Body Rocking it out

Now that finals are done my schedule freed up significantly so this morning I decided to start body-rock!

body-rock is a website one of my friends posted on Pinterest that gives short, sweet, and sweaty workouts.

The best part is that they change pretty constantly which is fantastic because I'm pretty sure I have exercise ADHD - I have a hard time keeping going when I have to do the same thing over and over again.

I did my first workout on December 5, another on the 6th, and then I was too sore and busy to do it again until this morning.

This morning I did their workout "The One That Got Away".

It was short.

It was sweet.

I just about killed me.

I did the first section and started the ab bonus but it was solid plank and push-up work and my shoulders were really bad this morning because of the weather, so that section was a no go after the first minute.

They are starting a 12 days of Christmas workout series and my goal is to find the motivation to do that everyday.

(I did Day 1 of 12 this evening)

In other news:

My good friend Alex, 

who is in the process of becoming a medical man,

posted this video on facebook and I thought it was fantastic.

Have an awesome day!!!

♥ ♥ ♥

I decided to walk to work today...

...when I realized my car battery was dead.

I started to call someone to jump me but then I decided it wasn't that cold outside and there was only a little snow on the ground.

So I walked.

It was colder than I anticipated,

but still nice.

There you go!

It started on pinterest...

One day on pinterest one of my friends posted this pin:

"Set your alarm for 6am. Don’t groan when it goes off and pull the covers over your head, get up and start your day. Put on a baggy top and running shorts. Go downstairs and pour yourself a nice big glass of ice water. Cut up some fruit and mix it in with yogurt. Add some granola. Now go outside. Stretch for 10 minutes. Skip for 5 minutes. Jog for 10 minutes. Run for 10 minutes. Walk back. Lay out a towel on the ground and lie down on it. Do 50 crunches. Yes, they hurt, but they are 100% worth it. When you’re done, get in the shower. Use a nice smelling shampoo and matching conditioner. Shave your legs and wash your body. Exfoliate your face. Get out of the shower and let your hair air dry. Look in the mirror. Do you like what you see? If you do, good for you. Do this every day and you will continue to love yourself. If you don’t like what you see, do this every day and pretty soon you will. Being lazy might feel good at the time, but being active feels better in the long run. How badly do you want it?"

I thought that sounded pretty good so I decided to work it into my schedule this week.

Here is the result:

Nearly 3 miles, walking and jogging and a day later, wonderfully sore legs.  Despite the fact it wasn't that hard of a workout I had a feeling that I haven't had since high school - fun combined with exhaustion.  It has been a while since I pushed myself like that - that early in the morning anyway. :)

I liked it so much I am doing it again tomorrow.

After work I am either doing the elliptical or swimming...depends if I talk myself out of shaving my legs or not.  :)

Also I have been continuing to practice yoga every night before bed.  Man, it has really helped me sleep better.  I do about 45 minutes to an hour.

There you go.  Getting back in the swing of things - just in time for Christmas.

Did it again!

Worked out on the treadmill with Karen on Friday for almost an hour I think and I didn't push myself to run cuz I had worked the night before but I did walk at a pretty quick pace and worked up a good sweat so I feel good about that!! Then Mother Nature kicked my trash this weekend so I will hopefully be able to resume things on Tuesday along with a better eating plan for the week :)

Finally!

So I finally worked out today lol! I have done it a couple other times in the past month but nothing consistent so I am redoubling my efforts cuz I have lots of cute jeans just chillin in the closet waiting for me to slim down! I did the treadmill for 30 minutes and then a 5 minute cool-down and then stretching :) doesn't sound like much but I was sweating a lot and my legs are still feeling the burn so I say job well done!

This morning.

Starting to feel a little better but still super weak from all the sick madness.

This morning I did a little small set of jumping jacks, sit-ups, mountain climbers, a 30 second plank, and some burbees.

Then I did yoga because writing and studying at my desk all day is killing my back.

There you go.

That was my morning.

Tonight I am going to try to go swimming with Laurie but it will depend where I am on my paper and presentation.

Ugh, school.

:)

Wondering if the workout blog is dead?

The workout blog is not dead...we all were just a little down and out with sickness and such.

I worked out for the first time in about a month on Monday (yesterday).
I just did a 1000 yd. workout...which was embarrassingly difficult.
100 swim
100 kick
100 pull
until I hit 1000 yds.
Yes, it was a wimpy workout but I'm still in recovery from a month of illness...ugh...a month...gross.

