Training Day 21

I know, I know, I slacked off big time last week posting on training - well pretty much anything for that matter. I was lazy, exhausted, and had been writing papers for school, so that kept me more than busy. Hopefully, I can do better this week!

Today, session 21, and I seem to still look like I did when we started. Everyone else seems to notice the weight loss and better tone. Everyone says something and yes, there are some days, when I take some nausea medication before looking at myself in the mirror - naked - that I can see the results, finally!

I am surprised I have stuck with it as long as I have, but boy, it has been a struggle some days - like today!

Today is the day I will never forget - Trainer K got me to run. OMG. Yes. Run. Um, can I say that running should be added to my Top 10 List of Things I Hate To Do. I’m going to need to update that list! I had to run in, short sprints, but it still was running. I had to do 3 sets and that was that. I survived.

So, running and sit ups on the bench - my two new best friends. I love’ em. Don’t ya love’ em?

So, after running, I will tell on myself, I did one of the dumbest things I could ever do in a crowded gym - not that! I had to do a jumping jack onto a step then into a squat. Well, come one people, not like I am extremely tall. I might be right at 5′2.

So, I am into some of the jacks and I am fatigued, my body just doesn’t feel it can clear another jump on the step and guess what? It didn’t. I went to jump on the step and SPLAT! Tripped on the step and went straight down on my face. I was stunned at first cause it hurt like a M-F-, but I had to laugh. What else was there to do?

So, humiliated but laughing, hurt face but thankfully not bleeding, I got up told my trainer bye bye, and left. That was the end of this session. There was just no way to carry on after that. So, the point to this - short people, like ding-dong-me, need not add a step.

TTFN ~

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training day 18

(I missed my post for day 17, oh well)

Oh yea, a weekend off to recover and back at it again today. I was also given a special gift from Trainer K today. Nothing fancy, just the reassurance that sit-ups will be my best friend, for every session, from now on!

Aren’t you jumping up and down for me? WHOO HOO! I am so excited knowing that I can’t freaking do ONE sit-up, but they will become my best friend! I’m crying, I am so happy about it.

OK, OK, sarcasm it me hard today when I was told that. I don’t hate it, but I hate it. So, from now on the end of every session will be conquering sit-ups, on a bench, inclined. That is my life from now on in training, but I will be there struggling my ass off to get them done.

Today’s session really wasn’t that bad until I got to the sit-ups. Lots of back work and lower core work, starting to really increase the strength in my core to help lose the belly that still is there, but sliming down.

Overall, I worked hard and sweated my butt off and feel like I did a hell of a job today. Around a hundred more of those sessions and I should be good to go! Everyone says they can really see a change. I have yet to see any physical change in me, but I don’t mine not noticing. I am getting healthier.

Trainer K wants me to try a Plyo class. WTF? Yea, I said that too, but Plyo explained to me is basically cardio in large movements. Well, that is the best explanation you are getting from me. I know some of Plyo has been strategically worked into my training, but could I tell you what I have done. No. So, if I get a chance, I guess I will try me out a class.

TTFN ~

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Training day 16

Training today was not as fast paced as past sessions, but still packed lots of bang.

I started with a little jump rope action to get my heart up and that, as you know, is not one of my favorites. Trust me, jumping rope is not like riding a bike. This is only my second attempt to use the jump rope and I still have not gotten into a rhythm using it.

Once my heart was up, Trainer K had me going. Today I did some back and core strengthening on a machine that I have no clue what it is called, but you bend at your hips over the padding and then come back up. I was dying on my second set!

Then, using the same machine, I did the same, but for my sides instead of centered. Oh yea, it works. Works good! My lower back is killing me, but I also don’t isolate my lower back when doing daily tasks, so it’s going to hurt. Not a bad hurt, the right kind of hurt. I also know that as my back gets stronger these will be easier to do.

Today was a new thing for me, I worked on bench pressing. No, I don’t know what I can bench press, I didn’t look. Trainer K put them on, but the first set of weights was WAY too light. After three sets, my trainer was still adding weights to see what I could handle. Eventually, I did put in some struggle, which means I found the weight she will use next time. Still don’t know what it is.

