It appears I'm getting sick, had to bail out half way through my second round of rolling intervals on the treadmill as I could not breath and my chest felt like it might cave in. I still did my full hour just at about 70%.
So I'm glad now that I'd taken the time over the last few days to try get in front a little. I've made Thai pumpkin soup (apparently a little spicier than normal according to tough concrete_man), minestrone soup, chicken stock and some lasagna. I've also made the kids sandwiches for the week and frozen them.
I've also planned ahead for my workouts as concrete_man will be leaving early in the mornings to go play in the concrete. I'm borrowing some free weights for tomorrow because there are no machines in tomorrows workout and I can do it at home. I'll use the cardio kicker warm up for my warm up. See I'm set!
I'll report back after my weight session tomorrow and see how I went. Added bonus of being at home, no travel time I can probably fit in 1.5 hours ah bliss...who'd have thought things like this would excite me.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Torture in the Tropics
I'm testing out a new blogging app on my iPhone.
And thought I'd show off team FNQ's new Torture in the Tropics shirts
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And thought I'd show off team FNQ's new Torture in the Tropics shirts
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Monday, May 30, 2011
My laptop is MIA
And so am I!!!
As soon as it returns from it's 'make over' - read rebuild - I will be back to blogging.
I can blog via my iPhone but I am yet to find an app that I like, so far it's just painful.
So I promise I will be back soon....
So much to update
- Fitness testing
- New 12wbt family members
- My official round 2 starting stats and photo
- A blogging challenge that I am now 2 weeks behind in
- My goals for round 2
- Probably a gazillion other things
As soon as it returns from it's 'make over' - read rebuild - I will be back to blogging.
I can blog via my iPhone but I am yet to find an app that I like, so far it's just painful.
So I promise I will be back soon....
So much to update
- Fitness testing
- New 12wbt family members
- My official round 2 starting stats and photo
- A blogging challenge that I am now 2 weeks behind in
- My goals for round 2
- Probably a gazillion other things
Friday, May 20, 2011
Who lit the fire in my hamstrings
OH MY GOD!
I lost count of how many times I told my training I hated him yesterday, I stopped counting after 6!
I am loving that with all this new training I'm doing, all these new exercises and changing it up every couple weeks that I'm back to feeling that burn in my muscles after a work out. Today it wasn't just a burn it was a bloody bonfire and it's still roaring. I'm thinking it was the dead lifts, or was it the squat press, or was it the stupid in and bloody jumping things or no wait, was it my 400m runs between each circuit. And don't even get me started on how my abs and shoulders feel after neg push ups and sit up.
I'm starting to think PT stands for Personal Torturer.
But hey on a positive in 30mins I burnt over 400 cals! I did another small run on the treadmill some abs and some stretches, 40min in total and 550 calories!! Not a bad days work at all.
Ok I'm off to find my cooling peppermint spray for my legs, I wonder if it would work better if I drink!
Fitness testing tomorrow, meeting my new 12WBT family...super excited.
I lost count of how many times I told my training I hated him yesterday, I stopped counting after 6!
I am loving that with all this new training I'm doing, all these new exercises and changing it up every couple weeks that I'm back to feeling that burn in my muscles after a work out. Today it wasn't just a burn it was a bloody bonfire and it's still roaring. I'm thinking it was the dead lifts, or was it the squat press, or was it the stupid in and bloody jumping things or no wait, was it my 400m runs between each circuit. And don't even get me started on how my abs and shoulders feel after neg push ups and sit up.
I'm starting to think PT stands for Personal Torturer.
But hey on a positive in 30mins I burnt over 400 cals! I did another small run on the treadmill some abs and some stretches, 40min in total and 550 calories!! Not a bad days work at all.
Ok I'm off to find my cooling peppermint spray for my legs, I wonder if it would work better if I drink!
Fitness testing tomorrow, meeting my new 12WBT family...super excited.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Excuses I use or have used in the past
One of our preseason tasks is to identify some of the excuses we have been using that have been holding us back. It now amazes me how many times I hear people use the same excuses and I realise how lame some are.
