Gym & Training Day 09 Recap

Day 09 of Training, Thursday, is a short day, due to Friday being my long day...so I planned to do a 1 Mile for time, to test myself  & Pilates Fix.

Under a 10:00 mile!!!

My short run yesterday was AWESOME!!!  Knowing it was going to be short I pushed myself to the extreme, or as extreme as I could.  I started out at a 5.0  for about a quarter mile to get myself warmed up, then upped the speed to 6.9! At first I was distracted by the sound of my feet pounding on the machine, but I kind of used some of my meditation tricks to focus on my breathing and pushed through the mile with no trouble.  I doubt at this point that I could run that fast for any extended length of time or distance, but it felt great to at least do a mile that fast.

My final mile time came out to under 10 minutes!  I haven't done that in FOREVER!!!

Planking!!!

Pilates Fix wasn't easy yesterday, but it definitely was easier than last week.  I need to workout how to do planking.  Right now I do all of them bent kneed due to my broken foot, but I don't think I'm getting the full benefit of doing the exercises that way.  Maybe I need to do half regular and half bent knee because really the toe touches and leg lifts don't seem to be doing anything for me the modified way I'm doing them now.

All in all it was an A+ day!  Friday's long run might be switched to a weekend run because hubby is off work today.  I should know in a few hours if I'll have to reschedule my friday workout.

Gym & Training Day 04 Recap

I think I've figured out that I'm more of a mid morning or early morning workout person.  Yesterday was dance class for my 4 year old daughter at 10:45 and with my summer plans the way they are we had to go to the gym after class instead of before.

My 2 year old son has been coming with us to dance class since September and when allowed he goes off to the side to dance.  Yesterday he got one of the last years umbrellas to practice with and worked his own little routine next to the bigger girls.

Lunch break went ok.  The kids had doughnuts from the doughnut shop and lunchables.  Not the most nutritious thing to eat, but when I'm on the run, it's better than fast food.

Dropped the kids off at the gym and they happily went along.  I was so worried that they'd freak out about going into daycare for the first time in their lives, but they've taken to it like ducks to water.

Now...down to the working out.

The Curves Room at the gym is my new home.  I feel completely comfortable in there and don't worry about crazy looks people give me any more.  I do have to say though that when I got on the treadmill yesterday some younger girls were laughing in the row behind me and somehow my twisted little brain thought they were laughing at me.  Great...right?  I'm sure they weren't, now that I'm out of the moment, but it's so sad to immediately assume that!!!

So Day 04 of 61 was scheduled to be a Pilates Fix Day and a longer run, but since I'm going to do my long runs on Fridays (since weekends will be kid & hubby time) I cut my run short to a good mile and did Total Cardio Fix again knowing that Pilates would kill my legs in preparation for my run on Friday.

Not sure if I've talked about this before, but I have a little routine I do, when doing my Fix workouts.  I get a mat and weights then set my RunKeeper to an interval of  one minute steady and fifteen seconds slow on repeat so I do an exercise for a minute then rest for fifteen seconds, the way that they do it on the DVD.  Its great because it beeps at me to tell me when to change so I don't really even have to look at the clock!

I could do it on BEACHBODY ON DEMAND, but it seems easier since I know all the exercises already to do it that way.

Anyway I can't believe I've already finished four days in a row!  That's more days in a row than I've done in two months.  I've checked my weight all week and I'm already down about 3 lbs.  I know this will fluctuate in the next few weeks, but at least I'm going in the right direction!

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Gym & Training Day 03 Recap

#NoKidsAllowed

Yesterday was day three...  I was as sore as I've been in a long time, but I went to the gym, jumped on the treadmill and did 2.5 miles without issue...well sort of... about half way through my workout a mom brought her two elementary school age kids into the workout room and while they weren't being completely out of control, they were a distraction from what I was doing.  There is a playroom for the kids at the gym, a VERY nice one, so the fact that this mom had her kids in with us was mind boggling and a big distraction.  Part of the reason I'm working out at the gym is so that I can get my mind off my kids and get my mind on me.  Sounds crappy, but really, it's MomMe time!!!

Anyway, did a great job with the running then took my place in the corner with my weights and did Lower Fix.  I always feel a bit exposed when doing exercises, like some expert is going to be watching me and telling me I'm doing it wrong, but it never happens.  I remembered most of the exercises I needed to do, but after running my legs were like jello so I did them in a slightly different order when my legs were telling me that they couldn't do any more of a certain action.

Let me tell you it was a struggle to get that last set of exercises in, luckily I was sitting on the ground to do the leg lifts or I probably would have fallen down.  I even had trouble walking back to get the kids!

My highlight was being able to show the kids where I workout!  They wanted to see where I was so I walked them in and told them all about my workout.

