So on Monday and Wednesday (this morning), I did a 6AM spin class - 6-6:45 in order to get to work on time :) And yesterday I did a surprisingly HARD water aerobics class with Marty - who's class kicked some serious butt! I mean REALLY - lots of swimming sprints, jumping jacks, squats, etc. I kicked so hard in the swimming sprints that when I stood up I couldn't full stand! What a workout!! It feels really weird to sweat as much as I did in the water!
I weighed in this morning at the gym and I only lost 0.2 pounds - but it was better than I expected because I enjoyed Friday & Saturday's good times not on the diet :)
So now I'm at an even 14 pounds!! And after this week's crazy workouts and good food journaling, I have great hopes for next week!
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
Last weigh in for HCC program!
I weighed in in my bathing suit last night (I may do all future weigh-ins in my b.suit...) and lost 1.8 pounds for a total of 13.8 pounds! That's about 1.3 pounds per week for 10 weeks! Very healthy, if I do say so myself... :)
I'm going to continue with the "Life after HCC" program where you can weigh-in at the gym on Wed or Thurs every week for 4 weeks. If you maintain your weight or lose at the end of the 4 weeks, then you get $75 of 'gym' bucks to use towards training groups or classes at the gym! There's also a winner for the one who loses the most during that time :)
New goal? To lose weight in the next 4 weeks and earn my gym bucks!!
New goal #2? To work out 6 out of 7 days/week until the end of May. (Why only 6? Because I have a tendency to get down on myself when I don't make a goal and I'm trying to be realistic for my life. Why only May? Because I want to make new goals at the end of May - and I'm sure that working out that much will stay a goal for a long time - but I need to make due dates for my goals so that I can reward myself and then make another goal!)
Speaking of which... I'm due a haircut at Lava Salon, but I think instead, I'm going to buy a heart rate monitor and stick Lava Salon onto the next big goal (so end of May, I will get a haircut). :)
I'm going to continue with the "Life after HCC" program where you can weigh-in at the gym on Wed or Thurs every week for 4 weeks. If you maintain your weight or lose at the end of the 4 weeks, then you get $75 of 'gym' bucks to use towards training groups or classes at the gym! There's also a winner for the one who loses the most during that time :)
New goal? To lose weight in the next 4 weeks and earn my gym bucks!!
New goal #2? To work out 6 out of 7 days/week until the end of May. (Why only 6? Because I have a tendency to get down on myself when I don't make a goal and I'm trying to be realistic for my life. Why only May? Because I want to make new goals at the end of May - and I'm sure that working out that much will stay a goal for a long time - but I need to make due dates for my goals so that I can reward myself and then make another goal!)
Speaking of which... I'm due a haircut at Lava Salon, but I think instead, I'm going to buy a heart rate monitor and stick Lava Salon onto the next big goal (so end of May, I will get a haircut). :)
Thursday, March 21, 2013
I think you underestimate my sneakiness... :)
So for the weigh-in tonight (weigh-in is at 5ish), I decided to wear the least amount of fabric as possible... I decided to wear my bathing suit with my workout clothes over it - but for the weigh-in, I'm stripping down to the bathing suit! Every little bit helps, right??
SO I just changed into my bathing suit and I can tell I lost weight!! There is a BIG difference! The last time I wore my bathing suit was for one of the first workouts for the HCC - so about 10 weeks ago!! I feel so good in the bathing suit! I still could look better - but I feel good. Yay!! So, while I was trying to be sneaky with the weigh-in particulars, I actually ended up in giving myself a pre-weigh in boost!!
Ups and Downs
UP: So the week started off awesomely! The workout with Tyler on Monday was grueling - but I felt so great afterwards. We did a double whammy of a workout - the 10 lbs vests + the Bee Street Garage! It was another workout, where 1/2 way through I thought I was going to lose my lunch! Tyler says this means I'm getting a great workout... hmmm....
