Day 16 ~ SUPERSTAR Saturday

I am so proud of me today. I had a really tired week for some reason where all I wanted to do was sleep and had to talk myself into workouts. I stayed with my bodyweight lifting program on wednesday, did my cardio and ab work on thursday, and yesterday was baaaad. I seriously screwed the pooch diet wise. That's what happens when DH brings giant cheesecakes and peanut butter cookies in the house. My willpower leaves the building! Eating and sleeping constantly isn't the best thing to do. But now, onto today. My fabulous DH let me sleep in as late as I needed to so I woke up feeling refreshed and raring to go instead of dragging butt like I have been. I got a good breakfast in, stretched some and went off to teh gym.

CD: 12 Weight: 133 ((stupid PB cookies!!)) Mood: SO PROUD OF MYSELF!!

I started off with my ab work so that I wouldn't be so tired by the end that I would skip it. This seems to work better for me so I'll stick with it. It's a really good warm up too.

Hands on Hamstrings: 2x15

Vacuums: 3x10s, 3x15s

Crunches: 2x15 ((squeezing at the top Ouch!))

V ups: 2x15

Cats and Dogs: 2x3x5s

Oblique crunches: 2x15


Then on to strength work. Enjoyed using weights, went for full body workout.

Bench Press: 1x10x40, 1x10x50, 2x8x50

Pull ups: 3x10 modified

Dips: 1x8, 3x6

Shoulder Press DB: 3x10x10

leaning side raise: 3x8x10

45degree front raise: 2x8x8

Rear Delt Fly: 2x8x8

Standing Ham Curls: 2x10x25

Cable SLDL: 1x10x30, 1x10x35

Single Leg Press: 1x12x80

Leg Press: 2x10x200


I was still feeling great so I moved on to Intervals on the treadmill. I did the advanced routine out of the Oxygen Abs special, walking and jogging in 1:2 minute intervals, minutes 25-30 were steady jog, and 30-35 was 30 seconds hard sprints, 30 seconds recovery, then a cooldown. So 40 minutes overall. I left the gym feeling like a superhero! I know that this is because I'm nearing my Ovulation and therefore my testosterone peak, so I knew I had to get in that hard charging kick but workout while I had the chance, next week will be kick but and then the week after, well that's going to be an exhausting take it asy week so I'm going to take advantage of my energy surge while I have it. :D Tomorrow is resting, and we'll see how I feel on Monday and what DH has planned for my birthday. Hope everyone has a great weekend!!

Day 11- Merry Monday

It's a good monday. :) I used to get cases of the Mondays but not anymore. It's my day of peace after the hectic weekend where the whole family is home. And I'm always excited to get back to my workouts after my rest day.

CD: 7 Weight 133

Push ups: 3x10, full pushups no mods.

Pull ups: 3x10 First 3 are straight again. Concentrating on using form and not momentum.

dips with feet on SB: 3x8

Plank: 2x30s

Sumo Squats: 3x10 Again being very slow and deliberate wiht my movements.

Bench Hops: 3x10

Supermans on ball 2x10

I'm sharing my workout plan for the SSS contest with some moms from my Fort Polk Mommies group on cafemom and trying to spread the word on HT. Some of these women are soldiers and don't understand why they are struggling when they do PT every single day. But then they also don't understand how the body adapts and doing routine PT every single day won't do the trick because the body will adjust as lazy as it is.

I did get to the gym this weekend and got about a mile in doing 30 second all out sprints and 90 second recovery. After the mile point I wound up being sick so I called my hubby and he told me that while he wouldn't think badly of me if I came home, he knew that I could do it. So I got on the treadmill and walked at an incline for twenty minutes instead. I didn't want to give up but I wasn't about to push myself harder than I could go either.

And the home gym is really coming together! I got an autographed poster in the mail today from Jenny Lynn compliments of DH. Unfortunately he didn't realize that the name that showed up was his because he paid with his paypal account so it's made out to him, but it's the thought that counts and seeing her poster on the wall in my gym will really motivate me on slow days. I also got my buffmother tanktop in teh mail so after I shrink it down to size I'll take my before and after pics for the contest in it. :D

Fake it till you Make it Friday

Yay! Its finally friday, I'm free again...I love that song. :D

CD 4, weight 130 Mood: positive



I finally got some good sleep last night. I hate it when I don't sleep well. If I don't sleep well, then nothing goes right. But I went to bed at a decent time last night, slept deep and felt rested when I woke up and only slightly sluggish. It took some effort but I got in a workout today. It's Fake it till you Make it Friday. As in had no energy to start but pretended I did until I actually did feel energized. Sometimes that's all you need. Pretend you are raring to go and eventually, you will be!

