5 posts tagged “bootcamp”
So, we're into week 3 now. This is just another like "Leanness Lifestyle" week where I try to keep calories lower and protein/carb/fat ratios all really good. And not a moment too soon b/c I was getting bored with having turkey breast and veggies for almost every meal. I can do it for a week, but not more than that in a row.
I had boot camp at 5am AGAIN this morning. Did I mention it was 48 degrees out which is just too dern cold for Alabama in May!!! When I was running during warm-up my shins were killing and during a few exercises too. So thats frustrating. I felt like I was going to puke from the cereal still sitting in my tummy from yesterday, but somehow I managed not to. It was a good hard workout and I was working up a seriously good sweat.
Came home and walked incline intervals for 30 minutes. First 5 minutes was 3.5 at 6.0 incline, next 5 min was 4.0 at 7.0, Starting min 11 I did 3.5 at an 8.0 incline, then back to 4.0 and a 9.0 incline for the next five then I topped out running 5.0 at a 10.0 incline for 5 minutes before cooling down the final 5 back at 3.5 with a 6.0 incline. It worked up a good sweat. I REALLY hate that fitday.com doesnt give me anywhere NEAR the calorie burn alottment as Leanness Lifestyle did, but I'm coping.
This evening we walked for 30 min around the neighborhood
So fitday estimates me at 616 cals burned.
Ok, so here's my food today.
M1: 3 egg whites, banana peppers & 1/2 grapefruit
M2: Healthy Choice Steamers Meal (260cal, 6 fat, 27carb, 22 pro)
M3: 3c Smart Pop popcorn, 6 oz chicken strips, 1 ww choco eclaire
M4: Tuna in a can
M5: 6oz shrimp steamed, 1 c mixed colors of peppers
M5: 1 c mixed frozen berries
Totals: 1268 calories, 20 fat (15%), 127 carbs (38%), 144 (47%)
Also I had over a gallon of water today.
Ok, does ANYTHING in this picture look natural? NO?! Well thats cause only CRAZY people can do it!. Let me explain....
We had bootcamp again this morning with April b/c she has a wedding on Friday in FL. Intead of my good sweat-filled workout I had a torture-filled pilates session. Can I tell you that I SUCK at pilates?!
First off, from years of running and NOT stretching my hip flexors are in terribly tight shape. There are times when I cannot do ab work with my legs even at table-top b/c it KILLS my flexors so much. I also have had two LARGE babies, which has given me some mommy damaged abs that are quite a sight. Now, I'm not complaining, I know I can do anything I put my mind to. But do I REALLY wanna put my mind to THIS? ----->
We were also on some lovely HARD concrete and with my 50-cent mat I bought at the Thrift Store I was feeling it. My sweet sunburn on my shoulders has still not subsided either BTW.
I think that the bottom line is that I dont like NOT being able to do something well. I mean, I simply could not do it, once again proving to me I'm not as strong as I thought I was. That doesn't mean I COULDN'T get good at it with some practice, but I think honestly I'd rather try out some yoga.
Also, I have this weird sweat complex. Like if I dont sweat then I feel like I didnt "technically" work out. My leanness lifestyle plug in proves this calorie burning deficit by only registering a HOUR of pilates at close to a 1/3 of what I normally burn during that time. Sooo.... me and my nerd self HAD to get on the treadmill again this morning.
I decided to do building interval (speed and height) climb today (listening to my aformentioned rad music). Started at 3.5 speed at 7.0 incline for 5 minutes, then moved to 3.5 at 9.0 incline for the next 5. The next 5-minute set I did 4.0 at 7.0 incline, then 3.7 at 9.0 incline for the following 5 (that makes 20 minutes). The next 5 I really cranked it up and ran at 4.5 at a 10.0 incline, then did 3.5 at 6.0 incline for the final 5. It was a good workout and the impact was not as hard on my legs as with running. So overall I felt good about it. AND I was sweaty, which I like.
Took Lo to school and Jo and I chilled at home a bit, then we got ready to go and watch the Kindergarten class so our teacher could go to the teacher appreciation lunch. When I was driving there I passed a bus and there were KIDS on it. I was like "what the heck?!" As I approached the main street I saw buses everywhere, and teenagers passing me in cars. "Something's wrong," I said, " I bet they've shut down the schools." We had been watching DVR recorded Mickey Mouse Clubhouse all morning and hadn't gotten a wiff of the school closings. So we drove back home to wait for the bus to drop off Lo Lo.
