Post by sophiegrace on Feb 27, 2017 16:37:40 GMT -5
Saturday: ran 1.5 miles, walked 1, superset of alternating one arm dumbbell snatches with burpee/pylo box/burpee combo
Sunday: ran 1.5 miles, walked another 2, goblet squats with 25lb kettle bell, 3 sets of 135# in the smith machine
Today: ran 1 mile, walked one mile. 100 push-ups (5 sets of 20) and for more cardio I used a push-up bar and did a push up, jumped over the bar, did a push up, repeat.
Post by sophiegrace on Feb 27, 2017 16:39:37 GMT -5
I'm slowly doing even better with food. The warmer kicked my butt into gear. I still need to work on my snacks, though. How does one say no to baklava?
Also, WATER! Need to hydrate. I suck so so bad at this part.
What are your health/fitness goals? Be active, make healthy food choices, feel comfortable in my clothes
How do you plan to accomplish your goals? Yoga/Pilates 2-3x/week. Walking minimum 15-30 min a day. Making good food choices. Increase water intake. Plan to start running soon (need to buy a jogging stroller and waiting for her to be a little older)
What have yoy been successful with? Yoga/Pilates. Walking. Food. (All moderately successful; I'm not rigid right now)
What are you struggling with? Water. Biting the bullet on getting a jogging stroller.
What are your health/fitness goals? Lose at least enough weight to be at my pre-pregnancy weight with DS (10-12 lbs away), but mainly I just want to feel confident about myself again.
How do you plan to accomplish your goals? I'm doing high intensity work outs 6 days a week, combining strength and cardio. I'm also planning to go to some yoga classes in my last few weeks of maternity leave.
What have you been successful with? I have been awesome at sticking to my workout schedule and pushing myself. I don't know if I've ever been this strong before; I am using more weight and less modifications than at amy other time in my life.
What are you struggling with? Eating/drinking. I loosely follow the Mommy Trainer meal plan throughout the day for meals and most snacks, but I am letting "non-compliant" meals sneak in where convenient, and also indulging too much in sweets and beers with DH on the weekends. As a result I feel bloated and have been too afraid to step on the scale for weeks now. I need to suck it up.
Other/questions/advice? I went to bed Sunday night with a sore right shoulder and collarbone. No idea what I did to hurt it but yesterday I rested it and just did cardio and abs. It feels better but still not 100% today. FX for me please that I don't hurt it more. I really don't need this to become an excuse to skip any workouts!
dashook where on your shoulder? The outer muscle part or does it feel more interior?
Feels more interior. Might be the rotator cuff. Holding my arm straight out laterally from my body doesn't hurt at all. Holding it straight out in front of me and raising it over my head does. So does trying to lift anything heavy (like D's car seat) with a bicep curling motion.
Post by ClassyMrsA on Feb 28, 2017 16:38:52 GMT -5
Fitness goals/plan: run 2-3 times a week, diastasis recti exercise every day, strength/stretching workout 2x a week. Making DH hold me to it. Going to set up a schedule for what days I do what.
Food: giving up desserts and Starbucks for lent. I'm not religious, but it's a good excuse to force myself to do it. DH is doing it with me. Meal planning for healthy meals and snacks. Moving toward being more vegetarian (cutting down on beef to 1-2x a month, eliminating pork, chicken 1x a week, fish 1x a week). DH was a vegetarian for years so he's going to help meal plan.
Struggling with: making myself exercise as often as I need to. Snacking in the afternoon/evening. Drinking enough water (still!!).
Doing well with: breakfast, healthy dinners, not making excuses when DH reminds me to do a run/workout/skip an unhealthy food choice.
dashook where on your shoulder? The outer muscle part or does it feel more interior?
Feels more interior. Might be the rotator cuff. Holding my arm straight out laterally from my body doesn't hurt at all. Holding it straight out in front of me and raising it over my head does. So does trying to lift anything heavy (like D's car seat) with a bicep curling motion.
That's what immediately came to my mind. Only because it's the first thing that I hurt when I've been doing consistently hard workouts without warming up properly.
If it's still hurting in a few days there are some simple rehab exercises for it that fix it up pretty quickly.
Feels more interior. Might be the rotator cuff. Holding my arm straight out laterally from my body doesn't hurt at all. Holding it straight out in front of me and raising it over my head does. So does trying to lift anything heavy (like D's car seat) with a bicep curling motion.
That's what immediately came to my mind. Only because it's the first thing that I hurt when I've been doing consistently hard workouts without warming up properly.
If it's still hurting in a few days there are some simple rehab exercises for it that fix it up pretty quickly.
Thanks! I'll keep you guys posted.
Today I did a 2ish mile walk with D in the carrier. I also did an intense tabata workout with BBM. It was supposed to be an upper body day but I went out of order to give my shoulder another day off.
My shoulder felt better yesterday but this evening it is hurting badly enough that I took Ibuprofen I hate it but I think I need to skip my workout too. Idk what I could possibly do that wouldn't bother it right now. Middle of the week rest day, I guess.
Tomorrow morning I'm signed up to take an Orangetheory class. I'm really excited and hope I can still get a great workout even if the shoulder isn't better.
I'm on day 2 of no desserts. Yay me. I went to the store today and saw cookies, so I bought olives as a healthy snack that I'll enjoy. I've been sticking to my healthy meals and only have eaten my allowed snacks.
I did a workout at home today. It was hard and I felt sick after. But at least I made myself do it. I also walked to playgroup on Tuesday with the double stroller. I should try to run one day this weekend either alone or with Lillian.
I'm meh. I don't know if it's exhaustion, the cold I'm getting over, or if I'm just running out of motivation... But it's getting hard to keep active. Even just my squats are dwindling (I had been increasing the number but the past few days I've only been able to do like half of my normal amount and I'm winded and weak).
Try doing a warm up set or two and then your big set 5-10 minutes later. Sometimes it takes my leg muscles awhile to warm up and not make me feel like I'm dying.
Also variations help me get through a lot of them. 10 close leg, 10 shoulder width, 10 sumo width, 10 goblet. They all hit different parts of your leg and accessory muscles so it doesn't fatigue you as quick and if you can run through it twice, BAM 80 squats.
Post by sophiegrace on Mar 2, 2017 22:27:17 GMT -5
Today was a day of no naps thanks to the big dog with the bigger mouth. By the time I got her in the stroller she was already over tired and only got .5 mile run in before I realized it wasn't going to put her to sleep like it normally does. I walked another half mile loop to get the garbage can so it wouldn't blown away and she wasn't happy so I called it a day. At least it was something.
that's awesome! I just looked and I guess the one near me hasn't opened yet. What if you don't have a heart monitor? Do they provide those?
Yup they provided one today but at the end I bought my own. I know I they clean it but seemed more sanitary to me to have my own if I'm going to work out there regularly.
For the first time in 7 weeks, I took a second rest day this week. My lower body is sore as all get-out from Orangetheory and my right shoulder is still injured. I'm hoping to be able to get back into BBM tomorrow. FX my shoulder doesn't get in the way!
Ran 1.15 miles today with Lillian in the stroller. Planning to do my DR exercises and a stretching session before bed. I did day 1 of BBM on Friday night. Doing day 2 tomorrow along with DR exercises.
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