15 OCT - Tuesday
175. Worked, managed animals until time to get Bailey. Ball lunges in all directions, 25 each side/ set. Push ups.
16 OCT- Wednesday
175.
Zunba class, 5 miles on elliptical, 1.5 miles on treadmill, .75 at 5.4.
17 OCT-Thursday
174- worked eight at Pima, only real exercise writing choreography for step, managed animals.
18 OCT- Friday
173
Taught Body Works, 1.75 on treadmill, 1 mile at 5.4mph.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
10-14 OCT
Well, I have been sick, so will try to get this all caught up...
Having been sick also means that workouts aren't nearly as hard, running has suffered too. I thought it was just allergies initially,
10 OCT Thursday
177-
holding on, but finally realizing I was actually sick, so I didn't work out, just worked and managed the animals. Realized I was definitely sick that night.
11 OCT Friday
178- rather to be expected when not working out, even though I really didnt eat anything. Taught body works, would have done cardio, but felt rotten so went home to bed for a few hours. Cleaned Glory's pen, managed animals.
12 OCT Saturday
177- considering how little I am eating, oh, well.
Taught Step and Body Works. Couldn't even get water down, taught with diet pepsi sitting on the stereo- pretty sad. Other than checking on Glory, all I did was cut out fabric and manage animals, cleaned Brahma pen.
13 OCT- Sunday
got up at 5, Checked Glory, went back to sleep until after 10.
175.
Sewed pieces together, worked on cleaning a bit, No workout, just no energy, but finally starting to get head to clear.
14 OCT- Monday
176
Taught step, finally got some water down. Worried about Glory and schedule, so went home. Cleaned kitchen, baked for 4H. Attended 4H, worked on sewing project, ate lots of eggs after evening chores.
Having been sick also means that workouts aren't nearly as hard, running has suffered too. I thought it was just allergies initially,
10 OCT Thursday
177-
holding on, but finally realizing I was actually sick, so I didn't work out, just worked and managed the animals. Realized I was definitely sick that night.
11 OCT Friday
178- rather to be expected when not working out, even though I really didnt eat anything. Taught body works, would have done cardio, but felt rotten so went home to bed for a few hours. Cleaned Glory's pen, managed animals.
12 OCT Saturday
177- considering how little I am eating, oh, well.
Taught Step and Body Works. Couldn't even get water down, taught with diet pepsi sitting on the stereo- pretty sad. Other than checking on Glory, all I did was cut out fabric and manage animals, cleaned Brahma pen.
13 OCT- Sunday
got up at 5, Checked Glory, went back to sleep until after 10.
175.
Sewed pieces together, worked on cleaning a bit, No workout, just no energy, but finally starting to get head to clear.
14 OCT- Monday
176
Taught step, finally got some water down. Worried about Glory and schedule, so went home. Cleaned kitchen, baked for 4H. Attended 4H, worked on sewing project, ate lots of eggs after evening chores.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
8/9 OCT 2013
Tuesday, 8 OCT 2013
177- getting a little better...but so far to go
Not much time for exercise. The allergies were bad, and I rushed from teaching, to meeting with the lead faculty, to racing up to pick up the feed order that was a day delayed, then worked with Bailey to unload and prep feed, and reload the car with everything for the market. I unloaded and watered while serving dinner. But that doesn't qualify as exercise! Tomorrow might not be down again...
Wednesday, 9 OCT 2013
178- as I suspected. Felt rotten, the allergies were really bad.
Took Bailey to class, and kept feeling worse, but after running errands and visiting with Auntie and the crew leaving on their hunt, I did get t the gym for 5 miles on the elliptical. Would have liked to run, and my feet barely hurt at all once I got moving today, but the allergies were brutal. We will see how it shakes out on the scale in the morning...
177- getting a little better...but so far to go
Not much time for exercise. The allergies were bad, and I rushed from teaching, to meeting with the lead faculty, to racing up to pick up the feed order that was a day delayed, then worked with Bailey to unload and prep feed, and reload the car with everything for the market. I unloaded and watered while serving dinner. But that doesn't qualify as exercise! Tomorrow might not be down again...
Wednesday, 9 OCT 2013
178- as I suspected. Felt rotten, the allergies were really bad.
Took Bailey to class, and kept feeling worse, but after running errands and visiting with Auntie and the crew leaving on their hunt, I did get t the gym for 5 miles on the elliptical. Would have liked to run, and my feet barely hurt at all once I got moving today, but the allergies were brutal. We will see how it shakes out on the scale in the morning...
