Day 81, CLX/Insanity

Tonight was our one and only Insanity workout this week - Fast and Furious. It was fast and it was fun! Yes, I just said an Insanity workout was fun. I only WISH all the Insanity workouts had this vibe to them. It was tough but not so tough you couldn't push through the moves. I might actually buy this DVD (or burn Steph's copy). It's not part of the actual Insanity set, it's an extra video you can buy to *enhance* the Insanity collection. If I owned this I would definitely do it on a regular basis. Wow! Can't believe I said that.
Tomorrow is an evening run and CLX Lean 3. Then I'm "off" until the race on Sunday.

Day 80, CLX/Insanity

I had to get through some cobwebs to get to my blog - it's been almost a week since I last blogged (again). There is actually a good bit going on with me fitness wise. I'm on day 80 of CLX/Insanity hybrid! Yea me!! We worked out early today (made me feel like I was missing something tonight). The workout was Lean 2 and it was all about the shoulders. I'm actually really enjoying the Lean series. There are a lot of tough moves. Last week I was moaning and groaning about them, but seriously, I was moaning and groaning about everything after that Warrior Dash last weekend. I feel 100 times better this week. I ran on Sunday with Tabitha and it was a great run. I ran again yesterday, and despite the heat, it was another really good run. I think I need to take 3-4 days off after a race to help recover (or at least a race at the Warrior Dash caliber).
With CLX Lean I'm not able to lift as heavy. I've been leaving my 12's in the car and even broke out the 5's again. It really has nothing to do with not being strong enough to use the 12's - it's got everything to do with the fact that it's all balance moves. We're back to doing two moves at one time (just like during the Burn phase). I also just realized that this isn't a 90 day hybrid - it's actually 95 days. We have two more weeks to go. I'm really hoping to have good results with this phase. I enjoy this program, but I'm not getting the results I was with P90X which is why I was telling the girls that my next program is going to be all cardio. I want to drop 20-25 pounds. We will more then likely start up again with the weights in mid-September (and it will probably be CLX again since I won't be able to get to the gym and the center's don't have pull-up assist machines).
Now, what cardio should I do? TurboFire? Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred? Hip Hop Abs? Brazil Butt Lift?? So many great choices!
Sunday is my next race and it's a trail race! I'm really looking forward to it. It's the North Face Endurance Challenge Goretex 5K in Sterling, VA. Tabitha is going to run it with me. It looks like a lot of fun.

One other fitness thing going on with me is the facebook page I like to follow, "I See Fit People" is doing another challenge. This time it's a jump rope challenge - 7000 jumps in one week. Seriously, I should've known better. Day 2 (yesterday) my knee started hurting while jumping. Same pain and spot that it hurt with Insanity (the entire reason I went from 3 times a week to 2). Not good (especially with the race coming up on Sunday). I took today off from jumping rope. I'm going to attempt it again tomorrow, but I'm not going to try and do 1000, I'm going to shoot for 500. My goal is no longer 7000, but 3500. I've got 1500 done, so I'm almost halfway there. Some is better then none.
I told my good friend Jenn today that I was going to cut it in half because of my knee and do you know what she said to me?! "It's kinda nice knowing that even fit people like you can hurt." That's right - she called me "fit people!!!!!!!" HA! I love it!! I told her I could just hug her (and I seriously would have if she didn't live in CT), she made my entire day. To think someone thinks of me as being fit...such a strange concept to me. I'm pretty sure, no, I KNOW I can get used to it! It reminds me of what happened at the Vitamin Shoppe a few weeks ago. I went in to get a tub of Dymatize Elite Protein Powder and while I was standing in line to check-out the girl in front of me turned around and asked what I was buying, so I showed her. She said, "Well, I need to get that next time because you be looking fit!" HA!! That type of stuff just makes my day. Bring on the compliments!
Weight wise things are okay. I asked Chris where the scale was and he said I need to find it - hmph! I don't want to know that badly. June doesn't technically start until Friday anyway. According to the numbers I should weigh the exact same. Clothes are fitting better though, so that's always good.
I'll update goals another night! Off to snuggle with my hubby now. :)

