Whee Updates! ^_^

Always fun to do updates.

So I've been doing really well.  Some days are less motivating than others.  Being sick and unable to work out for 1 week really screwed me up.  It's so easy to fall back into old habits again, so it was a rough start getting back on track.

We got our dip bar and pullup station in.  I've been able to do a lot more exercises with those tools now.  I'm getting a lot stronger, and have lost 28 lbs so far since starting back on Jan 1st.

My heaviest this year was 247, now I'm down to 219.  Still overweight, but I'm getting there.  Slowly but surely.  It's not Biggest Loser numbers at all lol, but I feel going this way and losing 1-2 lbs a week is going to help me keep off the weight in the long run.  So I'm happy.  My husband is losing weight a lot faster than me but men lose weight differently than us ladies.  I'm proud and happy that we're making this life change together, it sure makes it easier.

Food is getting easier and easier to eat.  Although I'm still really worried about my "food aversion" mindset and tendencies.  It's turned into thinking that every piece of food I eat is going to make me gain weight, so I'm not eating nearly as much as I should.  This is a frustrating thing for me, as I know I need to eat, and we're eating healthy, but I'm not happy about my mental view on food as a whole right now and not sure how to change it.  I can literally have a panic attack when deciding whether or not to eat lunch.

All in all, things are going well.  I've been doing Bodyrock but some days I make up my own workouts that are similar in nature, since I've finally figured out the high intensity interval training and all.  I like to do video game dancing, I look like a dummy doing it I'm sure, but it gets my cardio going. 

Love this one!  How I prolly look doing Kinect Workouts ^_^

My cardiovascular has been doing well.  The few times I've been to the gym, my heart rate isn't shooting up to the 180s anymore, I rarely get passed 153 now.  So that's awesome, and I'm less likely to have a heart attack now lol.

My muscle development is fun as it's neat to see biceps, triceps, calves, etc forming.  It's nice to see my body pulling in, getting stronger, more toned, etc.  My stomach still frustrates me a lot, but I think that will most likely be the last thing to go, and for almost all woman it's the most difficult problem area.  I can doing hanging knee raises without assistance and I'm doing pullups with assistance.  I had a picture taken of me doing knee raises but the only one that came out was when then dog was licking my feet as I was trying to hold a hanging knee raise.  Very unattractive lol, I won't be posting it lol.

I'd love to do more cardio.  I feel like if I had a treadmill, or a gym membership so I can access cardio machines, I'd be able push my weight loss into a more desirable range.  I was actually discussing with my husband the other day that we'd like to do a marathon or a 5k maybe next year.  He's running 10-12 miles a day within an hour, so his cardio and stamina is way ahead of mine.

We'll be moving into town finally, and hopefully, in the next couple months.  I'm stoked to be able to do this.  For one, I'll be able to go outside and exercise, take my kids and dogs out for walkies and exercise.  Go jogging, etc.  And also I'll be closer in town, thus saving more money, thus using that gas money for a gym membership.  So stoked.  ^_^

We went out to dinner last night, and I almost had a panic attack trying to find food to eat.  Then realizing that we never go out and we should, for once, actually enjoy ourselves and enjoy a nice splurge meal.  No it didn't make me gain a lb.  Did I eat healthy?  Honestly, no, no I didn't lol.  I ate horribly.  BUT, the whole point of all this eating healthy, getting healthy is so that we CAN enjoy ourselves when we occasionally splurge.  

That's all I can think of for now.  ^_^

Fit Test day 30 and Notes on Nutrition

So today is the fit test!! 

If anything, I improved some of my scores.  Feel a lot stronger, I've lost an inch or more off my body around my stomach and legs and hips.   Haven't lost any weight other than two pounds, but my fat is being replaced with muscle, and everyone knows muscle weighs more than fat.  I'm still looking forward to that time when the weight will start melting off as they say ^_^

We're going to be getting an elliptical machine or treadmill, so that will allow for some extra cardio. 

So from now on, I'll be posting weekly maybe.  Probably to discuss fitness I've been doing, successes and frustrations etc.

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If there's anything I learned from this experience.......

