A few weeks it go it got really cold around here. I was so excited, I love cold weather. Then suddenly the cold vanished. I'd come to camp dressed warm for the nightly workout and it was HOT. I said before that I was tempted to take off my over shirt, but didn't. FINALLY last night, it was sort of freezing. At camp everyone huddle indoors to brace themselves from the cold wind and rain. It got a little crowded for me so I went out side. Once we got moving the chilly breeze felt so good. I needed the breeze, last night's workout was so hard!
I'm not sure if it was the forty second intervals or the new choppers we did that really got me spent. Picture Paul Bunyan, or the Brawny man chopping wood on the side of him. We weren't chopping straight down in front of us, we did it with a pivot. Basically our cores were being ripped apart, love-handles- buhbye. I'm sure I can speak for a few people that they feel the same way. I don't think I've ever worked the muscles triggered at that station. Feels pretty good!
I haven't had breakfast yet, wanted to get in my blog post before the kids woke up...which means I'd have to write 2 sentences at a time and take like 2 hours to get the whole thing done, parents-- you know what I mean right? I bought a few grapefruits, Ruby Reds-my favorites, and I saw a tip online to make them even MORE delicious. BROILED. Never thought of it. I guess you just cut them in half and pop them under the heat for a few minutes and the flavors and juices carmelize into deliciousness. That'll be next.
TRX Saturday is coming up, pretty excited since I've missed the last few TRX's sessions with Rachelle.
Speaking of Rachelle, she went to Chipotle the other day and had a pretty healthy meal. I was, I dont' know, ecstatic? I love Chipotle, LOVE. Like it's my favorite place to eat on the planet probably. I haven't had anything from there though for over 3 months, since before I started camp. I've been avoiding it like the plague. I always got a burrito, or bowl with extra rice. Yea extra rice. Didn't get any beans, the rest of the stuff was good, but not the tortilla or amount of rice lol! So Rachelle explained that of course I could go to Chipotle, just do it right. She got a steak salad, hold the rice, some black beans, veggies etc... YUM. Now that I know I can have it, I think I'll still wait and make it a treat for after the holidays, IF I beat my measurements. So it's not about cheating, I can make it a treat, a reward. I might need a friend to join me when I go though, just to keep me in check so I don't go back to my old ways of piling on the rice and sour cream. BAH! What was I thinking?!
Just like John Mellencamp said. I love feeling some soreness after a good workout, reminds me that I actually DID something!
So WOW. The past few days have be ca-ray-zy! I didn't even blog about last Thursday because my mind was so occupied with my daughter's upcoming 2nd birthday party. I had SOO much prep to do. I actually don't even remember Thursday and Friday......... Wait... just came to me, Thursday at boot camp we had a special guest representing the Special Olympics in for a good motivational pep talk. I photographed that.. more on that later.
Before I get too far, a few of you have been begging me for an updated pic. I promised that since on the 12th we were taking measurements and 'before' pictures, I'd update that day.. well, as above stated, I've been so busy basically last weekend is a blur. I look absolutely freakin' HORRID in my 'before' pics that we took on Saturday, which is another reason I didn't post it. So today I was having another one of those "Skinny Days" and felt pretty good so I had the hubster snap a quick one of me before heading off to camp. Here is my progression thus far since the beginning in June, til now Week 21. I've lost 11 inches around my waist, BOOYA!
Week 21 overall, Week 10 at boot camp.
My husband decided he needed to be sitting down while taking the picture, so looking up at my chin(s) isn't very flattering. But I digress.
So that's that. Moving on.
As I said on Thursday we had a special guest come to camp and give us all a little pep talk. He spoke about teamwork and determination. After watching him complete one of the hardest sessions I've done at camp, I was so impressed and definitely motivated. He was so kind and inspiring, made me want to work so much harder. Here are a few images from that day. Dakota was such a trooper!
I know the stamp say Rock Star BC, but I can use these images, since I am the photographer :)
Friday-- blur. Crazy prepping/cleaning for the party. Nothing exciting here.
Saturday was measurements, pictures and then an INSANE, INSANE Trx session with Rachelle. OMG. I felt that workout for days, actually... I think I felt it up until yesterday. We did these TRX Saws and Pendulums that rocked my world. Rachelle said we'd do 3 cycles, 12 rounds each. Then she said to do some "practice saws/pendulums" before we started so we knew what we were doing. "WHAT THE..?!" Is what I said.. during the PRACTICE round. And she thinks we're doing three rounds of these? psssh.
