Workout Wednesday Link Up

Full Body Workout Circuit: Do each circuit all the way through without stopping and then rest a minute or two and start the next circuit. Complete all 4 circuits 4 times through. I did this workout weekend before last after a run and it was KILLING me. Its not for the faint of heart that's for sure, especially if you do it in your garage in Texas... we were baking!!!!

Circuit A

• 15 Push Ups

• 20 Mountain Climbers

• 20 Triceps Dips on bench with a weighted plate or dumbbell



Circuit B

• 10 Squats

• 15 curtsy lunges with upright row

• 12 sumo squats on toes



Circuit C

• 15 Supermans

• 30 Second side Planks (each side)

• 1 minute plank



Circuit D

• 15 clean and press

• 15 dead lift to a rear delt row

• 10 lunges each leg with lateral raise





I also weighed in this morning... As I mentioned yesterday I keep gaining and losing the same few pounds... and I am ready to rid myself of them for good! Clean eating is required for me... I cant just eat mostly healthy. Two cheat meals a week is what I am going to start with, but I may have to go back to one, that's what worked for me in the past.

Goals for the next month

June 28th I am going to the beach with some girlfriends... and July 28th is my triathlon... I need to whip it into shape the next month!

I have been gaining/losing the same two pounds all year this year and I am ready to break on to new territory.... this past weekend fishing wasn't too bad food wise, but I ate a lot of candy... they had a bag of snack size candy and I tore up some Twix... it was bad... I think I may need to do the Advocare cleanse again to reset my body. Its going to be hard to do with the hubs home, but its a good idea.

My goals for the next month:

1. Get in at least 6/7 workouts a week- 4 strength and 3 cardio

2. Eat clean all but two meals a week- I need my cheats to stay sane!

3. I have decided to do the squat challenge!

4. Avoid candy/desserts, except for an occasional piece of dark chocolate - see notes above about sanity! I need to re-train my body that fruit can be my dessert!

5. No fried food... this shouldn't be that hard, but I do love fries/ CFA nuggets for cheat meals, so that part will be tough.

6. No more bread- I really do best when I break up with bread for good. It's not me, it IS the bread! My body cant process it!


Its a lot to want to achieve, but I am going to be in a bikini in a month with some smoking hot ladies and I want to look my best and feel confident next to them on the beach:

We wear our sunglasses at night... in a bar... haha, hey this got us free drinks! :)

 

and my hottie younger sister too!!

...and then I don't want my own butt kicked in two months for that tri! :)



Port O'Connor Fishing Trip

Thursday afternoon we all loaded up and headed to POC

 

Thursday night we had crawfish and hung out, and I saw the list of Captains and Capt Ron was on it and I remembered him from the trip two years ago so I staked my claim on him!!!



Friday was a good fishing day, we limited out on red fish and caught a trout and a drum

my first drum

 

reeling one in

 

 

my first red

 

 

all the girls fishing Friday afternoon- the only trip all three of us made it

 

 

Friday morning it was just me and Christina

 

 

Fridays total catch: I caught 3 reds and the drum and a lot of fish that were too small to keep

 

 

 

Saturday morning we just fished the morning and it was me and Suzy

 

 

my first and only keeper red of the day

 

smallest catch of the day, I thought my bait was eaten off but I actually had a fish!

 

my first drum of the day, ended up limiting out

 

me and our two guides... a lot of people slept in Saturday morning, so we had Capt Ron and Capt Jake

 

 

me and Suzy after Sat morning fishing, 10 drum and 2 reds, I caught one of the reds and 8 of the drum...

 

 

Jason won biggest fish of the weekend 30" red:

 

 

Saturday night when I got home the hubs grilled up some of the drum for us to eat, it was YUMMY!

 

 

me and my love on Sunday after church getting some fro yo!!!

 

 

We split up the fish and I was able to snag redfish, trout, and drum to take home... super excited about the meals we are going to make out of all of it!

 

Company Fishing Trip

This afternoon I leave for a company fishing trip in Port O'Conner.... I went two years ago and had a BLAST!!! We are going bay fishing and it should be a good time. We have a bigger group going this year because our company is bigger so more fun to be had by all! :)

I caught a few trout the first day....

 

 

and two monster redfish the second!!

 

 

Dianne and I and are big redfish.... mine two are the two closest to me, biggest one was 26" - which at that time was my biggest catch ever, til my honeymoon last year and the 625lb marlin!!!