1.  Doing something is better than doing nothing.

If you're sitting on your butt all day, working or playing computer, or watching tv, doing SOMETHING is better than nothing at all.  Walking, playing workout video games like dancing and exercise games on the wii or xbox is better for you and your health than doing nothing at all.

2.  Nutrition IS more important than exercise.

All the exercise in the world won't help if you're still eating cakes and pies and cookies.  We learned this.  You can too.  All those people that think "Oh I can eat this I'll just work it off later on the treadmill"  Yea it doesn't work that way.  It'd be nice if it did, but it doesn't lol. 

Anyone that knows me would tell you that I love to eat sweets and drink soda pop.  After exercising and being determined to lose the weight finally, I can tell you that eating sweets and soda pop are no longer on my agenda.  We don't keep unclean foods in our house anymore.  Even the kids eat healthy like we do.  We avoid sugar like the plague.  I ate two cookies the other day and I got so incredibly sick that I won't touch the stuff anymore.  Fast food is disgusting and pop is full of sugar and tears up my stomach and my kidneys.

We try to follow several important rules when it comes to eating now.

• Avoid sugar
• Eat Whole Grain foods (flour) etc..
• Eat food in it's natural form (learn how to cook, cook every meal, cook ahead of time and freeze your food for easier access and to take to work with you)
• Fruits and Veggies are good for you
• Pair Carbs with Lean Protein at every meal
• A portion size is a little bigger than your fist
• Eat smaller meals throughout the day
• Drink water and tea
• No processed foods 
• Snack on healthy foods (carrots, veggies, raisins in moderation)
• Everything in moderation

I've been following the Eat Clean way of life, check it out
http://www.eatcleandiet.com/
It says "diet" but it's not a diet as much as it is a way of life.

3.  Take it at your own pace

Just because exercise trainers and aerobics instructors have the agility of a well trained fox doesn't mean that I do too.  I alter all the exercises so that I can do them to my ability and better.  No point in hurting yourself.  No one is watching you exercise.  Be comfortable and do it at your pace.  As long as you're improving, feeling stronger, and your exercises are getting better then you know you're doing it right.

4.  Take Pride

In the end, it should all be for you.  Yes what I'm doing is for my family, my kids, to feel better about myself etc..But in the end of things, it's me that has to workout, me that has to watch what I eat, how I live my life, ME.  Not anyone else.  Be proud in what you do.  It's ME that is choosing to change my life so I can have a life, and not be dead in 20 years.  Do it for YOU.

5.  Getting healthy takes hard work, dedication, and a lifestyle change

There is no magic pill in the world that can help you if you're bound and determined to lose weight, get healthy and keep that weight off.  Fat burners do work, but only for so long, and they're unhealthy. 

The best way to do things is the HARD way, with Exercise and Diet.  

When I say diet, I don't mean dieting, I mean nutrition.  Becoming healthy is a complete lifestyle change.  If takes hard work, will power, and cleaning out your pantry.  Sometimes it involves finding new friends that support you, not the ones that will try to force you to eat pie because they can't support your new lifestyle.


One thing I found interesting, something I wondered is....

What happens to your body and your fat as you lose weight?  Well I can tell you this bugged me for weeks, till I saw the amazing human body in action.  As I lost weight in my legs, my thighs pulled in and the body reabsorbs the fat for energy, thus pulling in and making skin tighter.  This is an amazing thing.  Really kind of creepy.  But thought I would share with you. 

This is why it's important to lose weight slowly.  When you lose weight at a rapid rate, your body does not have the ability to reabsorb and burn off that body fat and pull in skin, resulting in sagging skin.  In time, it'll fix, but I hear it takes 6 years when that happens.

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Enough babbling!  Time to workout!!

Fit Challenge GO!!

I decided to post my first fit test to compare ^_^

Squat Jump - 24
Push Up - 13
Burpees - 10
High Knees - 53
Switch Lunges - 19
Tuck Jumps - 15
Straight Abs - 34

Now for each exercise it's 50 seconds long, as hard as you can push, as long as you can go till you're panting on the floor.  There is a 10 second break in between exercises.

Here we go!

