Tuesday November 22, 2011

catchup since the last post


Friday - p90x back & legs
Still really love this workout.  I love burning my legs out like that - it doesn't happen often.  The workout itself is also enjoyable.


Had a meltdown on Friday morning... I put my jeans from last year on and they were too tight, so I put the next size up and those were also too tight.  I'm not that much heavier...  just amazing what a difference 5lbs makes on my body.  So i spent the morning feeling crappy and discouraged.  As my friend says, I feel like I'm ugly-Jana right now.  I have a horrible, horrible haircut that makes me want to cry every morning, I don't fit in my clothes, and I'm constantly sore.  I'm frustrated because I'm putting in SO.MUCH. effort for little to no results.  I work harder and more consistently than most people that I know, I'm very disciplined with my eating M-F.  So it must be the weekends, I don't know - I just know that something needs to change.


Saturday - 5k
Ran a 5k with Dave and Nora.  It was so much fun.  Nora was excited to do it and it was really hard for her.  We were running s.l.o.w.  Dave and I both felt like we weren't actually running :)  Nora needed a walking break at 7:30, so we walked for 1 minute, then ran for another 7 1/2 minutes.  She was crying and very upset at that point.  I'm not sure what she was crying about, but we did our best to distract her and get her through it.  She had a rough time, but she completed it and I am so, so proud of her!  Our final (unofficial - they didn't officially time the race) was 37:20.  I had a blast and I'm so happy that we did it and so excited for Nora that she actually did a race and that she gutted through it and got it done!


Monday - p90x chest/shoulders/triceps
I hate this workout.  Hate it.  And it tweaks my right elbow/tendon, which makes me hate it even more.  I feel incredibly inadequate throughout the whole workout, but I know its important so I will keep going.


Tuesday - Run 3 miles
I've decided to eliminate the t/th/s p90x workouts and run 3 miles instead.  There are a few reasons for this.
1) I need to do some real cardio and condition my heart to get my heart rate down
2) running in addition to the p90x workouts was making me way too tired
3) I think I might be exercising more/harder than what I realize and not eating enough (based on a couple of things I read online recently)
4) I want to love running again and I think I'm ready to do it


I also bought a heart rate monitor yesterday with my kohl's cash, so as soon as I get that I'll have a better idea of how many calories I'm actually burning (saw something on myfitnesspal that p90x yoga burns 270 calories... but if i enter it it says much less.  There is also no way to enter the p90x workouts anywhere.  I think that I need to have a more accurate reading of how hard I'm actually working and eat based on that.  I also think it would be good to run based on my heart rate, rather than killing myself to keep up with my music.  


Lots of thoughts lately... Regardless, I just want to get out of this ugly-Jana stage and feeling.  It is going to take time to lose 5lbs & for my hair to grow out :)

Monday November 14, 2011

Catchup since last Wednesday


Thursday - KenPoX
I switched out the normally scheduled yoga and did KenpoX instead.  I love Kenpo.  Its fun and it goes super quick.


Friday - Back & Legs
I enjoy back & legs, but I feel like I lost some strength during the recovery week because I wasn't able to do as many pullups as previous times.  I so rarely feel like my legs get a really decent workout, and this workout does it.


Saturday - stairs
I did not run on Friday because I knew I was doing the stairs the next day.  


The Tieri's came for the weekend and I brought Jason to the stairs on Saturday morning.  It was awesome - I love the stairs!  Its such an awesome workout and its really different.  I want to incorporate it in some more, just not sure how.  This was the first time I've done the stairs with someone and it was fun to talk while we did it.  And it was fun to kick his butt on the last set of running :)  


Today - Monday - P90x Shoulders/Triceps/Shoulders
Ugh, this is so hard!  There are so many slow and weird pushups in this workout, my arms are still really, really tired and it has been almost 6 hours since I did the workout.  I also ran for 30:00 / 2.75 miles right afterward.  My heart rate was around 174 at a pace of 5.5 or 10:54/mile.  I'm not thrilled with slowing down my pace so much, but I had to remind myself that I was running in order to condition my cardiovascular system, not as a training or distance thing.  


Ate a lot of garbage food this weekend - pizza, candy, chicken wings, cake.  My weight WAS down to 126.6 on Saturday, but this morning was back up to 128.0, which is actually not too bad given how much junk I ate.  I'm kind of thinking about counting calories instead of doing weight watchers points.  Jason said that it works really well for him.  I don't know why it is so different for me and why I hate the calories vs. doing the points.  Maybe I could do it without having to enter everything into the computer - I could keep a running total on paper, like I do with points.  Maybe that would work.

Monday November , 2011

Workout: P90x Chest, Shoulders, Triceps


New workout this morning - I hate it when they're new - I fall behind because I don't know what I'm doing.  My arms are pretty much achy and tired right now.  Not sure what I thought about this one...  I do feel like I was pretty weak in my ability to do (or not do) pushups.  I felt really, really not strong this morning.


I'm going to try to get a run in this afternoon and make today a 2-a-day.  I don't want to kill myself with all of this, but I'm really disturbed and frustrated with my lack of cardiovascular ability and want to get some conditioning in throughout the week.  So I'm going to try to get a running workout in on the days that p90x is weight training.  So I'm thinking my schedule will look like:

M - Chest/Shoulders/Tris + 30:00 run
T - Plyometrics
W - Back & Biceps + 30:00 run
Th - Kenpo (switching kenpo & yoga due to time)
F - Legs & Back + 30:00 run
S - Yoga 


It might be kind of crappy, but I'm going to try to do it.