on the bike

(oops! this has been sitting as a draft for 2 weeks...)

I did manage a 15 minute bike ride with my kids. Son #1 rode his bike and son #2 rode in the bike trailer. I need to acquire a second 'hitch' attachment for the 'trailer bike', and see if #2 is able to ride it.

I Ran!

When I woke up, I didn't want to get out of bed. However, being late means my son is late for the bus which means I have to pack up his brother too and drive him to school. Too much work. So I dragged my sorry butt out of bed and got son #1 out the door.

Now for son #2. Pirate day at preschool. He won't wear his bandana. Fine. I get myself ready for the gym, even though I really don't want to go. My house cleaners arrive and I get out the door finally. Son #2 wants mommy to stay at school with him. 30 minute later I manage to sneak out and head off.

Once I'm child free, I come up with 20 different things I could do instead of go and workout. I could go out for breakfast (I haven't eaten). I could shop. I could ... just suck it up and go to the gym. I bought a granola square to eat on my way into the locker room, and save half for after.

Once I'm upstairs at the weight room, I check out the program Jen wrote up for me. Hmmm. I'll have to decipher it later.

I walk for 12 minutes on the treadmill, trying to get my heartrate higher than 65%. The only way is to run. And I really don't like running on a treadmill. So I head to the track which circles the weight room.

I ran 1 minute / walked 1 minute, eight times. That was enough. I walked for another few minutes and headed out.

I'm not as tired anymore.

Counts as 12 (walk) + 8 (walk) + 16 (run 8) + 5 (walk) = 41

Rowing challenge

There's another rowing challenge. Our virtual team rows as many meters as possible from March 15 through to April 15.

So I have a reason to get rowing again.

Swimming again

So today I got back in the pool. My triceps were objecting. They thought the water was too thick today. I did about 20 lengths in about 20 minutes. That was enough.

I'll be heading to the gym tomorrow.

120 - 20 = 100 minutes to go this week

Cardio today

Today I did cardio, since Jen hasn't finished writing up my new weight workout yet.

I did 30 minutes walking on the treadmill, followed by 2000m on the rower (11:26.9 min). Then I did 2 laps of the track and headed out.

It didn't even occur to me to stretch. Duh.

Me and my trainer

I had a one hour session with a personal trainer today (which ended up lastin 90 minutes!). The intention was to consolidate my 2 weight workouts into one, and replace some of the free weight moves with machines - since I tend to skip the free weights, but do all the machines.

I used a bunch of different machines that I've never used before. It's amazing what they've created to replace free weight moves. Jen (the trainer) was very good about making sure that I was using the right muscles properly. I think she took one look at me with my large stomach and large butt and decided that she was going to make me smaller.

One machine that works the shoulder blades is still killing me. Ow. I must have pulled something. I was doing weights to fatigue, not exhaustion. Well, that fatigue caught up with me at about 4pm. I lay on the couch and napped for 2 hours. I can't even remember the last time I needed a nap.

She's going to write it all up for me and it should be ready by Friday. So I guess I'm doing cardio on Thursday.

Swim (not!)

Monday, I was lazy. I didn't swim. I didn't even take my son to his lesson. We were late getting organized to head out and it just didn't happen.

Finally!

I swam on Monday for 750m in about 24:xx minutes (PR!). That counts as 25 units (round number!).

I made it to the gym on Thursday. I knew it was going to hurt.

So I walked for 20 minutes on the treadmill. Then I rowed for 1500m. I waffled about doing some weights as I walked around the track for a lap to cool down from rowing.

Is there any reason I couldn't do weights today? Nope. So I fished out my workout sheet from the filing cabinet and did one set of most of the machines. I reduced the weight by 5 pounds on some of the machines. Just moving the 5 pound weight seemed like lots of work.

One set was enough. I skipped the stretching and core work (bad girl!), and left.

So, that counts as 20 (walking) + 20 (rowing) + 10 (weights), for 50 units plus the 25 swimming for 75 out of 120 for the week. I'm behind. I should make a concerted effort to catch up over the next few weeks.

I have swimming today, and a personal trainer session for one hour on Tuesday. She's supposed to help me consolidate my 2 workouts, and change some of the free weights to machines (which I'm way more likely to do).

Slacker

Slacker girl returns!

The last 2 weeks have been too busy, and I've missed out on workouts.

Week One: Swimmer boy had a cold, so we skipped the pool Monday. I helped out at preschool on Tuesday, and missed my own workout. Thursday we picked up Grandma from the airport, and both kids were off school, and I missed my workout.

Week Two: Monday was a holiday, so no lessons. Tuesday, I had an appointment, and had to drive Grandma back to the airport. Thursday... hmmm.... Oh yeah. My son demanded I stay with him at preschool (unusual), and I had a bunch of stupid errands to do that actually got done since I was kid-free.

So two full weeks of no workouts. Not good. This week is back to the usual routine.