Squat Jump - 35
Push Up - 25
Burpees - 10
High Knees - 83
Switch Lunges - 22
Tuck Jumps - 24
Straight Abs -48

So there you go.  Is it a huge improvement?  I think so.  In some areas more than others.  When I first started this I didn't even know what half of those exercises were.  Now they're second nature.  Plus I feel SO much stronger.  My legs have got to be the biggest improvement.  I think I would've done better if I'd gotten more sleep this weekend, but life with kids lol, you know how it is.  My abs are also a huge improvement.  I can actually do situps now and my back is a lot stronger.

A day without working out for me is very stressful.  I have to get my fix lol.  I'm very happy I started this, very happy my husband has been very supportive during this whole thing and himself been working out and losing 15 lbs already this last month.  Why can't women lose weight like men? Lol. 

That's all for now!

Till next time ^_^

Pumped up

Hard workout today!  Feeling pumped up, and exhausted.  Looking forward to my weekend rest for sure lol.  Be all ready for the fit test on monday!

Whoo!!  Let's GO!!
Intervals of 15/30 with no rest in between, only High Knees during down time!!!

• Burpee, Tuck Jump x 11
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• Switch Lunge x 12
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• Push Ups x 14
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• 10 High Knees, 10 Mountain Climbers x 2
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• Burpees x 4
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• Push up, Side Plank, Oblique Drop x 6
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• V Abs Left x 12
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• V Abs Right x 10
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• Jumping Jacks x 31
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• Squats x 13
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• Burpees x 10
• Pushup x 15
• High Knees x 15 seconds
• Burpees x 7
• Pushups x 17

Coming to the end

So coming close to the end of the 30 day challenge.  I have a couple more workouts with bodyrock to finish out my 30 days next week and then i'm done!!  Doesn't mean I'll stop working out or anything, but it's the challenge's end.  I look forward to a lifetime of exercise and fitness.  I don't feel right now unless I work out and it's become a habit that I enjoy doing.  I definitely would like to get into a house somewhere in town and get into a gym, but for now this will do.  :D

Workout today! 

Pushup and Tuck Jump x 15, x 14

Jump Rope x 50 sec, x 50 sec, x 10 sec, x 40 sec,  x 50 sec

5 Pushups, Roll, 10 Mountain Climbers x 10, x 20

Jumping Jacks x 23

Squats x 26, x 23

Burpees x 10, x 12, x 11, x 3

Lots of burpees and such.  That's all for now ^_^

Burpees I loathe thee

Oh how I'm starting to hate burpees lol.

Ok, so rough workout again.  Burpees make everything harder lol.

Workout time go!

Burpee, Tuck Jump x 10, x 10, x 10

Jump, Half Burpee, Jump x 8

Abs x 36

Running 50 seconds

Plank 15 sec, 30 seconds, 40 seconds

Wide Arm Push up x 16, x 14, x 17

That's it for now, I'm too tired to think of humorous things right now, plus I'm fighting a cold.

I didn't want to use my arms anyways

Today's workout was brutal!  Hardest one I've done so far, interval training is epic!  I also did the extra arms workout today, so now I'm super exhausted.  The afterburn effect is awesome though and it burns more body fat.

Workout time let's do it!!  Interval training today, 10/50 training.

Pushups x 24, x 21, x 20

Burpee, Tuck Jump, 10 High Knees x 7, x 7, x 7

Squat, Turn Lift x 25, x 24, x 20

Jumping Jacks x 25, x 27, x 30

Pushups x 17, x 15

Diamond Pushup x 14, x 15

Wide Pushup x 11, x 11

Triceps overhead lift x 18, x 20

Extra Burpees x 3

Alright, so I'm exhausted and my arms and legs are burning.  Time for my protein shake and some relaxation.

^_^

800 Power REPS

I'm tempted to make a slight dragonball joke here...Power Level 8000!!!  Ok I'm done nerding out lol.

Ok, so today is power reps!!  These were supposed to be on friday so I could rest for two days, but it got posted late.  So guess I'm doing it today heh heh.  Wasn't as bad as the 600 rep day for some reason. 

My knee has been giving me trouble so that sucks.  But just going to be careful and not hurt myself.

Workout Ahoy!! Time trial workout, let's see how long it takes! 

