Day 89, CLX/Insanity

Tonight was Lean 3 from CLX. I tried to use my 12's for every exercise, and almost made it. My arms were screaming at me by those last 2 exercises. I had to drop down to 8's for the extreme on one set. I brought my camera along tonight and Steph snapped a few shots for me.

Here's Tabitha and me doing lunges and overhead presses.

Kneeling doing weighted crunches followed by overhead presses.

 Me :)

 And of course, Chalene's favorite, push-ups. UGH!

As we're cooling down Chalene says the following: "All you can do is your very best. Do not go through it at a comfortable level, but go through it pushing yourself as absolutely hard as you can. Then you can't do anything but succeed. You can't fail if you're giving it your all." I love that! She is so inspirational.
It's Friday so we ran this morning. It was hot and I felt so sluggish. We did 3 miles in 33 minutes. Not our greatest run, but definitely not our worst. Unfortunately, it doesn't really look like Sunday is going to be much better - weather.com says a high of 91. Hopefully it'll cool down by 7pm. Fingers crossed!
After CLX tonight Tabitha and I went to a free event hosted by the USO - bellydancing! It was actually very interesting and lots of fun. The instructor said the hip shaking is actually coming from your legs not your hips, so for a good bit of it was shook our legs (stand on your tippy toes and move your knees back and forth super fast - it really does make your hips shake) - I told Tabitha if we didn't stop soon I was going to set the place on fire from my thighs rubbing together - ROFL! I hope they do it again sometime. Here is a photo that the USO posted...

AND on another note, the North Face Challenge sent me an e-mail and in it there was a photo from the race of Tabitha and I and it let me save it. It's super tiny, but hey, here it is...

National Running Day

Yesterday, June 6th, was National Running Day. In honor of the "holiday" Tabitha and I went on a little jog after our CLX Lean workout. We did 1.3 miles - the weather was gorgeous! I wish it was cool like that every time we ran. I must say that it is definitely tougher running after a strength workout then before, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.
CLX Lean 2 is tough - it's all shoulders and parts of the arms that just don't get used very much. Tough, tough, tough especially those extreme push-ups and rows while in the plank position. We did Extreme Abs afterwards (I need to make a mental note to never wear my Warrior Dash t-shirt while doing ab routines because it kept sticking to my Yoga mat - sounded like tape ripping every time I tried to sit-up...ha, ha).
I love, love, love her ab routines. We've been doing them for awhile now and I still feel them after our workouts. Gotta love that! Whatever program I do next I'm going to keep them in the rotation.
Tonight is Insanity Fast and Furious and for once I'm looking forward to an Insanity workout...now I know I'm going crazy!

Day 86, CLX/Insanity

86 days! Wow! Some days I'm just totally amazed at how far I've come with my workouts. I'm feeling really good this week - strong, healthy, happy, and even a tad sexy. Gotta love all the confidence that working out gives you.
Tonight was a run followed by CLX recharge. We ran around 3.3 miles. I (or Tabitha) really need to start thinking about getting a Garmin or something with GPS in it so we know how far we're running. I use mapmyrun, but a lot of the trails on base we run are not on their map so I have to "estimate" it, and I'm pretty sure it's not very accurate. Anyway, it was a great run. We changed it up a bit and started in the development and then did part of the trail run around the golf course (most of it's closed, but a small portion is still open), around the parade field, and back into the development. It was one of those runs where I felt really good and was so amazed at how far we were going.
I've really come a long way with my running. I'm running further and on a more regular basis then I ever have, and it feels great! I am doing mostly 5K's right now, but I would like to work my way up to a 10K and a half-marthon. That's a lot of miles! When I make it to the half-marathon distance I'll think about a marathon, but it's not anything I'm going to do anytime in the next year. I just can't picture myself running that far, but hey, you never know!