This morning I did 1 hour of ballet, difficult but I'm feeling a little more strength in my little muscles today.
This evening I tried out a workout a friend posted on pinterest.
It is called the 100 workout and goes like this:
100 jumping jacks
90 crunches
80 squats
70 leg lifts
60 jumping jacks
50 crunches
40 squats
30 leg lifts
20 jumping jacks
and a 10 minute run
I liked it because it wasn't hurl your guts out hard, just a good workout.
I took Rosie (our dog) on the 10 minute run.  I tie her leash to my waist and she quite literally pulls me up the hills.  She is the best running buddy, she literally pulls me faster when I try to stop.

So there you go.

Trying to get back in the swing of things, I think I might to a little yoga tonight to help stretch things out.

Short but Sweet Swim Workout

I got your message Allison!!! So here is a swim workout!! :D

Warm Up-
200 stroke
200 kick
200 pull

Main Set-
100 alternating stroke (50) and freestyle (50)
50 freestyle
(x5)
75 alternating stroke (50) and freestyle (25)
(x5 I think)

Cool Down-
50 stroke

Enjoy the short but sweet workout!!!

Short but Sweet Swim Workout

Tuesday... Swim Workout

Today I was a short practice at swim team so we did a pretty small set.

Here it is...

First Set

I think we did 8 75's- kick, drill, swim

Second Set

200 kick-flutter

200 pull

(I can't remember how many times we did this)

We warmed up with a 300-500 and we went right into kicking and pulling.

It wasn't a supper hard workout today but it was nice and energizing.

An attempt at getting back into the swing of things.

Pretty sure I've caught some kind of cold, or I have the allergies from Hades but there you go.

So I've been a bit out of it.

But I tried to get back into things today.

Starting with a little bit of lifting and 30 min. on the elliptical.

Sometimes it is so hard to move.

Today was that day.

It may have also been related to the hill intervals I was doing, but there you go.

:)

Swim Team Workouts All Week

Sorry I haven't posted all week! Here is kind of what I did all week but I can't really remember.

First Set (descending)

• 400 freestyle
• 4- 100's IM
• 300 freestyle
• 3- 100's freestyle
• 200 freestyle
• 2- 100's freestyle
• 100 freestyle
• 1- 100 freestyle
• 100 AFAP

Second Set (x 5)

• 10 pushups (jump out of the pool)
• 25 sprint freestyle
• 10 squats (jump out of the pool)
• 25 sprint freestyle

Third Set

• 50 kick dolphin
• 50 kick flutter on back
• 50 kick breaststroke kick
• 50 kick flutter on stomach
• 200 pull

We always warm up with between a 300 and a 500 and we start the day by kicking.

I can't remember any of the other sets so I will try to post the sets for this upcoming week everyday.

Drills

• Backstroke on back rotating from shoulder to shoulder.
• Butterfly one arm
• Butterfly kicking with arms in streamline
• Freestyle drag fingertips along water.
• Freestyle one arm
• Backstroke one arm in air one in streamline (haha shoot the birds in the sky... that is what I like to call it :D)
• Backstroke 3 stroke 6 kick (slow)
• Breaststroke skulling
• Breaststroke arms with butterfly kick

There are a few of the drills we do everyday to.

Dry land Workouts

So I haven't really posted lately... my bad.

I have been doing a pretty killer dry land workout every other day.

It has loads of medicine balls, running about half a mile, ladders, relays, and bleachers.

Swim is starting so I will be posting those workouts starting tomorrow.

Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't smack their professors.

My post for today is based on Legally Blond.

Yes, it is true.

Let me explain...with a video.

I've gotten a bit dumped on the last week.
By la familia, the boss(es), the professors, the life...
So I have been "slacking" on my workouts in order to get everything else done.
This makes me cranky.
Cranky people smack their professors, familia, bosses and life.
I decided that would be bad.
I like being employed.
So, despite not sleeping much last night I pulled myself out of bed and went to the weight room on campus.

I lifted for 30 minutes and then did the elliptical machine for another 30 minutes averaging 170 rpm and keeping my heart rate under 180.

Surprisingly, I not only feel better but I am not falling asleep in my homework.
That is unusual for me this week.

There you go.
Guess this workout thing is a good thing.
:)

Buns of Steel

So confession: I've skipped working out the past couple of days... Unless you count biking practically everywhere, then I worked out all day! Anyway, to make up for my (and my roommates) slacking, I decided to put us through a fairly simple, yet painful workout. Here's the workout:

50 Medicine Balls (yes, i don't know the correct name!)
30 crunches
50 lunges
30 crunches
50 lunges
30 crunches
50 medicine balls
1:30 bridge
1:00 yoga bridge (question? ask my roommate Jessica)
Total: 100 medicine balls, 90 crunches, 100 lunges, and 2:30 of pain :)

After the workout we decided that I shouldn't be the only one contributing to the workout regime (I told them I wasn't trying to kill them). So we split up the days of the week so that every one of my roommates is in charge of a workout for one of the days, leaving us two days to do our own individual workouts and leaving Sunday for a relaxing yoga session. I did make an executive decision that we would be doing lunges every day of the week for the next few weeks, so it'll be super painful, but afterwards we'll have BUNS OF STEEL!!! So, in other words, this months goal is to work on our butt and thighs. Fun fun fun!

