Training in Progress!

Well, since last Thursday things have been pretty crazy but no need to fear, I've been a good girl and I've been getting my workouts in!

Within the past week, I've taken 5 classes and managed to make it to the fitness center at least 3 times. I'm proud to say that I've finally made it back to Group Step class and the best part, is that I'm finally getting some of the moves down! On Saturday April 2, was the launch of the new Group Groove release. I only have one thing to say....LOVE IT!!!! I love the new stuff some much that I've actually been to for classes already (hence the reason why I said I've taken 5 classes!). And no matter how many times I take this class, I'm still sweating like it's the first day. Oh and on a plus side....I've finally made it towards the front of the class. I'm still not quite ready for the front row....but who knows, maybe someday.

Tuesday's group workout was very interesting to say the very least. Our regular trainer was out sick so we had a sub. Our workout started with a warm up doing cardio and then it was time for the games to begin! Round one (all for 1 minute each): mountain climbers with disk, squats with weights, reverse planks (up on a bench with hands on the floor and do toe touches down to the floor), 180 twist squats and assisted pull-ups (which I'm proud to say I was able to do 5 in a row without any help!). Round two: 1/2 burpees with disk, jump squats (remember to stay low!), reverse planks, squat and hold (remember to stay low....legs starting to scream!) and lastly, assisted pull-ups. Round three and four: jack abs on bosu ball, ab workout where you sit on the edge of a bench, lean back and pull your knees and chest towards one another, plank with hip twist and lastly, corkscrews (start off in a push-up position, move feet in and keep twisting the lower half of your body from one side to the other just like a corkscrew!). In between each set we did the following: woodchops, one arm dumbbell swings (both sides) and one where you start off with the weight low on your right side, move to the middle and have the weight above your head and then move down to your left side. We did each of these 10 times!

Thursday...aka...weigh in day! When I weighed in on Tuesday I was up .4lbs, having a feeling that I was still up I decided to hit the gym a little early for a pre-training workout and then make a small trip to the sauna. The sauna was really nice...but next time I go in there, I'll have to remember to bring something to read...otherwise I will fall asleep. When it came time for me to weigh in, I was hoping to make my goal of at least .8lbs lost....unfortunately that did not happen. I only lost .2lbs. I know that I should be happy with the lost, but I was really hoping to make the goal of 65lbs lost and with only 2 weeks left with the trainer and 2 weeks on my own, one is starting to wonder if this goal will even be possible. Don't worry, I won't give up....keeping my fingers crossed!

Thursday's workout was a nice mix of some old favorites. We did the following for one minute each in 4 different sets: inverted rows, sumo walks, sumo squat jumps, plank with side toe touches, walking lunges with weight, push-ups, run on the treadmill, burpees with leg lifts (still working on those hollywood thighs!) and kettle ball swings. And of course our warm up consisted of the following for one minute each: burpees, jumping jacks and mountain climbers.

Now, for a side note on training for my marathon...which I think has now become more like a half marathon (hey, I don't want to kill myself the first time I'm out there!). Over the weekend we finally had some really nice weather here in Maine (we reached 60 degrees!!!). So, yours truly decided that it was finally time to go outside. I decided to take just a short little walk and kinda get to know my neighborhood. Well, what I thought was a short little walk ended up becoming a 5 miler! On the plus side though, I've now planned out part of my route for my half marathon training and yes, hills are included!