Ready, set GO

25 Pushup
100 High knees
25 Abs
100 High Knees
25 Squats
100 High Knees
25Abs
100 High Knees
25 Pushups
100 High Knees
25 Squats
100 High Knees
25 Abs
100 High Knees
25 Pushups

Total Time: 9 min 50 seconds 
Much better than my last timed trial.

23 Burpees after that.  Note to self, not a good idea to do a burst set of burpees after exhausted.

So all in all, things are going well.  My clothes are looser, I can play freely with my kids without getting winded right away, I'm stronger, have a better sense of self, etc.  My actual weight keeps fluctuating, so I can't go off of that anymore.

Food is becoming a challenge for me.  Every time I eat, when I do eat, I keep thinking it will literally ruin all my hard work.  Even though it won't, not like I'm eating crap, I'm eating good food now.  But I'm getting an aversion to food again, which is the problem I had last time.  I need to get a handle on this before I go into starvation mode.  But it's frustrating for sure.

Till next time!!

Yay mixer shakes

And I found the blades to the magic bullet so now I can make good shakes again!  Well, technically my husband found them lol, attached to another cup, derp guess I didn't look hard enough lol.  We made strawberry protein shakes, they were super yummy!!  Today I mixed my tetrabolic powder with milk and peanut butter, extra awesome.

(Sidenote: Magic Bullet is a mini blender power set we got at costco a year ago.  It's not what you're thinking of.)

The workout today left my arms hurting, I can barely type this lol.  Ow my arms.  And my legs, so much leg torture geesh.  Feeling good though and strong.  And it's weird, but my thighs are getting smaller and pulling in a bit already, and it looks really, really weird.  I've always had thunder thighs as long as I can remember, so yea it's weird.  But it feels good.  :)

Ok, on with the workout!!

Squat and Press x 17, x 24, x 21, x 25
Squat Jumps x 30, x 24
Push Ups x 30, x 29
Abdominal x 48, x 46
Switch Lunges x 22, x 20
Weight Swing x 15, x 6
Weighted Row x 15, x 8
Weighted Squat and Press x 15, x 10
Burpees x 19

What's a burpee?  Although I explained this already, here's a fun gif I found!

So I'm supposed to use a sandbag (this one actually Sandbag <3) but since I don't have one ( ie. they're expensive) I'm using a ziploc I filled with rice, since I have 50 lbs of rice sitting in my kitchen.  It doesn't work as well as the sandbag, but it works.  I like the sandbags, because unlike our weight bar which is huge, takes up space, and always manages to hurt someone like in a 3 stooges cartoon, they are small and compact and can go anywhere.  But my ricebag is working for now, so huzzah!!

Man I'm hurting, I'm welcoming the weekend and rest day, my muscles need it.  One more day till rest days!

As I was writing this I realized I forgot my burpees >.<  Oh god, kill me now lol.  So I went to do them, or at least a set, and I just busted out 19 burpees without resting.  Holy cow.  If that doesn't tell me how well I'm doing...I don't know what else will convince me.

Till next time!!

Laziness equals workout

So my quads are still hurting from yesterdays cluster workout bananza, so I was going to take a restday.  But then...suddenly....I felt super lazy!  I was like holy crap I'm lazy, and I'm never going to lose weight, get fit, or fit into those pants I have hanging on my chest o drawers.  So I got off my butt and did my bodyrock workout.  Yay for me.

Intervals were different today in 10 rest/30 reps fashion.  During the rest times I ran in place, but when all was said and done I didn't feel quite tired enough so I threw in a speed run and a lifted calf hold.  Look at me being all hardcore and all.

Not the best reps for my leg exercises but oh man I hurt from yesterdays 600 reps.

Push Up x6, x 25, x 25, x 15
Burpees x 6, x 8, x 15
Tuck Jumps x 6
Switch Lunge x 12, x 12
Mountain Climbers x 22 (these are getting easier!)
Abdominal crunch x 30
Reverse Abdominal x 11
Jumping Jacks x 27
Toe Touch Abdominal x 20 (these are harder)
Squat Jump x 20
1/2 Burpee then Pushup 13
Speed Run 2 Minutes
Calf Raise Hold 1 minute (these burned like molten fire! I hadn't found anything yet that was working my calves, think I found something lol)

That's it for today.  Doing good, starting to feel a cold coming on, time to sleep more and get vitamins!