I'm from Tuscaloosa, which has a tornado pass through every 5 minutes, and my moms scared to dEATH of them so she passed that along to me, but I promised my husband I'd do EVEryTHING I could do not pass the fear to my kids. So I tried to be casual in the sun room watching the news talk about potential tornado after potential tornado spring up. When they said the name of my town I took a deep breath, ready to move to our "safety" spot of a tiny laundry room (crammed with smelly needing to be washed workout wear). Anyways, it came and passed, with no damage to my area. But I just kept wondering if this was how Dorothy felt all the time....
"I dont think we're in Kansas anymore Toto"
I think "Kansas" is a code name for Alabama.
So here's what my workouts logged as 390 c (which I'm sure is not accurate, but just using the tools on the computer thats what it said)
Food (still doing the 6 day diet April suggested)
2 glasses of water first thing.
M1: (Enough spoonfulls of my daughters honey nut cherrios for me to count it as a 3/4 of a cup), 2 oz turkey breast 216 c
M2: 2 oz turkey breast, 1 c Berry Medley 141 c
M3: 3.5 oz turkey breast, 1/2 potato, 3 oz carrott chips 245 c
M4: **HERE's TORNADO TIME.. nervous eat much? 6 sheets low fat graham crackers, 2 oz turkey breast 430 c (CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!!!!)
M5: 2oz turkey breast, 2 med stalks of celery 77c
Total cals: 1108c, 142carbs (51%), 98 protien (35%), 16(13%)
Only had right at 3 liters of water today.
I was slow with my water and felt much more HUNGRY today then I have been feeling. I know that I made an emotional decision to eat those graham crackers which is something I'm working on. I felt like my body WANTED sugar and carbs today. But I think that a major contributor was starting off weak by eating some of those cherrios.
Tomorrow we go to my MIL's for the weekend which will be a big test, but I'm packing my workout gear AND my food.
Today wasn't half-bad. I was thinking on my drive home from teaching my night class that I've been spending money like its water. I started to realize maybe I'm displacing my food addiction onto a spending addiction? I bet I've dropped 500.00 in the past three days? Not good.
So, bootcamp with April this morning 5 am... It was raining which kept us under the awning again, thereby somewhat limiting movement. The good part was I felt like I got to lift a decent amount of weights, which I've been a little slim on considering I'm not driving all the way into town to use the gym like I was when I was teaching daily. So when I logged it I logged it as 30 minutes lifting weights and 30 minutes doing calestinics (yeah, I cant spell that). When I got home I honestly did NOT feel as though I'd gotten much cardio, so I jumped on the treadmill and ran 30 minutes. I ended up finishing 2.8 miles in 30 minutes, which isn't half bad.
After showering I got the kiddos up, took logan to school and took josie to her ENT check-up on her tubes. They're doing good still so a-ok there. Then since I was in town I caught up on a little shopping. Bought a TON of shorts for Josie, which were needed since my MIL's old washer tore some of her previous clothes up. Then went over to Shoe Carnival where got my great shoes (see post below).
When I got home I remembered that I still hadn't used my ITunes gift card from Christmas so I went online and got some GREAT running music. Which has me pscyhed to just have new music honestly the other stuff was getting a bit old. Nike has some cool like coaching runs w/ music inserted, but I didnt realize that I could buy the whole cd till half my money was gone. None the less I got styles and sounds liked and can actually RUN to without having to constantly forward my mp3 player through slower paced songs.
When George got home we took a 20 minute walk around the neighborhood w/ the kids then I had to change clothes and drive BACK into town for my Interior Design Communications & Marketing course tonight. The presentations tonight were good though and I'm actually learning some stuff about Interior Design, which is interesting. Then a quick stop at Wal-Mart for a few essentials (steam bags!!) and home. When I got home I realized that my back was still KILLING from the sun-burn, but alas.... nothing I can do for now. Though I do appreciate all of yalls home remedy's I'd rather hurt then smell like vinegar! :)
Anyway, here's what my workouts logged as 1025 c
Food (still doing the 6 day diet April suggested)
2 glasses of water first thing.
M1: 1/2 grapefruit, 2 oz Jennie O turkey 118 c
M2: 2 oz turkey breast, 3 oz carrotts
M3: 1/2c (precooked) brown rice, 3.5 oz turkey breast, 2 Tbs ff sour cream, broccoli & carrots single serve 371c
M4: 2 oz Jennie O turkey, Berry Medley (frozen strawberries, rasberries, blueberries & blackberries) 141 c
M5: Low carb tortilla, 3 oz chicken, 2 tbs salsa, 1 tbs ff sour cream, banana peppers & 3 oz carrots 299c
Total cals: 1029c, 111carbs (43%), 112 protien (43%), 14 (12%)
Also have had over a gallon of water AGAIN! Third day in a row!!!
I AM BURNED!!!!! CHAFFED & SUNBURNED!
