Nearly a Month -- and Insanity

I've been busy, busy, busy and so I let blogging workouts fall by the wayside once again. I've still be teaching Body Boot Camp 4X a week - and I've also begun training for my September 15K.

Basially, I ran or racewalked 5X a week, plus boot camp. I tried out another instructor's very basic Zumba class. No comment. Any how I've been very, very busy and haven't missed a workout except when I'm suppose to - on rest days.

Today I got up and trained a client at 5:45am and had little sleep (long story that ends with crazy, chirping birds that hang outside my window every morning at 4am). My allergies are kicking in, so my nose is stuffy and my throat is very scratchy. BUT I had decided to do Shaun T's Insanity Fit Test this morning. I told myself that if I felt so miserable that I couldn't finish it (or even get much past starting) that it was okay.

I did it! I was a dripping, sweaty mess, but I completed it. My results were darn good, too. They were either better than the two demonstrator's orignal numbers and getting close to their 60 day numbers OR the same as their 60 day numbers.

One minute of each of these:

Switch kick - 74 sets
Power jacks - 56
Power jumps - 25 (these started a bad coughing fit & I had to pause and rest longer)
Globe jumps - 10 complete rounds
Suicide jumps (aka burpees) - 23
Pushup jacks - 35
Low plank oblique - 56

Can't wait to see how I do in 2 weeks when I don't have PMS, have had a full night's sleep and am not sick.

5.13 - 5.15.10

May 13 - Did 55 min of racewalking along with a 80 minute boot camp workout. It was a Thursday Three Hundred - everyone was still feeling it from Tuesday night. I thought this was a "kinder, gentler 300" but Rhianna says otherwise. Also did 35 min of salsa aerobics, lol. I'm an addict now.

May 14 - Got two racewalks in, one in the morning, one in the evening. 45 min in the AM, 45 min in the PM.

May 15 - Took Boot Camp to the great outdoors. We head to the trail and were out for about 75 minutes. We did a run/walk combo and at every bench we stop and broke up into groups, switching back and forth between dips/pushups/jackknifes on the bench and squats, sumo squats and lunges. When we made it to the hill we did 3 hill repeat sprints, then headed back and did the same thing, hitting every bench with some calisthenics. It was a good workout and a gorgeous day!

Later I will probably go for a run or head to the gym. Why? Because I got an iPod Touch that I'm very psyched about working out with. I don't think I can wait until tomorrow to enjoy it. I misplaced my little MP3 player and this holds so much more music. Yippee!

A few days worth

Let's see, the last time I blogged was May 8th. That means I need to account for the 9, 10, and 11th...I'll worry about today after I get some working out in.

Friday - ran the bleachers, did a back workout. That was hell day. The day my daughter & grandbabies set out to move far, far away to Josiah's duty station in Florida. Sad, sad day. I watched the babies for a few hours, then in the evening said goodbyes. It was heartbreaking for me. I'm glad I ran the bleachers and pumped some iron.

Saturday - boot camp in the morning and it was a killer. I figured "Misery loves company" so everyone should be miserable with me, lol. We did what I call The Accumulator. Later I got a racewalk in with Rhianna.

Sunday - Mother's Day! Rhianna and I did an hour at the gym, me on the elliptical and treadmill. Later I got a racewalk in with her. I also did a salsa workout for 40 minutes - what a hoot. Yes, yes...sounds a bit like overtraining but it was "drowning my sorrows." I can't think about those sweet babies without crying and missing them so very much.

Monday - No boot camp class, so a bunch of cardio, a back/leg/ab workout then a trip to the stadium to run the bleachers and do some laps.

Tuesday - 55 min between elliptical and stationary bike. 80 min of body boot camp - a killer workout. Still on the "misery loves company" train of though, mwhahahaha!

Life has been spinning wildly...

No time to blog - again. I never missed a workout but never could find the time to write it down. Boot camp class 4X per week, lots of cardio - racewalks in the graveyard, time spent on the elliptical or stairmaster, runs around the neighborhood. I'd been slacking on my weight workouts apart from boot camp and I've been able to re-incorporate at least "back day" into my plans. I needed it! My hand was going numb at night again, but a couple of weeks of solid back work and the nerve is unpinched and I can even sleep on the right side w/o a problem.

My daughter and I started running the bleachers again. I was certain that I'd feel sore and miserable after not doing it since Nov or Dec. Instead I woke up the next day to...nothing. Did it again on Friday and...nothing. I must be working out all the right parts in my boot camp class. :)

Thursday's class was one of my Three Hundred plans. Today's was an Accumulator. Mostly bodyweight exercises and very intense. I'm very stressed out about my oldest's daughter's move (the good-byes were on Friday) so these workouts helped me relieve a bunch of stress.

Tomorrow I plan to run with Cheryl late in the afternoon.