So we went up the 8 flights of stairs - I really pushed myself and got my best time ever (2 minutes), which is pretty incredible considering the 10 lbs vests... then we did lunges, side shuffles, and running up and down an incline in the garage. Then another 8 flights of stairs - this time around, my time was 2:15 minutes. Then at the top, after a brief core exercise, we did another 8 flights! I didn't do as well this time around - I was closer to 3, but I also was having trouble with this one coming so close to the 2nd time around. For the sake of comparison, I usually average around 4 minutes without the vests... I've decided recently that I need to push myself farther and harder... so overall, pleased with times from all 3 rounds!!
DOWN: Tuesday I got pink eye and was sent home from school and couldn't do the workout on Tuesday night! I was SO bummed!! Not only because this is the last week of workouts with our team, but also because Tuesday was to be the last fitness test, and I was all geared up to race through my times and finish with a bang! But you can't make the fitness test up, so I was out of luck :( Wednesday I had to stay home from school and was a little on the sluggish side... amazing how missing that workout on Tuesday night affected me on Wed! I was productive with school work, but not with working out...
UP: Wednesday night we did a Cooper River Bridge Run workout! We did a stations workout first near the parking lot. The stations were: abs workout/pull knees up to chest while hanging from a bar (harder than it sounds!), pull-ups while sitting on ground and pulling up to a bar (again, harder than sounds!!), squats with a 20-lbs kettle bell, 1:30 minute plank, dips, and situps (all stations were for 1:30 minutes). Then we jogged up to the bridge and going up from the Mt. P side, it was running from lamp post to lamp post, then doing walking lunges to the next lamp post, then running, then lunging, etc. Then after doing that for 3 sets, we ran the rest of the way up the bridge. There is a reason I like running on FLAT ground!! My calves were BURNING!! But I kept running - I stopped to power walk twice, but only until I realized I was losing my lead, and then I ran again :) I always run faster if I choose someone I want to beat on my team - yesterday I chose 2 people, so I had to push it! And I saw two friends - Brad & Adam - running on the bridge and that gave me a little yay moment followed by a surge of energy to run harder!
UP&DOWN: Tonight is the last HCC meeting and weigh-in :( but I'm also happy to be free of some of the people on my team. I will continue to weigh-in weekly after this week and there's a prize for the biggest loser post HCC - I will be pushing for that one :)
I already have a group training program in place and will start doing workouts with a new team of people on MWF at 6AM - quite the switch from evening workouts, but I prefer it! It will help me regulate my food/snacks in the evening better. The training group is with Kelsey (my new fave spin instructor) and I'm excited for life after HCC. I will be joining the gym at MUSC - if I join before 4/4, I will get 1 month free. The gym membership is steep ($60/month), but this gym is worth it - I'm not intimidated to go by myself, and after having a team that is not quite the ones for coming to workouts, I'm glad I can go and not have to depend on someone else... I tend to get intimidated at other gyms and put off going - so I might as well pay for the best and have my support system at the gym in place for my life after HCC! I have a lot more to lose and a long journey ahead of me - but I'm excited about what it will bring!!
I will get on tomorrow and let you know what tonight's weigh-in brings :)
Thanks for the continued support - from 'following' my blog and keeping up with me! I really appreciate it!! I will be continuing to blog as the journey continues! :)
So we went up the 8 flights of stairs - I really pushed myself and got my best time ever (2 minutes), which is pretty incredible considering the 10 lbs vests... then we did lunges, side shuffles, and running up and down an incline in the garage. Then another 8 flights of stairs - this time around, my time was 2:15 minutes. Then at the top, after a brief core exercise, we did another 8 flights! I didn't do as well this time around - I was closer to 3, but I also was having trouble with this one coming so close to the 2nd time around. For the sake of comparison, I usually average around 4 minutes without the vests... I've decided recently that I need to push myself farther and harder... so overall, pleased with times from all 3 rounds!!
DOWN: Tuesday I got pink eye and was sent home from school and couldn't do the workout on Tuesday night! I was SO bummed!! Not only because this is the last week of workouts with our team, but also because Tuesday was to be the last fitness test, and I was all geared up to race through my times and finish with a bang! But you can't make the fitness test up, so I was out of luck :( Wednesday I had to stay home from school and was a little on the sluggish side... amazing how missing that workout on Tuesday night affected me on Wed! I was productive with school work, but not with working out...
