Workouts – Week of Feb 9th

Gonna try a weekly log format since there is not much to log regarding my actual Jiu-Jitsu Classes.

Monday: Jiu-Jitsu – 60 mins

Tuesday: Jiu-Jitsu – 90 mins

Wednesday: Circuit Training

• Air Dyne 44 calories
• Medicine ball slams: 10
• Air Dyne: 33 Calories
• Medicine ball slams: 15
• Air Dyne 22 calories
• Medicine ball slams: 20
• Air Dyne: 11 Calories
• Medicine ball slams: 25

Tough -much harder than it potential sounds.

Thursday: Jiu-Jitsu – 90 mins

Friday: Training with Beth

Warmup:

• 10 mins walking on treadmill. 2.9mph holding water pipes.
• 5 mins stair master – lvl 4
• 40 x Squats – 45lb bar
• 40 x Swiss ball pushups

Circuit – Repeat x2:

• 30 x Kettlebell swings – 20lb kb
• 30 x Medicine ball bounce (hard 30lb ball)
• 15 x Medicine ball slam (soft 30lb ball)
• 15 x Medicine ball squat and throw (soft 20lb ball)
• 30 x Jumping pull ups

Cooldown:

• 10 x Ab wheel
• 10 x crunch and squat from slanted bench.

Awesome workout. The last item was pretty cool, to explain it a bit further you lie on the bench and roll forward like a crunch ( ie putting all the work on your midsection) but you then stand up. Then you drop into a squat and sit back down and roll back with the same crunch style action. Beth said eventually that will be done with all kinds of weight added. I think she was being nice as by that point I was dripping with sweat and probably looking like I was about to expire. Fun stuff I am very much looking forward to our future sessions.

Overall a very successfull week, I enjoyed 2 days of I think well deserved rest over the weekend

Weight Watchers

Well after my last small rant at life and myself dearest Pa came up with a suggestion, Weight Watchers.

My initial instinct was pfft, done that (many many years ago) bunch of crap, nasty processed foods, counting points ocd eek, but I heard him out and figured what the hell.

This might potentially be the best thing I did. The points thing is not triggering my OCD. I don’t have to weigh every single blasted lettuce leaf, just my non-veggies. Nothing is banned. Now with that said most of the elite nutrition systems poo poo WW because they don’t teach good nutrition. If you want to spend all your points on 100 calorie snack packs in a day you can.

And yeah I have seen a good chunk of that in the message board etc but you don’t have to eat that way. And even WW is now teaching ‘healthy guidelines’ which include plenty of water, fruits and veggies, lean proteins and healthy fats.. sound familiar?

I am applying all the healthy nutritious eating I have learned within the points structure and so far its working. Even with valentines day which included a trip to a japanese steakhouse and the ice cream parlour after I lost weight. I weighed in 2lbs down this morning which is fantastic. I am over the moon.

Granted I got in my 5 full days of workouts last week which probably helped a lot but it really showed me what I can do when I put my mind to it.

Speaking of which, Beth Rocks Friday night was a full hours session and she put me through the wringer I’ll leave that for another post but I felt real good this weekend that this plan works, I can see it will work, I just have to stick to it.  And on that score my beloved husband has decided I am going to stick to the plan 100% for 6 months and he is going to help me. I believe this currently involves unlimited tickling (which I hate) when I go over my points. And kicking me out of bed early to get extra workouts in to make up for the points.

I’m think I’m either going to be in awesome shape or divorced in 6 months