Breaking Free

Nicole and I are making our plan of attack, I love that girl, she helps me soo much.
OK!  So, she shared this video with me - 40 minutes long, but good stuff!



Part of our plan comes from the above video at 24:20 - 30:20

Breaking Free:

1. Start with a healthy breakfast (fiber!!!)
   
2. Use foods to hold blood sugar steady (beans, greens, lentils)
   
3. Dieters: Use the Rule of 10 (your ideal weight x 10 = the calories you must eat to keep your metabolism going)
   
4. Break craving cycles (focus on the time of day or of the month that is hard for you, low fat foods help you not have ups and downs of estrogen and cravings)
5. Have regular exercise and rest (you need to exercise or when you go to bed your body won't be tired which will lead you to not sleep well since adult's brains are usually still wired when they go to bed)
   
6. Use social support (You and me, Nicole!  Anyone else out there?)
   
7. Take advantage of other motivators

This week I'm focusing on diet and stretching, and I'm going to revisit parts of Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover.  Great book, you can get it for 1 cent!  Woo!  Restrictive I guess, but also makes life easier, and since that's what I need right now, I shall find hope in the power of limited choices!  Fruit for breakfast, I got apples and kiwi, I'm set for the whole week, sweet (although I think Mel might have fed most of my pink lady apples to the guinea pigs, that naughty girl... I guess I'll find out in the morning.)

Lots of Active Rest

Saturday was busy, so since I had done such a long run Friday I took it easy with doing lots of yard work.  Sunday is always a day of rest.  Then again yesterday was busy - Corey just left for a trip to Chile and Colombia and I've given myself lots of projects to do while he's gone.  Yesterday we did the boys room and I was moving furniture and moving mattresses and a bunk bed upstairs, so, I counted it as an active rest day again.  So far today I've done a bunch of running around with errands and carrying the baby around the museum and animal farm at Thanksgiving Point.  Forgot that stroller again like I did at Disneyland!  Got to start remembering that again.

So, hopefully I'll get in a real workout today, but we'll see.  It takes me a few days to get in to the "Corey's out of town" routine, so we'll see how it does.  If I don't get in a workout, I'm atleast going to do more yoga stretching cause my shoulders are super tight, I need a massage...

6 Mile Run

My friend Adrienne is training for the Provo Marathon next month.  Today was her last long run as now she's tapering off, but still she had to do 20 miles.  3 hours.  Another friend and I were talking with her that we'd come and keep her company, so I ran 6 miles with her from 6:00 to 7, then Katie ran with her from 7 to 8, then she did the last hour on her own.  I let her take off after 3 miles cause I was slowing her down, plus my stress fracture in my right foot was starting to hurt, which is why I don't run much.  But it was still a great run and a good way to shock my body and jump start my fat burning for the morning.  :)  Going to look like this girl soon just to see what its like ;) 

Pictures of super fit girls like this that I think are awesome my husband doesn't care much for, doesn't think it's attractive.  My kids and I all agreed that this kind of body on a girl is just wrong and unnatural.  Yeah, that look is definitely not for me, (looks like a good workout tho, will write it down and give it a go).  So, if I get too ripped for his liking I guess I'll fatten myself up a little, but still I'd like to get here and see what I think of it.

ZWOW #18 - Chair Workout

Looks like this one wiped Z out, here we go!

5 exercises in a round, do 5 rounds for time

1. Burpee Step Up (and knee up) 5x right leg, then 5x left
2. Round Kick Back Lunge - 15x right leg, 15x left leg
3. Elevated Leg Lift Knee Tuck - 20 reps total alternating leg
4. Tricep Dip with Leg Raise - 30x alternating leg

Try to complete this in less than 30 minutes

Zuzana's score = 28:02
Video here
Ok, going to go kill myself with this workout now ~

Back.  My time was... 28:01
Seriously, it was!  Barely beat Z by one second!  I thought that was fun that I kept up with her.  :)

Here are my round times:
round 1 - 5:07
round 2 - 10:39
round 3 - 16:04
round 4 - 22:02
round 5 - 28:01

Did it in the back yard with 2 different chairs and a baby and a guinea pig on the grass with me.  I love body weight only at home workouts!

Avengers & Mountain Climber Fusion Workout

Did this this morning.  This is a fusion/combination of this Bodyrock Workout here and 500+ mountain climbers.  I didn't do all the Bodyrock exercises cause of lack of equipment, but #1, 2, and 3 that video link above:

Set your gymboss timer for 10/50 or just watch a clock and switch each minute (giving yourself an approx 10 second breather at the top of each minute) - making this a 16 minute workout

1) Push Up / Toe Touch Burpee
- Mountain Climbers
2) Pike Mat Jumps
- Mountain Climbers
3) Plank Jumps (2 jumps) and Bag Drag 


- Mountain Climbers
4) High Knees- Mountain Climbers
5) Push Up / Toe Touch Burpee
- Mountain Climbers
6) Pike Mat Jumps
- Mountain Climbers
7) Plank Jumps (2 jumps) and Bag Drag
- Mountain Climbers
8) Jump Tucks
- Mountain Climbers

PLUS!  Last night I held a wheel for 1:38, that is my world record time, I was quite pleased with myself.  :)

Amazing Yoga Transformation

Awesome and inspirational video showing the benefits of yoga.



That being said, I'm kinda off my yoga kick, not totally but just a little. This video inspired me to stick with it.  I think I'll do yoga at night.  I revisited ZWOW #14 this morning, Killers on my ipod again.  Took me 25:45, which is almost 2 minutes longer than last time.  I took longer breather breaks in between rounds.  Hoping I'm not sore for 5 days this time!

At Home Bodyweight Only Workout

I'm sore right between my shoulder blades from Saturday's ZWOW, feels good to know those muscles got worked.  I hold my stress in my shoulders/neck, and a chiropractor told me I need to strengthen my back, so looks like handstands should be part of my weekly workouts regularly.

This morning I did this workout that I found on Pinterest to the killers' awesome song Human (the beat is perfectly in time with my jumping jacks):

1 round took me 18:27 and that's all I did.  Does "Repeat 1x"  mean to do the whole workout 1 time or 2 times?  Do it one time and then repeat it 1 more time?  I thought it just meant to do it 1x, so guess I messed up there, but 18 minutes is a good workout, plus I did my sprint around the block - 1 lap counterclockwise took me 2:27, then did it again clockwise (makes it slightly downhill at the end of the lap) and that time was 2:23