Milestone In The Making!

Ahhh....deep breaths! This week was nothing but a killer and I mean that in a good way. After not doing any type of workout on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (unless you count working long hours at the Bangor Y's Spring Fair and hauling 5-6 cases of soda at a time to load up the cooler a workout, oh and not to mention a nice little spin on the mechanical bull...which may I say afterwards, my thighs were killing me!). It was time to get back into routine on Monday and since I was able to get out of work a little on the early side...off to Group Step it was. Now mind you, I was still sore from the weekend, so taking this class was going to be a challenge. So many jumps, legs lifts, squats and oh yeah...stepping up on the step, by the end of class my legs were telling me no more!

Then Tuesday came and it was our first workout of the week with our trainer. After the four of us weighed in to see where we were at from last Thursday (our fifth team member was out), our trainer wasn't to thrilled that we were a little on the up side (yours truly was only up .4lbs...which wasn't bad since I really hadn't done a thing since the last weigh in). So off to our workout we went....and if we thought what we had done before today was tough...we hadn't seen nothing yet! Breaks were very, very limited...if there was even any, I can't really remember. In between each round, we had a nice "intermission" which consisted of the following: one minute burpees, one minute mountain climbers and one minute of jumping jacks (we did these 3 times!). For the workout itself, we did the following for one minute each three times: inchworms (which are when you inch yourself down into a push-up, do the push-up and then inch yourself back up again), suicides half-way down then all the way down (but when you came back to starting point you had to do a bear crawl back!), jumping ball squats and cross-puches with 12lb weights. After finishing there, it was off to the treadmill where we ran for two minutes, then ball squats with overhead lifts for two minutes. We did these two times before we went to cool down.

Wednesday came and I was running behind, so I didn't make it to Group Groove class...so off to the fitness center I went. Before I started my workout, I decided to weigh myself just to see where I was at and I couldn't believe my eye's...I was up again! Thinking that I needed to do something about this, off I went with my MP3 player to the elliptical and rocked up for 50 minutes! Over 400 calories burned later, I was feeling pretty darn good.....although I sure as heck didn't look pretty but eh, who cares.....I didn't.

Now I've come to today....weigh in day! The one day of the week that I look forward to but wasn't this week. I was still freaking out over the fact that I was up yesterday and I just had this really bad feeling that it wasn't going to be my week, I really didn't want to let my team members down. I was next to the last one to be weighed in (my team member who missed Tuesday's workout was going to be arriving later for her weigh in....another workout she was going to miss). As I stepped on to the scale and the numbers started changing...I couldn't believe my eye's.....down 1.8lbs since last week! I was so happy that I didn't care what the workout was going to be...all I was thinking was "bring it".

So downstairs we went, after our warm-up (burpees, mountain climbers and jumping jacks!) it was time to kick some butt! We started off with 5 different stations where we did each thing for one minute, station one was inverted rows (in other words, pull-ups with your feet still on the ground), station two was inchworms, station three was step-ups with a ball, station four was standing v-twist with ball and the ever so popular full body workout where you take a half-tire filled with sand and move it from the top of a box to the floor, then back up and then back down to the floor switching sides each time was station five. Then it was back to what we did as a warm-up and then it was back to the same five stations, only this time we took out the inverted rows and added in the treadmill. We did two more times of this workout and when it was my last time on the treadmill downstairs, one of my teammates made a comment about me going "to slow"....so what does one do, up the speed to 6.7mph!

After we were done downstairs, we went back to the main fitness center were our favorite machines were just waiting for us....the treadmill! You know what the meant....speed interval time! We did three rounds this time but unlike the other day's, there was no getting off the treadmill. Round one was at a 3% incline which a slight job for two minutes, then drop to 0% incline and kick up the speed for two minutes. Round two, 4% incline and then back down to 0%. Round three, 5% incline and then back down to 0%. Fastest speed for me this time was 5.2mph...didn't really want to hurt myself, but did run/jog for 13 minutes straight without falling off or hurting myself! By the very end...although I was tired, I felt really good and ready for the day.

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IMPORTANT NEWS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO'VE BEEN FOLLOWING SINCE THE BEGINNING! SINCE I'VE STARTED LOOSING WEIGHT, I'M NOW PROUD TO SAY THAT I'M ONLY 0.8LBS AWAY FROM A GRAND TOTAL OF 65LBS LOST!!!!!!

WHO KNOWS MAYBE I'LL MAKE MY GOAL WEIGHT AFTER ALL!