Monday, October 7, 2013
6/7 OCT 2013, Sun-Mon
Sunday, 6 Oct 2013
179
OUCH! I knew I didn't exercise yesterday, but that was painful. I do feel all the pain and swelling though that comes when the hormones go crazy, hope to remember my nighttime progesterone!
Lots of outside chores, hauling water and dirt, got the planter going. Other than that, all I did was clean house and wander the market after church with the kids!
Monday, 7 Oct 2013
178
Better than yesterday, thankful since no true scheduled exercise yesterday.
Despite walking into the stereo at work this morning (I know, I know...) I did teach a class with a great bunch of steppers and got on the treadmill after for 1.3 miles, .65 running. I learned that 5.3 doesn't aggravate the hamstring, but 5.5 does. Going really slow with the distance, but feet aren't too bad, and I can walk .Trying to take it one day at a time.
179
OUCH! I knew I didn't exercise yesterday, but that was painful. I do feel all the pain and swelling though that comes when the hormones go crazy, hope to remember my nighttime progesterone!
Lots of outside chores, hauling water and dirt, got the planter going. Other than that, all I did was clean house and wander the market after church with the kids!
Monday, 7 Oct 2013
178
Better than yesterday, thankful since no true scheduled exercise yesterday.
Despite walking into the stereo at work this morning (I know, I know...) I did teach a class with a great bunch of steppers and got on the treadmill after for 1.3 miles, .65 running. I learned that 5.3 doesn't aggravate the hamstring, but 5.5 does. Going really slow with the distance, but feet aren't too bad, and I can walk .Trying to take it one day at a time.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Friday, 4 Oct 2013- Saturday, 5 Oct 2013
Friday, October 4, 2013
176- not bad for the lack of exercise Thursday.
Taught Body Works, then did a mile on the treadmill, .5 running over 5mph.
hurt, but not too bad.
Saturday, October 5,2013
176- glad to not go the wrong direction,
Busy chore and work day. No regular exercise. Charlie was home on furlough and wanted to "get things done". Hope I didn't undo the good from the week with the pasta dinner. We shall see...
176- not bad for the lack of exercise Thursday.
Taught Body Works, then did a mile on the treadmill, .5 running over 5mph.
hurt, but not too bad.
Saturday, October 5,2013
176- glad to not go the wrong direction,
Busy chore and work day. No regular exercise. Charlie was home on furlough and wanted to "get things done". Hope I didn't undo the good from the week with the pasta dinner. We shall see...
Friday, October 4, 2013
1-3 OCT 2013 Tuesday through Thursday
1 OCT 2013- Tuesday
177
Taught at Pima, had intended to stay late for cardio then get home in time to feed animals and load up for farmers market. Instead, ended up dealing with a work issue and barely checked scoolwork progress for the kids before loading up for the market.
2 OCT 2013- Wednesday
178- since no workout Tuesday, sort of expected
Got Bailey to class early so I could go teach body works (strength training). Wanted to run but in too much pain, so 2.5 miles on elliptical then back to get Bailey and feed and head home. Chores much of afternoon, and planning due to government shutdown.
3 OCT 2013- Thursday
178- hoped for better
worked a long shift, only did 100 BOSU squats. In so much pain had to lie down, couldn't stand up to finish pies until 3am.
177
Taught at Pima, had intended to stay late for cardio then get home in time to feed animals and load up for farmers market. Instead, ended up dealing with a work issue and barely checked scoolwork progress for the kids before loading up for the market.
2 OCT 2013- Wednesday
178- since no workout Tuesday, sort of expected
Got Bailey to class early so I could go teach body works (strength training). Wanted to run but in too much pain, so 2.5 miles on elliptical then back to get Bailey and feed and head home. Chores much of afternoon, and planning due to government shutdown.
3 OCT 2013- Thursday
178- hoped for better
worked a long shift, only did 100 BOSU squats. In so much pain had to lie down, couldn't stand up to finish pies until 3am.
Friday, September 27, 2013
Woke up at 177 again. Not bad considering the lack of a workout yesterday. But bad in general.
I taught Body Works(total body strength training) this morning, a really good class, great folks, but it wasn't cardio. Bailey and I had a lot to get done, and I was hoping to try running, so I only did two miles on the treadmill, .5 of it running. The hamstring hurt, but loosened up as soon as I walked again. The plantar fasciitis left pain, but lots of driving could just as well have been the cause, not to mention all that BOSU yesterday.