Yoga - so good.

I wasn't able to go swimming yesterday, but I did do yoga.

Yoga sounds wimpy...but it isn't.

I did a yoga workout for 45 min. yesterday and I am actually really feeling it this morning.

I use a book that I bought from Tara Stiles.

I thought yoga was boring until I tried her workouts in a magazine once.

After that I was hooked.

She uses a lot of stretches and exercises that I used to do in dance, while incorporating a ton of planks, push-ups, and ab work that makes me shake while I am doing the movement and really sore the next day.

So there you go.

I literally rolled and stretched and now I am definitely sore.

Today

This morning (after 7 thank goodness), I rushed over to the Richards Building for some workout madness.

I am not as hard core as Karen.

I didn't do the treadmill.

The treadmill makes me want to pee.

Not out of fear.

Literally, want to pee.

So I did the elliptical machine.

I moved my little legs for 30 minutes, keeping my RPM (I think that is what its called?) over 170 until the last minute when I did a little cool down.

My heart rate also stayed under 185 (which was my goal) the majority of the time.

The exception was when I almost fell off the machine.

Then my heart rate went up for a second.

But that is not important.

I'm going to try to swim tomorrow.
But I have to shave my legs first.
:(

The End.

Karen's week so far :)

So this is my first entry on the blog :) I have worked out this whe week so far. Monday was uphill walking for 30 minutes. Tuesday was a weight lifting class called "power pump" and it was about 70 minutes long. Killer :). Wednesday, treadmill, incline 3.0/4.0, speed 3.8/4.0 for 50 minutes. Thursday power pump again and I think my gouges and hamstrings are so sore they will fall off ;). Today I did treadmill 3.0 incline, 3.8/4.0 speed. Treadmill sounds wimpy, but I promise I was sweating a ton!

Started dryland workouts for swim! Two times doing bleachers, lots of pushups, lots of jumping jacks, half a mile, and a killer ab workout. Fun Fun Fun and super sore! Also ran a mile and a half on Tuesday! :D

Workout Buddies

This week was the start of my roommates and my semester long workout plan. Yes, I have three workout buddies with which to share/inflict with the wonderful feeling of waking up sore every morning! The past two days have been fun, just seeing what we're capable of doing before we do any major stuff. This will be happening all week long, just to help us get in the groove of things before we really jump into it. For example:

Monday: Swimming (I think I might have been the only one super excited about this workout)

Tuesday: Abs (crunches and medicine balls)

Today is swimming again! Yes, you've guessed it, I'm in charge of the workout program. I also had my roommates sign contracts saying that I could use whatever means necessary, within reason, to get them to finish the workout. Then, of course, I had to ensure that I would actually work out, so I signed my own contract allowing them to torture me... This should be FUN!!! By the way, did anyone else notice that all of us are training for a triathlon? Triathlons must run(bike/swim) in the family. Haha not the best pun, but I'm working on them :)

And Here We Go!

Alrighty so for this morning's work out I cleaned for an hour! Not just dusting and folding laundry cleaning I mean the type that I was dripping sweat by the time I was done so I am totally counting that as good clean exercise!! The kids and I have a busy afternoon so there will for sure be some more sweating involved but prolly not too much more exercise... And my goal for this evening is yoga and I have to stay up most of the night so hopefully it will be energetic instead of super relaxing!

Morning workouts...ugh.

I was really discouraged when I woke up yesterday.

The basement was so cold,

my bed was so warm,

and my muscles were so sore.

So I decided not to work out...but sometimes in the morning you change your mind.

Because I tried to slack I made myself do a Jillian Michaels dvd before I left for work.

I'm such a meanie. 

:(

But I did it, it is done, and there is the workout for the day.

Oh...since it was the first day of class there was also no parking near work.

So I parked over a mile away.

That way I get a nice walk in AND avoid hitting freshman who cross whenever and wherever they feel like.

There you go!

UPdate and goals.

Let's see.

This week was good and bad as far as working out went.

Good in that I actually did some.

Bad in that I wasn't very consistent.

Thursday I did yoga and pilates.

Friday I did yoga and ballet.

Not exactly triathlon training but it makes my muscles feel oh so good to be stretched and strengthened.

Really, really good.

I start school on Monday!

My goal is to do yoga and one other activity every morning and then do some kind of triathlon training in the evening.

In case you are wondering that includes:

swimming,

biking,

and running.

I have it all scheduled out...we'll see how that goes.

Starting Swimming!

I just met with the swim team. Getting ready to start the new year! Workouts start on Monday!