Worse than my clients..

Sheesh, it's already been 3 weeks into this holiday challenge and I have to say I am pretty disappointed in myself.

My excuse could be I have been so busy with new classes, different schedule..blah blah blah...

What do I tell my clients when they tell me excuse after excuse? MAKE THE TIME...YOU NEED TO COME FIRST and PLAN!

Yes..all of those things I need to start doing...and starting NOW!

While I have seemed to backed away from the insane chocolate fits I was having before, now it's time to clean up my meals even more!

I just bought little notepads for every one of my clients to track their meals and plan to use one myself. I can't ask them to do something even I won't do, can I? So starting this week, its all goes in the notepad and if I have time in the evening I plan to put it into sparkspeople.com to see how I am doing. I am also going to do my measurements for the next 4 weeks on a weekly basis..just for my own doing, along with taking pictures each week as well. Now that the weather has turned cooler and I am wearing more baggy clothes, I need to make sure what I am NOT seeing is not being neglected!

Experiencing Doms!

And it feels GREAT!

Saturdays Fit Chick Express class must have worked me pretty good! I feel an nice overall soreness, but mostly in the outer buttock area. It was the speed skates that got it there as it always does! (Hence, the reason why we do them!) We tried something a little different, 25 minutes of tabatas! It was fun! We alternated 2 exercises for 4 minutes 20/10 and did 5 sets. I loved it, so I plan to do it more often!

My workouts were great last week. Today is my day off from workouts. Again, I struggled with my nutrition. Each day I was off to a good start and then be days end, BAM!

Looking back, most of when I struggled was later in the evening. So my plan this week is when I think/feel I need to eat something after 7:30, instead I will do the plank...HATE the plank, but its a good exercise and by doing it, it will definitely take my mind of wanting to eat!

I also admitted to my husband that I think I need help..I am a chocoholic! Seriously! It's a bit scary! LOL. So no more chocolate in the house for a while.

This week I am starting some new Fit Chick Express classes her in Longmont, so I will need to find out when I can get my own workouts in. Usually in a smaller group, I can do the workout with them, so I am hoping that will work. I am not an afternoon or evening workout person, so my workouts need to be done in the mornings. I will get back to a routine starting this week which I do think will help with my bad eating habits. I think stress and a crazy routine that I was not used to, made me just want to stress eat! But no more!

Moving Forward

I want to try to keep this updated at least every other day, but my weekend was crazily busy! I put together 8 weeks of workouts, one for the Fit Chick Express Workout Club and the other one for the Lose 10 Pounds Challenge. Then I had to video tape them and edit to get up ready yesterday. That itself was a workout and then I had a Fit Chick Express Trial class here in Longmont, where one person showed up, so I decided to work out with her. I burned tons of calories yesterday! Which is good, because I ate a lot of starchy carbs, which I usually try to avoid or eat minimal amounts.

So yesterday was my 15 day in a row of working out. So this morning, I decided to take the day off. My body was needing it and my knees are actually killing me. Think its more the weather than anything. I have arthritis in my knees, fingers and toes and when its cold and rainy they seem to hurt a lot more than normal.

PMS is what is tough this week though. I always want to eat non stop and eat chocolate, so I haven't been doing well at controlling the chocolate intake. My own fault that I bought it and have it in the house. Once its gone though, no more..at least for a while. ;0)

Other than that, meals have been pretty good. I didn't have the time to prepare for this week, so I did some pre-preparing foods today, but need to cook up some chicken breast, so plan to do that tomorrow. Thinking I want to get me a turkey to cook up and make some chili. All these cold days, my turkey chili would be perfect!

So my plan tomorrow is to do boot camp with the ladies in the morning. Cook up some protein (chicken, turkey) and keep the chocolate to a minimum!

Im Taking the Lose 10 Pounds Challenge

Its been a long time since I posted on here, but I just announced my Lose 10 Pounds for the Holidays Challenge, and thought I would take part in this challenge as well!

I took my measurements this morning and this is how they look:

Weight: 132.2
BF: 23.2
Waist: 25.5
BB: 28.5
Hips: 36.5
Thigh: 22.25
Bicep: 10.75

So far today I have done pretty well with my meals.



Post Workout Oatmeal and Green Tea


Lunch- Chicken sausage, red peppers, apples and feta on Spinach




I got in a good workout and did a quick video:

Good Ol’ Tabatas…

Saturdays workout was boot camp with clients. Was a pretty tough workout and my abs were still sore from Thursdays workout.

Meals were scattered, but pretty good. I know I could have done better…need to work on that.

I did chat a bit with a fellow trainer about my workouts and he made me realize I need to cut back on the boot camp workouts and do my own workouts or find workout partner to push myself harder. I do push myself hard in boot camp, but not as hard as I know I could, as I am the trainer and am watching form and stuff.

So my goal is to cut back on doing the boot camp classes and get in more of my own more intense workouts.

This morning as I was doing my workout, I realized I really miss pushing  myself with heavy weights. Its been a long time, so that is what I plan to do..along with planning it. So today I will plan my workouts for the next month and see how things go.

After my weight training workout, I did 10 minutes of tabatas. First 5 were step ups with KB swings and last 5 minutes were step ups with squat jumps.

I feel great after that workout and am really excited to get started on my hard workouts this week!

Kick Butt Intervals

I guess I should back up to Wednesday, as I got caught up with other things and didn’t get my blogging in.

Wednesday I did tabatas. Tabatas are 20 seconds of exercise followed by 10 seconds of active rest. I did 10 minutes and alternated between reverse lunges, step ups, jumping jacks, um…and I can’t remember what else. Was a great workout though!

Meals..oh..did well until suppertime and then just had a big old carb fest! LOL! Wings, egg rolls and mini burger. Yes, bad. But it was my one cheat meal this week.

Thursday morning I did some intervals and then did BC with clients. Was a toughie! 45 seconds of Push Press, Partner pushups, Forward/Reverse Lunges, Crab Dips and then intense cardio and abs. I was sweating real good!

Meals were much better yesterday too.

Now we come to Friday:

Intervals on treadmill…finished hard at 7.3 for 1 minute 30 seconds! Was ready to fall off! Love feeling like that!

Meals have been  a bit crazy as I had an appt that kind of messed me up.

Bringing Back Some Turbo Jam

I decided its time to cut back with the weights and add in more interval training and cardio.

I have this body (well lower body) that tends to build muscle very easily..which to some would be great, but to me, its annoying.

Anyhow, so my plan is to try to shed some inches (layers of fat per say) off my lower half by adding in more interval training.

I haven’t done my Turbo Jam workouts in a long time so thought it might be a good idea to change things up a bit. I think adding in more running on treadmill might be killer for my knees.

I am going to add in some body weight circuits and tabatas as well and just do the 3x a week boot camp.

This is my plan for the next 2.5 weeks anyhow. Then I will see where I want to go from there.

M1) Protein Shake

Turbo Jam- Cardio – 20 minutes

M2) Eggs with green peppers, sweet potato and parmesan

M3) Ground Turkey, broccoli, diced tomatoes and parmesan

M4) Protein Shake with Fruit

M5)Chicken breast, kale, diced apples, walnuts