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Just A Brief Check-In

Posted in Life with tags , , , , , , , , on 12/04/2012 by DangerousDame

Hello!

I’m not dead. Yet, lol. It’s been, I don’t even know how long since my last post.  Sorry about that, I suppose, but life happens and sometimes, you just have to go with it.

I have been going with it.

Things are going well. I’m working out (generally this is the point people tell me I’m insane or I’m doing too much) a lot- as in, on three separate days I’m burning upwards of 1800-2100+ calories.  Not total, total would be like 6000 calories.  Not to sound calloused or rude but I have 3 professionals that see me several times a week and none of them have said anything. I’m listening to my body and I take breaks when needed.  I’m eating healthier and better than I ever have and I’m done obsessing with the scale because while my body is changing, that number on the scale is not.  Not an issue, I’m getting to where I want to be. I just have a LOT of muscle.

Things are still going with law enforcement. After this next appointment, I’m going to have to change my plans a bit and not go back to LA til June. It pains me to have to do this, but I’m starting a new job on the 18th and the store opens May 10th, 2 days before I’d planned to go back to LA.  I’ve come to the conclusion that I cannot be gone the weekend of the store opening and still expect to have a job or be considered to be kept on, so I had to rearrange.  It will give me more time to become physically ready, but I still hate putting things off because I don’t want to get into that habit.

I have a new niece :) She’s a 9 week old little munchkin kitten named Clowie (for the San Jose Sharks player…my sister is a HUGE fan) and she is just the sweetest, most adorable little thing ever. Except when she wants to get under the flywheel of the bike and try to get hurt. Then she gets in trouble (it breaks auntie’s heart to discipline her more than it hurts her).  My cat dislikes her (as she does every other cat) so that’s going well lol.

I think that about covers it.  Hope everyone is doing well!

Finding My Limits

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on 28/12/2011 by DangerousDame

Between the stress and the bs and everything I’m dealing with, I was pretty thankful for today’s workout.

However…There are times that I push myself past the point where my body can handle it. Again, today was one of those days. But I got a lot of the stress out and did well. I’ll feel it tomorrow for sure though.

I know lots of times our mind convinces us that we can’t do that. We can’t push harder, go further, do more. Tonight wasn’t that at all. Workout looked easy enough – 400 meter row followed by as many rounds as possible (AMRAP) of the following: 15 sit ups, 12 push press (17.5 lbs dumbbells), 10 kettlebell swings (35 lbs/16 kg bell) and a fence sprint in 7 minutes, then a minute rest and repeat again for three rounds. See? Sounds easy, right? Once you get into it though, you realize that that row is going to tire out your quads (and it got to the point that my entire body was feeling each drive-arms, core, legs, glutes, everything), which you’ll need for that fence sprint and the push press. Your core will tire from everything, but those sit ups and kb swings will kill it. It was about halfway through the second round that my arms started giving out. I’d pushed so hard and far that the muscles weren’t putting up with it any longer. I kept going but I can’t even tell you how bad I wanted to trade in for a lighter weight. I caught myself a couple times trying to muscle up the kettlebell – another sign of fatigue. Either way, I made it through although I wanted to throw up after. Always a sign of a great work out ;)

Thank you, stress. Your presence pushed me past my limits. I’m still not sure if that’s good or not just yet.

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