Power reps FTW

Two weeks today into my 30 days challenge!

Power reps workout, max reps to the MAX!!!  Timed workout, so let's see how long it takes.  I'm already sore from yesterday so this was rough.  Didn't think I'd be able to do this two weeks ago lol.

Here we go...... ready....DING  GO!

100 High Knees
100 Lunges
100 High Knees
100 Squats
100 High Knees
25 Abdominal
25 V abdominal left
25 V abdominal right
25 Bicycle abdominals

And time...11 min 12 sec 
Not too shabby :D
I'd have done better, but the squats were killing me, felt like my quads were going to burst from my legs >.<

Did 16 burpees yesterday, got fatigued after 11 and then pushed out the rest.  But hey not too bad :) 

Till next time! 

Whoo, I hate rest days

Hate rest days, I know they're important, but they make me feel lazy and I want to workout.  But gotta have them or muscles can never fix themselves.  I wanted to do my burpees so bad yesterday but I knew I also wanted my abs to repair.  And lo and behold this morning...yay no more ab pain!!

So, fast and hard workout today.  Damn I'm tired and my legs hurt lol.

Push Ups x12, x 18, x 25
Jump Squats x 14, x 18, x 25
Ab crossover crunch x 34, x 40, x 48
Squat Jumps x 28, x 20
Sumo Squat x 18
Lunge x 25
Mountain Climber x 26
High Knees x 50, x 60 (these don't seem hard..at first..wait till you get up there in reps)

There ya go, ow I hurt, but my abs are much stronger since I let them heal.  I'll be doing my burpees tonight.

Squats I hate you.

Squats are the new bane of my existence lol.  My poor legs are shaking.  When I walk I look like a wobbles doll LOL.

Ok, so today I decided no more weighing myself.  It fluctuates so much, that it's not really giving me the confidence boost I thought I didn't need, but I do.  So I'll do weigh ins once a week now..maybe lol.  We'll see.

Squat Jumps x 30, x 20
Squat Leaps x 20
Push Ups x 36, x 35, x 23
Squat and Press x 23, x 30
Switch Lunges x 21, x 25
Ab Crunch x 30, x 47
Situps x 12 (that lower ab is still giving me trouble)

Tis all for now, found the blender shaker for the protein shakes and the better stuff hidden back in the cupboard.  Yay!

Need to find better whey protein blech

Whey protein is good for you!  Good for building and repairing muscles.  So what if it taste gross!?  Right? right?  Ug, yuck, it's so gross.  We'd gotten a mini blender thing, think it's a ninja brand but I don't remember.  But I've misplaced the blades for it, so I can't mix in my normal pb so it's just plain, and plain gross lol.

Moving on!  Workout today was brutal!  I can barely type this my forearms are shaking so bad lol.  Triceps are not my strong point, at all.

Square Jump w/Burpee x 12, x 8
Front Lunge x 20, x 20
Push Ups x 20, x 25
Tricep Dip x 10, x 8 (don't judge me, my triceps suck ok)
Side Leaps x 46, x 50
Push Ups x 30, x 34

Speed Run 50 seconds
I threw a speed run in there because I stepped on a sticker mid exercise, had to stop my workout abruptly to find pliers to get the little bitch of a thorn out of my foot ><  Damn stickers, I hate them.  We'll be moving in four months.  I'm looking for a house with a basement to use for workout room!!  Huzzah!!

Weight this morning?  229 lbs!  BAM  some progress lol, prolly go up again tomorrow who knows.

Till next time!  ^_^

Screw naming the days lol, this is a day I work out

I'm losing track of the days since I'm taking rest days depending upon how I'm feeling.  My one lower ab is still giving me a lot of trouble so I kind of have to twist and turn to not aggravate it but I can't wait a  week for it to heal so moving onwards.

So now my bloggy blog is named for whatever I want, I'll write on it when I workout, it's a good tracker for me :D

Ok, so today I did 4 sets of exercises, for 12 sets at 50/10 intervals.  No breaks other than 10 seconds in between.  Hard core interval training, good for muscles, heart strength cardio, etc..

