Feb 26 - Mar 3

Monday - Holly's 5 minute flow at 5:30, 6:30 - Dantette May warm up and beginner and intermediate abs, 7:30 2.15 miles in 28 minutes, good affirmations and workout this morning, got the week started off right. Did 10 let downs throughout the day every hour
Tuesday - Holly Jan 2018 Workout of the Month
Wednesday - DM Warm up and Beginner abs, 2.25 miles in 31 minutes, did 6 one minute sprints, also doing 10 let downs today
Thursday - 5 minute flow, then did a yoga DVD, "Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss" with Suzanne Deason. Also did a center plank for time 2:22 and walked to and back from school with the elementary girls for parent teacher conferences, cause I didn't have a car (I was murmuring, but I'm better now)
Friday - Feel good flow, 2.10 miles in 30 min and I did five 70 second sprints during that walk/jog. Held a left side plank on my hand for 60 seconds! Left side was strong, then did right side, was struggling and shaking and bad form most of the time but did 60 seconds on my hand. Something happened to my right shoulder a few weeks ago, it's not very strong and hurts during some exercises, I'm wondering if I've been laying on it wrong in bed. I've been trying not to lay down on that side the past month, hope it gets betters. Also doing ten 30 second let downs throughout the day, 7:13 am and I'm ahead of schedule, I've already done 6.
Saturday - 60 min of yoga and stretching in the morning from 7:30 - 8:30. At 7:30 pm I did a Danette May warm up and then this repeat workout from Jan 17th - 3 rounds of the following:

• 10 right leg forward backward lunge with knee up
• 100 mountain climbers
• 10 left leg forward backward lunge with knee up
• 100 speed skaters
• 30 deadlifts with 2/30 lb
• 100 high knees

Round 1 was 9 min, 2 and 3 were 10 min each, finished off with 100 more mountain climbers. Broke a good sweat!

Feb 19 - 24

Monday - DM warm up and beginner and intermediate abs, then 2 miles in 30 minutes, did six 70 second sprints, also jumped off the treadmill and did a total of 10 let downs in between the sprints and walking.
Tuesday - DM warm up and beginner and intermediate abs, then checked the EJC Workout Vault and did the January Workout of the Month, which was two circuits. Circuit 1: 5 reps each of: Deadlifts, Figure Staker Pose, Sumo Squats. I did 6 rounds in 8 min. Circuit 2: 5 reps each of ball press and overhead, power up push up, back rows. I think I did 4 rounds of that in 7 min.
Wednesday - more than a couple of interruptions during the night, thus I did not wake up with a spring in my step. Told myself  just had to walk, so I didn't warm up or do abs today. I did end up being able to do four 1 min sprints in the last 10 minutes of my treadmill walk. 2.1 miles in 31 minutes.
Thursday - Danette May warm up and then this EJC workout - Do it Super Sets:

• A1 Curtsy Lunge 10x ea A2 Sprinter Jumps 8x ea repeat 3x rest 
• B1 Kickstand Bent Over Row 8x ea B2 Hip Thruster 10x repeat 3x rest 
• C1 Downdog Knee Drive 8x ea C2 Child’s Pose Push Up 10x repeat 3x rest 
• 4 Minute Sizzler Sit Through Band Jacks

Instead of that 4 min sizzler I ended with Danette May beginner abs and half of the intermediate before Daniel interrupted me and climbed on me and wouldn't let me finish.
Friday - treadmill cardio - 2 miles in 27 minutes, did 5 one minute sprints (fourth sprint was 80 seconds, almost killed me)
Saturday - Active rest, 10 let downs over the day

Feb 12 - 17

Monday - Danette May warm up, beginner and intermediate abs, 2 miles in 26 minutes with six 70 second sprints, plus I did one pull up today! plus 5 let downs
Tuesday - DM warm up, beginner and intermediate abs, then 8 rounds of the following:

• 5 burpees with push up
• 10 dumbbell swings - 30 lbs
• 15 weighted squats - 2/15 lbs
• 20 jump lunges

First round was 2 min, but only did 4 jump lunges, rest were step back. I think it is well nigh impossible to do jump lunges after weighted squats. So for the rest of the rounds I had to take a walk around the room and shake it off, then I was able to do 20 straight jump lunges, those rounds were 3-4 min.
Wednesday - DM warm up, beginner and intermediate abs, then walk/sprint on treadmill, did four 79 second sprints, went 2 miles in 27 minutes. Happy Valentine's Day, I ate too many treats.
Thursday - DM warm up, beginner abs, then this Bodyrock workout - Day 3 of 100 day challenge:

• 21 reps of assisted pull ups, push ups on toes, chair dips
• repeat those exercises but 15 reps each
• repeat exercises with 9 reps each
• repeat exercises with 6 reps each.