Internal Excuses: The self talk that goes on between the Jekyll and Hyde in your head
I will lose my friends is I exercise, eat well and lose weight.
I don't have time I'm too busy
I'm comfy/happy at the weight I am now
I have no one to do it with me and I'm not motivated to do it on my own
I'll cheat on my partner if I lose weight, that is what skinny people do (there is a long story behind this one)
I have no energy and I'm just always tired
I'm not organised enough and I'm lazy
Some of my solutions
Tell my friends what I am doing and ask for their support, those that can't support me are not worth having around.
I am busy, but I have tried very hard to find an extra hour in my day and that hour is at 530am.
Remind myself if I feel good now, that I will feel awesome when i get to where I am, and keep looking at my before photo to realise I really am not yet happy with myself.
Just do it, doing it on your own is better, no one can cmplain or whinge or bail on you!
Know and trust in myself that I have never cheated and never will, I make my decisions with my head and heart not my weight!
Exercising and eat right will fix the energy levels
Keep things simple, choose meals that are simple, freeze meals and diarise everything.
External Excuses within your control: These are excuses prompted by external factors but which you still have some control over
I'm too busy with kids and business and life
It costs to much to eat healthy and to exercise and lose weight
My partner works away and often gets stuck at work and doesn't always get home in time for me to train for to help with kids while I prepare a healthy dinner
The gym doesn't have any classes I like at a time that suits
Some of my solutions
Keep training and meals simple, make lists and diarise everything and stick to it
Stick to shopping lists, subsitute for cheaper ingreadient, make a proper attempt at a herb or vegie garden, buy multiple of staple items when on special
I have purchased Crunchtime DVDs along with some weights, a step and a medicine ball, plus I have a skipping rope and some boxing gear and I will use the dvds or do an outdoor circuit at home when he is away. Plus I have shifted my regular training to 530am so that him finishing late does not interupt my training.
Group fitness are not the be all and end all, made a decision to give up on group classes and follow Michelle's work outs on my own and it's HEAPS OF FUN!!!
External excuses outside of your control: These are external factors that you have absolutely no control over
sick children
Work drama
Family crisis
Injury or illness
Some of my solutions
I have back up training etc for at home when I need to and fronzen healthy meals for days when things don't go to plan.
But learning to accept that these things happen and just move on and get started again asap is the best way to deal with these thing.
Internal Excuses: The self talk that goes on between the Jekyll and Hyde in your head
I will lose my friends is I exercise, eat well and lose weight.
I don't have time I'm too busy
I'm comfy/happy at the weight I am now
I have no one to do it with me and I'm not motivated to do it on my own
I'll cheat on my partner if I lose weight, that is what skinny people do (there is a long story behind this one)
I have no energy and I'm just always tired
I'm not organised enough and I'm lazy
Some of my solutions
Tell my friends what I am doing and ask for their support, those that can't support me are not worth having around.
I am busy, but I have tried very hard to find an extra hour in my day and that hour is at 530am.
Remind myself if I feel good now, that I will feel awesome when i get to where I am, and keep looking at my before photo to realise I really am not yet happy with myself.
Just do it, doing it on your own is better, no one can cmplain or whinge or bail on you!
Know and trust in myself that I have never cheated and never will, I make my decisions with my head and heart not my weight!
Exercising and eat right will fix the energy levels
Keep things simple, choose meals that are simple, freeze meals and diarise everything.
External Excuses within your control: These are excuses prompted by external factors but which you still have some control over
I'm too busy with kids and business and life
It costs to much to eat healthy and to exercise and lose weight
My partner works away and often gets stuck at work and doesn't always get home in time for me to train for to help with kids while I prepare a healthy dinner
The gym doesn't have any classes I like at a time that suits
Some of my solutions
Keep training and meals simple, make lists and diarise everything and stick to it
Stick to shopping lists, subsitute for cheaper ingreadient, make a proper attempt at a herb or vegie garden, buy multiple of staple items when on special
I have purchased Crunchtime DVDs along with some weights, a step and a medicine ball, plus I have a skipping rope and some boxing gear and I will use the dvds or do an outdoor circuit at home when he is away. Plus I have shifted my regular training to 530am so that him finishing late does not interupt my training.
