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Sporadic, but Working Out
I’m focusing on cardio and getting other stuff in when can. But it’s still quite sporadic when I hit it. I’m so tired of making excuses, but I will say that my jogging times are ROCKING right now. Even on days I don’t wanna and I feel slow, I am still hitting under 10 minute miles on my 2.8 mile run. This last time I ran it I felt so slow. Just dragging. And I had my best time yet. lol 9.25 per mile. SWEET!
Hubby and I are going to register for a 10k as soon as payday hits on the 30th. This will give us something to work towards with our workouts. I want to finish this 10k well under what I did the first one at and I know I can.
I’m calculating my time per mile and writing it on the family calendar and also am writing down my weight in my planner on days I weigh in. This way I can see the bouncing that is going on each week.
Daily Checkin
Yikes, my food was horrible today. Oh well, that isn’t my goal this month anyway. I’m working on getting it better, but my focus is simply the 15 miles a week.
Today I added 3.2 miles. So that sets me at 9 miles even. 6 more miles to complete in the next 2 days. Exactly where I should be 
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Checking in for Workouts
I’m proud of myself. Today I did 5.3 miles. 2.5 on the elliptical and 2.8 jogging. Hubby went and jogged with me. It was hard since I’d already done the elliptical, but I got her done! Also didn’t help that my running style has changed so much and I just can’t stay back with hubby any more. I got horrible shin splints because of it. I barely made it.
My diet is ok, but I know I got my workouts done. I only have 9.7 miles left for the week. 3 days to do it in
Day 2 of Exercise Cram
Well I had 3 days to get my 15 mile goal and I am doing well with it. It’s so difficult, but that is my fault huh? Yeah, it is, I know it.
Today was super difficult, cardio was just so much. UGH. But again, my fault, my bad and I do take responsibility. But today I did hit my 5 miles. So between yesterday and today I have 10.5 miles wracked up. So that leaves me 4.5 miles tomorrow. I have a plan for that tomorrow so I can split it up.
Tomorrow is weigh in day. Fingers crossed!
My Motivation
My hubby is my motivation. I’m very thankful for him. Even though it was Father’s Day, we have goals. He was going jogging and then to the gym. I didn’t want to do either. But I went jogging anyway.
So on Sunday I hit 2.4 miles jogging even though I didn’t want to. That was 4 days cardio and 5 days of working out. Not bad. I’m shooting for 6 days of cardio, but hey, I’m pretty sure it didn’t happen all at once before. I can just remember the feeling of my working out the 6 days a week for so long. lol
I’ll build it back up. 5 days this week rocks. I’m happy with it!
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World is just testing me
I’m tired of being tested this year. Between injury and sickness, I’m just done. DONE I SAY!
My ribs hurt no matter what. So today I worked out with a client. If it’s going to hurt, then I darn well will just workout and try to lose some weight. I’ve lost a tremendous amount of muscle mass and my cardio is completely gone. It’s embarrassing and I do NOT like to be embarrassed. It’s about the only thing I hate actually.
But food is still OK. It may not be that great tomorrow night, so I guess I’d better work out with a client again. lol I’m off to my Great Uncle’s services and my Aunt and I are going together. I’m up for chinese food even though it’s going to make me sick. It’s so good at this place. But again, I’m making that decision already and I won’t have guilt about it.
Today I had a great workout with my new client. Then I ate pretty well today. Not perfect, but truly I did ok. I’ll continue to do ok with it all. I’m on track, I just get to enjoy some splurges here and there and need to keep them low in number.
It was awesome to get the workout in again. But boy did I feel it. I was so out of breath. I’m not sore and I probably won’t get very sore, but my cardio is crap. I’m still sick and my lungs haven’t been up to par, but I’m just totally out of cardio shape. ugh
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.
Great workout day
Hubby had to work yesterday (Christmas) so we set a date to go work out this morning. He got a call and didn’t get out of work until late and then I had no one show up for class. lol What a start huh? Thankfully he called before I left and we met up at the other gym so he could do a heavier leg workout.
I wasn’t ready to work out hard at cardio. I didn’t think he was going to make it, I was going to workout later at the gym I prefer. So I walked for somewhere over 100 calories and we hit legs and abs.
Then he took a nap and just couldn’t wake up. He decided he was going to the gym and see if that helped him wake up. Well I sure couldn’t sit here and work on the computer and let him go alone. I knew it would help get me cranking again if I went. And it has!
I burned 500 calories at the gym this evening. I started on the elliptical, moved to the summit trainer and then finished off by jogging. I knew my attention span wasn’t going to last long on any one machine. lol
So we’re off to a great start after the holidays. I didn’t gain too much weight. I’m back up to 172, but honestly I’m not embarrassed or angry at myself for that. I’m taking it as it is and moving on from it. I’m reheating stew for dinner right now and added a ton more veggies to it. I’ve been eating more often and smaller meals. All-in-all I’m feeling pretty good about it. I know I’ve been seriously slacking and I’m not happy about it. But that’s done.