Sunday I spent a fair amount of time in the sun. I washed the cars, without suntan-lotion which is not a great idea for a pale-face like me. So I got a little burned, not major, but some. Yesterday I walked around the neighborhood for about an hour all together. So it added a little bit more. Today however, today I got roasted.
This morning I had a meeting with the head of the Interior Decorating program I teach a Communications course for at 8:15. So I had to get a baby sitter for the day. My workout class was not till 11:45 so I had some time to burn between the two. After I left my appt around 9am I went to the office and did a little bit of work, not much, but a little bit. Around 10:15 I left and went over to the Disney Store (which they're closing by the way) to see if I could get some good deals (they're only at the 10% mark) but I still dropped around $90.00. I'm a sucker for disney stuff.
So FINALLY it was time for my "bootcamp" class at the fitness center. This class is NO JOKE btw. I was happy to see more women there today though and met a nice woman in the changing room who I partnered up with and I think we work well together and will partner up more in the future. Anyway, LAST time I went to the class it was inside the large basketball gym. TODAY however, it was outside!!! Yeah, I didnt have any sunlotion. I asked another woman who I know is in the class if I could use some of hers and it was that spray on stuff you cant tell for the life of you if its on or not. I have a burn to prove it on one shoulder and my back is HORRIFIC. But my workout was awesome. I really felt like I relaxed into it and was challenging myself. So thats a must-do for me weekly. And I DID need some sun, just not the burn to go along with it.
On the way home I stopped by lowes and got some pavers we'd been needing, some pea gravel and some mulch. Just getting that on and off the cart was a workout. After picking up Jo from the babysitters and putting her down for her nap I just went ahead and did the pavers and pea gravel, trimmed all the hedges, laid the mulch and weeded some. I figured I was already burnt so why not?! ( I DID remember to put on sun tan lotion before doing all that though).
So anyway, it was a busy day. And I missed my now-daily nap, but I'll survive. At least I wasnt up at 4:30 this morning.... but will be tomorrow.
Anyway, here's what my workout logged as 640 c
Food (still doing the 6 day diet April suggested)
2 glasses of water first thing.
M1: 1/2 grapefruit, 2 oz Jennie O turkey 118 c
M2: 3.5 oz turkey breast, 1/2 potato 209c (at work)
M3: 2 oz Jennie O turkey, 3 LONG stalks of celery 84 c
M4: 2 oz turkey breast, 1/2 potato, 3oz carrott chips, 1 oz Bruchetta 163c
M5: 2 oz Jennie O turkey, Berry Medley (frozen strawberries, rasberries, blueberries & blackberries) 141 c
Total cals: 714c, 74 carbs (41%), 86 protien (48%), 9 (11%)
Also have had over a gallon of water so far today and its only 6:20pm (but planning on heading to bed early tonight).
So, today I started a boot camp with April whis is held at our local high school. You can see her webpage here. http://www.strivefitness.org/. It's at 5am people! So you know she has to be at least slightly insane.
It was a torrential downpour and so we all stood under the awning at the back of the school. I actually only came to show my face to prove I was going to be there, but when I arrived they were actually working out. And it was freezing-butt cold! So I hauled my hiney up under the awning with the rest of the crazy people.
I felt like I had a good workout. At one point we were holding onto the poles and doing like a pivioting deadlift (I dont know the REAL name for them) I knew I was going to be sore, but I worked hard and felt pretty good about it overall.
I was supposed to then go and have my pt session with Tasha, but when I got Josie up she had a 102.4 fever. So I RUSHED to email Tasha and tell her that I wouldn't be there. I hated to miss it, but was sort of glad at the same time.
I had to give a final at 3pm so I took Logan and Josie to Papa's (what we call my husband, George, instead of Dad) work and we switched off and I went and gave the final. After that I ran some errands before finally heading over to church for worship team practice. Which went till 9pm!! I was so hungry at the end of the practice I was doubling over, but I didnt explain to them why.
Estimated calorie burn: 440cals
Here's my food for the day:
M1: Myoplex RTD - 178c
M2: 4oz Grilled pork loin, 99%ff popcorn (1c only), 3 stalks celery w/ light laughing cow cheese. 207c
M3: EAS RTD: 103c
M4: Quizno's black and bleu salad w/ no flatbred or dressing (the veggies & cheese added enough flava) 271c
M5: EAS RTD: 103c
Total Cal count: 858cals, 25fat, 46carb,, 113pro *53% protien/ 22%carbs/25% fat
*Comments = calorie count was way too low today but when I got into town I didnt know what to eat. I spent about an hour online trying to figure out what I could eat. I also ate too much packaged food, but again, moving around a whole lot neccessitates such at times.
Overall it was not a terrible day, but I cannot let myself continue to have such a low calorie count.
