I was writing an entirely different post today about some really cool stuff that I’ve experienced lately when I came to the flashback part and was stopped dead in my tracks. You know, the little flashbacks I’ve been leaving at the bottom of my posts where I link to my post from that day last [...]
Let’s recap the weekend, shall we? Weekend Warrior Goal: Go grocery shopping. I have to say that the best part was embarrassing my daughter in the produce section: Weekend Warrior Goal: Workout for at least 110 minutes. I originally planned to do this Friday night, but I had so much left to do to get [...]
In case you couldn’t tell, I had a lot of fun writing that last post! Thank you everyone for such amazing feedback on my announcement. I left out a lot of details about the race, the training, and my fundraising plans, so be on the lookout for another post concerning all of that soon. My [...]
Those of you on my Facebook already know this, but the 911 Fitness Challenge that I joined in January came to an end yesterday and here’s how I did: Jan. 1 – 231.2 Apr. 1 – 207.0 So I lost 24.2 lbs for the duration of the challenge (and 49 total so far – 1lb [...]
This may be the understatement of the year, but these morning workouts with Michelle are brutal. She had me doing things this morning I would have never even thought of, so I thought I’d share them here. The most creative thing she had me do this morning was on the treadmill. With it unplugged. And [...]
I weighed in this morning at 208.9 lbs which is a 2.9 lb loss for the week. This brings my total weight loss so far to 47.1 pounds. To say I’m pleased would be an understatement, I’m beyond excited! I don’t know how much my mega workout on Wednesday helped contribute to this loss or [...]
This will be a short post because as the title implies, I am SORE and very tired. I mean, sore like I’ve never experienced before. My legs are so sore that when I went to workout on the treadmill today, I literally couldn’t. My knees kept buckling and every few seconds I felt like I [...]
Today was such a whirlwind, I hardly know where to start. I showed up at the gym this morning with my list of exercises from my workout pledge ready to go. My sister was there to join me but what I didn’t know was that Michelle, the owner of the gym, would also be there [...]
So, here’s my final tally for tomorrow’s workout pledge: 13.5 minutes of running at 4.5 mph 1 minute walking at 3.5 mph 8 minutes on elliptical 40 crunches 80 squats 20 reps on weight machine 6 minutes on exercise bike 9 minutes on stairmaster I will also do a circuit of all of them (a [...]
If you missed my workout pledge, you can participate by clicking here. You can help determine my workout on Wednesday! So far, if I’ve tallied correctly, my routine is as follows: 100 squats 3 minutes stairmaster 40 crunches 4.5 minutes running (4.5 mph) 1 minute walking (3.5 mph) 1 minute elliptical 20 reps on weight [...]