Today was a strength day since I missed my last one. It's my second week of boosting, so definetly a medium intensity week. Started off with 10 minutes of pilates from the Pick your spot Pilates DVD. I've always loved that particular DVD...lol. Got in a decent medium intensity core workout. I felt it but it didn't make me feel like hurling. That's next week!

Push ups: narrow pushups 3x10

Pull ups: 3x10 The first three were straight pull ups! No mods! When i started this last week I couldn't even do one straight pull up so I'm excited about that. Feeling it now though.

dips with feet on SB: 2x10

Plank: 2x30s (getting much stronger here)

Sumo Squats: 2x10 ((held on to PP bar helped balance alot))

Bench Hops: 2x10 able to jump higher than before!

Supermans on ball 2x10 Loving these.

tomorrow I'm hitting the gym for the treadmill. I wanted to run on the track or bleachers, but my gym boss died so I can't time the intervals. :(

I also looked up the dates for the shows I want to do this coming summer so I know when I need to get super serious. May 21 and June 26. So if you're gonna be in Louisiana then, let me know!!

On a positive note, I feel very loved right now. I checked my mail today and found a plaque from the Heidelberg PWOC ((protestant women of the chapel)), my bible study group from Germany. It reads

: We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the Gospel of God, ut our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us. 1 Thessalonians 2:8" and they all signed the back. Just a positive thing tha tmade me feel very loved and appreciated today.

Day 5~ Terrific Tuesdays

CD 27: w: 130 Attitude: hanging in there.

Kind of tired today, but muscling through it. Almost got a good breakfast in...lol. I ate my eggs and drank my tea, but had to answer the door when the movers came with my washer and dryer. Well in that time Benny jumped up and gobbled up all my blueberry oatmeal! I might have had a little more get up and go otherwise. But my get up and go got up and went. Right down little man's throat..haha. Today was an ab/cardio day. This time at home.

SB Knee ins: 3x8 ((I'm getting further and further on my toes in the starting position))

weighted SB crunches: 3x10x10

SB Oblique crunches 3x10 (squeeze at the top! make it worth it!)

And hanging knee raises. 3x8 (dh bought me the ab straps when he got my perfect pushup).


I had intended to do some steady state cardio on the elliptical today. But I seriously couldn't find anything to watch on my laptop to keep me interested. If I'm doing HIIT then it's no issue, I can just get on it! I'm only concerned with living through the next minute. But with SS I HAVE to have something to keep me busy while I'm doing it or I'll get really bored and want to give up. SOO, I had fun with netflix on my xbox 360 instead. If you have a 360, you can stream dvd's over netflix right onto your tv. So I checked out their selection of workout DVD's for instant download. It's the answer to DVD boredom! Why spend money on DVD's that you won't use for long because they bore you after a month or so or don't do anything because you've adapted? Stream them!

So yeah, I found a nice 40 minute cardio dance dvd and went to town. I'm pouring sweat so I know I got a good workout in, got my heart rate up, and was not bored. This won't replace my SS cardio permanently, but it is nice to switch things up now and then. Besides, it was time I learned to do a step ball change. :)

Day 4 ~ MOTIVATED monday

CD #26 Weight: 131 Mood: Tired but accomplished

Mondays are generally manic, but I'm preferring to think of this one as a motivated monday. It's been a crazy weekend, the first weekend off school for this school year, DH came home from NY and the babies, well they're babies. So as you can imagine this morning was hard to wake up, and the house looked like a tornado had rolled through it! DH I had full on intended to get my WO in this am, but I woke up with the chills, feeling sluggish and tired and wanting desperately to hit the snooze button. I know enough by now to listen to my body when it's telling me it needs extra sleep. I spent the AM doing my flylady weekly home blessing and my morning routines and got the house in good order. Then when the babies were down for their naps I fit in my WO. Now the older kids are home and everything is done until dinner, so I still can relax and help them with their homework and spend some time with each of them. I don't know that I would have been as motivated to get everything done if I hadn't listened to my body and taken that extra bit of rest after the kids were on the bus and before the babies woke up. Moral of the story? Listen to your body!! It's the best guage there is.



