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.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
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.
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