I've been on vacation!!

I havent had great access to a computer since I've gone on a vaca to my home town! Hence the delay in posts! Being on vacation is hard, especially when you don't have a gym accessible. If we were staying in a hotel I could easily go to their gym and workout but we are staying at my husbands parents house. And they sadly don't have any gym equipment in the house. So I've been forced to get creative!! I've done push ups! lots of different sit ups and tricep dips on stairs and chairs! and I've taken the dogs for a walk. These things definitely dont make up for the workouts I would have done if I had a gym but it works! I can't not workout my muscles because that would lead to a complete destruction of the work I put in over the past three weeks. As long as I keep my muscles worked out a little, as soon as I get home I can get back in the gym and be doing basically the same thing I was doing last week!! I should loose much strength at all. What I'm doing is called active rest! meaning my body isnt being pushed to the extreme but it's still being used!
Hows your week been in terms of exercise? Tried anything new lately?!

Friday!

Today I went and did a circuit! I love how fast you can get a great workout in! And I love how it gets every part of my body!! For the circuit I did every machine at 55lbs!! I bumped it up from 40lbs that I did last time!! Always need to work harder! It felt great! Love that I'm getting stronger! I also did some power cleans after I was done with the circuit! My eating today wasn't great, we need to go grocery shopping! So here's to getting healthy food the next time we make it to the store!!

What did you do to workout today?!

Thursday

Hey Hows your workout going?! Mine not the best. I'm pretty sure my workout plan isn't the best but I know it's working, I'm think my problem is my food. I'm a terrible eater, and I think I'm to a point where my body is balanced with the workouts I do, the food I eat, and the activity level I keep. At this point I've hit a plateau. My body is steady where it's at but I'm not going to loose inches or weight unless I make a change somewhere. I weighed myself last night and I'm up .5 lb. So I need to change something. I am going to try and eat a little better and I haven't decided whether I want to up my lifting or add some more cardio and stay doing hypertrophy stage in the lifting. I'll let you know when I decide. But yesterday I just did some cardio. I did 20 minutes on the elliptical with it set on random hills, and then I speed walked on the the treadmill with an incline of 9.5 to work my cute tushy!!

What do you do when you hit a plateau?

Wednesday

Talking about running yesterday gave me the motivation to go for a run today! Man am I out of running shape! I only made it for 15 minutes, I'm assuming that I only ran about a mile. Not a huge accomplishment but baby steps! I know my body is feeling it! Running is so great for every part of your body, I love keeping my abs tight while running! I love feeling my legs get worked so much that I have jelly legs afterwards! After the run I went to the weight room and did some shoulder presses, hammer curls, lat pulldowns, chest presses and bicep curls on a machine! Oh and some standing rows! And of course some abs! I love abs!

What did you do to workout today?!

Like to Run?

I'm not a huge runner. I've done it before and it's hard! haha! I'm sure you all know this! I go through phases where I like to run and then I'll stop for a while and hate it and then I'll start back up again. If any of you out there are looking to start running I found a great article that tells you an easy way to do it! I got it off of besthealthmag.com.

This is their plan to get you running!

Running Plan: Month 1

week 1: Run one minute; walk two minutes. Repeat 10 times. Gradually increase the time of your runs by one minute.

by week 4: Run three minutes; walk one minute. Repeat 10 times.

week 5: Run three minutes; walk one minute. Repeat 10 times. Again gradually increase running times.

week 8: Run seven minutes; walk one minute. Repeat four times.

week 9: Run seven minutes; walk one minute. Repeat four times. Gradually increase running times.

week 12: Run 11 minutes; walk one minute. Repeat three times.

by week 16: Run 20 minutes; walk two minutes. Repeat twice.

At the end your ready for half an hour of running without stopping!!

I hope this will help any of you out there that are looking to start running again! I promise if you work at it running can be great! For me the first two miles are the HARDEST! It only gets easier from there!

Good luck and happy running!!

How do you work up your endurance when starting to run?!

Tuesday

Today I went on the elliptical for 25 minutes, and then just worked my legs out. I was out of it today. It's terrible I want to give it my all and go strong, but the sun killed me today. It's hard to create energy out of nothing you know! At least I did a little bit of lifting to keep my muscles activated but it wasn't the workout I wanted.

Progress report!

I'm heading into my third and final week of my challenge. I did a progress check on my weight and inches yesterday.

I'm now down to 125.5 lb

And I didn't do an accurate measuring of my inches just eyeballed it and I'm down about an inch on my waist, I haven't lost any inches around my butt and I'm down half an inch gone on my leg.

What does this mean? It means I've lost the majority of the weight I was looking to get rid of and now it's toning time! Time to build up the muscles so they can eat away that last little bit of fat I'm trying to get rid of!!

I'm not sure I'm going to be able to loose the entire three inches that I wanted to but I will try! And then the hard part is after I loose them I want to keep them off! The toughest part about fitness is if you want to continue to see results you have to continually push yourself. Theres no going to the gym and being lazy that won't work if your trying to reach a certain goal. If you just want to stay the same then the same routine can work but this last week I need to up the anti. I need to make sure I hit every body part and push it! I'm in hypertrophy and I need to push that make sure I don't hold back cause I'm tired.

Thats my biggest weakness is holding back cause I'm tired and loosing interest cause I don't go in with a plan.

Today is Monday and I'm headed camping so I'm not getting the huge workout I wanted in but I will for sure make up for it on Tuesday!

If I go in with a plan, and motivation I will be able to get the last 1.5 inches dropped and .5lb off my body!!!

Have you set any goals? How are you doing on them? Do a progress check to make sure what your doing is working!