Wednesday, Jan 13th

As you’ll be able to see with this first post, not all of the exercises will be called by their formal names because I don’t know all of their formal names. If you’re interested to learn more about any of them, just ask.

Yesterday’s workout was very difficult for me. I can handle the strength stuff but we did a lot of stair steps and jumping on boxes and jump rope….all cardio things that challenge me a ton! But, even though it was difficult and I wondered if I was going to make it through, I did and it felt great. Later that morning I posted this on Facebook, “sometimes when I'm doing with a hard work out like we had this morning it's cool how the sweat on my skin and my heart pounding through my chest and the blood pumping through my veins can make me feel so much closer to God....might sound strange, but it's so true”.


Today’s workout was much more manageable for me. I knew we were going to focus on upper body because it’s Wednesday. I only own 5lb weights right now because I lost one of my 8lb weights but yesterday’s workout was so hard that I figured 5lbs would be just fine. The girl next to me was trying 10lb weights and realized she could barely do 1 rep so I switched with her. Let’s just say it’s been awhile since I did the following exercises with 10lbs in each hand and it was a challenge, but a challenge within reach and it felt great. There were two other women, Wendy and Faith who were using 10lbs directly across from me which was really encouraging and helpful as I pushed through. It’s so great to workout with other women!


HERE'S WHAT WE DID IN OUR 50 MINUTES AT BOOT CAMP TODAY:

• 1 leg hops, squats & dead lifts. The balance it takes to do squats, etc. on one leg is incredible. It really works your entire core!

• Pushups (I’m still doing them from my knees) and pushups+1 arm row combination

• 10lbs in each hand to do military presses, chest pushes, chest flys, etc.

• 10lbs for bicep curls, and lots of hammer curls (alternating 1 arm at a time with both arms at a time)

• 20lbs for triceps & tricep dips on the bench

• Jump rope exercises- high knees, butt kicks, jumping jacks, sideways the length of the court

• Stretching….even better, partner stretching!

We didn’t do any of our normal core workout and I can tell that I missed that so I did regular crunches, reverse crunches and side crunches when I got home.

HERE'S WHAT I ATE TODAY:

Pre-Workout:

2 pieces of whole grain bread (I like Aunt Millies 45cal bread) & 1tbls peanut butter- 190

Breakfast:

1 ½ cups Multi Grain Cheerios & ½ cup Skim Milk- 200

Lunch:

Chicken Piccata with Pasta & Mushrooms- 400 (note, I ate ½ of this recipe for dinner last night and ½ for lunch today. Here’s the recipe-  Link: http://www.lifelinescreening.com/health-updates/healthy-you/healthy-cooking/chicken-piccata.aspx?SourceCd=WGGL999)

1 orange- 50

1 red hot gummy bear Laura gave me :)


Snack: Ok, normally I eat a 1-2 snacks a day (about 10am and 3pm), and that’s very important, but I got too busy today


Dinner:

7oz chicken breast- 280

¾ cup instant mashed potatoes- 80

Mixed veggies (corn, peppers & mushrooms…random but what I had around)- 100

Lemon & pumpkin cupcake (just mix lemon cake mix with a can of pumpkin for 18 low calorie treats)- 150



TOTAL CALORIES TODAY: 1450