'A' lifter

I know I haven't posted in a while. I have been working out. I've been trying to go to bed earlier though. I did have a bit of a rough week last week. I went to Zumba and I did weights, once maybe. Anyway, I went today. I went with intentions to do my triceps and chest.  When I go there I ran in to Alice. (Zumba instructor/friend)
Love Alice, like me, she wasn't super feelin' her routine. So we finished what the routine's we had planned. And then her Jessica assasination went into action. She says to me, "Ya wanna do abs? I these great moves Dawn taught me." This should've been a warning to me as opposed to an invitation. So we do some ab works. Now mind you, I have no ab strength AT ALL!!  So Alice showed me some great moves to strengthen my abs. Then she says to me... How about some legs moves?!?  So we do these simple, no brainer, no weights, leg moves. I AM NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO MOVE TOMORROW!!!  Thank you Alice. We did 'a' lifter that will make me drop tomorrow. There will be not lifting. hahah... Anyway, Zumba tomorrow. Tamara's class. We'll see if I can function. 

HUGE Mistake

So, I didn't work out that much this weekend. I say that, and I did go to a two hour Zumbathon Saturday night. But that's all I did. And those of you that have been following know that's really not a lot for me. I made a HUGE mistake of stepping on the scale Saturday morning. I know, I know, I said I wasn't going to do it till the 30th, but I did. Well, huge mistake. And I was pissed. So pissed that I stomped over to my mommy's house and cried in her lap. I know my body's changing. My 'can't fit into my pants anymore, they're too small' pants have turned into, 'I can't fit into my pants anymore, they're too big' pants. So obviously good is happening here. But dammit, if that scale didn't get the best of me this weekend. 
But I did go back in today.

I did a lower body workout. (I don't have my details sitting here)
And I went to Zumba!!!

My little one is sick (bladder infection) so my schedule's been a little off. Luckily, my hub-dub stepped up to the plate and I still got to make it to the gym. NO EXCUSES!!

It's quitting time

You know when you get to that point where you're tired, and your body aches? And you think to yourself, I should probably take a break. Maybe I'll take the next couple of days. Then the next couple of days turns into... I'll just go back next Monday. Then it's crap, I haven't been in two weeks. Then 6 months later you think, I should go back to the gym, I was doing really well for a while there, etc. etc. Well, I feel like I'm at those crossroads. My body hurts like a son of a bitch. Like seriously, my butt, my knees, my arms, I hurt. I've been going nonstop. I should take a break, give my body a chance to catch up. Hell no!!!! I've got a goal to meet. I've got to do this. There is no way after all this, that I'm giving up. I take my rest days. I don't take them consecutively because that's where I falter. And I still do some type of activity on those days. It's just not super strenuous. So I'm still in it. I guess, just whining a bit. I think that's ok. I don't do much whining on here.

So today's activities:
2.5 mile run this morning (5am)
1hr Alice' Zumba class

And back and biceps:
Hammer Strength Lat Pull down: 3 sets: 45x12/ 55x12/ 55x10
Wide Grip lat pull down: 3 sets: 70x10/ 80x10/ 80x10
Seated Narrow Grip Cable Rows: 60x12/ 60x10/ 60x10 <-- Love these
Bent over Barbell Row: 3 sets: 40x10/ 40x10/ 40x10
Back Extensions: 3 sets: 10/ 10/ 10
Barbell curl: 3 sets: 20x10/ 30x10/ 30x10
Incline Dumbbell curl: 3 sets: 10x10/ 10x10/ 10x10
Alternate Hammer Curl: 3 sets:12.5x10/ 12.5x10

I've still been keeping up with my eating well too. I find that I'm eating a lot of chicken and salad. I eat other things too but I eat that a lot. And egg whites, OMG I can eat through a carton of eggs like there's no tomorrow. I still don't think I'm getting in enough carbs. I'm not talking the unhealthy white carbs, I'm talking whole grains, fruits, wheat, and such. I need to work that in more. I've been eating a bowl of oatmeal for breakfast with Xylitol Brown sugar sprinkled on it. So that's a little, but that's pretty much it.  hmmm... how to work in more carbs.

Night night

Little changes

SO excited to be back in Tamara's Zumba class tonight after 2 months. I missed her...  a lot!!  She's amazing. A great instructor, and a great person. I'm so glad to be back. She had a lot of new songs. Reminded me what a real ass-kicken feels like.

So after Zumba I did my lower body workout. Little changes happening in the routine.