UP: Wednesday night we did a Cooper River Bridge Run workout! We did a stations workout first near the parking lot. The stations were: abs workout/pull knees up to chest while hanging from a bar (harder than it sounds!), pull-ups while sitting on ground and pulling up to a bar (again, harder than sounds!!), squats with a 20-lbs kettle bell, 1:30 minute plank, dips, and situps (all stations were for 1:30 minutes). Then we jogged up to the bridge and going up from the Mt. P side, it was running from lamp post to lamp post, then doing walking lunges to the next lamp post, then running, then lunging, etc. Then after doing that for 3 sets, we ran the rest of the way up the bridge. There is a reason I like running on FLAT ground!! My calves were BURNING!! But I kept running - I stopped to power walk twice, but only until I realized I was losing my lead, and then I ran again :) I always run faster if I choose someone I want to beat on my team - yesterday I chose 2 people, so I had to push it! And I saw two friends - Brad & Adam - running on the bridge and that gave me a little yay moment followed by a surge of energy to run harder!
UP&DOWN: Tonight is the last HCC meeting and weigh-in :( but I'm also happy to be free of some of the people on my team. I will continue to weigh-in weekly after this week and there's a prize for the biggest loser post HCC - I will be pushing for that one :)
I already have a group training program in place and will start doing workouts with a new team of people on MWF at 6AM - quite the switch from evening workouts, but I prefer it! It will help me regulate my food/snacks in the evening better. The training group is with Kelsey (my new fave spin instructor) and I'm excited for life after HCC. I will be joining the gym at MUSC - if I join before 4/4, I will get 1 month free. The gym membership is steep ($60/month), but this gym is worth it - I'm not intimidated to go by myself, and after having a team that is not quite the ones for coming to workouts, I'm glad I can go and not have to depend on someone else... I tend to get intimidated at other gyms and put off going - so I might as well pay for the best and have my support system at the gym in place for my life after HCC! I have a lot more to lose and a long journey ahead of me - but I'm excited about what it will bring!!
I will get on tomorrow and let you know what tonight's weigh-in brings :)
Thanks for the continued support - from 'following' my blog and keeping up with me! I really appreciate it!! I will be continuing to blog as the journey continues! :)
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Early Thursday Weigh-In
I weighed in this morning at 9:15 and lost 1.5 pounds for a total of 12 pounds!! LOVE IT!!! I'm going to be in conferences for the rest of the day with parents and won't get off until 6PM (hence the early weigh-in) and won't get to the meeting until late... but YAY for that little triumph!!
On the clotting side of things, I will be sitting all day, so I have on my compression socks... I have successfully changed to a new blood thinner - Xarelto - and the new prognosis is that I will be on the blood thinner until September. So no cycling until September :( But I've been told that I won't have to be on it forever, so I will take the brief extension over a life time!!
Back to work for me!! And I will work on getting those pix up on the blog so all can see them!! (I will have to try later, though, I have to get a lot of work done before conferences start in 1.5 hours!)
On the clotting side of things, I will be sitting all day, so I have on my compression socks... I have successfully changed to a new blood thinner - Xarelto - and the new prognosis is that I will be on the blood thinner until September. So no cycling until September :( But I've been told that I won't have to be on it forever, so I will take the brief extension over a life time!!
Back to work for me!! And I will work on getting those pix up on the blog so all can see them!! (I will have to try later, though, I have to get a lot of work done before conferences start in 1.5 hours!)
More Pics from Monday's KILLER workout!! :)
Here's me in that MASSIVE tire I talked about in the post:
This is Ali in the 40 lbs back pack and 10 lbs vest (the camo vests we're all wearing = the 10 lbs vests):
This is our mentor Cindy (BEST MENTOR EVER) - showing y'all how to do the body bar!
And this is me acting crazy! :)
This is Ali in the 40 lbs back pack and 10 lbs vest (the camo vests we're all wearing = the 10 lbs vests):
This is our mentor Cindy (BEST MENTOR EVER) - showing y'all how to do the body bar!