Group fitness are not the be all and end all, made a decision to give up on group classes and follow Michelle's work outs on my own and it's HEAPS OF FUN!!!
External excuses outside of your control: These are external factors that you have absolutely no control over
sick children
Work drama
Family crisis
Injury or illness
Some of my solutions
I have back up training etc for at home when I need to and fronzen healthy meals for days when things don't go to plan.
But learning to accept that these things happen and just move on and get started again asap is the best way to deal with these thing.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Reached and 'unplanned' mini milestone
Each weekend some friends and I meet early on a Sunday morning, about 6:15am and do the red arrow...
You can watch a video of it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j314WMnuC6M
Or just google Red Arrow walk Cairns.
Anyway, the only goal I ever really had was to do 3 laps of the red arrow, which I managed during round 1 of 12wbt and never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would do 4 laps..and I never really wanted to.
But this weekend, I did exactly that 4 laps of the red arrow! Who would have thought, and I did it a lot easier that I thought I would! I felt pretty amazing afterwards and perhaps a little sore and shakey.
I also have to mention that 2 round2 12wbt members reached a bit of a milestone themselves. Climbing out of bed before 6am in the morning and driving to meet me at the red arrow to complete the walk for the very very first time!!! Both wonderful ladies made it all the way around and are keen for more next week..how awesome is that.
BIG shout out to all my Sunday red arrowers...love spending my Sundays with you ladies :-)
You can watch a video of it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j314WMnuC6M
Or just google Red Arrow walk Cairns.
Anyway, the only goal I ever really had was to do 3 laps of the red arrow, which I managed during round 1 of 12wbt and never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would do 4 laps..and I never really wanted to.
But this weekend, I did exactly that 4 laps of the red arrow! Who would have thought, and I did it a lot easier that I thought I would! I felt pretty amazing afterwards and perhaps a little sore and shakey.
I also have to mention that 2 round2 12wbt members reached a bit of a milestone themselves. Climbing out of bed before 6am in the morning and driving to meet me at the red arrow to complete the walk for the very very first time!!! Both wonderful ladies made it all the way around and are keen for more next week..how awesome is that.
BIG shout out to all my Sunday red arrowers...love spending my Sundays with you ladies :-)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Round 1 wrap up YAY
Ok here are the stats
Waist then 96.5cm now 91cm
Hips then 118.5 now 111.5cm YAY
Rthigh then 68cm now 62cm
Lthigh then 68.5 now 63cm
Total weight loss 9.4kg 10.46%
Total CM loss 26.5cm
Fitness testing
1 klm time trial then 6min 20sec now 5min 18sec
Pushups in a minute then 37 now 45
Wall sit then 1min2sec now 1min25sec
Here are my before and after photos for the 12 weeks...meh, I don't have a very good photographer, and excuse the messy hair and what looks like a wedgy! HAHA. For the next round we're going to measure and mark exactly where both of us are standing and not if the camera is on zoom or whatever to get the photos the same.
Weight then 89.6kg now 80.2kgs
Chest then 94.5cm now 92cm BOOOOOOWaist then 96.5cm now 91cm
Hips then 118.5 now 111.5cm YAY
Rthigh then 68cm now 62cm
Lthigh then 68.5 now 63cm
Total weight loss 9.4kg 10.46%
Total CM loss 26.5cm
Fitness testing
1 klm time trial then 6min 20sec now 5min 18sec
Pushups in a minute then 37 now 45
Wall sit then 1min2sec now 1min25sec
Ab strength is still at level 3 stage, but it's a lot easier than it was, an my flex test I added an extra 1/2 cm.
Here are my before and after photos for the 12 weeks...meh, I don't have a very good photographer, and excuse the messy hair and what looks like a wedgy! HAHA. For the next round we're going to measure and mark exactly where both of us are standing and not if the camera is on zoom or whatever to get the photos the same.
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