Mountain Climbers

500 Mountain Climbers - 5:47 - 9 seconds off from last week, pretty good.  Mountain climbers are arm burners, that's for sure.  Here's a video showing how to do them ~


Mowed the lawn too, so that was a little bit of active "rest" cardio I guess, and had to move around the play sets and trampoline during that process, giving a bit of resistance training.  It's a holiday here in Utah, but we're not doing too much to celebrate, just enjoying a nice lazy day with everyone at home.

Planks and Block Run

Did my planks today, most of them 1 minute, but did do a 2 minute center plank and yoga table on the 2nd round.

Held a wheel for.... 1:04!  Improved on that really quickly, from :35 to :55 to a minute.  My old record was 1:30 I think.

Did around the block runs again too - the counter clockwise improved a lot - 2:44, so that was 11 seconds off.  Did that one first, then a shorter break than last time I did the run, so my clockwise time was about the same - 2:50 (was 2:51 last time, last Thursday).  And that was it for today.  Still pretty sore and tight from Saturday's deadlifts, going to stretch a bit before bed.

3 Miles

I'm totally sore from the deadlifts on Saturday.  And not just my hamstrings but my shoulders are too, which hasn't ever happened before.  I guess just from holding those two 30 pounders.  

For today I thought I'd try to just to a jog/walk to try to loosen myself up.  Joseph went with me.  He was doing "high knees" as we started out cause I was just so slow, he had to do something to up the intensity apparently.  (I guess he's even more competitive than I am...)  He was nice to kinda slow down for me.  But on the last bit of the run which is uphill, I told him to go ahead and run if he wanted to.  I thought he'd wait for me where we started, either at the corner or at the church.  He wasn't at the corner.  I went back up to the church, he wasn't there either.  So I went back to the corner and headed home.  Sure enough, he was home.  So much for going running "together!"  I waited to do it at the end of the day cause he didn't want to do it in the morning (I just have to go when the sun is down or before it's up.)  But next time I think I'll just go on my own since we kinda did it on our own anyway.  Atleast until I'm able to keep up with him.  But maybe that opportunity is gone now that he's a young man.  He's a speed demon.  

12 mins of planks tomorrow and lots of stretching.

200 Deadlifts

Yesterday was an "active rest/recovery" day, I did lots of cleaning around the house but no workout.  Today I was ready to go.  So first I did my morning routine of weigh in (159), then oil pulling during my skin brushing routine, then off to my closet for my workout.  

My main exercise course was 200 deadlifts with two 30 lb weights, with a little bit of other stuff mixed in with it, my routine looked like this:  

50 deadlifts in 2:10 min.

1:30 plank rotations in 6:00 min.

50 deadlifts - 1:55

1:30 plank rotations - 6:00 min

50 deadifts 1:59 

quick 15 second breather

50 deadlifts (arms burning and took a few pauses for my hands) 2:37 min

Then straight into a wheel, and considering that my arms were already wasted, I was pleased with the :54 time.  (Might do wheel again tonight and try to make 1:00)

Then I did a handstand for :30, again, my arms were wasted and shaking - 

So there is my about 20 minute workout for today.  I might join Joseph on a jog tonight, but I told him he'll have to be patient with my slow time, especially since he's such a speed demon now.  We might do a 2 or 5 mile run, or maybe just a few sprints around the block, we'll see how late it is before we're able to go and what we're feeling up to.

Around the Block

Did a run around the block tonight - my time for a counter clockwise run was 2:55, then I took a quick breather and did it clockwise, time 2:51.  I am out of breath and sweaty and will have to get my lungs used to breathing heavy like that.  My average time pre-pregnancy was about 2:30 - from May of last year my best time counter clockwise ws 2:27, clockwise 2:23 (clockwise makes it slightly downhill at the end of the lap) - so that's what I'm aiming for, we'll see how long it takes me to get there.  :)

Upper Body Eccentric Workout

This morning I did an eccentric upperbody workout (as taught in the book Smarter Science of Slim) -

I did 4 muscle groups - 6 reps of each exercise:

Chest - Push Ups: go down and hold for 10 seconds, up, then down again hold for 10 seconds, etc - repeat the hold 6 times, takes about 1:20.  I was able to do the first 2 reps on my toes, the rest on my knees.

Shoulders - Did a one arm press - took a 30 lb dumbbell and raised it with both hands, then slowly lowered it for 10 seconds with just the left arm, repeat 6x, then did the right arm.

Bicep Curls - held two 20lb dumbbells and did a curl up, slowly lowered it down for 10 seconds, repeat 6x.

Tricep Extensions - held two 15lb dumbbells as I layed down on a mat, extended out, then lowered to 90 degrees and held for 10 seconds, repeat 6x.

Then tonight I also did a wheel for 55 seconds, really was pushing myself, and then I did 12 minutes of planks in 2 rotations of 1:30 for each of the 4 plank holds, so 2 rounds were 6 minutes each, stretched after the first round

~ Update ~ it's the next day and I can definitely feel that workout, my arms are evenly sore all over.  Amazing what a short workout will do - that upper body workout was less than 10 minutes.  It really doesn't take a lot of time to exercise.

2 Minute Planks

Did some planks yesterday, finished them off today - yesterday, get this, I held a side plank on each side for TWO minutes!  The most I've done before was 90 seconds, so I was super proud of that.  Then yesterday after I did the mountain climbers too I figured that was good and I'd finish the planks today, so today I did a 2 minute center plank and 2 minute table, then did one more circuit of 1 minute of each plank to finish off the 12 minutes total.  

I also did a little cardio circuit today - this 2 minute circuit 5 times:

• 1 minute march or dance in place
• 30 jump lunges, then finish off the minute marching again

The 30 lump lunges was killer.  I could do 15-20 okay, then the last 15-10 my legs were burning.  But that seems to be a good home version of what Jon Bailor would consider an eccentric cardio workout since I have to stop after 30 seconds (Smarter Exercise FAQ #6).  I hope to get an exercise bike sometime though.