And this is me acting crazy! :)
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Amazing Workout!
Last night's workout was AMAZING!! Before the workout, I did 40 minutes on the elliptical and got a great workout there first...
Then we went to the roof! It was really nice outside yesterday, so that alone was great... then we donned the camo vests that weigh 10 pounds apiece!! We wore the vests for the ENTIRE workout!!
Then we did stations:
1 - Move a MASSIVE tire (largest tire I've ever seen!!) the length of 1 tennis court and back... doesn't sound long, but it took FOREVER!! We were picking it up and flipping it over, making sure to user our legs - not our back!!
2 - Move a smaller tire (normal size) with a rope around it down 2 tennis courts and back. The rope had a place for you to put around your hips and you dragged the tire down and back.
3 - Use a body bar (different weights - this one was 20 lbs (?) and we did squats and then arm presses
4 - Plank hold and push-ups
5 - Tyler helped us put on a backpack that had 40 lbs in it... carrying the backpack (and the vest!!) (= 50 lbs together!!) we went down to the basement via stairs, came back up the stairs (3 flights down, 3 flights up) and then did side lunges down and back for the length of 1 tennis court
The 5th station = the "timer" - we kept going at the station you were on until the backpack person finished what they had to do, then we switched out!
After that, as a group, and still in the vests, we did walking lunges down and back for 1 tennis court and then suicides for 2 minutes on 1 tennis court. Then we did superman/banana rolls and bridges :)
Lastly, we tried the 'circle' sit - but since there were only 5 of us - we did it a little differently... Tyler was the base, I was next, and so on... see below! We did it to build team work :) Then I suggested trust falls and we did those (the small ones, not the big ones). Go team!!
I will post some more pix later... but in order from back to front:
Tyler (trainer)
Me :)
Jane
Cindy (Mentor)
Ali
Annette
And Lynda, Elice, Kristen, & Mary couldn't come tonight.
Then we went to the roof! It was really nice outside yesterday, so that alone was great... then we donned the camo vests that weigh 10 pounds apiece!! We wore the vests for the ENTIRE workout!!
Then we did stations:
1 - Move a MASSIVE tire (largest tire I've ever seen!!) the length of 1 tennis court and back... doesn't sound long, but it took FOREVER!! We were picking it up and flipping it over, making sure to user our legs - not our back!!
2 - Move a smaller tire (normal size) with a rope around it down 2 tennis courts and back. The rope had a place for you to put around your hips and you dragged the tire down and back.
3 - Use a body bar (different weights - this one was 20 lbs (?) and we did squats and then arm presses
4 - Plank hold and push-ups
5 - Tyler helped us put on a backpack that had 40 lbs in it... carrying the backpack (and the vest!!) (= 50 lbs together!!) we went down to the basement via stairs, came back up the stairs (3 flights down, 3 flights up) and then did side lunges down and back for the length of 1 tennis court
The 5th station = the "timer" - we kept going at the station you were on until the backpack person finished what they had to do, then we switched out!
After that, as a group, and still in the vests, we did walking lunges down and back for 1 tennis court and then suicides for 2 minutes on 1 tennis court. Then we did superman/banana rolls and bridges :)
Lastly, we tried the 'circle' sit - but since there were only 5 of us - we did it a little differently... Tyler was the base, I was next, and so on... see below! We did it to build team work :) Then I suggested trust falls and we did those (the small ones, not the big ones). Go team!!
I will post some more pix later... but in order from back to front:
Tyler (trainer)
Me :)
Jane
Cindy (Mentor)
Ali
Annette
And Lynda, Elice, Kristen, & Mary couldn't come tonight.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Yay :)
Tonight = another success!! And really that success is over the course of this past week! I lost 0.8 pounds! It's not as much as I would have liked, but it's also fine by me! Better to be losing than gaining! The following tips are from last week's speaker - I just found them today :) Sometime before next Friday, I will publish the tidbits and info that we learned tonight!