Leg extensions: 3 sets: 55lbsx12/ 55x10/ 55x10
Wide stance Barbell squat: 3 sets: 70x10/ 70x10/ 70x10
Barbell lunges: 3 sets: 20x10/ 20x10/ 20x10 (I hate lunges)
Barbell deadlift: 3 sets: 40x10/ 40x10/ 40x10
Leg Lift: 3 sets: 80x12/ 80x12/ 70x10 (oops too many reps on the first 2)
Seated Calf raises: 3 sets: 40x10/ 40x10/ 40x10
Standing calf raises: 3 sets: 40x10/ 40x10/ 40x10

So I have a short term weight loss goal of 10% by October 31st. But I'm going to try to only weight myself once a month. eeeek!!  The scale makes me crazy! So I'm only going to use it on the 30th of each month. That's it!

Rest Day

Today was a rest day.  So I cleaned the shit out of a house for 5 hours straight. Very restful.

Food Help!

I am so tired tonight. But I have to post because I didn't last night and I don't want y'all to think I'm not doing anything.
Yesterday, Frank and I went on a running date. That's what I call them because it's time alone with each other with the kids being watched. We ended up running around the streets of his parents neighborhood. 2.5 miles in 38 minutes, I think. It was a great run. I didn't start to get fatigued or hurt in any way until the last quarter mile or so. Other than that I just felt like we were out for a leisurely stroll at, for me, a relatively fast pace of 15:30 (or so).

Then today:
We went to Zumba class.
Then I worked shoulders and abs...

Dumbbell bench press: 3 sets: 12.5lbsx12/ 12.5x 12/ 12.5x12
Front dumbbell front raise: 3 sets: 10x12/ 10x12/ 10x12
Side lat raises: 3 sets: 7.5x12/ 7.5x12/ 7.5x12
Bent over pec fly: 3sets: 10x12/ 10x12/ 10x12
Ball Crunches: 3sets: 12/ 12/ 12
Bicycle crunches: 3 sets: 12/ 12/ 12

Then I walked to My girlfriends house to hang out for a while and catch up and walked back which turned out to be 2.2miles.

Then when I got home we rearranged the girls room.

So needless to say, I exhausted. And it's going to be a long night.
We're putting Lu in a Toddler bed tonight, so everybody keep your fingers crossed, say your prayers, and be prepared with hazelnut coffee tomorrow morning, that it goes well.

I'm still doing well with my eating. Friday night we ate the in laws and they ordered Chinese food. So I just ate a portion of the food. I did eat two dumplings though. I'm finding that I have an issue when I'm eating healthy options that I don't eat enough. I have my 6 meals a day, of protein, veggies, and some sort of starch (normally fruit) but at the end of the day (when I'm logging my food) I have boo-koo calories left over. I'm going to log this whole week and then see what... somebody says. I'll have to track down a reliable food diary checker overer person. (Dawn, Vicky, Yvonne, Alice) hmm... any takers???

1800lbs????

So I watched this guy work out tonight. And quite frankly he scared me. Not as in, oh gosh I hope I don't run into him outside of the gym scared, but a OMG we're going to have to call an ambulance when this guy crushes his skull scared. I get it that everyone has their own workout, but this guy was flying through his sets with the whole "look what I can do" thing going on. Then he gets on the leg press he puts 4 45lb weights up there, speeds the 5 or 6 reps, then he puts 4 more, same thing. His last set, I am not lying, he had every 45 lb weight that I could see in the weight room. 40x 45 lb weighs on the leg press. 20 on each side. That's what... 45 x 40... 1800lbs... that can't be right... maybe I miss counted one side. but i know he had at least 20 on one side. WTF?!!?  Would you leg press that much?!?!  And he wasn't a big guy. I mean he wasn't a beginner by any means, but he wasn't somebody that should be leg pressing 1800 lbs. There were these other two guys on the other hand... OMG I could see them leg pressing 1800lbs, but they seem better trained than that. They walked in, I had never seen them before, but they pretty much owned the joint. They were wearing their tapout shirts (woudn't suprise me if they actually were tapout guys). They were spotting each other. Doing everything right. Ok, let me stop... They were freakin' HOT!!  That's all. the end

My workout tonight was:
1 hour of ass kickin', instructors going home for birthday cake eatin' Zumba class!!  She was seriously celebrating her birthday Zumba style. It was awesome!!!

Then I did lower body
Leg Press: 3 Sets: 160lbsx12/ 160x12/ 160x12
Leg extension: 3 Sets: 55x12/ 65x12/ 55x12
Wide stance Barbell Squat: 3 Sets: 60x12/ 60x12/ 60x12
Seated Leg Curl: 3 Sets: 70x12/ 70x12/ 70x12
Standing Calf Raises: 3 sets: 40x12/ 40x12/ 40x12
Seated Calf Raises: 3 sets: 50x12/ 50x12/ 40x12

