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!