Got to get up early tomorrow and squeeze in intervals because the day is a bit TOO booked!
I taught Body Works(total body strength training) this morning, a really good class, great folks, but it wasn't cardio. Bailey and I had a lot to get done, and I was hoping to try running, so I only did two miles on the treadmill, .5 of it running. The hamstring hurt, but loosened up as soon as I walked again. The plantar fasciitis left pain, but lots of driving could just as well have been the cause, not to mention all that BOSU yesterday.
Got to get up early tomorrow and squeeze in intervals because the day is a bit TOO booked!
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Thursday 26Sept2013
Thursday, September 26th
Crazy day. 177 to start. Had to be training from 7am on, and stayed up really late baking Bunky cookies and sweeping before my husband comes home. Squeezed in between clients:
cable row: 50/10-60/8
lat pull: 50/10-60/8
close grip lat pull: 50/10-60-7
bosu squats: 125
not much, but when I got home, it was straight to farm chores, moving baby chickens around, cleaning troughs, helping Wyatt with a hen house that turned out to need to be disposed of, then made dinner and on to homeschooling for the evening. hope to do more, but we will see!
Crazy day. 177 to start. Had to be training from 7am on, and stayed up really late baking Bunky cookies and sweeping before my husband comes home. Squeezed in between clients:
cable row: 50/10-60/8
lat pull: 50/10-60/8
close grip lat pull: 50/10-60-7
bosu squats: 125
not much, but when I got home, it was straight to farm chores, moving baby chickens around, cleaning troughs, helping Wyatt with a hen house that turned out to need to be disposed of, then made dinner and on to homeschooling for the evening. hope to do more, but we will see!
Wednesday, 25Sept2013
Okay, still sick, and woke up at an annoying 178, but while Bailey was at Biology, I went to the gym, Kept the ramp height a little lower, the heart rate a little lower, but got in 5.25 miles, 600 calories.
Introduction
If you are looking for a blog with recipes and motivation, this is not it. I am not a smartphone person, I don't have apps to track it all, and somehow all of those things in my purse need to be cut down. Therefore, I am planning to use this to hold myself accountable so that I can quit worrying about everyone else's workouts, and use what I need to return to my fitness level I want and need.
I am a fitness professional. I help coach other folks into getting their wellness in order. But despite regular workouts and relative strength and endurance, stress, life schedules, middle age (yup, just admitted it on paper) and a hormone imbalance have my weight almost out of control. As I sit here typing this, I weigh 176 pounds. I am 5'6", and this weight is about ten or so pounds shy of what I weighed when I went in to the hospital to have our first child. Ouch.
I work really hard at fitness, I teach several classes a week, train in the gym, lift regularly so I keep myself strong, and fight the same issues everyone else does. As a military wife, I juggle lots- the small farm we live on, the children (now ages 11 and 16), a job teaching aerobics at a few local gyms, my job teaching fitness and training upcoming trainers at the local community college, my aunt in a care home in the city (my Mom is the POA, but auntie wanted this state instead of the one where my Mom lives), and whatever else life throws at me.
I grew up as a ballerina, with all the bad eating habits that dancers can have. I kind of thought that old dancers no metabolism thing wouldn't happen to me. Or if it did, I would figure out how to manage it when it happened. Yeah, I know, but the dance is a strong pull, and addiction of sorts for those of us who feel the dance in our blood. I went from that to training with the military, an injury that led to knee surgery, and becoming a fitness instructor/ trainer as I kept putting myself back together.
When my husband and I married in 1996, I weighed 128. I came back from our honeymoon at 126- he knows I need my workouts, so despite the eating out, we did a lot of hiking! I was soon pregnant with our first, and despite pre-eclampsia that was easy to come back from. My weight went through ups and downs with my health- one medications had me up in the 140s, then I took a full time job, just as 9/11 hit the country, and got pregnant the second time. I started the job at my goal weight. The job was fitness related- but a desk job. So it was a huge change in my fitness regimen. It felt like it took forever to lose the weight from the second baby! I was ranging around 140 as I changed jobs so I could be home more and my husband was not. I was back to working in a gym, on research, and my office was 5 floors up, so despite being around 140-145 again, I was running and lifting and teaching. But it was stressful.
I ended up driving the kids to town for school, and some bullying began. The stress as the bullying got worse, my husband kept travelling, and I kept adding to my list got harder. I ended up being laid off from a job, and took the time to get life in order- or so I thought. I had gone back to school, and things seemed great. But hten I started hurting all over, and the stress got worse with the bullies and the driving, and the weird people manipulating things and trying to mess with my children. I tried to be nice, I was exhausted. I got really sick, but was still needing to juggle it all.
