Refreshing Run

I had a terrific run this afternoon out in the sun! The air was so perfect and cool, and everywhere around me was absolute beauty!  Ruth, I promise you that if you ran here, it wouldn't matter a bit how cold it was.  It was a really inspiring run, and I'm going to want to go back out and run some more the next time we have a day like today.  

A seriously snowy day

A day where we had every excuse not to attempt even leaving the house to work out - especially after the UPS guy got stuck for over an hour!  But instead of putting it off, Josha and I put full faith in the Jeep and trudged out to the gym where we worked our arms to the point where we fatigued on things we weren't even supposed to be fatiguing!  I worked so so hard too!  I lifted way more than I have before and really pushed myself!  Hooray!  If I don't feel this tomorrow or the next day, somethings wrong.  I did a good ab workout too in between sets, so I should feel that tomorrow too - a mixture of Pilates, inclined crunches, and plank.  Yeehaw!  Seriously, I'm so glad we manned up and went! :-D  Now what should I reward myself with?  Dinner? yes!

Back at it!

After a great few days off, and a couple of tummy aches, Josha and I got back into things full swing today.  Yesterday we ate 'on track' and belly danced.  Today we ate right and did the first work out in our second blitz - chest, shoulders, and triceps.  Whew! My arms are all kinds of shaky.  

Struggles:  Not many - being up here with Josha at my side has been fantastic!  It's nice to have a spotter and someone saying, "You can do one more!!!!"  About the only thing this week has been being hungry!  That's what I get for having two free days.  And I'm craving chocolate and peanut butter...mmmm! Ooo and cookies.  hahaha.

Happy Tuesday and I hope your Wednesday is superb!  I hope tomorrow is a bit warmer here - today was freezing.

Strength test results

After finishing up the last two weeks with Josha doing the blitz, I was so excited to see some major changes!  When I stepped onto the scale today and it said 132 I was amazed! I've been close to 140 since I started BFL awhile back.  Definitely looking forward to seeing more progress in that realm.  The most exciting thing though, was how much weight I could lift yesterday at the gym.  I didn't do a pre-test, but here are the post-test results:

Benchpress: 65 lbs

Squats: 160 lbs (YEAH!!!!!)

Bicep Curls: 15 lbs, but I probably could have done 17.5 lbs, only we didn't have them.

Shoulder Press: 15 lbs, but again, I probably could have done 17.5.

Here's my measurements:

Chest - 34"

Shoulders - 42"

Waist - 29"

Quad - 23"

Arm - 11"

I am so very excited to start another blitz on Tuesday with Josha - she's been a fabulous work out partner and such an inspiration!  It's been nice to be around someone who's eating the same and working out the same that I am.  I'm pretty sure having a buddy is the same in all different aspects of life, and I think God did a good thing when he made us relational beings - life is so much more fun that way!  And it makes is so much more fun to have you all on this blog too!

More Tuesday when we officially begin!

Oh man!

Well, yesterdays lower body work out was fantastic!  Josha and I worked our buns off, literally - haha!  :-D  

Today I ran HIITS on the elliptical inside - I was huffing and puffing by the end, part of that had to do with getting used to the air here - it's definitely more work to run.  Good though, and I look forward to getting used to it.

Saturday is our strength test, which I can't wait for!  Hooray!

whew!

Back, biceps, and abs are done done done!  Woohoo!  And to top it all off, I finished reading Harry Potter 6 today, AND I unpacked some more of my stuff!  What a productive day!  My arms are feeling really wobbly now and I'm definitely sore from yesterday.  Oh!  I woke up this morning and noticed more definition (or definement) in my arms than I ever have before, which made me super excited!  Can't wait to do the strength test on Saturday!  Eats have been goood today too - it helps being in a house with someone who's doing the same thing - thanks Josha!  I think it's dinner time now.  Mmmmm!

Spaghetti Arms

Well it's several hours later, and my arms still feel weak from doing upper body today.  I'm going to take that as a good sign.  :-D  I do believe I'm going to feel this tomorrow.  We did bench presses with the barbell tonight - first time I've ever done that, and the most I benched was about 65 pounds (doing sets of 6 and 8).  Not too shabby, I thought.  :)  Eats were on today as well with lots and lots of water consumed and only one cup of coffee.  It's hard not to drink a lot here when it's so cold.  I'd like hot chocolate just as well, but it's more of a free thing.  :)  

Ran sprints today on the elliptical.  Glad that I'm not as sore as I was last time I did lower body.  Tonight we're going to Chili's, so that meal will be free. MMMM!  I've had a good on-track week and am looking forward to it.  Tomorrow is upper body again - oh dear. :-D

Just as my legs had stopped hurting...

it was time to go do legs again.  I had very little motivation to go, especially since it's in the single digits here weather-wise.  Yeah, COLD.  It was great though because Josha pushed me to do my best, and I lifted WAY more than I thought I could!  I am definitely going to be sore again tomorrow.  Glad it's an 'off' day.  All I want to do now is lay down and read, which is what I think I'm going to do.

On a side note, I've decided that I like lower body day way more than upper body day because my arms are so very week compared to my legs, and I feel like I burn out so quickly on upper body days.  I feel super strong on lower-body days.  I guess that's just motivation to keep pushing myself on upper days huh?  

Well tomorrow night I will have been here a week, and I can already see a difference just from eating right and having worked out this past week.  I feel a hundred times better physically and mentally, and a lot of that has to do with being more healthy.  It also has a lot to do with being in a wonderfully positive environment in general.

I can't wait to start seeing real results!

Still sore!

My legs are still killing me from my workout on Sunday, but Josha and I still headed down to the gym to do back and biceps.  We'll do abs tomorrow.  When we got done, I was exhausted all over, and I KNOW I'm going to feel every muscle in my body tomorrow morning when I wake up - something I'm not sure I'm looking forward to, except you know what it means... progress!!!  Eats were on today as well, and I'm pretty sure I got all of my water in.  It feels great to be back on after being off for a month, and I can't wait to start seeing changes!  I hope your Tuesday was great as well!

Progress! (updated)

Because that's what Josha yelled as I waddled away from the kitchen table this morning due to being more sore in my legs than I believe I ever have been.  So that's a good thing!  My first work out in about a month was pretty fantastic, and it was great to have Josha to cheer me on!  We did squats and I discovered that I too am a super hero.  Now all I need is a name to go along with it - so get your ideas in!  Right now though, I feel like wobbly-woman.  We also did leg presses, hamstring curls, and calf raises (sort of).  It was a really wonderful and really hard, and I can sure feel it today!  Progress!!!!Well, we went down to the gym tonight to do upper body, 

and boy oh boy am I going to be sore tomorrow!  

Here's a couple pictures of us being oh so very strong, and you know that super hero thing?  Well, we donned our capes and did a little flying tonight as well.  See?

Soo sorry

I've been in Indiana for the last week eating more food than I care to think about right now.  I gave myself a real vacation and just chilled for the week, enjoyed my family immensely, tried the cookies and the peanut butter fudge(oh my goodness, it was delicious), but surprisingly didn't gorge myself on any of it.  I hope you all had a really great holiday week.  Mine was excellent, but I'll tell you what, it's good to be back in Houston today.

What is really exciting is that I'm moving in 10 days!  Until then, food and exercise will be the best I can do with what I've got.  After I get settled in in Colorado, Josha's gonna whip me back into shape, right Josha?? ;-)  Oh I have so much to do before then...