Day Thirty-Eight

Today I went straight to the gym after work. I got there just after 6:30 and the place was packed! The only piece of cardio equipment that was available was the bike. I haven't used the bike in a long time. I don't really feel that I get a real cardio workout on the bike because there is no upper body movement. But it was a good workout for my legs.

Today's Workout:

45 minutes on the bike

100 crunches

Day Thirty-Seven

So I basically skipped an entire week because of a stupid head cold. Saturday was the first day I felt back to normal, and I probably could have worked out yesterday but I thought one day of rest after being sick was probably a better idea. Since I've been working so much it was nice to just stay home all day! And I'm not counting those days on my days of progress, they were definitely days of regression and I should start my day numbering at like 32 instead of 37, but oh well! So This week, I'm going to shoot for the same goals I made last week but couldn't do.

New week. The goals for this week are as follows:
200 Minutes of Cardio (atleast 40 minutes for five days)
1000 Crunches (200 per day)
Three Days of Arm and Back toning
Two days of Leg toning

Today's Workout:

1 hour eliptical

200 crunches

Arm and Back toning

Day Thirty-Six

Still feeling a touch of a cold today. I made my favorite cocktail last night and it worked wonders. I need to come up with a cute name for my drink! I am feeling a little bit better, but not sure if two hours at the gym is the smart thing to do. So I'm having cocktail hour (my pink grapefruit airborne and alka seltzer night time cold) again tonight and going to bed. My cardio will just have to wait! And until then it's plenty of fluids and rest!

Day Thirty-Five

I went home at lunch today and packed my gym bag so I could go straight to the gym after work. I've been looking forward to my hour on the eliptical all day. At about 2:00ish I sneezed, and sneezed again, and aaa aaaaa aachooooo, again! And the chills ran down my spine! I can feel the beginnings of a cold coming on. And almost instantly, the back of my throat hurts, my nose is stuffy, I'm sneezing, and my skin hurts. Definitely the signs of a cold! So I am laying low tonight, my packed gym bag will have to save itself for another day! I can not be getting sick right now, so plenty of fluids and rest for today, and possible tomorrow. Speaking of fluids....

Tonight I'm making my favorite cold cocktail and going to bed. Here's what I put in my cocktail, now I am NOT a doctor and I don't play one on the internet, and I'm pretty sure a Dr. probably wouldn't recommend my cocktail, but I'm telling you it works wonders! One of these practically guarantees you won't get sick, and if you take it for two days, all better! Ok, so I take one pink grapefruit flavored airborne tablet, mix with 4 onces of water, and also add one alka seltzer night time cold packet (2 of the plop plop fiz fiz tablets), mix it up, drink it down, go to bed! Those alka-seltzer night time cold tablets knock me out and I sleep so good, and the airborne works hard all night to fight off the virus.

So that will be my workout for today, mix it up, drink it down!

Day Thirty-Four

New week. The goals for this week are as follows:

200 Minutes of Cardio (atleast 40 minutes for five days)

1000 Crunches (200 per day)

Three Days of Arm and Back toning

Two days of Leg toning

Today I started out my morning by doing my first set of 100 crunches. I ran three miles in 30 minutes. I like the pace of a ten minute mile, back when I was racing I averaged about a seven minute mile. I would like to get back to that pace and have the endurance to run 10k's and half marathons. Maybe that will be my next goal after getting back into my super hot skinny jeans! I also ran the stairs by the house three times. About 600 stairs (up & down). Total I had my 40 minutes of cardio. I also did some pushups and another set of crunches.

Today's Workout:

40 minutes of cardio - 3 mile run and stairs

200 crunches

3 x 10 pushups

Day Thirty-Three

Increasing my work hours by 20 hours and increasing my cardio 80 minutes in the same week was not so smart. It is really tough to go from working 35-40 hours a week to 56 right off the bat, and increasing cardio from 120 minutes to 200 made it even harder. So this week I did meet my work requirement (which is obviously more important) but I did not meet my cardio goal. I got 140 minutes of cardio, one whole hour short. I had planned to work from 6:30am to 11am, go to the gym for two hours and then get ready for a matinee with a friend at 3:00. (Yes, I have made my first new friend!!!) But it didn't happen like that. I worked from 6:30 until 1:00, I didn't shower before work because I had planned to go the gym. So I had to go home and get ready for my movie, go to my movie (we saw Juno, so cute!!) When I got home from my movie, my super sweet hubby wanted to hang out with me so bad since I've been working like crazy and not been home much. So I skipped the gym entirely. Next week I'm restructing my day and going to the gym directly after work so I make sure to get it in before I go home to relax.

Day Thirty-Two

I decided to take my gym bag to work with me today. I'm working longer hours, so if I go home after work, with every intention of changing clothes and going to the gym, it sometimes doesn't happen. I get home, see my cute hubby and my cute doggies, and it makes it very hard to leave again. So after work I went straight to the gym. Best idea! I'm going to have to do that every day to make sure I get my workout in. In order to get my 200 minutes of cardio every week I have to do roughly 30 EVERYDAY! I have not done that this week. So today and tomorrow I have to do 60 minutes of cardio to meet my goal.