With the pain and soreness getting worse, and finals to the second semester back in college, and getting up and going in anyway while sick, I gained ten pounds in less than a week.
The weight wouldn't go away. I got back to running, but hurt all the time. The doctor told me he didn't know, just take some pain pills. I started working at the college. Farm problems kept me up late, and I kept trying to be nice to the crazy people to make things work a little lounger. I gained another ten pounds in like a week. It felt like there were these little set points that would happen. There was surgery for ovarian cysts, and I ended up asking a nurse about other physicians, since I didn't feel like the doctor was listening. She recommended one, who turned out to find the hormone problem.
Now I am on natural hormones, and ten pounds went away. The stress got much worse, and we ended up pulling the children out to home school them. The ten pounds went back on. So now, here i am, working my way through writing it out. It isn't pretty, but I am going to use this, like we teach our clientele, to put it on paper, hold myself accountable, and move forward.
Here goes...
I am a fitness professional. I help coach other folks into getting their wellness in order. But despite regular workouts and relative strength and endurance, stress, life schedules, middle age (yup, just admitted it on paper) and a hormone imbalance have my weight almost out of control. As I sit here typing this, I weigh 176 pounds. I am 5'6", and this weight is about ten or so pounds shy of what I weighed when I went in to the hospital to have our first child. Ouch.
I work really hard at fitness, I teach several classes a week, train in the gym, lift regularly so I keep myself strong, and fight the same issues everyone else does. As a military wife, I juggle lots- the small farm we live on, the children (now ages 11 and 16), a job teaching aerobics at a few local gyms, my job teaching fitness and training upcoming trainers at the local community college, my aunt in a care home in the city (my Mom is the POA, but auntie wanted this state instead of the one where my Mom lives), and whatever else life throws at me.
I grew up as a ballerina, with all the bad eating habits that dancers can have. I kind of thought that old dancers no metabolism thing wouldn't happen to me. Or if it did, I would figure out how to manage it when it happened. Yeah, I know, but the dance is a strong pull, and addiction of sorts for those of us who feel the dance in our blood. I went from that to training with the military, an injury that led to knee surgery, and becoming a fitness instructor/ trainer as I kept putting myself back together.
When my husband and I married in 1996, I weighed 128. I came back from our honeymoon at 126- he knows I need my workouts, so despite the eating out, we did a lot of hiking! I was soon pregnant with our first, and despite pre-eclampsia that was easy to come back from. My weight went through ups and downs with my health- one medications had me up in the 140s, then I took a full time job, just as 9/11 hit the country, and got pregnant the second time. I started the job at my goal weight. The job was fitness related- but a desk job. So it was a huge change in my fitness regimen. It felt like it took forever to lose the weight from the second baby! I was ranging around 140 as I changed jobs so I could be home more and my husband was not. I was back to working in a gym, on research, and my office was 5 floors up, so despite being around 140-145 again, I was running and lifting and teaching. But it was stressful.
I ended up driving the kids to town for school, and some bullying began. The stress as the bullying got worse, my husband kept travelling, and I kept adding to my list got harder. I ended up being laid off from a job, and took the time to get life in order- or so I thought. I had gone back to school, and things seemed great. But hten I started hurting all over, and the stress got worse with the bullies and the driving, and the weird people manipulating things and trying to mess with my children. I tried to be nice, I was exhausted. I got really sick, but was still needing to juggle it all.
With the pain and soreness getting worse, and finals to the second semester back in college, and getting up and going in anyway while sick, I gained ten pounds in less than a week.
The weight wouldn't go away. I got back to running, but hurt all the time. The doctor told me he didn't know, just take some pain pills. I started working at the college. Farm problems kept me up late, and I kept trying to be nice to the crazy people to make things work a little lounger. I gained another ten pounds in like a week. It felt like there were these little set points that would happen. There was surgery for ovarian cysts, and I ended up asking a nurse about other physicians, since I didn't feel like the doctor was listening. She recommended one, who turned out to find the hormone problem.
Now I am on natural hormones, and ten pounds went away. The stress got much worse, and we ended up pulling the children out to home school them. The ten pounds went back on. So now, here i am, working my way through writing it out. It isn't pretty, but I am going to use this, like we teach our clientele, to put it on paper, hold myself accountable, and move forward.
Here goes...
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