That is a major arm blaster hopefully I'll be able to use them (my arms) today cause I need to wash dishes and vacuum. Ended with intermediate abs, then prayer& affirmation and stretching.
Friday - DM warm up and beginner abs, then 30 minute walk, went 1.92 miles. Waterfast all day yesterday, continuing today until date night. I'm cramming to try meet my anniversary weight goal, ha.
Saturday -

Feb 5 - 10

Monday - 6 am this morning. started with Danette May's warm up and Abs for Beginners - then 30 min on the treadmill with 4 one minute sprints, 2 miles in 26 minutes.
Tuesday - Danette May warm up and abs for beginners, then 5 rounds of the following:

• 100 mountain climbers
• 25 static lunges left
• 25 static lunges right
• 20 push ups on toes

Wednesday - Danette May warm up and abs for beginners, then 27 min on treadmill - 1.5 miles, did four 70 second sprints, plus four 30 second let downs
Thursday - 6:40 am: Danette May warm up, abs for beginners, and abs for intermediate. Then did:

• one 30 second let down - strong the whole time
• 60 reps of clean and press with 2/15 lb dumbbells
• one 30 second let down - feeling strong
• 60 reps of chest fly on ball with 2/10
• one 30 second let down - 15 strong, 15 holding on
• 60 standing shoulder circles with 2/5
• one 30 second let down - 10 sec barely on holding top, rest of time barely holding on
• 60 tricep chair dips straight leg
• one 30 second assisted let down, my arms are about spent
• 60 back flys on ball with 2/10 lbs
• 20 sec assisted let down, 10 sec hang - woo! yay, I'm done 8:15 am

Friday - Danette May (DM) warm up and Beginner abs, then 27 min walk with six 1 min sprints, 1.6 miles
Saturday -  DM warm up, DM Beginner Abs, Intermediate Abs - 25 min total, then stretching and a few hand stands throughout the day

Don't Give Up On Me

Quick thought - in my EJC zoom conference call this morning, I gave a plug for the current album that I listen to every morning when I exercise - Wonderful Wonderful by The Killers. The Man is always my warm up cause it just makes you want to get up and bust a move. That song is about Brandon Flowers and how he used to feel when their group first started out, that he didn't need anyone's help and he knew everything, that's what he's said and what the music video shows. Anyway, song #3 on the album is Rut, which he has said is about his wife when she was struggling with suicidal thoughts. The chorus line says "Don't give up on me, cause I'm just in a rut. I'm climbing but the walls keep stacking up..." When I first heard it, before I knew what it was about, it made me think of my husband and his business. "I'm doing my best to fill them but the cracks are starting to spread.... I've done my best defending but the punches are startin' to land...." My husband has been trying so hard for so long to get it going, but after each crack/punch/problem he fixes or overcomes, there is another usually even bigger wall in the way. It's so hard, but as the song says "I'll climb and I'll climb, and I'll climb and I'll climb, I'll climb and I'll climb" Ugh, it just doesn't end and probably won't until we're dead, so keep climbing.  

Then I also thought about how I'm in such a rut with feeling discouraged sometimes, esp during PMS, and I know it's hormones, but I just feel like giving up, so recently as I listened to Rut on a treadmill walk, I was looking at myself in the mirror that's in front of my treadmill and was talking to myself, and I was surprised that I got a little teary as I told myself "Don't give up on me, cause I'm just in a rut" and I also thought of this facebook video that I shared earlier by Truth Bomb Mom about the things we tell ourselves - 

https://www.facebook.com/littlethingscom/videos/1012553822287323/

I wouldn't tell those things to my 5 year old self, and I'd call out anyone who WAS saying that to little kindergartner me and tell them to stop, and guess what self, that little girl IS still ME! So call 'em out and stop and shut up those mean and negative things in my head. Which came full circle in my head back to the EJC and the Courage Challenge, where Holly taught about acceptance and that we need to accept ourselves and talk to ourselves and we would talk to a child - with support, love, and encouragement. So, now I've put a picture of my younger self there by my treadmill mirror, to remind my current sometimes overwhelmed self to say good things to my little 5 year old cute self and encourage her on her goals and dreams. Don't give up on me!