Slightly more functional

This week has continued to be miserable with this plague. Thursday I did my boot camp class but kept my own jumping about to a minimum. I was able to do the strength circuits I had planned - got a little misguided by endorphins and took a walk with my oldest afterward. That ended up making me feel like death warmed over on Friday. However, Friday had a full schedule - two clients to train in the very early morning, watch the kids for 3 hours, errands and appointments in the afternoon.

Today I managed to actually be a participant as well as leader in my class. I don't feel as awful, but I sure don't feel spectacular. We've passed it around the class, so there were two other recovering sickies in the room and one getting sick. I think the healthy ones are counting their blessings!

Down for the count

After I typed Saturday's entry, it was all downhill. By late afternoon I was curled up on the sofa feeling seriously miserable. It only got worse. Sunday I was useless, another day spent in bed or on the sofa. Monday morning I had to go get fasting blood work done - with chills & fever, no less. I wound up leaving my doctor's office (he wasn't in yet) and driving a few more miles northward and going to a CVS Minute Clinic. The diagnosis: both ears infected, sinuses infected and tonsilitis starting.

I had to cancel Monday's boot camp class and I spent the day indoors, mostly on the sofa.

I still feel lousy but I was able to go out and train a client this afternoon and tonight I have to lead a boot camp class. I've made a station-based plan so that all I have to do is give instructions, watch my timer, blow the whistle and such.

Being in the gym made me feel so much like working out, of course I think I'd collapse if I tried! I just hope to be better by Thursday so I can enjoy a good hard Thursday Three Hundred.

4.17.10

My husband hooked up the vaporizer last night so that I could get some relief and...ah, best night of sleep I've had all week. I still felt pretty cruddy this morning but I had a boot camp class to lead. Only two people were signed up and it was a freezing morning, so I had the thought, "What if they don't show up?" I haven't had a day where no one showed up yet, but you never know. The temptation would have been to go home and go to bed. Instead, I had a full class. Once I got moving I felt much, much better and could breathe - so yeah, got a good workout. An hour into it, I checked my GWF and we had already burned just over 610 calories. I forgot to check again 20 minutes later, but it *was* a great workout.

Today's music:

Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
I Don't Want to Be in Love - Good Charlotte
I'm Not Okay - My Chemical Romance
Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
Boys of Summer - The Ataris
Fast Cars & Freedom - Rascal Flatts
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
This Ain't No Thinkin' Think - Trace Adkins
Naturally - Selena Gomez
Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz
Man! I Feel Like a Woman - Shania Twain
Chelsea Dagger - Fratelis
The Safety Dance - Men without Hats
Vertigo - U2
With You - Chris Brown
Float On - Modest Mouse
We Will Become Silhouettes - Postal Service
Engine Driver - Decemberists
Back of Your Hand - Dwight Yoakam


April 15th's play list:

Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Devil's Dance Floor - Flogging Molly
Halfway Gone - Lifehouse
Stacey's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
Your Love is My Drug - Ke$ha
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
Kissin U - Miranda Cosgrove
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
I Know You Want Me - Pitbull
Solo - IYAZ
In My Head - Jason Derulo
Wake Up Call - Maroon 5
You Look Good in My Shirt - Keith Urban
If We Ever Meet Again - Timbaland
Say Hey I Love You - Michael Franti
Take You There - Sean Kingston
Love, Sex, Magic - Ciara & Justin Timberlake
Amie - Pure Prairie League
Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
The House That Built Me - Miranda Lambert

4.16.10 Catch Up...Again

With two birthdays and Easter falling in the first two weeks of this month, it's no wonder I couldn't keep up with this.

Boot Camp 4X a week, lots of long race walks, time spent on the elliptical, extra back sets.

A good visit to the chiropractor w/a wonderful massage.

Got hired by a national in-home personal training company and the first client they asked me to take was FIVE HOURS AWAY. I think they got my 20 mile radius a little bit confused with a 300 mile radius!

When I get around to it, I'll post a couple of more playlists from my boot camp class.

4.9 - 4.10.09

Besides the hour of cardio on 4.9 already mentioned I wound up back at the gym with my daughter in the evening. 30 minutes elliptical, 10 minutes Stairmaster, 15 minutes stationary bike and 10 minutes for a quick back set. (lat pulldown, seated cable row, upright cable row).

4.10.10 - Body Boot Camp 1 hr 20 min; a run with a couple of friends 40 minutes. We ended up mixing running & racewalking. The transition back to pavement and the great outdoors is causing shin splint issues in our group.

Too much catch up to catch up

I've been so crazy busy and so much has been going on around here. Basically, I've taught my Body Boot Camp class 4X a week. I've gotten 45 - 60 minutes of extra cardio on those days. On the other days I've done 1 - 1 1/2 hours of cardio and some yoga sprinkled in. One day off a week, usually - or "active" rest. Rode the bike on the trails with my daughter for over an hour last Saturday and got "bicycle butt." Ouch - lasted for days. I need a cushy seat!

Today I trained a client at 5:45am then stuck around for an hour of cardio.

My biggest news is that I am now employed by Team Fitness America and can't wait to start training clients for them!