Alright, so as I had said before, if I started to slip I would just get back on track and start over. Luckily I seem to have caught myself before slipping too far otherwise it would have been harder. Because of my recent lack of motivation and inability to get myself off the couch and workout when there wasn't the Boot camp classes looming in my near future, I have created a workout schedule that I have so far been pretty good at following (granted its been three days). It almost like a punishment for not working out, but mostly to keep me motivated and moving in between classes and hopefully get myself into the habit of working out on my own so I wont always have to pay to have someone kick my ass. I will show you what I plan on doing, so far… its not so easy (even if it looks it.)
Mondays: Boot camp from 6:30-7:30 pm – this is a crazy workout
Highlights from first class:
- she had us run the room a few times going down the stairs, ten squats at the bottom then back up then when you returned to the room 20 “warm up” push ups on the wall and repeat. This was just the warm-up
- She set up minute long stations including the basics like a bosu ball to do exploding push ups one hand on one hand off, bands attached to a door for twisting, an exercise ball to twist 4 times throw at the wall then do a sit-up (but reverse because you were already up), and a step to do as many as you can BUT
- See, when you sign up for boot camp in a small town, the equipment gets a little… different. TIRES! She had up hold a car tire above our head and do squats then military press the tire up. Then there was the enormous Tractor tire that in teams of two you had to flip it end over end. The tire weighed as much if not more then me…
This class was actually pretty fun. Everyone else seemed to already know each other so I felt a little awkward but in general the actual exercising was great. A minute passes surprisingly fast and by the time your at the point where you want to give up because it hurts and your exhausted she's counting down the last 10 seconds so you can push through. I enjoyed that part of it because I was able to give my all for the whole set instead of getting exhausted half way through. It was really hard to get water but at random points she would take a “walk around the room” break where you jog/walk fast to get your heart rate up again.
Biggest Accomplishment: I somehow got myself pulled off the floor in the side plank position. Granted my knees were bent so its kind of like cheating but before I never could get off the ground, so if I have to cheat a little to get my muscles to focus then I can work on getting my legs straight as I get stronger.
Tuesdays: Walk Outside OR Trampoline [minimum 20 minutes]
Now, this in no way sounds challenging or like a lot of effort. BUT trick is, the day before caused so much muscle building that moving is such a challenge the concept of walking to the bathroom was daunting let alone walking for 20 minutes at a reasonable pace or even trampoline-jogging. I made a commitment though and even though I literally put it off until 9:00 pm and was so tired, I couldn’t not do my first self inflicted workout. So, because Mother Nature thinks its funny to tease us with spring weather then make it snow in April, I decided to do the trampoline jogging. I turned the TV on and luckily bulging brides was on. I like that show and watching them do much harder workouts then my measly jogging was motivation to keep going and going and going.
I got to my 20 minutes and with the television show not over, I thought, Why don’t I keep going? And I did. I jogged with random spurts of high knees and faster jogging for an additional 10 minutes. So really, I ended up with a 30 minute jog even though my muscles were sore. The thing I love about the trampoline is even though it is a really great workout and you do feel it the next day, it doesn’t hurt while your doing it.
Biggest Accomplishment: Pushing myself an extra TEN minutes even though I was tired and needed to go to bed but decided looking good in a bathing suit was a thousand times more important.
Wednesdays: Elliptical OR Trampoline [20 minutes minimum]; Weights- Arms; Abs [100 crunches/moves – varying types]
Now, I gave myself a harder Wednesday either because I forgot how boot camp kills, or because I am mentally challenged. I was MORE sore on Wednesday from boot camp (maybe some of it was trampoline pain) but sitting into chairs was hard. My thighs were dead. So obviously I kept trying to ration it in my brain, your sore you can’t work out! But then at 9:30 I got mad at myself and was like, seriously It is only day 3 of this and your giving up? And I pulled out my Trampoline and began jogging. This time I only did 20 minutes because I had other things to do.
Arm weights are important to me because I like to feel strong. Maybe its because I am so short that I always have to justify that I am as strong –if not stronger- then all those tall girls but I hate that my arms jiggle. I used my 5 lb weights and worked each muscle until exhaustion. I wasn't counting but I did each one until it wasn’t able to do it with proper form again. This I hear is how you get the lean long muscles instead of the super big bulky ones you get if you use super heavy weights.
Abs were fun as always… By fun, I mean awkward and painful. I know crunches are not the BEST type of exercise but its something to help and I do a whole bunch of different ones to work the different core muscles.
Biggest Accomplishment: I will probably say this a lot but the biggest accomplishment was to actually start. I am a notorious procrastination. HENCE, I am blogging when I have 4 days until my 3 exams that I have in no way begun to prepare for. So the fact that (even though I could be studying) I got myself to workout for 30-40 minutes is fairly impressive. I am hoping that this schedule helps motivate me to want to workout on my own so the fact that (even though its two days) I was able to do it is impressive just on its own.
Thursday: Pilates [6:45-7:45]
This starts tonight. I am really nervous because I have never done a Pilates class before. I have done body flow at the good life gyms and LOVED it, but I have a feeling this will be really different and really hard. I am excited because it should be an amazing Abs-Core-Back workout and that is my biggest trouble area. I am that disgusting-and-dangerous-to-your-health APPLE BODY SHAPE. It is so bad to have all your fat in the middle and that's exactly where mine sits. And I have a lot of it. I have like… 35 pounds of fat that can just vanish and I would still be healthy sized. On someone who is 5foot 2 that is bad. I am working on it though! I will let you know how Pilates is!
Fridays: Just Dance 2 OR Trampoline [minimum 20 minutes]; Abs [100 crunches/moves]
Just Dance 2 is basically my favourite work out EVER. Not only is it crazy cardio-tastic but I get to play with my favourite ladies Chels and Colleen and we are getting really good! Well they were always good, but now I am getting better. Most Fridays I spend with them but I gave myself the option of subbing in trampoline because Chels has competitions and I have exams and stuff so sometimes it doesn't happen. Also, Abs are important even though I will be in crazy Pilates pain because it is April, in roughly two and a half months I will be expected to wear a bathing suit. That is no good. So before the humiliation happens I would like to get as much fat off me as possible with my cardio plans and it would be great to have some muscles waiting underneath that thick layer of ick so that when I can get it off I will be bathing suit ready!
Saturday: Elliptical [20 minutes]; Walk Outside [15 minutes]; Arms
So weekends I need to focus because that's usually when I eat pizza or other wondrous weekend food. So Saturdays have these three steps including taking the dogs for a walk. If its ever raining I guess I will sub in trampoline jogging but the doggies enjoy walking so on nice days I will take them out for a stroll through the forest.
Sunday: Elliptical [20 minutes]; Walk Outside [15 minutes]; Arms; Abs [100 crunches]
As said before weekends are bad so I have to exercise a lot and then Sundays add Abs so that 4 out of 7 days a week I will be working out that Food Baby.
So that is the plan! Hopefully I can stick to it. I am making a binder to record my “Actual” accomplishments. So that when I jog an extra ten minutes or do extra crunches or miss a day I have it recorded for review later if I don’t lose weight or if I lose a lot in one week I can look at why.
Now! BACK TO STUDYING! (I would rather jog for a month straight than study for finals…)
