Man, where is the time going?? This is the beginning of week 3, and I feel like I am making a small step towards the overall progress I want to see...even if I can't step on the scale again. Yeah, not quite over the last weigh in yet, but I have continued to go to the gym, sweat myself stupid and burn those 500 calories - even if it takes 3 machines to do it! That's right, my short attention span has once again shown its ugly head and I find that working out on one machine gets tedious - so Saturday I did 3/4 on the elliptical thingy (the one with static handrails) and then finished up on the bike, then tonight I did time on the treadmill and then finished on the elliptical again...it is all about mixing it up.
Paul decided to mix it up tonight too and add a little cardio to my routine while working my whole body - guess he got bored with the upper and lower body routine. This meant doing something called a medicine ball burpie - which was actually quite comical since I froze every time I was supposed to jump my feet backwards. Now in case you don't know what a burpie is - let me break it down for you. (1)Put medicine ball on the floor between your feet while holding on securely with both hands (luckily the 16 pound round ball comes with handles - oh boy) (2) Jump your feet backwards (trying not to twist your ankle on the first one) so you are in formation for doing a push up with your hands still securely on the ball (3) Do push up while not tipping over while hands are on said round medicine ball (yeah going to skip that part for now thanks) (4) Jump your legs back in so your feet are by the ball (5) Stand up with the ball in your hands - but the ball doesn't stop at your waist - oh no, you have to lift it into the air and jump at the same time. Phew....now do that 14 more times without passing out, breaking anything, swearing in your outside voice or trying to skip numbers and hope your trainer doesn't notice (he does). Hoping I figure out what I did to deserve this so I can remedy it by Wednesday - before we meet again....
Joking of course...because it always feels great when I get home and know that I did it - that I didn't give up and I followed through. There were many other forms of torture tonight - in fact when I went to meet Paul he actually said "man I must have been mad at you" when he looked over what we were going to do over the next hour....hopefully he was joking....he promised more of the same on Wednesday too...can't wait :)
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i had no idea what a burpie was and quite honestly never want to experience it myself! soooooo proud of you CP - did I tell you that you inspired me to join the Women's learn to Run program at the Running Room? keepm at it - love you Mich
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