I lasted 1.5 rounds. Imagine if I could've done the whole three, I'd still be in pain I'm sure!
Here are the pendulums.
The saws:
So yea.. crazy. But SOO good.
I whined like a little baby all day Saturday and Sunday while I prepped the food for the party (Sunday afternoon). I home-made my chicken marinade, it had to be cooked before hand so that was Saturday. Then I made 2 different kinds of salsa, that had to be made Sat. also so the flavors would be right for the next day. I moaned and groaned while chopping, my lats were on FIRE. I even contemplated taking some Tylenol to get through the pain so I could keeping working. I'm not big on OTC pills or medication, so I just complained through the pain instead. :) Betcha would've loved being in my house that day! My poor husband. At least I had a good reason!
Sunday winds around, still haven't rested. I've been preparing for this party for forever mentally. Physically, I prepared by working out enough last week to earn myself a treat. The cake. I planned on having a piece of cake at my daughters party no matter what. I think I deserved it. Curtis says to "earn your cheat day." I worked out 6 times last week! I earned it. I didn't use my cheat for the whole day though. I served all sorts of food, most fresh and healthy, some not like hotdogs and chips.. Proudly though, I didn't have any of that. I snacked on lots of celery and carrots, greek yogurt ranch dip, my grilled chicken, more celery.
When it was finally my turn to sit down and enjoy myself, I also enjoyed my piece of cake. yummmm. Ask Jessica if you don't believe me. It was 'moan out loud' delicious. I had a hard time concentrating on the story she was telling me because I was falling in love with the rare treat in my hands. I savored it like you wouldn't even believe. Probably because I knew it would be a long time until I had another piece. I probably wont have cake again until my Selah's (my 6 month old) birthday in May. So you can bet I was a little involved in my plate. It's a beauty, look at this thing! and No, I didn't make it.
If you're interested in your own cake, obviously doesn't have to be Strawberry Shortcake theme, let me know and I will send you contact information. The lady is a local girl and not only are her cakes GORGEOUS, they taste amazing and PERFECT for any party requiring a cake :)
Here is the birthday girl herself. She hogged all the balloons. It was her party after all :)
Monday, I took the day off. I didn't feel guilty, I needed and deserved the rest. I had major damage control to do after the hurricane of children left my house. Clean up is the worst part of any party. After clean up, I did nothing. I finished up some work on the computer, but when that was done, I just chillaxed. WHEW. FINALLY a chance to breath!
Tonight-- back to the grind again. Boot camp was awesome, got in a great sweat. Why is it so warm out? I was so hot in my long sleeve shirt, I just about had to strip down. I wouldn't do that to the other campers though, no worries!
I'm excited about the week. With the party done and over, I can focus my mind on my weight loss again. Even though the holidays are right around the corner... Story of my life, there's always something 'right around the corner'. Just the way the cookie crumbles I guess. Now I'm off to eat some veggies.
Wow am I exhausted! Last night was my 4th workout this week, today will be my 5th and that still leaves TRX on Saturday. It's more exhausting just thinking about the rest of the week too lol!
I've got a crazy weekend ahead of me, I don't even see any relaxing in my near future. My daughter's 2nd birthday party is on Sunday. A huge BBQ, lots of people, lots of little kids. I've got so much prep to do!
Last night I went to camp ready to bust a move like every other day and during warm up my tail bone started hurting when I would jump. ouch. I wondered why? I thought maybe I needed to pop something, do some twists. No that wasn't it. If I ran, shuffled, jacked.. anything with impact, my tailbone hurt. So I needed to modify basically the entire night, since it was a cardio day, I knew it would be full of high running, jumping etc. Curtis said we could hit the ropes if we ever needed to switch something up. So I started there since the first round was TRX jump squats. A whole round of ropes. 10w/10r x 10 rounds. YOWZA. Then moved on to throwing the medicine ball side ways the shuffling to get it.. I couldn't shuffle either, so I modified to side slams. The next station didn't hurt to bad, it was sprinting forward then back pedaling about 5 yards or so. As long as I wasn't pounding the cement I was okay. Next came bear crawls. I tried it, figured it's no impact so it should be okay. I was wrong. You put a lot of pressure on your back during a bear crawl and it felt like my tail bone was shattering.
Off to the ropes again.
