Archive for January, 2009
Cardio Goal
This week I’m setting a cardio goal of 5 days. That’s a minimum of 20 minutes of good cardio, not slacking and talkign to others cardio. I’m going to be good and not do weights and I can’t even dream of doing abs yet. But I can do cardio on the elliptical and summit trainer. Jogging is still questionable, but by mid-week I’m going to try. I am hoping to get up on the mountain this weekend for ski lessons, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
Today
Well I got overmyself today and worked out. I only had one client show up for bootcamp class this morning and that’s cool cause I haven’t been promoting it lately. I’m revamping it and will relaunch a bigger, better bootcamp after my birthday weekend.
So I worked out with the one client and then I also lubed up all the machines. It is too much and I knew it, but working out alone was too much so I figured I’d just go for it. Needless to say, my ribs are killing me. I’m sure I will be going into the docs office on monday. I am really hurting.
I did get a lazy 20 minutes in on the elliptical and another 20 minutes of lazy circuit training. It was much more movement than I’ve been getting. I’m happy about that. Oh and I weighed in at 172 since I didn’t have all my heavy clothes on. I can’t weigh in when I’m wearing so many different outfits. lol
My Poor Ribs
And no, not ribs you eat. By Sunday afternoon I was starting to get some good zingers with my nagging rib pain. So I told myself if it got worse I’d go into the doc’s on Monday. I mean I know there is nothing they can do about the ribs, but still, what if I’m wrong? So I put it off today thinking it wouldn’t get worse. But by 2pm it was getting pretty bad and I took a nap. Getting up from the nap I was even worse.
After my evening appointments I decided I’d better do what I told myself I would do and head to the clinic before it closes.
Just like I knew, there is nothing they can do except give me some pain pills so I can sleep. BUT, it will be 4-6 weeks for recovery and no physical exertion or it will not heal. OMG, are you kidding? How am I going to do that? I have weight to take off! I have clients to train. I have a senior’s fitness class to teach 3 times a week.
But I know this is why I am hurting so bad today. I overdid. Even though I was very careful, the ribs are so delicate that it doesn’t take much. I can’t even take deep breaths without pain.
So I’ll figure this out. I will do the elliptical without using the arms and get cardio in that way, but not make my breathing too heavy of course. lol But no weights of any kind for at least 2 weeks then I’ll re-evaluate.
Needless to say my snowboarding is done. I’m totally paranoid of falling now. We were planning on my taking ski lessons the beginning of Feb and we’ll have to see about that now as well. I may go up still and sit in the lodge because I’m sad the family wouldn’t still be able to go. Again, that’s a few weeks so we’ll see.
But otherwise, my diet has to be spot on. With how much I hurt last week between the two days of crashing, I put on another couple of pounds. No real workouts happened cause I hurt and my food was out of control because I was comforting myself I guess. I’m at 175 right now again.
So no more climbing up the weight ladder, it has to stop right there. Diet is my only thing I can really control at this time, so diet it will have to be. I must journal my food so I can keep track.
Snowboarding
Well we made it up to the slopes twice in one week. Love getting cardio in by doing a sport. It’s so much easier to burn more calories since you truly don’t want to stop. lol
But alas these two trips were not that great for me. The first one I crashed hard on my back and thankfully had a brand new helmet on or I would have gone to the hospital. Gave myself whiplash pretty good. Then yesterday I wiped out pretty bad. Total faceplant. I knocked the wind out of me, which if you haven’t done this before I really don’t suggest it. I never had and it was actually pretty scary. And I have asthma so I’m used to breathing issues.
But worse than anything was my ribs hurting. Again a first. I’ve never had rib pain before. I made it back down the mountain and hung out a little bit on the bunny hill. But I just wasn’t into it. I’m so afraid of falling again that I’m going to get hurt because of my fear.
Holiday Pounds
I’m happy to report that I only gained 5 pounds over the holidays. We had record snowfall here in the Pacific Northwest and I was out of the house for about 12 hours total in 8 days because of conditions and the holidays themselves. WOW, on Christmas Day cabin fever set in.
I’ve hit cardio a minimum of 4 days a week since and I’ve been hitting it hard at least 2 days a week. By hard I mean an hour or 600 calories or so. I’ve hit some weights here and there, but nothing dramatic. I did a great ab routine on Wednesday obviously because my abs are super sore right now. It feels awesome. lol
We were supposed to go up to the mountains today for the first board trip of the season, but now we have record flooding so the hiway was closed. Can’t get to boarding and they are still closed tomorrow. Bummed about that as I was looking forward to burning a ton of calories on the slopes.
Our eating is doing quite well and I’m happy about that. Lots of fish and poultry. More veggies again and eating regular meals.
Feeling strong with the start of 2009. I’m not setting any resolutions, but I do have a goal. In March I am going shopping for a size 8 dress to wear for New Year’s Eve this year. So the goal will be to look hot in this new hot dress. lol