My little runner girl

I had a great workout tonight. When I first got home Caroline and Frank and I went up to the track to run.  I don't normally take Caroline to the track to run becasue she gets "tired' or has to pee about 5 minutes after we get there.  But she recently expressed a desire to run with me. After explaining to her that she wouldn't really be able to run with me at this point because she gets exhausted quickly and needs to work up to where I am (which isn't much), she told me that she wants to do it. So I decided today that we'd put Lu in the nursery and take Caroline with us. So we got there and Frank did his own thing. And I stretched with Caroline, trying to show her how to properly stretch as opposed to just flopping around.  Then we started on a very slow jog, and of course she sped up and then waited for me and then ran up to Frank. And then she ran up a down the bleachers like Frank did. Then she stopped for water. Then she ran another lap the other way. and then sat and waited for us to get around the track and then she got a crick in her neck so she had to pour water on it to fix it. haha. Meanwhile I ran 3/4 of a mile before stopping to help her stretch so she wouldn't try to go further than she should. But I was very proud of her. She did end up running 1/2 a mile plus one set of bleachers. And then she asked if she could Zumba when we got home. Of course, I told her no because she had to eat dinner and get ready for bed. But the fact that running motivated her to want to do more and not to do nothing, was super exciting to me. I love my little girl. I am concerned, and if anybody reading this can tell me what to do or where to look into this. When she stretches she has a very hard time straightening out. I try to straighten her out, with our morning yoga and with stretching for running and she has the hardest time straightening out to do any stretches. I don't know if this is just because she's young and has a case of the lazies when it comes to stretching, and will get better as she does it more or if it's something that I should consider getting the dr to look at. The only reason that I am the slightest bit concerned is because of my scoliosis as well as my grandmothers.  Mine is slight and has never been a cause for concern for my doctors, but I do have it none the less.

Anyway, my strength workout tonight was back and biceps:
Wide-grip Lat Pull-down: 3sets: 70lbsx12/ 70x12/ 70x12
One-arm Dumbbell Row: 3sets: 10x12/ 710x12/ 10x12
Seated cable Row: 3 sets: 60x12/ 70x12/ 70x12
Underhand cable pull down: 3 sets: 50x12/ 50x12/ 50x12
Alternating dumbbell curl: 3 sets: 10x12/ 10x12/ 10x12
One-arm dumbbell preacher curl: 3 sets: 10x12/ 10x12/ 10x12
Standing bicep cable curl: 3 sets: 20x12/ 20x12/ 20x12

Have a good night.

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor day. I had the day off... and so did all of the groupX instructors.  Good for them. really really that's good that they get to spend time with their families on holidays.  I didn't let it stop me though. I went this morning and drug my mom off the couch and took her to the gym with me. 

7 minutes treadmill warm-up

Wide pushup(on knees): 2 sets: 12/9
Barbel Bench Press: 3 sets: 20lbsx12/ 20x12/ 20x12
Cable Flys: 3 sets: 15x12/ 15x12/ 15x12
Tricep dumbell Extension: 3 sets: 10x12/ 10x12/ 10x12
Tricep Pushdown: 3 sets: 15x12/ 15x12/ 15x12

4.4 mile 20:42 mins stationary bike

I did good with my eating today too.  Frank made macaroni with marinara for dinner. So I had a very tiny serving (so to not offend) and a very large salad. I also passed on icecream AGAIN.

Good day!!!

Today was a great day.  My daughter had her first sleepover last night. Surprisingly, I did sleep, but it was a pretty early morning. We went to church, came home for lunch and nap time, and then headed to the gym. I took an hour Zumba class. The instructor was someone I have never taken before.  She was so much fun. She was very systematic in her steps, but had a smile on her face the whole time. It was so much fun. Then I did my strength training.

Dumbbell bench press: 3 sets: 10lbsx12/ 10x 12/ 10x12
Front dumbbell front raise: 3 sets: 7.5x12/ 7.5x12/ 7.5x12
Side lat raises: 3 sets: 5x12/ 5x12/ 5x12
Bent over pec fly: 3sets: 7.5x12/ 7.5x12/ 7.5x12
Ball Crunches: 3sets: 12/ 12/ 12
Bicycle crunches: 3 sets: 12/ 12/ 12
Plank:18 count

And then we left the Y and went swimmin' at a friends house. So activity level was good today.

My eating today was great!!
I had my square meals. protein, veggies, fruit, no creamy dressings, no deserts at the bbq, no casseroles, or bad sides.  I feel really proud of what I did today.

I have a pain in my shoulder blade right now that's shooting straight to my elbow. So I've taken some pain reliever and am going to put some heat on it.

Night night.

Get my mind in the game.

Today was a fun workout day.  Not that I don't enjoy all of my workouts, but today Frank and I went and played raquetball. We're not very good at it, but we're nonstop the whole time we're on the court. I definitely got my heart rate up.  It was awesome.

On a different note, I ate like shit yesterday.  I really have to get my mind right when it comes to eating. I feel like I need to do a cleanse. Not a crazy, don't eat anything for a month cleanse, but a not exceptions, veggies, and protein cleanse. I need to do something to jumpstart me back on the losing of the weight.