The cycle repeated a few times. I visited the ropes a few times more. One of the rounds I decided to try the jump squats and just pop up on my toes. That wasn't too bad so I did that for the last few cycles. So I tried everything and if I needed to modify I'd go on the ropes... which was a lot.
Midway through the night, I figured out why my tailbone was hurting. Earlier yesterday I tripped over one of my daughter's toys laying on the living room floor. I was so mad especially since I had JUST cleaned up the toys and didn't expect anything to be there when I walked back out of baby girl's room. Apparently my 2 year old doesn't think toys should go in the toy room. hmphf.
Sooooo..that was that. I went home, ate some great lentil soup. I had a dream last night that I lost 14 pounds. HA. If only that were true. I'll get there eventually I guess.
Whoops I totally forgot that I hadn't blogged yet about boot camp Friday, for some reason I thought I had, then NOT blogging about TRX Saturday today reminded me. So Yea, I've been slacking here, sorry!
I didn't get to go to TRX Saturday today, the hubs work schedule changed last minute and supposedly he told me (he didn't). If he did, I wouldn't have signed up for TRX, dur.
Anyway. Thursday finished up the week at Rock Star.. we went out with a bang. I think I was ready to just about collapse but I knew if I did that, I might not be able to get back up. It was such a tough workout for me. Probably because it included TRX pull ups. I hate pull ups. I can't do them. I tried and tried and tried and maybe I didn't have my footing right or something but I seriously struggled. I mean obviously pull ups are hard for anyone, but maybe having so much weight on myself makes it even harder for me. I didn't enjoy them at all. I guess I should probably ask Curtis about my form just to make sure it's a lack of strength thing.
On top of that we did some Squat Jacks. When Curtis was explaining them I swear he sounded like an infomercial lol! "It's like a Squat, plus a Jumping Jack, ALL IN ONE!!" Oh goodie. We all know any kind of Jack sucks for the girls. He also said for some people, if they're up to it, to try the knew variation that another camper came up with, which included a heal click at the top of the jack instead of just bringing your feet together. I just laughed at that option...maybe someday.
Going back to the beginning of the night, we "warmed up". Warm up usually is a run down of each exercise we'll be doing during the session.. usually like 30s to a minute each, lots of running in place.. etc. Well this warm up was much more than that. It was full of some lovely Isometric Holds. I wrote about those the first time I did them here. Then the next day we did some more of them, with pictures added here. Anyway, It went like this:
10s work, 3s (YES ONLY THREE!) of rest, 6 rounds each before moving to the next station.
1. Mountain Climbers, yes you're not really holding still, but still holding a pillar and moving your legs.
2. Side Pillar Left
3. Side Pillar Right
4. Lateral Lunges, alternating sides each round
5. Double Leg Hip extensions.
May I remind you, this was the WARM UP!
Then we really got busy.
40s work, 20s rest.. visit each station 2x
1. TRX Pull ups
2. Side-by-side w/ pivot medicine ball slams
3. Push Ups elevators.. going from push up pillar on your hands, down to your elbows, back up to your hands, lather rinse repeat.
4. Lateral Lunges
5. Squat Jacks
Oh wait, we're not even done yet. For the finisher, Curtis gave us a wonderful 2 minutes of non-stop BURPEES. I think I should name this week Burpee Week. I feel like we've done a billion burpees this week. Oh well, they're delicious.
What an amazing week. Don't eat too much candy everyone! Happy Halloween!
Ahhhh the rain felt sooo nice tonight didn't it? Too bad I couldn't enjoy too much of it since we had to move the camp indoors again. It wasn't as hot as Bikram Boot Camp, maybe a little more crowded, but still delicious.
Tuesdays of course are strength days, my favorite. They almost always result in SWS and/or TSS. Because of the lightning and rain and having to move indoors, we had a little bit of a spacial issue so we had to modify what was planned. No TRX rows, booooo I love TRX. I did a few rows since I happened to be at one of the stations but only one round since no one else was doing them, I felt awkward. We also couldn't break into groups like usual since we were all split up into two different warehouse rooms. Thankfully Rachelle, our other super cool TRX certified trainer ;) was present at camp tonight so she could lead the separated group ;)
45s of work, 15s of rest
4 cycles x 5 exercises
1. High-pulls with dumb bells (DB) (would've been the TRX rows)
2. Squats holding DB tucked in at the waist, DB under the chin (like a microphone), left hand.
3. Same as above, but DB in the right hand.
4. Push ups
5. Walking Lunges
mmmmm Delicious.
