass the time.
Wondering if cutting down my running days has been the reason I've felt so good in these last two runs. I think maybe I'll cut down to 3 days/ week and see how that goes. That way I can do a normal run at the beginning of the week of 4-5 miles, a tempo in the middle of the week and a long run on Saturday. I'll cross train and do yoga on the other days. And do my PU/SQU/SU challenge. I'll sit down this week and figure out the timing of it all, but that sounds good - I like how I've felt on these last two runs.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Thursday March 3, 2011
Workout: tempo run - 6.5 miles total
Incline: 2%
Time: 62:07
Weight: 126.2
Workout as follows:
1 mile warm up (10:00)
[8:00 RP (9:13), 3:00 recover (10:00)] x 3
2 mile cool down (9:30-9:50)
This went really well. Probably due to getting adequate sleep for the last couple of nights, skipping a run yesterday and running at 5:00 in the afternoon. I felt awesome, though.
I set up a playlist that matched the timing of this workout and I ran to the songs, rather than to the time. So my RP times were usually longer than 8:00 - by maybe 30 seconds. The last tempo set, I punched it up to an 8:57 pace and ran a full mile at that instead of stopping at 8 minutes. I felt awesome. Dave had told me that the run was tough and he was really tired and the 2 mile cool down was nearly torture, so I was expecting horror, however, I felt amazing the whole time.
Next week I'm going to start a push up / squat / sit up challenge. Six weeks of training to get to the point of doing 100 consecutive push ups, 200 consecutive squats & 200 consecutive sit ups. There is a 3 day/week training schedule. I'm going to try to keep up with the long runs on Saturdays, do the tempo run and do one other run during the week. I'll also do some cross training in addition to the PU/SQ/SU training. I'm pretty excited to be challenged by this and feel like by doing it I'll be hitting every muscle group and gaining a lot of strength that I've lost by focusing only on running. I need to get some muscle back!
Incline: 2%
Time: 62:07
Weight: 126.2
Workout as follows:
1 mile warm up (10:00)
[8:00 RP (9:13), 3:00 recover (10:00)] x 3
2 mile cool down (9:30-9:50)
This went really well. Probably due to getting adequate sleep for the last couple of nights, skipping a run yesterday and running at 5:00 in the afternoon. I felt awesome, though.
I set up a playlist that matched the timing of this workout and I ran to the songs, rather than to the time. So my RP times were usually longer than 8:00 - by maybe 30 seconds. The last tempo set, I punched it up to an 8:57 pace and ran a full mile at that instead of stopping at 8 minutes. I felt awesome. Dave had told me that the run was tough and he was really tired and the 2 mile cool down was nearly torture, so I was expecting horror, however, I felt amazing the whole time.
Next week I'm going to start a push up / squat / sit up challenge. Six weeks of training to get to the point of doing 100 consecutive push ups, 200 consecutive squats & 200 consecutive sit ups. There is a 3 day/week training schedule. I'm going to try to keep up with the long runs on Saturdays, do the tempo run and do one other run during the week. I'll also do some cross training in addition to the PU/SQ/SU training. I'm pretty excited to be challenged by this and feel like by doing it I'll be hitting every muscle group and gaining a lot of strength that I've lost by focusing only on running. I need to get some muscle back!
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