After that I collected up the kids and they got to play with one of our neighbors in the pool.  I can't believe that today is now day 4.  We are going to do a later session due to my daughter's dance class, but it should be a great day 4!

My food has been hit and miss the last three days.  I'm doing it all right, but I feel like I'm still not getting in enough food.  Food prep for next week is going to be a BIG priority!

Also I'm excited.  One of my fellow Challenge Group peeps is going to run the 10k with me in August!  I can't wait to get out on the bike trails and get that BLING!!!

Gym & Training Day 02 ReCap

#Meltdown

Yesterday's workout was amazing...2.5 mile run went great with a great time on it.  I took some weights into a corner and did the 2 session 5 exercise each rotations and while I think a lot of people were looking at me crazy, it worked well to do it off to the side of the weight mirror.

Upper Fix was so good that today it's hard to sit up and it hurts when I sneeze...signs that all those muscles that have been sleeping since January are now awake.  It's funny though that my arms aren't the ones that are feeling it, but my abs that are going crazy!!!

We spent an hour and a half at the pool with the kids that was great!  The kids played with another little girl for a while and when it was time to go I didn't have to do anything more than tell them it was time.

What happened after leaving the gym was a total disaster!

You know that picture that they show of the frazzled mom with two kids having temper tantrums in the middle of the grocery store?  That was me!!!  I had two kids crying as I was leaving the store and spent the next 40 minutes listening to my son freak out before he passed out and took a nap.

Food for the most part was on track, but I need more greens!!!  And how am I supposed to eat all those reds?  I guess today I'll have to revaluate what I'm doing.

Gym & Training Day 01 ReCap

It was perfectly evident that the stars were aligned against me yesterday.  I got the kids up and going like I wanted to.  Got packed and everything ready then went out to the truck and it wouldn't start.  Normally this would have sent me into a rage and especially because it was my 4 year old who left the door open over night, but I took a deep breath and called my hubby and then my brother and 45 minutes later we were on the road!

#NOEXCUSES

The gym membership needed to be "turned on" and so that took a little extra minute, but everything else turned out to run smoothly...except that moment where I almost ate it on the treadmill and that other moment when I almost slipped on the workout mat...but who's counting...right???

This summer's running plan and workout plan are something that I want to do, I need to do and you know what?  Yesterday...when the kids were playing at the gym daycare, for the first time in MONTHS I felt at peace.  I know that sounds crazy, but it was like the weight that's been on my shoulders and chest disappeared in that one hour and a half workout session!

I went to check on the kids after about an hour and when I saw that they were playing nicely, I went and sat in the hallway on the other side of the gym and had some ME time.  It was amazing...and you know what?  When I came back to get the kids...I felt LUCKY to be picking them up and spending more time with them instead of feeling that slight dread of having to "deal with them" for a few hours.

All in all, it started out rough, but ended amazing...I can't wait to get back over there today and do it all over again!

Day 01 of 61

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Truck wouldn't start!  #noexcuses 2.5 mile run. Total body Cardio!  Double workouts rock!  Finished in about an hour!  #kidsindaycare!!!#summermeltdownchallengegroup #summerbreeze10korbust #getfitforthemforme

Que the Music... Singing... It's the final countdown!!!!

Sing it with me...It's the final countdown!  In just over a month, June 1st to be exact, my gym membership becomes active as does one excuse erasing factor in my fitness journey...say it with me moms and dads...GYM DAYCARE!  For the first round of 21dayfix this year I stuck to the schedule and did 99% of my workouts.  The second round was at about 50% and the third round I floundered like a dying fish and my biggest shake up to my schedule has without a doubt been, God love them, my children.  I've managed to keep off the 12 lbs or so that I lost, but I want to get back on the horse as they say and continued what I started in January.

My solution????  DAYCARE!  Yes, that lovely place where you drop off your kids and all the excuses (at least I have) for not doing a workout disappear because the kids didn't take a nap or were just not going to get in the dang jogging stroller or stay out from under you while you're planking, even if you bribed them with birthday cake and unicorns.

For me, it's the sleeping patterns of my kids that seem to be the biggest deterrent to a consistent workout schedule.  Most Team Beach Body Followers seem to jump out of bed at the crack of dawn and get their workouts in before the rest of the world can get in their way.  I tried this...it lasted for exactly one morning.  Why?  Well my husband is an early riser for work and that seems to only be a springboard for the rest of the house to come alive.  My 2 year old is often up at 4am and my 4 year old by 5am, leaving this "I wanna workout at 4am" mommy without options.  With such early rise times, it leaves me scrambling for time during the day to set aside for me to workout.

Gym daycare will leave me with 2 whole hours to do whatever I want while in the confines of the gym walls of course.  My plan is to do a workout for at least 30 minutes then get back into a running routine so that by August 1st I can run a 10k again after MONTHS of not having enough time to train.