Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday was a day of rest
Meeting ran late last night so we took it as a day of rest... tonight = Chest and Back
Monday, February 21, 2011
Week two complete, week three beginning!
Whew, I made it through week two... but it was not as great as I would have liked. I did not think that I was really modifying the moves but I was never able to get a really great calorie burn?!! Here are the stats and then I will talk about some things that I need to clarify.
Week 2:
Chest and Back - 337
Treadmill - 293
Plyometrics - 593
Shoulders and Arms - 384
Yoga - 207
Legs and Back & Treadmill- 705
Kenpo - 445
For a total of 2964 calories
Now, my big concern is with Yoga... I just feel like I am wasting 1 1/2 hours of my time doing Yoga when all I burned was 207 calories. Is it really worth it? I have to do some research today and see if yoga is going to do more for me than say... Cardio X. During that workout my average heart rate was 86... I think that I may have been sleeping!!!! There were moments that my heart rate went higher but in all it was low. I did get into the crane position three times (for mere seconds but I am counting it) and was able to hold most all of the other positions as well... but I could have cried when I stopped my HRM and saw what little fat I burned.
Anyway, I will get over it! I am adding Ab Ripper this week because I am feeling better. I will also note an increase in my Average and Maximum Heart Rate, I am sure because I am no longer on Prednizone. My weigh in will only take place at the end of the month... I am tired of being disappointed. I should say that someone asked me what I was doing because I was looking good... and looking like I was losing. That is always a motivator... so I will just stay away from the scale for now.
So, that is it... make it a great day! Tonight is Chest and Back - yippee!
Week 2:
Chest and Back - 337
Treadmill - 293
Plyometrics - 593
Shoulders and Arms - 384
Yoga - 207
Legs and Back & Treadmill- 705
Kenpo - 445
For a total of 2964 calories
Now, my big concern is with Yoga... I just feel like I am wasting 1 1/2 hours of my time doing Yoga when all I burned was 207 calories. Is it really worth it? I have to do some research today and see if yoga is going to do more for me than say... Cardio X. During that workout my average heart rate was 86... I think that I may have been sleeping!!!! There were moments that my heart rate went higher but in all it was low. I did get into the crane position three times (for mere seconds but I am counting it) and was able to hold most all of the other positions as well... but I could have cried when I stopped my HRM and saw what little fat I burned.
Anyway, I will get over it! I am adding Ab Ripper this week because I am feeling better. I will also note an increase in my Average and Maximum Heart Rate, I am sure because I am no longer on Prednizone. My weigh in will only take place at the end of the month... I am tired of being disappointed. I should say that someone asked me what I was doing because I was looking good... and looking like I was losing. That is always a motivator... so I will just stay away from the scale for now.
So, that is it... make it a great day! Tonight is Chest and Back - yippee!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Mr. Wonderful, My girls and Me
Friday photo share... taken on Sunday (missing from photo is my lil man but he was playing hockey and was not with us).
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Prednizone is working and I am back at it
Good morning friends! I have been quiet lately because there is still not that much to tell. I am still recovering from the last flare up but the prednizone is working now and I am feeling much better. The truth is that I feel very little pain on those drugs and I am able to accomplish much more... now if I could find a drug like that to inject some serious Vitamin D in my system and beat these winter blues.
On the X-front, I have decided to accept Monday as my day of rest for this week and I will make up the Kempo that I missed last week on one of my lunch breaks this week. I did Chest and Back last night and followed it with an easy 2 mile run on the treadmill. I am feeling strong and I see such an improvement over the first round of the X that it is seriously encouraging. I did not increase my weights on the exercises this week; still using 25 pounds for lawn mowers and pull up your pants exercises, 12 pounds for back flys (will be increasing this next week) and my own weight for all the other exercises... chin ups are all assisted but I still feel the burn! I was able to do 5 dive bombers and did at least 10 of each push up on my toes before dropping to my knees and completing the sets. It was a good night!
Tonight is Plyo... but here are the stats for last night's workout:
Chest and Back:
Calories: 337
Avg HR: 107
Max HR: 176
Treadmill:
Calories: 293
Avg HR; 142
Max HR: 169
Make it a great day!!
On the X-front, I have decided to accept Monday as my day of rest for this week and I will make up the Kempo that I missed last week on one of my lunch breaks this week. I did Chest and Back last night and followed it with an easy 2 mile run on the treadmill. I am feeling strong and I see such an improvement over the first round of the X that it is seriously encouraging. I did not increase my weights on the exercises this week; still using 25 pounds for lawn mowers and pull up your pants exercises, 12 pounds for back flys (will be increasing this next week) and my own weight for all the other exercises... chin ups are all assisted but I still feel the burn! I was able to do 5 dive bombers and did at least 10 of each push up on my toes before dropping to my knees and completing the sets. It was a good night!