Push up x 2, Tuck Jump x 2, 10 Straight Punch = 4, 4, 4
Push up x 2, Tuck Jump x 2, 10 Hook Punches = 4, 4, 4
Push up x 2, Tuck Jump x 2, Hook Punch x 10 and Straight Punch x 2 alternating = 4, 4, 4
Abdominal Crunch 50 seconds = 56, 50, 60

And my Burpees: 11 burpees

That's all for now!  233 lbs and toning up quick.  I'm ready Convict Conditioning right now and it's awesome.  That on top of my body rocking will mean better things for me!  ^_^

Day 5, feeling frustrated

And my abs hurt, a lot.  More than a normal "burn" more like an OW sort of thing.  I may lay off the abdominals for a couple days for those muscles to repair a bit.

Today was a timed trial of 2 exercises performed 4 times and alternated.  So it was fun, and since I was competing against a timer, other than myself, I was able to push, but not kill myself.  The whole point is to sweat though and get some cardio, so I did push!

High Knees x 75
Reverse Crunch x 25
Rinse and repeat four sets....

Final Time?  7.08 Minutes!  Not as bad as I thought I'd take lol.

And my Burpees for the guild...9 burpees!  *flex*

Weight today: 233
It sure fluctuates a lot.  My pants are a lot looser though I noticed, so that's different.

My diet isn't exactly perfect.  I work with what I have.  I don't have any money to go buying the healthier foods I should be eating, so I modify when I can, drink a lot of water, and I watch what I eat.  No snacking, and I watch how much I eat.  I had 2 doughnuts yesterday >.<  So, I fail, but meh, I'm not gonna kill myself over it.  I never have that kind of stuff so, it was definitely a treat.

I'm slightly frustrated with the boredom already.  I'm already craving the gym as a whole, I like to go, be around other people, let my kids play in the daycare, and have some alone time.  I like to do yoga at the gym, I like to swim, use the treadmill.  But the gym is expensive and I live in BFE and it was costing us a lot in gasoline for trips to the gym and back.

Other than that, things are going well I think.  I have a hard time getting motivated in the mornings, but once I get going and workout I'm better.  ^_^

That's it for today!

Day 4, oh HAI abs

Hello abs!  Doing these exercises has made me feel pain and burn in places where I've never been able to target on gym machines.  Crazy how that works.  Using my own body weight against me lol, brutal!

So Day 4:  http://www.bodyrock.tv/2012/01/05/day-4-of-our-30-day-challenge-wish-you-would-workout

Push Up into a Tuck Jump: 8
Push Up: 24
Burpee into a Side Burpee: 5
Squat Jump: 30
Ab crunch: 40
High Knees: 60
Push up: 29
Squat Jump: 25
Abs: 30
High Knees: 60
Push Up: 30
Squat Jump 20
Abs: 30

and...

8 Burpees for the guild challenge!!

*FLEX*  and ow, needless to say oh hai abs there you are!  And it hurts lol.

Weight today:  fluctuated up to 232...wth lol, replacing fat with muscle whee!

Till next time!!  ^_^

Rest Day!!

And, it's rest day.  Aside from the fact that I can barely move, rest days are important for muscle fibers to rebuild themselves.  Otherwise it's pointless.  You HAVE to have rest days.

Still did my burpees though :D

7 Burpees!!  *flex*  god my abs hurts >.>

Till next time!

Ow my legs

My poor quads lol.  No More no more!!  They cry out, oh well, suck it up legs we have a long way to go!

Day 3 workout is a killer, I still didn't finish the other one yet, as there are two today, but I'll edit it in later.

http://www.bodyrock.tv/2012/01/04/day-3-of-the-30-day-challenge-international-love-workout/

I did a lot of modifications as I can't do most of these yet, but her videos show how to do stuff "easy" style and without the equipment.  Nothing is easy about these workouts lol, omg.

Supermans/Box Pushups: 24
Pushup into Knee/elbow touch 23
Press Up Squats: 27
Clean and Press, Hop Forward, 3 Jumps, Hop back: 5
Push Ups: 25
Side Jump with Obliques: 10
Side Lunge and Front Lunge: 22
Push Up, Jump Up, Sumo Touch: 7
Tricep Dip into Leg Lift: 3
Overhead Abs: 32
Squats/Tuck Jumps/Squat Jump/High Knees: 41
Speed Run: 50 seconds

And 6 Burpees for my Guild Challenge YEA

*FLEX*  Oh yea, doing better!

