Here's a quick recap:
Thursday February 23th
I had the house to myself as Ben went to a friends place to watch the game, so I popped in my Rock it Out DVD and worked out with Shaun T.
"This rock-and-roll strength routine will shape, sculpt, and tone your new lean body from head to toe while it sends your metabolism soaring."
Fabulous! Just what I need!
I grabbed my 5 pound dumbbells and pushed play. It started out easy enough with a lot of jumping and ab work, and then they reached for the weights.
First it started with Sumo Squats - then after many squats, he lowered into one squat and held the pose while lifting the arms with the weights into flys. and more flys... and more flys... Then there were squats and flys, then there were leg extensions and flys, then there were more squat holding flys, then more leg extension flys with your legs and arms bent this time...
.... I actually stopped the DVD. I was whimpering. After about a 1 minute rest, I restarted it, and completed the set. then we switched arms - thank God!! I ended up pausing the DVD on that arm too... ouch!! I dont know why, but I wasn't expecting such a good workout! I like it though, Shaun T is awesome and fun, and my arms and shoulders were certainly hurting the next day!!
Friday February 24th
Alas, I missed my workout. We went straight from work to Ben's parents house, and didn't get home until about 10 pm :(
Saturday February 25th
Ben and I woke up to a LOT of snow, and luckily our neighbour had a snow blower and did our front walk, and our driveway for us so Ben could drive me to a shoot. Then once we got home again, the snow was all back, and Ben and I went out there with shovels and did everything, the sidewalk infront of our house, the front walk, the sidewalk that goes around the North, East, and South side of our house, our Deck, Our back sidewalk (we have a walkway through our yard), and then both our entire driveway, AND our neighbours entire driveway (as a thank you for the snowblowing earlier). ... It took us about an hour - and we were super sore after. THAT was my workout. It counts, the muscles were still sore the next morning.
Sunday February 26th
I had another shoot with Melissa, so Ben took me over there for 10:30, and picked me up at 5pm - it was a long day and both Melissa and I were exhausted. But while I was bad, and gave in to the couch and the Oscars, Melissa worked her ass off doing another Brazillian Butt Lift DVD - I'm proud of her... not so proud of me. I skipped my workout for today.
Monday February 27th
I made up for lost time and did a pyramid workout consisting of jumping jacks, pushups and squats in concession. I started with 10 jumping jacks, then immediately into 10 pushups, then 10 squats, then 9 jumping jacks... you can see where this is going. It only took me about 15 minutes to run through, but I was tired and sweaty by the end, and figured out that it was 55 of each exercise without stopping, and I'm happy with that!
Then Dinner consisted of chicken, and spinach salad, with a handful of homemade baked potato fries. Then we spent the rest of the evening making 13 dozen perogies. It was a good night!
Tuesday February 28th
So this morning, I finally weighed myself again - 207.2 Yeah. I was expecting that. weight and bloat has always been slow to come off me - and while Ben and I ate the same things in Saskatchewan, and we both came back about 2-5 pounds heavier, it takes him a day and a half to lose it, and me a solid 2 weeks! I just have to keep working at it. I know that what I'm doing is the right thing, my main focus is to not give up if I'm not immediately seeing results - which is a weakness of mine.
Tonight is Pump and Groove again, and I know it's going to be a kick ass workout - it always is! I just have to eat light for dinner tonight, so I am not dealing with the same bloat I had last week!
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