Tuesday's workout started out like usual, with our warm-up consisting of one-minute jumping jacks, mountain climbers and burpees. From there it was time for Part One of the Team Challenge. First up was the oh-so-lovely push-ups, but unlike those special times when you're allowed to use your knees, these were a little more challenging. You had to stay on your toes the whole entire time and go all the way down to the floor. The challenge was to see how many you could do without stopping and yours truly was able to do 15 right in a row! And that was the most for my team. Next up was the curl-ups, which for those of you who don't know what these are...it when you lie on your back, hands are on your thighs and you just curl up till your hands reach your knees. Unfortunately, yours truly did not do so good on these. Lastly, for today's part of the team challenge was a mile run on the treadmill. Now, going into this thinking that I should do some what well since I am training for half marathon...I hopped on that treadmill and got my legs into gear. Eleven minutes and four seconds later I had finished my mile run, with my top speed being 7mph! I don't think I've ever ran so fast in my life....but it did feel great knowing that I was able to do it.
The rest of Tuesday's workout consisted of the following: side lunges with weights, high/low planks, sumo squat walks, sumo squat jumps and burpees with leg lifts. (If you couldn't tell, our team is still stuck on working our hollywood thighs!).
Thursday's workout was let's say nothing but interesting. There's was only three of us today due to the fact one was out sick and the other was in Portland, but no worries....our trainer had something special in store for us today.
We started off downstairs for our usual warm-up of jumping jacks, mountain climbers and burpees and then we went back upstairs for our surprise........a weighted vest with 25lbs in it!!!!
We had to do three rounds with an intermission in between each workout while each of us took turns wearing the vest through one round and one intermission and guess who was the lucky one to go first, yes that's right....me!
Our workout consisted of the following: sumo squat walks, sumo squat jumps, inchworms with push-up, plank with side two touches and overhead ball slams, all for one minute each.
Intermission went as followed: burpess and jumping jacks for one minute each.
Let's just say, the two rounds that I got to do without the weighted vest were a complete breeze! Man, wasn't that thing heavy and to think....I use to carry that extra weight around on me all the time. My mind still can't get over that.
After we finished all three rounds, it was off to the treadmill again for yet another mile run! Oh and it was decided that since our other two teammates missed the opportunity to wear the vest, that they should wear it the next time we work out...during the whole workout!
Now, since this is challenge week and I did mention that what I did on Tuesday was part one...you are probably wondering why there was no mention of part two during my team workout. Well, that's because I'm the only one from my team that was willing to do part two...so yours truly joined the violet team in completely this task. So off to the pool I went to see how many laps I could do within ten minutes....the answer to that questions my friends is, 7 laps! After doing those laps, I stayed in the pool with the violet team for part of their workout and I have to say that it was nice to change things up a little bit.
My extra workouts for the week weren't nothing to exciting. They mostly consisted of my group fitness classes (step and groove), along with a pre-training workout on the ellipitcal and running 1.2 miles on the treadmill.
Now, for the best part of my week....weigh in day! As we all now, I've been trying to reach a certain goal for a while now. So when I hopped on the scale Thursday before our training, I was just praying that I'd lost the 0.6lbs to make that goal. And when the scale numbers finally stopped moving, I couldn't believe my eye's. I had lost 1.2lbs in one week....I met my goal! I've now lost a grand total of 65.6 pounds!!!!!!
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