Next was the Rock Star Gun Show. I laughed a few times at Curtis doing his gun show impression, asking if we had our tickets to the show saying "UH! Look at those GUNS! Yea baby, GUN SHOW, UH!" All while flexing his arms (guns) old school style. ha ha ha.. It was hilarious. Anyways
We did some pivot curls, the "skull crusher", then stationary sprints.
The skull crusher was frightening when I read it on the white board itinerary. It's not suppose to be literal but I guess a morning camper bonked herself in the head with her DB. Basically on your back in a double leg hip extension, raise a DB over and behind your head, down and up. I felt it buuurrrnnn in my triceps and of course the hip extension works wonders on your core.We repeated that set of 3 stations 4 times for a total of 12 rounds.
Glorious day. Surprisly it's relaxing. Not during the actual session, that'd make no sense. But after we finish I feel like I've totally lightened my load of all the stresses throughout the day that pile up. I can breathe, I'm calm... it's like therapy!
Then I go back home to the madness that is the life of a mommy. Both kids demanding to be fed, held, tickled, etc. I ate probably the best cucumber I've ever had in my life dipped in some Greek yogurt. Teriyaki marinated chicken breast, steamed spinach... so good.
I love what I am doing for myself and my family. They need me to be healthy so I can play with them, run with them on the beach on vacation, swim with them in the summer and not sit out because I'm too fat to get into a suit, jump on a trampoline with them without catapulting them into space, you know.. the good stuff.
Not too much longer that I can call Thursdays boot camp Friday since starting November 4th there actually will be a REAL boot camp Friday session!
This week was awesome. I wont lie, I'm so ready for a relaxing day to recuperate before TRX Saturday. I'm absolutely addicted to Rock Star. What Curtis had planned for us was the perfect way to end the week off right.
During warm-up as we were getting a little taste of what the rest of the session entailed, I started to think that Curtis chose all of the hardest exercises and put them all into one.
Today we experienced the real Mad Minute.
60 seconds of work, 60 seconds of rest. Each minute of work was broken into 3, 20 second intervals. So 20/20/20, then rest for 60. I shouldn't say "rest" actually because we were doing more of an "active recovery". Jogging in place or down the alley, tire step ups, walking lunges etc. Then we'd move on to the next group of 3. The groups were:
1. Walk outs/ T-ups/ Push-ups
2. Sumo Squats/ Sumo low pulses (basically bobbing up and down in the sumo squat position) / Sumo Jumps
3. Pivot Lunges left/ Pivot Lunges right/ Burpees
4. Bent over rows/ Dead Lifts/ bent over rows
5. Arnold press right/ Arnold press left/ Arnold press -both arms
2 cycles of that....dude. That's not even the end. First I'll explain a few things. Walk outs are bending over, walking forward and backward on your hands, feet planted. T-Ups are one of my new favorite moves. A total abdominal cruncher. In a push-up plank, you raise one arm up to the sky, at the top you're in the upper body part of a side pillar, and your body looks like a 'T'. Then you alternate hands. During warm-up I thought there was no way in hell I'd be able to do those, I can't do push-ups yet without being on my knees so I tried these on my knees and it hurt so bad and was super hard. Once we started the actual rotation I decided to give it a try after walking out on my hands and surprisingly enough I was able to do them! On all fours, the way they should be done!! Not only that, the version on my knees was actually a lot more painful, and not in a good way. So there is an example of a modification that did NOT work in my favor. YAY. Lastly, since the rest are pretty self-explanatory, are the Arnold Presses. I guess that term is something the governator coined as a signature move way back in the day when he was pumping iron for a living.
It goes like this:
So like I said before, those sets were not the whole regime. There was more....
We partnered up and geared up for some side pillar with tension band rows. Holy Heck.. While in a side pillar position with the tension band in your hand, your partner is pulling away from you, hence to create tension, while you are rowing it into your side. They are moving all over the place, holding the band high, low, hard, harder, shuffling sideways, up, down.. you get the picture. We switched sides and places I think 4 times for a total of 8 rounds.
I'm seriously going to have some major ab muscles if this type of workout continues..I'm not complaining though! With Curtis' lower body routines that'll give anyone that Kim K booty, upper body strengthening, and just some total body CORE WARS, I'm on the road to a hot bod. It's pretty serious.
Again, awesome boot camp week. I have TRX to look forward to on Saturday, and then we'll start all over again.