The owner of Try Sports talked to us last week... he started off with a great quote:
"We don't stop exercising because we grow old, we grow old because we
stop exercising."
This man suggested 4 Key Ingredients to a long healthy lifestyle:
1) Knowledge - We have a poor understanding of health so we need to increase our knowledge
2) Exercise - work your way up to 6-7 hours/week of exercise and do muscle training twice per week
3) Nutrition - Good nutrition on top of exercise will turbo charge your health benefits
4) The X Factor - Be committed, be involved, have a cause, and have a mission - you are on a new lifestyle mission
The saying he's come up with: "You don't have to be fit and healthy to start, but you have to start to be fit & healthy."
Then Judith got up and did her thing (talked nutrition and health). I found out how much fat I should aim for in my diet... I should aim for less than 40 grams of fat/day.... the formula:
your calorie intake (mine is 1300) X .30 = 390 kcal from fat... then divide that answer by 9 kcal
0.30 = 30% (you want 30% of your diet to come from fat)
kcal = kilocalorie
9 kcal = 1 gram of fat
Judith guided us to the ACSM Guidelines on protein for more info on that
Carbohydrates are the primary fuel for intense muscular efforts and should be the cornerstone of an athlete's diet, regardless of the sport they play.
Eat fish!! Fish are a healthy source of protein because it provides al 9 essential amino acids and is low in saturated fat. Some fish, including salmon and tuna also provide omega-3's
If your family has a history of high cholesterol or heart disease, cut the egg yolks out of your diet - it's not worth it!!
The owner of Try Sports talked to us last week... he started off with a great quote:
"We don't stop exercising because we grow old, we grow old because we
stop exercising."
This man suggested 4 Key Ingredients to a long healthy lifestyle:
1) Knowledge - We have a poor understanding of health so we need to increase our knowledge
2) Exercise - work your way up to 6-7 hours/week of exercise and do muscle training twice per week
3) Nutrition - Good nutrition on top of exercise will turbo charge your health benefits
4) The X Factor - Be committed, be involved, have a cause, and have a mission - you are on a new lifestyle mission
The saying he's come up with: "You don't have to be fit and healthy to start, but you have to start to be fit & healthy."
Then Judith got up and did her thing (talked nutrition and health). I found out how much fat I should aim for in my diet... I should aim for less than 40 grams of fat/day.... the formula:
your calorie intake (mine is 1300) X .30 = 390 kcal from fat... then divide that answer by 9 kcal
0.30 = 30% (you want 30% of your diet to come from fat)
kcal = kilocalorie
9 kcal = 1 gram of fat
Judith guided us to the ACSM Guidelines on protein for more info on that
Carbohydrates are the primary fuel for intense muscular efforts and should be the cornerstone of an athlete's diet, regardless of the sport they play.
Eat fish!! Fish are a healthy source of protein because it provides al 9 essential amino acids and is low in saturated fat. Some fish, including salmon and tuna also provide omega-3's
If your family has a history of high cholesterol or heart disease, cut the egg yolks out of your diet - it's not worth it!!
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Back on the Train AGAIN! :)
SO weigh-in on Thursday night was fruitful! I lost 2 pounds! For a total of 9.7 pounds! (Thank goodness!! I was patiently waiting for the fruits of my labor, but my patience was waning..)
In about 40 minutes, I'm going to do the Saturday morning spin class with the instructor Kelsey and later today I'd like to run a mile in my 'hood. If anyone wants to join me or have me run with them in their 'hood, give me a shout! Remember, I'm a SLOW runner - slow and steady wins the race, right? Well, none of the 5K's I've run, but the overall race :)
I hope y'all have a glorious Saturday and weekend!
In about 40 minutes, I'm going to do the Saturday morning spin class with the instructor Kelsey and later today I'd like to run a mile in my 'hood. If anyone wants to join me or have me run with them in their 'hood, give me a shout! Remember, I'm a SLOW runner - slow and steady wins the race, right? Well, none of the 5K's I've run, but the overall race :)
I hope y'all have a glorious Saturday and weekend!
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