Tonight is Plyo... but here are the stats for last night's workout:
Chest and Back:
Calories: 337
Avg HR: 107
Max HR: 176
Treadmill:
Calories: 293
Avg HR; 142
Max HR: 169
Make it a great day!!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Back on the Prednizone and packing on the poundage
Why is it that I am able to take two big steps forward only to be followed by two giant steps backwards?
I think what happened last week was that I was too excited to be back at it and went at it too hard. I have this obsession with everything that I do ... I go "all in" regardless of how big the risk. I like to give it all I have and sometimes it is to my detriment. But alas, I have to relearn the fact that my body rejects my brain's requests to push myself beyond my limits. I have to learn to listen to my body better and I had no choice but to listen this past week!
It started with a flare up in the right knee, then I developed a second flare up in the left knee and in the left ankle and finally the symptom that made me sit up and listen is when my chest pain was so severe that I could not use my left arm or breathe a full breath. I knew that it was time to slow it up... and so I ended up missing one day last week but after three days of Prednizone I am ready to get back in the game. Although my joints and chest are recovering my weight has suffered... I have gained 5 pounds this past week!!! NOT GOOD but I know that it is a lot of water weight so I am not going to stop working at it... I have to remember that it is a marathon, not a sprint (but it still sucks).
This week I am focused and I am going to do just the X and I will do that well. I have also restocked my favorite protein shake (BSN Syntha 6 - Banana) and I will be taking that at lunch time to increase calories and protein levels. I will continue to eat 5 times per day and avoid sugar as much as humanly possible... until the treatment of prednizone is done and then I WILL not eat sugar - period!
So, that is the plan for the week... here are the stats from my legs and back workout this weekend:
Calories: 413
Avg HR: 117
Max HR: 159
IT was an awesome workout and even on the meds I still have sore glutes... so those muscles were seriously working!
Make it a great day! Keep pushing play friends...
I think what happened last week was that I was too excited to be back at it and went at it too hard. I have this obsession with everything that I do ... I go "all in" regardless of how big the risk. I like to give it all I have and sometimes it is to my detriment. But alas, I have to relearn the fact that my body rejects my brain's requests to push myself beyond my limits. I have to learn to listen to my body better and I had no choice but to listen this past week!
It started with a flare up in the right knee, then I developed a second flare up in the left knee and in the left ankle and finally the symptom that made me sit up and listen is when my chest pain was so severe that I could not use my left arm or breathe a full breath. I knew that it was time to slow it up... and so I ended up missing one day last week but after three days of Prednizone I am ready to get back in the game. Although my joints and chest are recovering my weight has suffered... I have gained 5 pounds this past week!!! NOT GOOD but I know that it is a lot of water weight so I am not going to stop working at it... I have to remember that it is a marathon, not a sprint (but it still sucks).
This week I am focused and I am going to do just the X and I will do that well. I have also restocked my favorite protein shake (BSN Syntha 6 - Banana) and I will be taking that at lunch time to increase calories and protein levels. I will continue to eat 5 times per day and avoid sugar as much as humanly possible... until the treatment of prednizone is done and then I WILL not eat sugar - period!
So, that is the plan for the week... here are the stats from my legs and back workout this weekend:
Calories: 413
Avg HR: 117
Max HR: 159
IT was an awesome workout and even on the meds I still have sore glutes... so those muscles were seriously working!
Make it a great day! Keep pushing play friends...
Friday, February 11, 2011
A confession ((((blush))))
Ok, so I skipped the Zumba class yesterday because I was having trouble walking and wanted to save myself for my P90X since that is my program with priority. So Superwoman and I just hung out over lunch and we have planned on doing that Zumba today at lunch.
So, last night I was trying to figure out how I was going to manage my time. Mr. Wonderful had not done the Shoulders workout with me the night before because he was trying to recover a little, so I knew that he would want to get it done last night... and I was right. SO, he went first while I was putting the little ones to bed. I read a story to Buba and a week's worth of diary entries for Squeelie (she is reading Dear Dumb Diary) and met my Mr. WOnderful in our gym. I noticed that he had 35 minutes left and so I set the treadmill for 35 minutes and began my warm up... 2.5 miles and a nice calorie burn (details to follow). After my hubby was done his workout I began my yoga hell, I mean yoga bliss. I did the warm up and the stretch in my muscles were hurting but I knew that it meant that it would do me good... and it really did. Here comes the confession... after the warm up I skipped the vinyasa moves and only did the last hour of the program. I always burned out my brain and my muscles during those darn moves so I thought that I would begin with the balance moves and go back to the vinyasas. Turns out that I am pretty darn good at the last 2/3 of that program... and I was so proud and feeling so good that I did not go back to the beginning - I just walked away.