I've fallen behind on my blogging! It's been a crazy busy few days for me and I finally have a few minutes to update.
After Bikram Boot Camp last Tuesday, I'd gone home feeling great after my sweat-fest. That night I got a horrible pain in my back. I figured it was muscle soreness from Rachelle's awesome workout. So I slept with a heating pad for most of the night hoping it'd do the trick. It didn't, and I was worse off. I decided it was probably best to rest my back, just so I didn't injure it worse and then really be in trouble. It might've been more psychological than physical, but it's better safer than sorry. So I missed Wednesday, my very first time missing a day of camp since I started a month ago. I was sad and refused to miss the next day. I was going on Thursday, even if I just had to lay on the ground and stretch.
Thursday, I managed to do most of the workout okay until we started doing side pillars... that REALLY hurt my back. I took a little break and rolled my back on one of the foam rollers Curtis has and I felt a !*POP*! It felt amazing and I sat up and said "I think I just healed myself!" I felt great, and finished the workout with more energy than I had before.
Friday, my back was still feeling good. I was pumped for TRX Saturday! I was going to the 6am workout session and photographing the 7:30 session. Friday night though, the back pain started again in the middle of the night. I again laid on a heating pad until it was time to get up but it didn't work, again. Oh well, it actually wasn't too bad the next day, but I was tired as hell from no sleep because of it.
TRX Saturday was AWESOME. I especially loved it this week because Rachelle managed to choose a track with Christmas music in the background HA! I really love TRX exercises and I seriously can not WAIT to do some more. This time we did a lot of upper-body strengthening (which I need very much). Wall slides, a bear hug/clutch variation, squats with our arms held straight overhead, medicine ball slams, then some outdoor stuff with tension bands and rings.
Rachelle did a seriously awesome job leading camp this week. I really enjoyed getting to know you Rachelle, and look forward to seeing your more at camp!
Saturday night we had a Rock Star girls night out, hosted by Becki and Tyler. They are some nice folks! Food was great, drinks were great. I didn't indulge too much but what I did have was delicious. I really enjoyed meeting a few new ladies!
I decided to step on the scale yesterday, even though I know it's finicky. My broken scale says that I've lost 7lbs. So either that is true, and I'm finally starting to shed some fat, or my scale is just playing mind games with me again. I'm not going to worry about it though, I'll have a real weight check next month at my doctors appt. I need to update my picture, suppose to do that last Friday, but like I said I've been so busy so hopefully I can get one today. I've lost 7 inches around my waist so far... wait, is that the magic number? 7lbs/7inches??
It's pretty typical to hear "ugh.. the weekend is over, it's Monday already?!boooo" from the regular M-F 9-5ers. Not many times do you hear TGIM, "thank God it's Monday!" That was what I've been saying today. This whole entire weekend, starting Friday I've been a complete unmotivated bum. Tired, lazy, no energy, bored, etc. Since Friday, I was counting down the days until I returned to boot camp and got my blood flowing and booty shakin' again. I think I could do camp 7 days a week. Is that too much? Is that crazy? Last week there was no TRX Saturday so I didn't even have that tasty treat to tide me over until today. FINALLY!
Rachelle, leader of TRX Saturdays, is our trainer for an entire week! Curtis is off on some beach in Hawaii, probably eating some amazing freshly caught-2 hours-ago fish and local island veggies...mmm I can't wait for day that I return to the islands, where I belong....
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I got distracted.. Anyway. Rachelle was great today. I sweat a ton and my muscles are already getting a little sore. Success!We did some more of those 60 second deals, with a short rest of 15 seconds in between. 8 rounds, 3 cycles. Something new I did today for my first time since being at boot camp (I'm in week 4) was TRX curtsey lunges. Those are pretty hard. Man do I love TRX, I'm sooo looking forward to Saturday!
***extra, extra!!!***
I held my pillar today ON ALL FOURS... (for like 12 seconds, but still). We did these things, I didn't catch the name of it, I'm not sure she gave it an a name during the demo, but I'll call them push-up pillar jacks. Get down in push-up position and proceed to jump your feet out wide then back in like you would during a jumping jack. I, of course, couldn't quite do that, I tried, but I had to modify to side stepping, instead of 'jumping'.