June Goals

Hmmm...I wonder what I should make my June goals. I should've made these last week, but I got off track for a little while. So, last month I did the whole no-weigh May where I didn't step on a scale all month (in fact my hubby hid it for me so I wouldn't be tempted). I stepped on the scale on Saturday and I'm at 170. I lost 3 lbs in May. Sigh. I'm now at 170lbs. 6 months into my beachbody programs (90 days of P90X followed by 90 days of CLX/Insanity) and I've managed to lose 12 lbs. It has GOT to be my eating. Seriously, weight should be falling off of me. My next program IS going to be cardio. I will start losing weight - or else body!
I went back and looked at my numbers over the last week based off my bodybugg and myfitnesspal entries: (day/calories burned/calories consumed/difference).
Mon - 2280 / 1750 -521
Tues - 3495 / 2160 - 1335
Wed - 2801 / 2166 - 635
Thurs - 2747 / 2245 - 502
Fri - 3319 / 1945 - 1374
Sat - 3112 / 1686 - 1426
Sun - 3064 / 2796 - 268
Mon (today) - 2277 / 2095 - 182
Now, what in the world do these numbers mean?! Good thing is that I have a deficit every day. A pound of body fat = 3500, so if I have a deficit of 500 calories a day for one week I should lose one pound. Right?! It looks like I'm on track to lose 2lbs. I will weigh myself again on Saturday and then compare the numbers again and see where I am.
I'm not going to toss the scale again. I think I'd rather obsess about it. HA!
June Goals:
1) Weekly Weigh-in / lose 4 lbs.
I want to weigh-in every Saturday morning. I will go with one pound a week goal. I realized back in April that anything more then 4 is too ambitious for me...I'm just not that good - YET!
2) Track every day.
Right now I'm on day 15 of logging! 2 weeks down - woo-hoo!! My friend Patty and I have a good support system going on right now. I wish more of my friends used myfitnesspal!
3) Up the cardio!!!
I run 3 times a week and usually do 3 miles each run (average 9 miles a week). By the end of June, I hope to be up to 4 mile runs. I want to add walking to my routine, so my goal for now is to get 3 walks in a week (in addition to my runs). Right now I don't have a distance or time goal. I just want to be more active. Move more during the day.
I feel like I don't do much at all during the day, then I do my hour workout, then I don't do anything. I want to start being more active as a whole. If I'm not hanging out around the house all day then maybe I won't eat as much and everything will start falling into place. Summer is the best time to make this happen.
So, yea, that's all I got and I realize after reading through them that they are the exact same as every month. So, I'm going to add another goal that's completely different.
4) No eating after 8pm
This is going to be tough! I usually snack while I play on the computer at night, but I'm also usually really hungry, or at least I feel hungry. I'm going to work really hard on this goal this week and see how it goes. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to find a new night routine to help me stick with this goal.

North Face Endurance Challenge 5K

Tabitha and I ran in the North Face Endurance Challenge 5K run on Sunday. Neither one of us brought our camera along so the only picture I have is above. We did take one together for the "official" photographer, so hopefully we'll be able to get to that one later this week.
We had to get up super early (for me anyway). I picked Tabitha up at her house at 630am. Chris and the kiddos didn't come along to this race; he stayed home and watched Tabitha's three kids as well. So, not only did Chris watch 5 kids, but it was his birthday. I owe him BIG time for it!
It took us about an hour to get there. Traffic was actually really good. Our biggest problem was finding the parking location. The directions said to go right, but as we found out later if we'd have gone left it was right there. We took a 15 minute shuttle ride over to the site, picked up our bibs (absolutely no line), and then stashed our stuff in their bag check (no line for that either). Visited the oh-so-disgusting porta-potties, then watched the half-marathoners leave. There were 3 waves of them! Over 725 people ran the half-marathon! It was pretty cool to watch all those people. Then an hour later the 10K left, and 15 minutes later we were lined up and off we went.
We were warned that it would be a muddy experience from all the rain we got on Friday. Even heard that they had a high drop-out of the ultra-marathon due to the conditions. We figured it couldn't be any worse then the Warrior Dash, right?! We started through a grassy section, went up a hill, across a parking lot and then hit a trail. I got so excited. I LOVE trail runs! I was running way faster then I should, or normally do, but I was having fun. I was passing people, jumping roots, and smiling the whole time. Then my shoe came untied. SIGH. I stopped and Tabitha stopped with me, tied it quickly, and off we went. We ended up crossing the parking lot again, a short trail, then circled back on the grassy section, saw the finish line, sped up, only to be diverted around it - UGH!
Yep, I wasted a lot of energy when I saw that finish line. We shot up this quick little hill and then I stumbled - shoe lace again. I stopped and Tabitha kept going. Double tied it this time. Ran around a soccer field - it was like jogging through a marsh. It was humid, wet, and hot. Turned the corner and saw other runners coming at us, got excited again because I thought we were almost done. I then saw Tabitha and she was close enough to catch, so I picked up the pace, and stumbled again. Yep, other shoelace. WTF! My shoelaces never come undone. That pretty much took the last of my energy. I half-heartedly ran the last leg, stomped through the big muddy section (reason for my muddy shoes), and sprinted across the finish line.
I was 75th overall for the 5k (out of 183...not a big showing). I was 16/45 for my age group, and 33/107 out of the overall females. It was a good race. I only wish we could've ran more "trail" portions. Running through a soccer field is not a trail. Through the trees, over roots, logs, and bridges all the while surrounded by trees - that's my type of trail! If I do this race again next year, it will be the 10k.

