Monday June 6, 2011

Workout: 2 1/2 miles barefoot 
Yoga for Flexibility
push up challenge


Ugh, everything about me this morning was painful... waking up, back, shoulders, ankles, calves, shins.  I didn't sleep well at all last night - full night of tossing and turning & restlessness.  Hamster is dying and I felt like I was thinking about that all night.  Got up to workout at 5:50 because I was awake anyway.  


Running barefoot was fine.  I felt pain all throughout my lower legs - shins & ankles, but over time it dissipates and moves somewhere else.  Still interesting to realize how much more I can evaluate how I'm really feeling while I'm running, simply because I'm running slower & easier.  Heart rate was consistently in the upper 150's.  I"m going to stay at 5.0 this week yet and if it is still in the 150's, I'd like to move up to maybe 5.5 and see how that goes.


Pushup challenge was a challenge.  Sets were 14, 14, 10, 10, max (at least 15).  I maxed at 15 and that was a struggle.  I was struggling through the first set of 14.  Last week seemed pretty easy, this was pretty difficult.  


I did not do the entire Yoga dvd because I had such an incredible kink in my neck that I couldn't turn my head.  It was hurting pretty bad throughout my run, too.  I got through all of the sun salutations, but stopped after doing the hamstrings stretches at the end.  I really didn't cut that much out, I guess.  The sun salutations were also somewhat difficult this morning because my body was already tired and I had just exhausted my arms on the pushup challenge... downward dog takes a lot of arm strength and was hard to do this morning.


Better workout on the horizon tomorrow - hopefully a better night of sleep tonight. 

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?