Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Today was a rainy day and very gray outside – perfect for getting more assignments done!

But I did manage to go to a Yoga class cause I didn’t feel like working out. As I said before, yoga really help me relax and stretch. Still working on my splits, but haven’t made much progress as I only managed to improve by about a half inch – OUCH!

Tuesday August 2, 2011

OK, so I went back to AquaFit – don’t laugh.  I got quite the workout yesterday!  The instructor told me that Aquafit helps you balance out your muscle groups that may have become sort of uneven through my repetitive actions, say in the gym, or through regular work.

 

But working out in the water gives you equal resistance through your full range of motion. 

Remember when I said in an earlier post that you didn’t want to pick up bad habits and that you should learn how to use the workout machines properly before adding weights. Well, water makes you do the movement correctly.

Monday, August 01, 2011

For my course, I need to complete the following chart on how I am doing so far. 

	Activity	Goals/Notes	Starting score	Score # 1
Strength	“Man” push ups	Be able to complete 3 sets of 15	2 sets, 5 reps	3 sets 5 reps
Flexibility	Splits	Be able to touch the floor with the splits	8-inches from floor	7.5-inches from the floor
Endurance	Aerobics	Maintain a Target Heart Rate between 144-175 beats per minute for a minimum of 20 minutes, 4 times a week	140 bpm	I am able to maintain the bottom end of zone for 25 minutes 4x/week.

If you remember, in one of my initial posts at my blog (http://kimsblogforppl10.blogspot.com/2011_07_01_archive.html) Week 1 ~ July 3-9 ~ This week's focus: A Personal Fitness Plan & Goals)

I had documented some specific goals for areas including strength, flexibility and endurance.  .

So, what did I do today? Took an AquaFit class and it was not as easy as it looks ya know!  

I couldn’t help but start giggling as the mommies in the class were waving their noodles around in the air!  I think we all looked kooky, but we had fun!   

Our instructor said that in an hour class, you can burn about 400 calories!

Friday, July 29, 2011

Happy Friday!!!!

Headed straight for the conditioning room this afternoon to get in some stretching – gotta work on my splits!  

Felt good about my efforts and then got back on the treadmill for about 30 minutes, maintaining a good Target Heart Rate! 

I am able to keep a good pace going now and I find that when I have some great tunes on, I get soooooo motivated to just go, go go!  

 “Jumpstart” by “These Kids Wear Crowns” is a good one!

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Did some rock climbing but really wasn’t in the "ZONE"  – too many screaming little kids today that I wasn’t in the mood to hear. (Was I REALLY that whiney???) Great stretching though, so it wasn't all bad.

Anyways, I left the wall and headed to the conditioning room where I had great run on the treadmill – got my Target Heart Rate up to 160bmp .... Oh Yeah!!!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Today was my Yoga night.  Did some great stretches --- keep getting better at my splits!   

After that, I went back to the conditioning room and did the treadmill for 30 minutes and got a real energy boost! 

Had a great run – got my Target Heart Rate up to 166bmp again.

Tuesday July 26, 2011

OMG!!!! I just realized that my posts from last week didn't get posted -sorry peeps!  Let me post my notes from last week....

Anyways I kept putting it off ‘cause my friends were around, but I finally went to the YMCA and had a FANTASTIK workout last night!  I didn’t realize how tight my abs are getting until I put on an old pair of shorts!  Not a 6-pack, but nice and tight.

Worked on my flexibility, did some upper body strength training and had a great run on the treadmill – got my Target Heart Rate up to 155bmp, right in the zone, dudes!

I’m really lovin’ the gym and I am finding that I have more energy!!!  

Used a cool song called “Skeletons” by “These Kids Wear Crowns” for my treadmill warm up. Take a listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGIKICkHPg and let me know what ya think!