Mondays WO: Bodyweight Strength Training

Pushups(m) 3x10 I'm focusing on bringing my hands in closer so that they're under my shoulders.

Pullups (m) 3x8

Dips with feet on SB 3x8

Planks 3x30s ((no mods this time! yay!))

Sumo Squats: 3x8 (I may start holding on to my PP for balance since I keep tipping over!)

Bench Hops 3x10 ((Singing I hate Plyo the whoooole time))

SB Supermans 3x8



Tomorrows plan: Abs and SS cardio on the elliptical for 40m. I did intervals yesterday and the next cardio day I'll do intervals again.

Day 3 - Super Sunday!

CD: 25 W: 131 Mood: Accomplished!

I know I said that I would take sundays off, but DH came in from NY yesterday ((he's been away at a school for two weeks)) so I took yesterday off instead to spend some quality time with him. I didn't sleep well last night ((no, not because of that! Shame on you hussys! That was earlier in teh day..haha)) so I didn't get started right away this am. I felt better this afternoon so I went to the gym to get some cardio in on the treadmill. I only have an elliptical at home so if I can use different equipmt.ent or run outdoors I will. I just have to save that for days DH is home, namely weekends. Treadmill

I did 30 minutes of intervals on the treadmill and some ab work, both came from the AB special from Oxygen. When I subscribed they were gonna send me the fat loss special but were out. Which is awesome since I already had that one and had been hunting for the abs one anyway. But back to the point. I read that sometimes when people put their ab workouts last, they tend to be so tired hat they don't put very good effort into it or quit easier, and this is me for sure. So I did my ab work first and had great results! I made it through the whole set and didn't give up! I did ball work only this time.

Knee ins - 3x10

SB Pikes - 3x8 ((big improvement on these!!))

SB Skiers - 3-8 ((also improved)) these are like knee ins only you bring your knees to your sides instead of the front.

Eccentric crunches- 3x10

jackknifes with SB - 2x5 These are killer for me. You pass the ball from your hands to your legs and back again.

I finished up with 30 minutes of intervals ranging from 3 mph to 7 mph, 1 minute sprints and 2 minute walks. I was so proud of myself because I had so much energy it was crazy! I'm boosting right now so I know that its only going to get better. I remind myself that the more I follow through, the easier it's going to get!

And as a surprise, I came home and found out that DH had put together my homegym for me! The elliptical and the bowflex are put back together, and we're discussing getting plate racks and DB racks for all of our other stuff. Now to decide where to hang our autographed poster from UFC 99 and my motivational pics. Have I mentioned what an amazing guy he is today? Because he really is. I'm so glad he's home!

Day 1 ~ Fabulous Friday

CD 23

W: 132

BF: 24.2


Ugh. Body fat is back up. But I'm not looking behind, only forward. This morning started out kind of rough. I could barely sleep last night. ((Vicious cycle. I was up all night on wed. night babysitting for a friend who had to go to the Eroom, so I slept in late yesterday. )) Gettin up was hard. Even harder was not going back to bed as soon as the older kids were off to school. But I wore my workout clothes to bed so I wouldn't have an excuse. Not to mention it's much better to show up at the bus stop in my workout clothes than in my jammies..haha. I had to push myself through my workout because I really wasn't feeling it today, but I said I was starting today, so I got started and put that Perfect Pullup through the paces. LOVE it btw. Pull ups are crazy hard for me and I'm not making any progress on the machines at the gym, but this one is really helping me build that muscle slowly. I can actually feel them.

modified push ups 3x8

Modified pull ups 2x6, 1x7 ((modified similar to smith machine pull ups))

tricep extensions 3x8 ((also on PP. Awesome machine for bodyweight exercises))

Plank 3x30 sec.

Sumo Squat 3x8

Bench hops 3x10

supermans 3x8

I'm still boosting so I opted to do this as straight sets rather than in a circuit fashion. And I'm reminding myself that my feeling icky is just my hormones. I'm not a lazy cow who ought to just give up, I feel like this before my cycle EVERY month! And in a few days, I'll feel amazing and ready to conquor the world again. And I can hold out for a few more days! I am STRONGER THAN MY CYCLE!