 

some of the guys caught a filter, we have some clean waters out there!!!

Workout Wednesday

 

 

Yesterday I torched 600 cals in an hour doing weights... here's how:

I did the lower body workout week 2 from EFITMAMA on IG.


repeat this 4 times:
2 min jump rope
dead lifts with 30lb barbell
one leg lunges with 30lbs - pretty sure I looked like this while doing them:
 


sumo squats with bicep curl 30lbs
hamstring curl machine - we don't have one at the gym, so I had to skip this one
leg press machine 140lbs
boat pose for 1 min
plank for 1 min
25 russian twists
25 v sit ups
25 leg raises


I forgot to weigh in this morning, but I did weigh in yesterday... and I am doing alright, but more importantly than that I am going to start monitoring my body fat %, I am at 26% right now... hoping to get around 20%, but according to a chart I found 26% is pretty good, so I cant complain too much! I need to re-do it though because it asked if I was "normal" or "athlete" and I put athlete because the questions it had me answer to get to it were do you workout 5 or more times a week for at least 30 min- that doesn't make me an athlete, so maybe I am even lower!!!!!! That would rock! Will re-do tomorrow!

 

 

 

Overcoming Challenges/Interruptions

Yesterday I had every intention of going to the gym and getting in a good lower body workout at lunch, I was on my way out the door when a co-worker stopped me... we had a new engineer start yesterday and she was in charge or organizing a group to take him out to a welcome lunch, and his whole team was busy other than one other guy, she felt bad so she asked me to go as well... and since I would have felt pretty crummy if no one went to my welcome lunch, I brought my gym bag back to my office and went with them to lunch. We went to a Mexican restaurant, great, so now I am not only NOT burning calories at lunch I am going to struggle to not eat my weight in chips and eat 1000 plus calories at lunch.

I had about a dozen or so chips, they were GOOD!!! BUT I ordered a salad, a grilled chicken fajita salad, and had everything taken off but the chicken cheese and lettuce.. I had a little dressing on the side, but that's it. There was more cheese than chicken but it was removable and I was able to eat around most of it, it was iceberg lettuce and I know there is no nutritional value there, but at least it beats an enchilada/anything else there...

After work I went to my second hot yoga class, and I lasted 1:20 this time, only left 10 mins early, should make the whole hour and a half class next time! 113F is HOT yall!!!

On the way home the hubs said he wanted to run for his workout and asked me if I wanted him to wait for me so he did and we ran about 2 miles last night. I got it in... and then we had grilled chicken salad on spinach and spring mix for dinner... I had too much salad yesterday, if there is such a thing!

BUT I made the best of interrupted plans! That I can be proud of.

Weekend Update- My Love is Home!

Saturday morning I got ready for bootcamp...

 

Max wanted to come, but he stayed home to get in his workout...

 

 

We got to bootcamp 30 mins late, because I thought it was at 10:30, but it was at 10, so we went back to my house to run and then do our own bootcamp.. well it was hot and humid, so it was a slow ugly run, but we did it, and we saw a snake on our run... some nice men killed it for us so I got a pic of it on loop 2, the first loop we took the dogs, they were pretty excited and luckily didn't see the snake!

 

 

 

then we did my week 2 full body workout from EFITMAMA and hit the punching bag some... 2 hours and 1500 calories later, we were done!

 

I decided to grill chicken breasts, steam brocc and cauliflower and cubed and baked a sweet potato, we had to eat it after the chicken and veggies because it took a while to cook

 

then I took a nap and Maddie and Belle were there to support me the whole time....

 

Hank and Max were tired just hearing about the workout...

 

I checked the mail and THIS arrived!!!! I ordered it off Amazon and I am excited to monitor my body fat %, so much more important than my weight!

 

 Sat night/Sunday morning at 1am the hubs came home early!!!! He wasn't supposed to get in til late Sunday night... I was sooo happy!!!!!

This is Sunday after church headed to lunch at Chuys... we have to go there when he gets home, he misses the Mexican food!!! ...and I love it! We split the steak fajitas, but I used corn tortillas AND only had 12 chips!! And I was able to convince him to get in a workout with me after that! We got some supplies and did some yard work and then got in an upper body weights workout together!

 

 

since we were bad at lunch, for dinner we grilled turkey burgers with cheese and no buns and had watermelon, so did Belle... she only eats the pink stuff just like we do... its so cute!!!!