What a weekend I've had! Today brought one of those 'ah ha' moments. "Let's get your lazy ass out of bed and start/finish your day with 110% productivity!"And guess what? That's exactly what I did (more to come in a weekend summary)
I apologize for the blogging hiatus .. Not only have I had a semi-busy weekend, when I did have free time, I found myself looking for an excuse to nap / just be 'lazy'. I've been so un-energized these past few weeks and my body has been super blah. Also, I felt like I didn't really have anything worth blogging about.
O life!
Anyways, here goes last week's workouts.
Sunday - Off
I skipped the gym on Sunday on account of the snow. I actually had energy to workout but it took me over an hour and a half to get back into town from work ( I even left work early cause I heard that the weather conditions weren't the greatest).
Monday - Metabolic Meltdown
Monday was my first Metabolic Meltdown class, and man, it was awesome! We did 6 workouts that were split in 6-minute intervals.
We started the class with a warm-up consisting of jumping jacks, football place runs, high knee jumps and push-ups (funny what a sweat you can work up in the 'warm up' portion of class)
For the remainder of the class, we did:
- behind the head tricep dips + overhead squats
- sled push & pulls
- shoulder press + knee ankle grabs
- seated rows + weighted lunges
- mountain climbers + deadlifts
andddd there was something else but I'm drawing a blank.
Anyways, MM = fantastic class! I am SO glad that Heather told me about this. She did it last month and she's already getting compliments on the change in her body (hot mama, S!) ;)
Tuesday Night - Off
Wednesday - Metabolic Meltdown Night #2
The warm-up was the same as Monday night (again, small sweat worked up).
- ball throws + weighted squats
- box jumps
- in and out intervals on a box-band that extended across the studio
- TRX bands + chest press (using a flat barbell weight)
- shoulder press + dumbbell squats
- sled push & pulls
Thursday - Off
I actually had all intentions in hitting the gym on Thursday night, but I was at the funeral home and didn't get out until 9:14-pm and the gym closed at 10.
Friday - Off
Again, all intentions (ya, ya .. sure sure) but Friday ended in beers from 12-4-pm .. then Boston Pizza and more beers until supper time. This ended in Victoria passing out, waking up, eating and watching episodes of Heart of Dixie with Samantha.
Saturday - Gym
I woke Saturday feeling like garbage! After a 10-am get-up, I decided to get in 'fit' mode by catching up on some healthy living blogs (125, georgiatryingsomethingnew, lizziefit, CNC) and eating some fruit + a water/coffee.
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| 1/2C of strawberries, blackberries, cantelope & pineapple |
I soon headed to town, did a few errands and then headed to GoodLife. I actually ended up having a pretty low-key workout that I'm referring to as the 5 and 1!
1-minute - walk on 4.0mph
5-minutes - jog on 5.0mph
1-minute - walk on 4.0mph
5-minutes - jog on 5.5mph
1-minute - walk on 4.0mph
5-minutes - jog on 6.0mph
1-minute - walk on 4.0mph
5-minutes - run on 6.5mph
1-minute - walk on 4.0mph
5-minutes - jog on 6.0mph
1-minute - walk on 4.0mph
5-minutes - jog on 5.5mph
1-minute - walk on 4.0mph
5-minutes - jog on 5.0mph
1-minute - walk on 4.0mph
It was pretty much was a 5-minute interval jog that increased in speed by 0.5mph intervals up to 6.5 mph .. then working my way back down.
Cool down
1-minute - 6.5mph
1-minute - 6.0mph
1-minute - 5.5mph
1-minute - 5.0mph
1-minute - 4.0mph
Finishing at a total of 4.27-miles in 48:00.
After my little treadmill trot, I wasn't feeling the 4.27 (odd number to finish at, hey?)
So I hopped back on and did a 15-minute incline walk at:
5-minutes - 4.0mph, incline of 5
5-minutes - 4.0mph, incline of 10
5-minutes - 4.0mph, incline of 15
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| wow .. it actually looks like I have a 'chest' in this picture!! (sorry, don't like to use the bo*b word..) |
I finished at a total of 5.27-miles, which is also odd to me .. buuuut I had plans to meet Val and Shaneen for a weekend catch-up at Boston Pizza (yup, twice in 24-hours) so I did that instead. Boston Pizza > gym.
I must say, I felt pretty good post-workout so I ordered something 'healthy' .. healthIER I should say from the BP menu. O, but the three of us also split a small order of cheese twist bread (because you have to when at BP)
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| 7-oz steak with vegetables and a garden salad w. raspberry vinaigrette. 410-calories, 280g of sodium. I can live with that! |
Mom was having people in for her birthday so after Boston Pizza, I headed home to
Hope everyone else had a more active week than I did! :)
Hoping to make this one a better one!
Questions
1. What do you usually order when you go to restaurants?
2. How active were you this past week?
3. What do you classify as a jog verses a run?
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