Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot

Oh my was the gym hot tonight (and I don't mean with guy's bodies!--I go to a cheap gym not many hot guys). The temps were just high and the air was having trouble keeping up. I barely made it through and had to take a lot of water breaks.

We started out with cardio. I started with jumping my feet out while leaning on the Bosu and then lifting the Bosu above my head for 30 seconds, then took a 15 pound weight and swung it up from the floor to above my head, and then jumped on and off the Bosu. I did this round twice and then we went over to the weights.

I did pull downs, bicep curls, and lunges with the ball. We did this twice and then we did back pulls (I don't know the technical name), squats into hammers, and something where I lifted a weight with one arm and then went down to the floor with that arm. This was the point that I started having problems with the heat. I of course did these exercises through twice also. Once I got through these we went and did abs.

Abs were not hard tonight, just I was not doing well. I bounced the medicine ball and lifted it over my head on both sides for 30 seconds. Then I lifted the ball on the left side 10 times and then the right side for 10 times. These were done twice also :)

Then I headed home for food and more water. I am doing much better as I write this, but wow for a bit I wasn't sure. I can not even imagine how this is going to work in July, but I will make it!!!! I know I can!!!!

Have a great Memorial Day weekend.

Hi Everyone,

Monday's workout was pretty good. I did a lot of ball stuff which was a bit different. I was really sore yesterday and today it has gotten better :)

We started out with push-ups on the ball (that can really affect the arms), I also did chest presses and triceps on the ball. We did bridges and some other exercise that had me on my back pulling and pushing the ball in with my feet while lifting my butt. Ok that one hurt. I also did some band work with more chest presses, flies, and triceps. Did flies on the ball also--lots of flies this week! I did some backwards lunges (I really hate lunges).

On the bright side, I was not sick afterwords and managed to walk 15 minutes on the treadmill with no issues.

On the bad side, I haven't been back to the gym since. This cold I have is just killing me and I am not sleeping. Now today I went to the dermatologist and they had to remove a suspicious mole to do a biopsy on it. The wound site really hurts and I think that will affect my sleeping tonight. Hopefully I will get back on the wagon soon :)

Have a great day!!!

Kicked my a**

Well after a pretty easy workout last week, Erin stepped it up. I think it was another mini-bootcamp although she did not call it that.

We started with me doing some sort of kick outs for 30 seconds, then mountain climbers for 30 seconds, then these killer arm moves that I thought were going to be easy, but oh noooooooo. I don't ever want to see those again (which of course means they will show up again). Then I stood on the Bosu and did some band exercises for thirty seconds. Then we went and used two leg machines, wall squats, squat to shoulder presses, flying somethings on the ball, then it was scissor kicks and another kind of scissor kick. Oh yeah, let's not forget the bent over flies, the bicep pulls and one other arm thing that was so very painful.

Yup all of those things for thirty seconds a pop. And when I finished the first go-around, we did it all over again!!!! It was another workout that left me wondering if my lunch was going to re-visit :)

Erin did say at one point (I think while I was doing the reverse flies the second time with 7 pound weights) "Just think how far you have come, you could never have done this your first week!" That is very true, I was lucky to be able to hold a 7 pound weight much less do 30 seconds of exercise with one.

So all is good and I am starting to see some results (working on my food intake is helping there!). My arms are starting to show some definition and I know some of my clothes are getting loose so that is all good.

Have a good week everyone.

Squats, triceps, and abs

Monday was not so bad. Saying that my tummy hurts, my arms hurt, and my legs hurt. They did not hurt on Monday, but today is Wednesday and I am in a bit of pain!

I did lunges, shoulder presses, triceps pulls, squats, more squats, chest presses, squats on the bosu, ball throws on the bosu, sideways sit ups, and ball passes. Then because I finished my workout early (yup did each of those exercises twice and finished before 30 minutes was up), I got to do more triceps using the rubber band jump rope thingy! (don't know it's name--elastic band?)

After the workout I actually made it to Luis' first baseball game of the season and did not feel so bad. Of course today it hits. I coughed and my tummy fought back. But it is a good pain and things will be fine :)

Hope everyone else is having a good week and enjoy the windy weather :)