SO, here are my stats for last night's workouts:
Treadmill:
Calories: 433
Avg HR: 141
Max HR: 176
Yoga X:
Calories: 303
Avg HR: 109
Max HR: 140 ( I am sure this happened when I was trying to get in the crane position)
So... onward and upward I go, with some prednisone in my system to help me through - Legs and Back tonight + Ab Ripper X and Zumba on lunch... can't wait for weigh-in MOnday to see what has happened during this week.
Make it a great day!
So, last night I was trying to figure out how I was going to manage my time. Mr. Wonderful had not done the Shoulders workout with me the night before because he was trying to recover a little, so I knew that he would want to get it done last night... and I was right. SO, he went first while I was putting the little ones to bed. I read a story to Buba and a week's worth of diary entries for Squeelie (she is reading Dear Dumb Diary) and met my Mr. WOnderful in our gym. I noticed that he had 35 minutes left and so I set the treadmill for 35 minutes and began my warm up... 2.5 miles and a nice calorie burn (details to follow). After my hubby was done his workout I began my yoga hell, I mean yoga bliss. I did the warm up and the stretch in my muscles were hurting but I knew that it meant that it would do me good... and it really did. Here comes the confession... after the warm up I skipped the vinyasa moves and only did the last hour of the program. I always burned out my brain and my muscles during those darn moves so I thought that I would begin with the balance moves and go back to the vinyasas. Turns out that I am pretty darn good at the last 2/3 of that program... and I was so proud and feeling so good that I did not go back to the beginning - I just walked away.
SO, here are my stats for last night's workouts:
Treadmill:
Calories: 433
Avg HR: 141
Max HR: 176
Yoga X:
Calories: 303
Avg HR: 109
Max HR: 140 ( I am sure this happened when I was trying to get in the crane position)
So... onward and upward I go, with some prednisone in my system to help me through - Legs and Back tonight + Ab Ripper X and Zumba on lunch... can't wait for weigh-in MOnday to see what has happened during this week.
Make it a great day!
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Shoulders and Arms
Well good morning... and what a glorious morning it is! The sun is shining but the mercury reminds us that it is still winter (-21 degrees). My heart is feeling like a million bucks but my joints are screaming at me! I am pushing myself beyond my limits to expand them but at the same time my body is MAD. I called my specialist to see if there is something else that he might be able to prescribe for me to help control the pain but I have not heard back yet. In the meantime, I am taking painkillers every four hours and hoping that I will get a reply from my Dr before too long. I am not letting this stall my progress... I just try and put my mind over matter, and so far it has been working.
Last nights workout was shoulders and arms... and I forgot how freaking hard those crouching Cohen curls were!! I was shaking and nearly did not get in the 12th rep in. I was using 15lbs and I can't see myself ready to increase that weight next week neither :P Following the Shoulder workout I stopped the DVD because I did not think that my knees would tolerate the in and outs or bicycle exercises in the Ab Ripper program... so I hoped on my treadmill and did an easy 1.5 mile in 20 minutes. My knees were grinding at first and I thought that was maybe a bad idea too... but then I got in my "good place" with the tunes in my ears and my head clear I was able to get through it and add to my calorie burn. I should mention that I was able to jog (4.5 & 5.0 MPH) for 5 minutes and did not once consider dropping the speed. I was so "in the moment" that I think that I may have been able to do that speed for 10+ minutes but the program I was doing slowed it down and I did not re-adjust it. Overall it was a great night!
Here are the facts:
Shoulders and Arms + Treadmill:
Calories: 652
AvG HR: 127
Max HR: 174
So, the plan today is to try Zumba on our lunch hour. That should be fun... so I hear! Then tonight is my most dreaded night of all... Yoga! I suck at yoga but I am committing 100% to this round, so I am going to conquer that damn thing!!
Make it a great day folks!
Last nights workout was shoulders and arms... and I forgot how freaking hard those crouching Cohen curls were!! I was shaking and nearly did not get in the 12th rep in. I was using 15lbs and I can't see myself ready to increase that weight next week neither :P Following the Shoulder workout I stopped the DVD because I did not think that my knees would tolerate the in and outs or bicycle exercises in the Ab Ripper program... so I hoped on my treadmill and did an easy 1.5 mile in 20 minutes. My knees were grinding at first and I thought that was maybe a bad idea too... but then I got in my "good place" with the tunes in my ears and my head clear I was able to get through it and add to my calorie burn. I should mention that I was able to jog (4.5 & 5.0 MPH) for 5 minutes and did not once consider dropping the speed. I was so "in the moment" that I think that I may have been able to do that speed for 10+ minutes but the program I was doing slowed it down and I did not re-adjust it. Overall it was a great night!
Here are the facts:
Shoulders and Arms + Treadmill:
Calories: 652
AvG HR: 127
Max HR: 174
So, the plan today is to try Zumba on our lunch hour. That should be fun... so I hear! Then tonight is my most dreaded night of all... Yoga! I suck at yoga but I am committing 100% to this round, so I am going to conquer that damn thing!!
Make it a great day folks!
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