Another camper earned some major points in my book too, she said I looked slimmer. HOLLA! Thank you thank you thank you! (Why can't I place your name? I'll get it tomorrow, I know I know it. I feel stoopid now)
I was prepared for something brutal tonight for boot camp Friday. I thought since Curtis is going out of town for a week he wanted to leave us with a tasty treat. I was right. We did all sorts of stuff, I'm going to be sooo sore tomorrow.
First of all- I did 2 rounds of mountain climbers on ALL fours, no knees, no buckling!! It's a big deal. By round 3 (out of 4) I started trembling a little, probably midway through and of course Curtis happened to look over at the exact moment that I had dropped down for a second and yelled at me to get off my knees. I try I try. Anyway, just had to announce that.
We did some mad minute shizzle... everything was in 60 second intervals broken into 3 sets of 20 seconds with no rest in between. 5 different exercises, and 4 rounds... I'm exhausted just thinking about it again. We got a generous 15 second rest in between each minute round, hence the title. I know..he's so giving huh?
Get Ready to Crank it!
Move one was inclined band press with isometric holds. First few rounds of those were tough, but... manageable. 3rd and 4th rounds, unbearable. Next was band squats with isometric holds. Again, not SO bad at first but it got harder and harder. THEN we did some bent over rows with dumb-bells, going from single handed rows to those freakin' see-saws again.. Except this time the see-saws were inverted, so rowing, instead of pressing. Either way, I hate 'em. My back, shoulders, and arms love them though. Fourth were some lateral lunges. I find that I can squat lower, stick my butt out/down further and my balance is getting a lot better. WINNING! Last but definitely not least were single leg mountain climbers. Remember these minutes were broken up into 3 brackets, so for the mountain climbers we started one leg, switched to the opposite, then switched to both... FUN. *sarcasm font*
I pushed harder tonight because it was the end of the week and I needed something to REALLY have to recover from this weekend, since there is no TRX Saturday and I have 3 days off. I'll need to go hiking or something.
A successful night for me, no emotional breakdowns, my knees feels a LOT better and no jokeon my drive home "Eye of the Tiger" came on the radio, it was a sign... a salute to my progress. It was the perfect song to end my week of awesome-ness.
I keep hearing that everyone has an off day. Whether it's eating crappy, or missing a workout... My day started off sucky. The hubs work schedule got changed last minute again which caused me to miss my AM workout. Being that I was already awake at 5am and needed my car, (and hubby's bike is broken..again...) I had to wake up both of my girls, load them in the car and drive him to work. So I'm up at the butt crack of dawn, and no workout to energize me. Fail.
Of course now my whole day is thrown off now. I have a few very important appointments to get to throughout the day so the girls need to nap according to plan. It's like organizing a synchronized swim or something.. hmmfph.
I also had probably my 2nd or 3rd fight in the entire history of my marriage/relationship with my husband... a total of 7 years, and this was first thing this morning, on the way to work...while I should've been at Rock Star Boot Camp. With such a busy day ahead of me, I didn't have time to work it out with him, fix our problems etc. Hadn't talked at all except when I got home at 6pm with just enough time to drop off the girls and change into gym attire. I had seriously considered missing a day of camp to stay home and resolve this issue we were having. Then my oldest daughter decided the world would end if she didn't do 1,348,298 different things that she wasn't even allowed to do at the same time. Get.Me.The.FREAK.OUT.OF.HERE!!!
So off to boot camp. I'm tired as hell. Weak from yesterday. Emotional, stressed, upset...a lot of other crap. I've been holding everything in all day and was hoping working out would relieve some stress. And man did it. Like an idiot I started crying during the first round. I tried to shake it off but it hit me like a wave. Started hyperventilating, felt dizzy, going to puke...I needed to have a moment. At the time I thought I was having some sort of physical break, maybe I was just exhausted. After resting for 2 minutes I realized my body wasn't in pain, my heart was. I thought, "pull it together woman and get your ass back out there." So I did. And it was delicious.
To be honest, I was completely distracted tonight. I know we did some 3-headed monster variations (ie: bear crawl... um.. maybe next time on that beast), 3x3 sets of sorts... we did 3 burpees (or variations) followed by 3 push-ups for 60 seconds... then run 3 steps forward, 3 steps back, then 3 burpees. Then some TRX Rip training. I love TRX, I can not wait(!) until next Saturday!!
