This week I have to sift my focus onto working out my mind and planning for the next months ahead.
My body is suffering and working out has been limited to low intensity cardio.
Today I was supposed to go workout but I wake up with a nasty head cold and losing my voice.
So I decided to put my mind into high gear and workout some other things that will help me in the coming months.
In the past when I am not feeling well, I would go for a swim in the pool of pity... it has wave after wave of poor me I can not workout so sit and be lazy and it also has a riptide pulling me back into the eat whatever you want because you are not feeling well.
This is the first time that I have stopped myself from entering the pool of pity....and I am finally getting the big picture. My body is trying to tell me something....rest and take this time to preplan some future workout activities and how to stay focused during the summer months.
So for the past few days I have been looking ahead and seeing what I did wrong last year and how to improve myself while getting closer to my goals.
This summer I have arranged to include a more defined plan for me to workout while enjoying the summer instead of having no plan and just seeing how the day goes,hoping to squeeze a workout in .
For this to work and not feel guilty about the time I am spending on myself, the plan is to include my family in the workouts.
One of the workouts that I have arranged is to go trail running/walking with my oldest girl once a week for the summer.
Another workout with my youngest girl is to do a 9km bike ride around our area weekly, it involves a few hills and is quite a challenge.
I am also allowing myself one workout a week to try something new be it a dvd workout, ladder workout or a class at my local gym, hopefully one of these will become a new passion for me.
Vacation talk has already begun and if we go back to Vegas again I have a better plan of action.
Getting up early and doing some workout(cardio atleast) before breakfast will allow me to keep on track and not interfere with our family plans.
Making healthier choices at meal times will be my main goal which will be hard but it will be done.
I have also found a great website that I can book a 2-3 hour hike in the mountains in Vegas....they actually pick you up at the hotel supply lunch and it sounds like such fun.
The great thing also about the hiking website is I have to prebook...so no backing out !!!
This summer is shaping up to be great and keeping myself focusing on myself becoming great also is the plan....whats yours?????
fail to plan is planning to fail
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
New workout toy
Just a quick update for you.
I have just bought another piece of gym equipment to help me on the days that it is raining out and when the treadmill just looks like a piece of torture equipment.
I bought a six foot slide board.
It was over a hundred dollars and came with black booties.
Today I managed to give it a try and wow what fun it was.
I wish I had bought it sooner...it hardly seems like working out at all.
This will keep me going when I have my days of wanting just to lay on the couch.
I was only able to do 10 full minutes of back and forth but wow did I ever feel it in my legs after.
I now plan on adding this to my list of fun intense workouts that I do weekly.
I have just bought another piece of gym equipment to help me on the days that it is raining out and when the treadmill just looks like a piece of torture equipment.
I bought a six foot slide board.
It was over a hundred dollars and came with black booties.
Today I managed to give it a try and wow what fun it was.
I wish I had bought it sooner...it hardly seems like working out at all.
This will keep me going when I have my days of wanting just to lay on the couch.
I was only able to do 10 full minutes of back and forth but wow did I ever feel it in my legs after.
I now plan on adding this to my list of fun intense workouts that I do weekly.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday's Workout
Yesterday my workout was called the stairway to hell part three.
The workout involved stairs of course and what I call full burpees. The full burpees are also known as lay down stand ups on X-Weighted(a tv weight loss show here in Canada).
Before I began this workout I always do the same warm up of the day to loosen my tight muscles and to get focused.
Here are some of the warm up exercises before I do my main workout:
arm circles,scorpions,lunges,toy soliders,turkish getups using a kettlebell and also jumping jacks.
The workout begins at the bottom of the stairs doing 10 full burpees, then I picked up a 9kg medicine ball and proceeded to head up the stairs.
At the top of the stairs I placed the ball on the floor.
I learned my lesson in an earlier stairway to hell workout about placing the ball down instead of dropping it. The ball will roll around and it managed to have a mind of it own and it headed back down without me. My trainer yelled up at me to come back down grab the ball and start my reps all over again since I let the ball come back down. ARRRGGHH never again will I let the ball make me do another extra set.
After I place the ball at the top the stairs, I begin my full burpee set of ten.
The workout then heads back downstairs carrying the ball to do the next rep of nine full burpees, and then back up to nine up top.
This continues until you reach the magic number of zero full burpees remaining.
The workout is a great one, it sounds pretty basic but it is a great total body drill.
Once I had finished the stairway to hell part three I managed to catch my breath and asked how my time was.
My trainer said I had a great time and even some leftover so get ready for some push ups.
Eighty push ups later my workout was done....
Not bad for early Monday morning....
I wonder what Wednesday's workout will be???
Heres hoping it will involve some dealifting or bench pressing and setting a personal best!!!
