Workout #46 was a success. What better way to spend Valentine's Day morning than a Step Sculpt class with favorite crazy instructor lady May. She gave me a nice Valentine's Day gift of pain and an energy bar. Which was very sweet of her. Might be the only Valentine's Day present for me. Took my car to the shop today so I'm walking home in the pouring rain. You'd think on Valentine's Day of all days I might get offered a ride home from someone just sitting at home. Alas, perhaps I could decide not to be stubborn and ask.
I made tuna casserole healthied up last night for dinner. Comfort food sounded good after driving and how cold the weather turned. Used whole wheat pasta, reduced fat cheese, broccoli, carrots and celery for veggies, turned out pretty excellent.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Workout #33
The plan to rise at 5am ready to face instructor May again was foiled by teenage drama. In her defense, Carissa's IPOD dock/alarm was not functioning. The problem connected somehow with a great universe threat against her belongings in that "all of her things break". I somehow managed to point out in my half slumbering state the positive, when her skull candy headphones broke she got an upgrade from the company with a 50% off coupon. After the consoling and thinking of work until 2am, the alarm at 5am was too much. I reset to 7am and made a promise to get a decent sweat on after work. Minds out of the gutter please. :-) I decided to tackle the Insanity fit test again to see if I'd improved. I still cannot do the jumping jack pushups but made it through all of the other exercises despite the residual pain from May's workout lingering.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Jan 25 to Feb 1st
The streak still lives although my Fridays have consisted of walking and pushups for good measure.. The problem with this is we're then on to the Blind Onion for pizza and beer afterwards.. I suppose there need to be a fun life balance but this really kills my weekly progress.
Work has been so busy and home has been a little off which has zapped my energy for writing this blog but I'm going to get back at it even if I write lame things that aren't as entertaining sometimes.
The weather has provided some decent running days and Wally is always ready for an outing. We've worked up to five miles which is easy for him and he's still spry as ever when we return home. I'm feeling pretty good about my cardio fitness at a comfortable pace however, my my upper body and core is so weak. Last night I met Merry at LA Fitness for an hour long session of fun with May who teaches an excellent BodyWorks class. Sadly my body does not work as well as this May who is well over 60 and looks better than most of the 20 and 30-somethings desperately trying to keep up. In the beginning of the class she says its okay if you need to rest but there's no excuse for not doing your best. She not only leads us through a variety of poses I would never have thought to invent all the while counting, encouraging and yelling at us to get it in gear. Sometimes throwing in a threat about when we get older we should be stronger than we are today and more flexible. We need to work hard!!! She is amazing, when she told me good job after class was over I felt like a puppy getting a reward. Although I wondered if she threw me the bone just so I'd return... It worked.... 5:00am tomorrow I am getting up and dragging myself to her morning class. I hope this will be a nice way to start the day. After our session yesterday my shoulders, abs and butt are still pretty sore, hopefully hitting it hard tomorrow will do just the trick to loosen things up.
A note on flexibility or I should say lack thereof, I wonder how long one has to consistently stretch before you see improvement? I'd maybe just like to not feel my achilles are about to pop off when trying to do a stretch while seated. My legs are so tight, it feels I might just flop backwards at any moment from the resistence put forth by my hams and calves. The special highlight is when we're supposed to push our stretch a little further and I'm already at terminal stretch hold with nothing left to give just from a sitting positing. No elbows on the floor for me.
Work has been so busy and home has been a little off which has zapped my energy for writing this blog but I'm going to get back at it even if I write lame things that aren't as entertaining sometimes.
The weather has provided some decent running days and Wally is always ready for an outing. We've worked up to five miles which is easy for him and he's still spry as ever when we return home. I'm feeling pretty good about my cardio fitness at a comfortable pace however, my my upper body and core is so weak. Last night I met Merry at LA Fitness for an hour long session of fun with May who teaches an excellent BodyWorks class. Sadly my body does not work as well as this May who is well over 60 and looks better than most of the 20 and 30-somethings desperately trying to keep up. In the beginning of the class she says its okay if you need to rest but there's no excuse for not doing your best. She not only leads us through a variety of poses I would never have thought to invent all the while counting, encouraging and yelling at us to get it in gear. Sometimes throwing in a threat about when we get older we should be stronger than we are today and more flexible. We need to work hard!!! She is amazing, when she told me good job after class was over I felt like a puppy getting a reward. Although I wondered if she threw me the bone just so I'd return... It worked.... 5:00am tomorrow I am getting up and dragging myself to her morning class. I hope this will be a nice way to start the day. After our session yesterday my shoulders, abs and butt are still pretty sore, hopefully hitting it hard tomorrow will do just the trick to loosen things up.
A note on flexibility or I should say lack thereof, I wonder how long one has to consistently stretch before you see improvement? I'd maybe just like to not feel my achilles are about to pop off when trying to do a stretch while seated. My legs are so tight, it feels I might just flop backwards at any moment from the resistence put forth by my hams and calves. The special highlight is when we're supposed to push our stretch a little further and I'm already at terminal stretch hold with nothing left to give just from a sitting positing. No elbows on the floor for me.
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