Killer 600

I doubled up today - had to take advantage of having the kids home to babysit Natalie, although she was sleeping while I did my workouts today, so hopefully she'll be nice to me during the week and I'll be able to keep up with my workouts.

I did 90 second planks for 12 minutes.  2 rounds of :

• 90 second left plank
• 90 seconds right plank
• 90 seconds center plank
• 90 seconds yoga table

Then I did a Killer 600 workout in my closet. Yes, my closet is my gym. It was a slightly modified version of this bodyrock workout - I wanted to quit after 20, then thought I'd atleast do 40, then after finishing the 40 I figured I was almost there, come on, 1 more round... and I did it!  Do 3 rounds of the following:

1. Burpees (w/o pushup)
2. One leg push up - alternate
3. jumping lunges
4. single leg deadlift right
5. single leg deadlift left
6. crunchy frog
7. squat with front kick alternate
8. yota table - leg to sky pulse
9. superman lat pull - toes up
10. lunge back, hop w/knee up

(Love her tone arms!)

It took me 39:32 and I was a drippin' sweat, good job me!

Blah

It's like I either exercise or I can clean or I can cook, but I have not yet figured out how to do it all - atleast not since the kids started school. Blah. I don't get post partum depression, or haven't yet, but each year I get post-school depression. Takes me about 2 months to recover. Around Halloween I'm good cause by then it feels like it's passed quickly and perhaps I'll survive till Christmas and if I make it till Christmas then I think I can survive through the spring too.

Today we cleaned and on Friday I went grocery shopping and planned out dinners (I got 2 weeks ready! go me!) so I didn't exercise yet today and I didn't get it in yesterday. I shall do something before my head hits the pillow though. I'm going to do something simple, probably 500 mountain climbers and planks. Will update and log it tonight.

Catch Up

I was in a bit of a slump last week, but still got in a few workouts although I didn't log them here yet, so:

Tues 8/20 - no workout
Wed 8/21 - nothing again, but I did vacuum up glitter. That's about how my day went.
Thurs 8/22 - after hitting bottom, ready to reboot, did 400 lunges around the house as I held Natalie
Friday 8/23 - nothing
Saturday 8/24 - 500 mountain climbers, 1 sprint around the block (counter clockwise) - 2:27
Monday 8/26 - 12 minutes of planks in 90 second sets
Tuesday 8/27 - Upperbody eccentric workout: chest -

1. chest - pushups
2. triceps - superman hold with arms back holding 8 lb dmbls
3. biceps - superman hold on back with palms up, same weight as with triceps
4. back - Superman t-hold with 5 and 8 lb dumbells
5. didn't do shoulders

Then at 8 pm i did a 20 minute run with six 30 second sprints.

Then today - Wednesday 8/28 - 400 lunges around the neighborhood as I held Natalie. We both got sweaty, she got all sweaty in my arms. Plus I did a wheel for 1:07.

2 Miles & Planks

I did a 2 mile run this morning with 6 sets of 30 second sprints in there. Well, they were kinda sprints. I tried, really I did, but I'm sure people who saw me wouldn't have known I was "sprinting". But after my shower I started sweating again and I was red-faced for an hour, so I think I did some good damage to my fat cells.

I didn't do it in a fasting state though. Natalie had a hard time going to bed  a night of screaming by Natalie, I'm a little worried about not making enough milk for her?

For my planks, I did it them the Kristi Approved way from 3+ years ago by repeating the following 3 times:

• 90 second center plank
• 10 hip side raises left
• 10 hip side raises right

Cardio & Planks

Cardio today went like this ~ I did a 5 minutes warm up, and then 2 rounds of the following:

• jump lunges
• 180s
• high knees
• jump knee tuck

Did each exercise for 30 seconds followed by 30 seconds marching/jogging in place.  Then I was going to do 20 minutes of jumprope, but 90 seconds into it the baby needed me, so after 7 minutes of nursing her to sleep I did 12 minutes of 1 minute planks.

Cardio

Well, I did the cardio "stubborn belly fat" workout, here's how mine went:

5 minutes dancing to the Killers downstairs in the basement

Went running outside, did 5 intervals of 30 seconds sprint followed by 30 seconds walk.

Stretched for a minute, then did 20 minutes of jumprope and kicks and stretching in the backyard.

Planks & Wheel

1:30 planks today for 12 min, did them around 2 pm, the time seemed to pass quickly and I wasn't dying so that was nice, but I guess time to up the intensity a little.  Then tonight after my arms rested during the day I did a wheel, 1:20 so held it a little longer, working up to 2 minutes.

In the morning when I'm in a fast state I'm hoping to do a 30+ minute cardio routine the way this guy Shaun explains it here at Get Lean in 12, which if done in this way supposedly helps you burn more fat by producing "fight or flight" hormones, so I'm gonna give it a go.