I weighed in this morning and was up- I am thinking its because of lactic acid build up or maybe water weight from eating out Monday night with my bro- got chicken fajitas, but there was salt... 2lbs dont just appear when eating pretty much on point other than one meal and working out.. so we will see what tomorrow/ Friday's scale has for me, LOTS of water today!
I forgot to do my workouts and weigh in's last week, so here is a summary of whats been going on:
Last week:
Wed- Friday I was still resting and recovering while babying my knee after the MS150 the previous weekend
Saturday- ran 2.5 miles- it was humid and hard to run after a week off of cardio- I did get to wear my ORB swag from the contest giveaway!!!! Thats a little before and after run pic action for ya...
Sunday- circuit training with my brother- tabatas drills on the kickboxing bag with my brother and upper body weights and P90X ab workout - if my brother lived in Houston I would be a beast, he always knows how to push me in workouts! if you have never done tabatas drills they are killer workouts, you have 20 seconds on (you push 100%) and 10 seconds of rest and you repeat 8 times, I did two sets, one with a jab cross and the next with hooks- you should feel like you want to die half way through!
Monday- got a 4 week workout plan from EFITMAMA - if you dont follow her on IG, you need to, she does specials all the time for workout plans- since I was super sore on my upper body I did lower body workout- she gave me 4 different weight workouts a week and then lets you chose your cardio of choice if you have one- for me its running- one rest day a week too.
Tuesday- I rested, I am not feeling well, and had to work through lunch, so nothing got done.
I have chest/back day today AND I am trying out hot yoga tonight, I got a groupon for 10 drop in sessions, they are an hour and a half each- I am hoping I dont die!
Tomorrow is running day
Friday is full body weights
Saturday is running- I have a 5k planned with a friend, and then a two hour zumba-thon! Killer cardio day!
Sunday will be another weights day- back to upper body again!
I am excited about my workout plan. It mixes light and heavy weights and she wants me to jump rope on weight days... for 8 minutes... when I did it Monday I broke it up into circuits since I need 4 sets of each exercise I did 2 minutes of jump rope and then the whole set of exercises without stopping, and repeated that four times. I noticed that a. jumping rope for 2 minutes straight is HARD b. it is possible to keep your heart rate up while pumping iron!
I am VERY excited to see my results at the end of the month!
There will be ALOT of protein shakes going on for breakfast!!!
I am also thinking of doing a squat/plank challenge or something similar for May... anyone?
I would LOVE to try out Hot Yoga!! I'm excited to see what you think! Love your dedication for working out too!! I am starting a 6Week Summer Abs Challenge over on the blog today if you wanna look at it! Plus I am on day 12 of that Squat Challenge and I added Plie' Squats too! I found you on SkinnyMegs Link Up!
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I love Tabata! You are the only person I've found in blogland who does it also. :) I wrote about it a couple months ago and people were like "Girl, you crazy!"
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ReplyDeleteI'm doing a plank challenge in May! I just posted the calendar for it on my blog yesterday. http://www.simplyhealthymama.blogspot.com
I can't wait to try hot yoga. The only place in town that does it offers it twice a week but they do not let newbies take it for their first session. So I'll have to go do a first time session and then go back for hot yoga. Maybe I'll make that a goal to meet by the end of May!
Girl, you are killin' it! Good for you, tabata workouts are awesome! I'm prettyyyyyy sure you should totes do the squat challenge :)
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