230 Lbs today, lost 4 lbs since yesterday wth.  Think I'm gonna weigh myself everyday just for the scientific purpose of seeing how weight fluctuates.

Till Next Time!!

Adipose Nirvana: Day 2, Kill me NAIO

Adipose Nirvana: Day 2, Kill me NAIO: ZOMG, my throat is burning, my heart pounding, every muscle aches and hurts, and I can't feel my legs or my butt and it hurts to walk. Ah,...

Day 2, Kill me NAIO

ZOMG, my throat is burning, my heart pounding, every muscle aches and hurts, and I can't feel my legs or my butt and it hurts to walk.

Ah, the glorious feel of a good workout.  ^_^

Day 2 of the 30 day challenge is here!
http://www.bodyrock.tv/2012/01/03/day-2-of-our-30-day-challenge-good-feeling-workout/

I hit it head on, first thing this morning.  Cause I know as soon as I sit my butt down to the computer it's hard to be motivated to do anything lol.

So I went to the bodyrock website, watched the video workout of the day, took my notes, set my timer, and went for it.  I'm still crazy sore from yesterday and my stamina is pretty much non existent at this point, but hey I tried.  At least I was able to do my sets.  I don't have a cool pink sandbag..yet...so for now I just didn't use one, but still incorporated lifting.  I was tempted to use the cat though lol.

So this time, the sets are listed as is, there are 12 rotations with a 50/10 interval for working out/resting.  You do as many sets as you can.  Here we go..

10 High Knees and 10 Mountain Climbers: 2 sets

2 Squat Jumps, 2 Push Ups, 1 Tuck Jump: 3 sets

Center to Elbow Jump and 2 Leg Jumps: 2 sets

Clean, Press, and Squat & Press and Push Up: 2 sets

Tuck Jumps x 5, 1/2 Burpee with 5 Squat Holds: 2 sets

Spider Knee Push Up & Straight Leg Pushup: 1/2 (I was beyond exhausted at this point)

Switch Lunge and Press:  12 sets

Side Lunge x 2, L&R side Punch, and 2 Tuck Jumps: 8 sets

10 Squat Jumps and 10 Squats: 1 set

Elbow to Knee Jumps 10 each side: 3 sets, but dangit I pushed to 4 but my time ran out >.<

Wide Leg Jumps and Push Up: 15

Speed Run in place 50 seconds:  done and done

And now, I wanna curl up and die lol, from the burn.  FEEL THE BURN lol.

I also did my 5 Burpees for the day for my guild challenge.  ^_^

I also keep track of my workout at fitocracy.com but it doesn't have an option for a lot of the moves I do, so that's frustrating.

All right friends, that's all for now.  I'm going to drink my lemon water and make myself some oatmeal.  Cheerio till next time!! :D

Body Rock...Tuck jumps are evil

Body Rock is an amazing group of people who work out at home, alone or with friends, in clothes or undies, with no equipment other than body weight and resistance (aside from a sandbag or two) and they manage to make an amazing transformation on their lives.  It's a new world movement to encourage anyone and everyone to change their lifestyles.  It's about working out for free wand being part of a large community of people struggling through the same crap as you.

I want in! 

I started the BodyRockTv 30 day challenge today, as promised from yesterdays random blogging.  It went decently, I did the Day 1 Fitness Test to determine where I'm at.
http://youtu.be/GqHLOd49vW8

While I won't post a video of myself doing this, I'm sure it looked horrible lol, I'll post my results so I can compare in 30 days.  These were on an interval timer I was able to download.  Each exercise allotted 50 seconds with 10 second break before doing the next one, this went on till all seven exercises were done.

Squat Jump - 24
Push Up - 13
Burpees - 10
High Knees - 53
Switch Lunges - 19
Tuck Jumps - 15
Straight Abs - 34

Impressive?  Not really lol.  Bet you didn't realize I'm not as out of shape as I make it sound.  I'm still very strong for my size, as I need a lot of muscle to carry this weight around haha, but I'm impressed myself.  Considering I've been dragging ass for weeks, I'm surprised I could do what I did.  By the end I was exhausted. 