Bad Days

I haven't bothered blogging much this week because I've just felt like crap. Someone posted the above image on Facebook and I "borrowed" it because I honestly feel like I'm in the 5 "bad" days in a row phase right now. Chris is gone this week and I ordered out one too many times and when I did try and cook at home it was a disaster - seriously, I made fish and it literally tasted like it took a bath in oil (so gross). I've been living off of the chili Chris made on Sunday because the chicken I made just tasted bad. Sigh. Nothing has been working for me this week.
Exercise wise that Warrior Dash did a number on me. My shins are covered in bruises and my workouts seriously suffered from the after-effects. We "ran" on Tuesday but it was just rough. I decided I should take a mini-break so no workouts today and no running tomorrow. I'll try CLX Lean 3 Friday night, but I won't run again until Sunday. Saturday is a "rest" day as well although I might do the Chalene Recharge first thing in the morning - it's a great stretch.
Sigh.

May Goals, 3 weeks in

We are almost done with May already. I'm starting to get really curious about what my scale is going to say. If the past 3 days have anything to do with it - it's going to be really bad. Friday was my Grandma's funeral and I didn't eat nearly enough - coffee for breakfast, a very late lunch (veggies, a piece of a chicken salad pinwheel, and a piece of cake), and a grilled chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-a on the drive home. That's all I had all day. I was starving on Saturday and then Sunday was the Warrior Dash so we were gone all day - I really should've prepared a snack for after the run.
Anyway, here is how my goals for May are going so far:
1) Weight goal - to lose 4 lbs.
I will know how this one is going in another week or so...
2) Food. To track every day, even on weekends.
I didn't log for 3 days - Fri, Sat, or Sun. I'm logging today though and will probably do great until Friday again.
Mon - 1984
Tues - 2160
Wed - 2205
Thurs - 1990
Fri, Sat, Sun - ???

I said last week I was going to aim for 2000 a day since I wasn't anywhere close to 1800. I average out at 2085 so I came pretty close to goal. I'll aim for 2000 again this week.
3) Coffee.
I didn't try 2 Tbsp last week. I have to try and remember to try 2 tomorrow. When I went from 4 to 3, I wrote a giant 3 on top of all my creamer bottles. Time to change it to 2 to help me remember.
4) Running. 9 miles a week.
Okay, I only ran 8.6 miles this week. Almost made it to 9. I didn't run as much because of the Warrior Dash on Sunday. I'll be doing a lot more miles this week. I have a goal of 40 miles this month. I'm at 23.3 miles.
5) Workout. At least 5 times a week (doesn't include running right now).
 I didn't do all my workouts this week, again because of the Warrior Dash. I didn't want to overdue anything, and it was Recovery week, so technically I didn't miss much. I did however do 2000 lunges this week! YEAH!!!
Mon - 300
Tues - 565
Wed - 485
Thurs - 450
Fri - 150
Sat - 50

There was another challenge this morning to do 100 squats, so of course I had to do it. Right now my legs feel like jell-o!! 2000 lunges, Warrior Dash, and 100 squats - OUCH! Tonight starts CLX Lean phase. It should be interesting!

Weekend Warrior

Sunday I ran the Warrior Dash at Budd's Creek, MD with some of my running friends. It was a great day and a ton of fun!
My hubby and kiddos came along for some support. Here we are heading to the race.

 

 

 My little warriors...

 

 Posing with the girls before the race. Costumes make everything more fun!

Our nice clean feet...

Let the race begin!!!

 It was a tight squeeze at the beginning...

 I'm at the bottom of the picture here...trying to get through all that mud!

Stephanie's husband came along as well and took many of our photos. He got a media pass and was able to get some shots of us on the actual obstacles.