Udpate from Barby

I need to get on here and give a shout out to my sister. She has been working really hard and it shows because she looks AMAZING! I am so proud of her. Obviously she is the stronger of the two of us and I don't think I could put the same effort into working out that she does. That's why she wanted us to do the blog, because we are so very different. 

As for me, between school, house hunting, and moving, I have totally fallen off the wagon and am almost back to the beginning. I was using yoga in the beginning to keep my stress level down but it soon became more stressful just trying to find time for it. I have also learned that I am a serious emotional eater, which is going to be a very hard habit to break . I could throw myself into a new diet and workout plan but I still have settlement process and moving to do this month and I can see that going bad quickly. So instead I am going to pick one thing each week to change. My first pick was sweets. Sweets have such a negetive effect on my body and my skin but when things get stressful, that seems to be what I turn to and the more I have, the more I want. So last week I gave up sweets. No cookies. No cake. No ice cream, soda... you get the idea. I ended up losing 6 lbs! (I don't even want to think about how much I was eating to have that large of a loss.) I ate whenever I felt hungry, I didn't count calories, I didn't even work out. I just cut out sweets and it made a huge diffference. It has really motivated me to going because for the first time since March the scale is going down, not up.

I have been doing this to long to think that just cutting out sweets is all I need to do but it was a huge confidence booster. This week I am going to start doing yoga again. My goal is two days a week. I just bought the 21 day yoga challenge but I don't think I am ready for that yet. After all, I still have a lot of packing, a trip to my parents, and settlement. I don't want to over whelm myself and undo what I just accomplished. Two days a week is what I was doing before all this chaos started and is realistic. I am confident I can find two days a week to squeeze in a yoga session.

We'll see if I can continue with no sweets and squeeze in two days of yoga. I am looking forward to the challenge!

Day 82, CLX/Insanity

What a weird day today was! Tabitha mentioned this morning that there were supposed to be storms tonight, so how about we run early. Okay, sounds good to me. It was actually pretty muggy, but there was a decent breeze for the run. We went for 36 minutes, but had to walk up 2 hills. Hills and double jogging strollers are not pleasant, throw in the heat and they'll kill ya! It was an even split though - we ran up 2, walked 2. I also tacked an extra minute onto our run for the walk "breaks." We actually ran 3.3 miles which considering we were pushing 60+ pound strollers is really good!
It was good that we decided to run early because by 6pm tonight the sirens on base were going crazy. Tornado warnings were in effect for most of the evening. I got a mini workout cleaning out our hall closet so we had somewhere to duck into if need be. We were also supposed to meet at 7pm to do CLX Lean 3, but decided not to. Turns out that was a good decision because at 7pm the sirens started going off again and the whole sky got dark and just ugly looking; then at 715pm they had a tornado touch down at BWI (minutes from post). Scary! Chris took the camera outside and got some shots of the crazy clouds.

Once I got the kiddos in bed, I popped in CLX Lean 3 and got my workout on. No little tornado was going to stop me - HA! I felt really good tonight so I pushed it a little harder then last week. I did almost every exercise with my 12's (had to use my 10's for one set). There were a ton of push-ups in this set. The only one I did on my knees were the moving ones and that's because I don't have enough room in my house to try and do those. I'm really enjoying the Lean series. It's a great set of exercises.
Tomorrow is a rest day and then Sunday is my trail race. I've got to get up early - Tabitha and I need to hit the road by 630am!