Counting was hard since my 4 year old was sitting there counting with me, and counting randomly lol.

Out of all the exercises the tuck jumps were the worst, I can't do them well, and since I had a knee injury a while back I need to be careful.  Every time I start a workout regimen it never fails that I push myself too hard and injure myself, which puts me out for weeks, and this last injury several months.  So if it hurts, I'm going to tweak an exercise so I can do it without hurting myself.  It's like yoga, there's always an advanced move along with a normal move, there is always a way to do something if you want to, you just have to change the rules a little bit.

I weighed myself this morning, and I'm upset, as I figured I would be...all the snacks in the house plus my horrible self control with snacks = 232 lbs

Wow, I'm a fatass.  Well now that the boo-hooing has commenced, I'm done with it, moving on..  I actually decided to take "before" pictures.  For now, I'm going to keep them to myself lol, because there's no point for them right now.  Once I start seeing progress I may post them in several months once I have some amazing progress.  Right now, it would be a depressing reminder, so yea...I'll lock those away in the vault for now haha.

Going to be doing this challenge everyday and working out, changing diet around, and posting the videos everyday and what I've done.  This will help keep me accountable and allow me to vent my frustrations along the way.  Hardest challenge for me is going to be cutting out soda pop.

That's all for now!  Body rocking till next time! 

Been on a journey..of laziness...

So what happened to all my motivation?  It's gone, along with my toned body I was getting from going to the gym.. *cries* 

So now what?  Time to get off my lazy butt and do stuff.  Fine, I can't get out of the house, so maybe it's finally time for me to figure out things to do on my own at home.

Playing world of warcraft may seem like the laziest thing ever to people who don't game, but I've met some of the most awesome people online and in my guild a lot of people have been going through life transformations with weight loss and it's really inspiring. 

I've played this game for 6 years, and it's not the game or playing video games that make people lazy and overweight.  That's a huuuuuge misconception.  There are many reasons people are overweight, and I'm not going to go on a long tangent about it, because in the end this blog is about my journey.  My reasons have a lot to do with my health, boredom, eating the wrong foods, sitting on my butt too much, being depressed, etc..

SO..I realize I say "so" a lot.  It's alright, I'm an 80/90s kid, at least I don't use dude all the time in my blogging lol.

Refocusing...  I found this really awesome site :
http://www.bodyrock.tv/

How did I find this site?  Well long story short, my WoW guildmates have accounts setup through fitocracy.com and they're running this fitness challenge involving burpees.  If you don't know what a burpee is then watch this:
http://youtu.be/PYfNA_lmkHM

Anyhoo, I want to be awesome and do this burpee challenge we have, it's going to suck eventually, like on the 90 day mark when I have to do 90 of them, but hell I'll do it lol.  Every day, we do a burpee, then the next day you do the burpee plus one from the day before.  So day 1 I'll do 1 burpee, then day 2, 2 burpees and so forth.  Ug let's see if I'm alive in 3 months lol.

So from looking up burpee on youtube I found this girl's website.  And it's awesome.  I'm all over this!!
http://www.bodyrock.tv/2012/01/02/day-1-of-our-30-day-challenge-fit-test/

First day starts tomorrow.  I'm excited and know right now it's going to be a hard road.  I am no longer fit and strengthened.  I'm more like a weak blob of pain from my fibro flareups I've been having for weeks unending because I'm not doing anything.

I haven't weighed myself in a while, but I'm prolly in the 230 range still.  There's no better time to start than now, since we're out of food and living off rice right now.  No more snacks in the house.  I'm good at not snacking, when it's not in the house.  I prefer baby carrots to snack on.  But I made chocolate chip stuffed oreos for people for xmas and had leftover oreos...well...oreos are the bane of my snack existence.  They are my downfall for sure, I can polish off a bag of them in a day.  I'm so grossed out by how many oreos I ate.

Anyhoo, I'm going to post more tomorrow when I have more time for blogging.  I'm doing my first burpee tonight, and hoping things go well.

Till next time, To Nirvana!!