I am starting to be able to tell a real difference though. My jeans are fitting looser (so are my bras, I feel like the lady in the slimquick commercial!!) and I definitely have more energy and endurance. It is pretty rigorous right now, working so much and trying to get in atleast an hour at the gym every night. I know it will be worth it, just got to stick with it!

Today's Workout:

1 Hour on Eliptical

3 x 15 Chest Press

3 x 15 Tricep Extensions

100 crunches (I know I'm supposed to do 200!!)

Day Thirty-One

Happy Valentine's Day!

Did I workout today - no way!

Instead I had a huge cheese stuffed pasta dinner with really buttery garlic bread and it was so good. I forgot how good cheese and butter taste!! Tomorrow I'm back on the hard-boiled egg whites. But I definitely enjoyed our night out!,

Day Thirty

No exercise today. I hate that I skipped my workout, but I'm exhausted!

Day Twenty-Nine

It is February, and I've been working out for almost one month. Since I'm now basically on month two I need to increase everything. I found this helpful article and have decided to increase the cardio to 120 minutes per week and I'm going to try a few of the exercises they recommend in the article as well. The double ball push up looks great, as does the pass crunch. I'm also going to start doing atleast 200 crunches a day. One set of 100 in the morning and another set of 100 before bed, and any additional at the gym. Yesterday I did a set of 50 for the upper ab and another set of 50 for the lower ab on the bosu. That was a great ab workout, especially for the lower hard to reach abs.

I got this in an email and thought it was soo funny!! And I think it totally fits in with this little blog.

Day Twenty-Eight

This is were some major commitment will come into play! My tax season hours went into effect starting this week. Which means I have to work 56 hours per week until April 15, so it will be very challenging to go to the gym or running before or after work everyday. If I can manage the 100+ minutes of cardio every week, plus two or three days of weight training I'll be ok.

Today's Workout:

45 Minutes on Eliptical

Arms

Abs

Day Twenty-Seven

Such a great day to be outside!

Today's Workout:
3 1/2 Mile Run
20 Pushups

Day Twenty-Six

Running with Denver today. The tide was high so James took Packer and I took Denver on their leash on the street. That was bad! Our two dogs have never really been leash trained. They've been hunting dogs, so they are trained to sniff out everything, run in the bushes to scare out birds. Whenever we take them running it's always someplace we can just let them go, like in the foothills or on the beach when the tide is out. So on the leash today was pretty frustrated for both myself and poor Denver. He would just run right in front of me, so I would end up tripping, and he wants to stop and smell EVERYTHING! My three mile run took about 45 minutes becuase we kept stopping. Denver definitely got more benefit from our workout.

It was so nice today that we went surfing in the afternoon. Great arm workout again. I'm getting the feel of it, and think the next time we go out I'll be able to get all the way up and actually ride the wave!

Today's Workout:

3 Mile Run/Walk

1 Hour surfing/swimming

Day Twenty-Five

Friday! Our visitors left so now I have no excuse. The weather is amazing, it will be 70 and sunny when I get off work. A run on the beach is in order! Since I completely slacked off and ate like the guys do I'll need to hit the stairs a few times too.

Today's Workout:
3 Mile Run
Stairs - 4 x
45 push ups
100 crunches

Day Twenty-Four

Another play day. Tomorrow I'm back on the working out routine. Summer is getting close, I can feel it!

Day Twenty-Three

We had our first visitor today, so I skipped my workout. We did all go for a walk on the beach, although we went pretty slow, meandering really, so I don't think I burned any calories. And of course being a good hostess, I had to bake dessert right! So I know I definitely put more in than I put out today!

Day Twenty-Two

It is so beautiful outside today! I think I'll go for a run on the beach this afternoon.

Today's workout:
3 Mile Run
100 crunches
45 pushups
Squats & lunges just for fun!

Day Twenty-One

Total Slacker! I'll make up for it tomorrow.

Day Twenty

So glad I went running and surfing outdoors yesterday. It is pouring rain and so windy today. I guess it's a good day for just chillin at home watching football. Today will be my day off for this week.

Day Nineteen

Today was a beautiful day. I took my dogs running on the beach this afternoon at low tide. After running and playing with them I was totally energized. So I went and pulled James off the couch and we got ready to go surfing. The waves were pretty big looking but it was so nice out and we both need a lot of experience. Surfing was awesome, or it will be awesome. I didn't get up, I tried a couple times, but the waves were so big they completely bowled me over. Talk about a workout! Swimming through those waves is tough! My arms were on fire! We surfed for about an hour, non stop swimming the entire time. When I got in the shower to rinse the salt and sand off I could hardly shampoo my hair since my arms were so sore! I definitely got a feel for what arm muscles I need to start working on! It was really hard work. But the waves were huge, so once the waves are a little smaller it will be easier, and I'll probably be able to get up!

Day Eighteen

Tough day at the office today. When I got home I was spent. I probably should have gone to the gym and ran off some frustration, but oh well!