The workout involved stairs of course and what I call full burpees. The full burpees are also known as lay down stand ups on X-Weighted(a tv weight loss show here in Canada).
Before I began this workout I always do the same warm up of the day to loosen my tight muscles and to get focused.
Here are some of the warm up exercises before I do my main workout:
arm circles,scorpions,lunges,toy soliders,turkish getups using a kettlebell and also jumping jacks.
The workout begins at the bottom of the stairs doing 10 full burpees, then I picked up a 9kg medicine ball and proceeded to head up the stairs.
At the top of the stairs I placed the ball on the floor.
I learned my lesson in an earlier stairway to hell workout about placing the ball down instead of dropping it. The ball will roll around and it managed to have a mind of it own and it headed back down without me. My trainer yelled up at me to come back down grab the ball and start my reps all over again since I let the ball come back down. ARRRGGHH never again will I let the ball make me do another extra set.
After I place the ball at the top the stairs, I begin my full burpee set of ten.
The workout then heads back downstairs carrying the ball to do the next rep of nine full burpees, and then back up to nine up top.
This continues until you reach the magic number of zero full burpees remaining.
The workout is a great one, it sounds pretty basic but it is a great total body drill.
Once I had finished the stairway to hell part three I managed to catch my breath and asked how my time was.
My trainer said I had a great time and even some leftover so get ready for some push ups.
Eighty push ups later my workout was done....
Not bad for early Monday morning....
I wonder what Wednesday's workout will be???
Heres hoping it will involve some dealifting or bench pressing and setting a personal best!!!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
My bathroom scale
I have a scale in my bathroom that is running my life.
I am not proud to admit that and wish I could just never set foot on it again.
But alas, I know I will be using it everyday and more than three times a day.
It has such power over me that somedays I decide what my plans on by what number it flashes.
If it shows a great number I feel like a million bucks and want to workout all day long to continue my progress.
Other days I see a six pound gain in two days and want to throw in the towel, grab some chicken wings and eat until I grow feathers.
Now I know in my mind that there is no way I can gain that much weight in two days...but I have been told that the scale does not lie...well mine does!!!
How else can I justify the number it showed me????
When I returned for a workout with my trainer I told him about what my scale said and I knew he thought I had binged on booze and bad food. Yes it is hard to stay on the eating plan when you are away from home, yes not eating every two hours messes me up.
But I did not screw up that much not even close.
Marching downstairs to weigh in and workout seemed like a one way trip to loserville and I thought I was doomed to be fat forever.I honestly wanted to turn around and head home.
How surpised was I when his scale said I was down a pound...what was going on here?
What a wake up call on how much pressure I put on myself everytime I weigh in and how much three little numbers can ruin or make my day.
That darn scale at home had me quitting,depressed and feeling like I was never gonna be a skinny person.
But what really did my bathroom scale teach me this weekend?
Lets see....
that number that I see every morning can and will change for better or worse
weighing in is a part of the weight loss journey...not the most important part
the number on the scale does not determine the quality of my day
After all this drama, I do plan on keeping my bathroom scale to remind myself that nothing is perfect,things can change and the three little numbers it shows me are just that three little numbers.
I am not proud to admit that and wish I could just never set foot on it again.
But alas, I know I will be using it everyday and more than three times a day.
It has such power over me that somedays I decide what my plans on by what number it flashes.
If it shows a great number I feel like a million bucks and want to workout all day long to continue my progress.
Other days I see a six pound gain in two days and want to throw in the towel, grab some chicken wings and eat until I grow feathers.
Now I know in my mind that there is no way I can gain that much weight in two days...but I have been told that the scale does not lie...well mine does!!!
How else can I justify the number it showed me????
When I returned for a workout with my trainer I told him about what my scale said and I knew he thought I had binged on booze and bad food. Yes it is hard to stay on the eating plan when you are away from home, yes not eating every two hours messes me up.
But I did not screw up that much not even close.
Marching downstairs to weigh in and workout seemed like a one way trip to loserville and I thought I was doomed to be fat forever.I honestly wanted to turn around and head home.
How surpised was I when his scale said I was down a pound...what was going on here?
What a wake up call on how much pressure I put on myself everytime I weigh in and how much three little numbers can ruin or make my day.
That darn scale at home had me quitting,depressed and feeling like I was never gonna be a skinny person.
But what really did my bathroom scale teach me this weekend?
Lets see....
that number that I see every morning can and will change for better or worse
weighing in is a part of the weight loss journey...not the most important part
the number on the scale does not determine the quality of my day
After all this drama, I do plan on keeping my bathroom scale to remind myself that nothing is perfect,things can change and the three little numbers it shows me are just that three little numbers.
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