So if you've made it this far through my bitchfit, I applaud you. Thank you for reading. I'm all good now and ready for some booty kickin' tomorrow. Tomorrow is a new day ;)
Skinny and [weak] is OUT. That's what Curtis said tonight at Rock Star Boot Camp, my new favorite place to be. Cardio Monday was all full of laughs though today. Rock Star hosted a TRX training/certification for fitness professionals from all over AZ and Curtis had fun explaining his new learnings. We (I) learned to activate and recruit every muscle in our bodies during our traditional exercises. Instead of just holding our push-up pillar, he said "squeeze your buttcheeks like you're holding a dollar bill in between them, and someone is trying to take that dollar bill... not sure why you'd have a dollar bill in your butt, or why someone would be trying to take it, but they ARE so don't LET them. LOL I had a hard time staying up on my arms while he was saying this, I was laughing so hard. Then he acted like a total goofball demonstrating what NOT to do. No leisurely shuffles, jump ropes, squats etc anymore.
I must say I'm excited about this TRX training thing because I happen to loooveee TRX exercises. My arms were still sore tonight from TRX Saturday with Rachelle. Tonight we did a new move called "TRX Gravity Suspension Bear Hugs." Mouthful huh? I kind of liked them though. It's like giving the air a bear hug, literally, pulling yourself up after suspending back/downward. Like this:
Curtis is one of those people that are passionate about what he loves. He loves training people, getting people in shape, kickin' our asses.. I can just tell he reaaalllly enjoys the last one. He's so encouraging and really praises you when you're doing something right. Many times he's told me I was on the right track, my stance was right.. etc. During my Bear Hugs I felt like I could use a little more difficulty so I took a step or two forward and he proceeded with "that's the shit right there!!" I love how excited he gets. In my head I did a happy dance I was so proud of myself but I couldn't exactly do a dance for reals because 1) I was in the middle of a round, 2) I would've looked like a fool and 3) my arms were about to fall off. So in my head it was.
Then we did some jump-roping... and much like jumping jacks, if you're a girl.. they suck if you know what I mean. And if you're a girl with humungo ta-tas like me, you know they double suck. My knee was killing me, I forgot to wrap it with the ace bandage I bought last week. My shoes are a piece of crap that need to be replaced. I was just telling my hubs the other day, "wow these $10 sneakers I bought at Wal-mart have really held up for 3 years!" Well no shit. I never used them, obviously. In the last 2 weeks, shoes went from "good condition" to literally falling apart. The soles are torn up on the inside and outside. My feet hurt. These bad boys have seen more action in 2 weeks than they have in the entire 3 years I've had them. So new shoes here we come.
No asthma attack tonight (YAAAYY!) and I didn't even spill my water :) It was a good night and perfect start to my week. Hopefully there will be some stellar accomplishments. My quote to live by for now is "Do better today than you did yesterday." It's all I can ask for.
Saturday morning I went to my first TRX workout. I was a little stressed about it though for a few reasons:
1. I injured my knee last Monday and kept using it all week like normal. It seemed to be getting better but Thursday, the day Curtis tried to kill us all, it started to hurt again really bad. I had the next day off to rest so I figured I'd be okay. Then,
2. I broke my pinky toe, on the same side as my hurt knee. I was already limping a little, now I just looked pathetic. Bum knee, bleeding all over the mall. It was SUPPOSE to be a relaxing day with my girlfriends and our kids, spending some quality one on one time with my oldest daughter. While she had a blast running around the place, it was no break for me. I was sweating, panting... chasing her every where. I'm going to consider that day a work out in it's own. Later that night,
3. I went over to a friend's house for a bbq. I filled up on a delicious spinach salad before I left so I wouldn't want to chow down on everything in sight. I was offered a malt beverage, and I accepted. I remembered thinking "wth, I've been pregnant or nursing a baby for the past 2 years and now that I'm finally not... I can have a drink." So I did. Then I had a small piece of brownie. As we were driving home I thought "Oh My goodness! I have to get up a 5am! I'm working out tomorrow!!! WHY DID I DRINK!?"
So you can see why I was a little worried. The TRX training day was basically all of the TRX moves Curtis has slipped in every once in a while at our daily boot camp sessions. I did push-ups, lots of them, on the TRX straps. I'll have to show a video, I'm a little tired right now and if I try to explain it... you'll just leave more confused.
I met some great new people. Rachelle leads the TRX Saturdays, she was so nice and can't wait to see her again at the next Saturday training. I also met Jodi! She's been so awesome on my Facebook fan page. Always encouraging and it was awesome to finally meet her. Hopefully I'll get to see them both at boot camp again soon.