 

It was a very hilly course! Here we are at the waterslide...

 

Chris got us coming down the hill at the very end...

 holding hands while we jump the flames

 Ugh - the mud pit! This thing smelled horrendous (and that's being nice). The darn girl in front of me was trying to swim so she kept kicking the crap in my face. It was so deep at parts that you had to bear crawl. It was insane.

I'm in the picture above. In the top right side there is a girl turned around facing a big pile of people. Well that's the girl I got in behind. She decided that swimming wasn't working so she flipped over and said, I give up, I just can't. The guy next to me and I "stood up" and went around her. Katie, Steph, and I entered at the same time. Katie is almost in the front of the photo, and Steph is wearing the white bandana (they are both on the left side). I guess I picked the wrong person to get in behind. LOL!
But I finished it!! Here's Steph and Me walking out of the pit to get our medals.

We all did!!

 Katelynn gave me a handful of flowers. She's so sweet!!

 The Warriors!

Our feet afterwards (I love how I look like I have scales on my legs - ha, ha).

Getting hosed off at the end.

 Trying to take off my shoes. They had a place you could donate them...good-bye Saucony's!!

The race really was a lot of fun, and I will definitely do another one.

Day 65, CLX/Insanity

Recovery Week. Tonight it was Insanity Core Cardio and Balance. Nothing new there - 35 minutes of boredom. Seriously, the moves couldn't be any slower or dull. Maybe I feel that way because we have to do the workout 2 more times this week - UGH! It was SO humid in the basketball court tonight too - sweat was just pouring off of all of us; wonder if it helped us burn more calories (same concept as the Hatha Yoga where you workout in sauna temps). Kids did a tad better since they had more room to run; Denver is definitely a Mamma's boy.
As far as the 2000 lunge challenge goes I completed 565 lunges today! I told myself no coffee until I do 100 lunges this morning, and then I did another 100 before allowing myself an afternoon coffee. Whatever works right?! I discovered that a "lap" around my house is 25 lunges. Works out pretty nice. I've got 1135 more lunges to do this week. Right now I'm feeling it in my butt. My legs are still good to go. I had to do some extra stretches before getting out of bed this morning - LOL!
I also managed to get a run in today!! I was washing up breakfast dishes when it stopped raining and the sun came out, so I (literally) threw the kids in the jogging stroller and took off. It was a great run! I stayed close to the house in case it started raining again, which turns out I didn't need to worry it since it didn't rain again the rest of the day. I do hear it rumbling now, but they said it was supposed to rain all day. Glad it cleared up and I was able to get out.
Tomorrow evening we are meeting up to run, then do CLX recharge, extreme ab burner, and then we're going to make our skirts for the Warrior Dash! I can't wait. It'll be a fun evening!

Day 64, CLX/Insanity

Day 1 of Recovery Week! We did CLX Recharge and Ab Burner tonight. The workout was about 30 minutes total. Recharge is really just a Yoga-type stretching DVD, so it's nothing strenuous (glad I did those 300 lunges earlier today). Chris is gone for the week, so I took the kiddos to the gym with me tonight. Katelynn was being a little terror and throwing baskets at Denver who was also standing at the door screaming because he wanted his Mommy. Thankfully it was a short workout. We'll be using the basketball court tomorrow and Thursday and going to Tabitha's house on Wednesday in hopes of avoiding anymore meltdowns by my sweet little angels. ;)

Tomorrow is the "easy" Insanity day - Core Cardio and Balance. We do the routine 3 times this week. I'm so glad we are almost done with Insanity.
So it's going to be a weird week workout wise for me. It's Recovery week so no crazy workouts, and then it's supposed to rain through Wednesday (with Chris being gone I can't run with the kids), Friday is my Grandma's funeral, and the Warrior Dash is on Sunday. Looks like I might only get one run in this week. All the rain suits my mood though. I'm going to have to be on point with my eating to keep from packing on the pounds.