The good news though, although within two weeks my weight has not changed, I have lost 2% body fat, YEAH ME!!! Plus, my dehydration level is higher, so I am drinking more water which is great! I just need to increase and get it up about another 10%. Water log!

Today was a more calm session, but with a mix of conditioning and weights, so I was put to the test. Some things are getting easier, but I am meeting new challenges all the time.

TTFN ~

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Training Day 15

Here we are again. Another day, another workout, and I have to admit today was better. Yes, still a little sore from Wednesday’s workout, but that is to be expected. Trainer K even reassured me during our session today that I would expect possibly another day of some soreness, but it will work through.

With my session today, Trainer K let me off the hook on the intensity level due to our last session, but not with the workout. We worked my core again today, but instead of the fast pace movements with the stability ball and medicine ball, she let me work on the circuit machines so I could have a bit more control.

Plus with the range of motion the machines give, I think it helped to stretch out my back a bit more. I do hate the machines for one thing - they take too much time to change them out. The flow with free weights and the individual items really helps me to move quickly to get more in with the short time frame I have.

Anyway, it was a good work out, but I will feel it tomorrow. Might as well prepare myself for it. Plus, my trainer wants me at pilates tomorrow morning, not kickboxing. Although, she is letting me decided if I want to stay for the kickboxing class. Although I have had some pilates mixed into my sessions, I have never truly had a pilates class. This should be interesting.

So, basically today was an easy day that I was very grateful for. I just know that she is going to have something in store for me tomorrow. Ut oh!

TTFN ~

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Training day 14

Normally I make this post on Tuesdays, but since my training was postponed until today - Trainer K didn’t have her head on yesterday - I am making it today, and unfortunately today, I feel like I let me trainer down.

I’m not usre if she was just testing me with what I did today and honestly none of it was bad, just foreign to my non-working body. Simple things, all back strengthening, but i felt like I was struggling so much that I was stopping more often then I should have.

Basic weight lifting, not hand weights and actual bar today, plus sprinting, then running, lots of squats in variations, and some lovely jumping jacks. So, nothing that seems overly excessive when writing it down, but all things my body has not done in a LONG time so very strenuous, and just not getting with it.

Today’s training was just not a good example of what I can do and I am a bit upset with myself. Trainer K seemed her usual happy self and she had someone waiting to train after me, so I really didn’t get to talk about how she felt it went. Her reply is, "Always good Dannie," everyday - even if it did suck!

Well, I will go in tomorrow and do the treadmill since it is my off day and then I will go back at it on Friday and hopefully can give her a better day than I gave today. At least give myself a better day then today. If I felt like it was bad, then it was bad.

Well, it’s over and time to get on with the rest of today. Enjoy!

TTFN ~

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Training Day 12 & 13

OK, I know that today is my 13th training session. My trainer swears it was my 12th. I know I am right, but instead of arguing over a day, I just let her have it. I don’t care, it’s just a number. Right?

So the last two training sessions have actually let me see just how much pain my body can endure and I just keep on smiling, oh, and breathing. Important to do that when working out. What has given me pain? Working out, duh, but more specifically, a jump rope and plain jumping. Yea, I admit, I got my ass kicked by a piece of plastic!

Having jump roped the last time in my life around the age of, oh, I don’t know - TEN - I was given a choice to either do power jacks, which I loath, or jump rope. Well, of course thinking I could kick jump roping with no issues, I chose the plastic string and proceeded to trip myself in mid air. I continued to do so apparently until Trainer K could no longer hold her composure and broke out laughing.

So, now on Dannie’s Top (soon to be) 10 List of Working Out Hates:

1. Lunges
2. Power Jacks
3. Jump Rope
4. Stair Climber - can’t forget this one!

See, still building that list, but you get the idea. These are things that seem so innocent and seem easy to do when asked, but performing is another story all together. A story that I will continue to be read, but at least it is out there. I hate them!

After the humiliation subsides, Trainer K wants some arms. So, I pick up the light weights for continual arm hell, and off to arm toning I go. I like working on arms for a bit because it gives my legs a break AND once you hit a certain age, it seems like there is more jello jiggle added to the underside of the upper arms. OK, K,K,K, I feel the burn. Oh boy, did I ever!

Right after the arm toning, she slides me into jumping, just like the tiny jumps for jump roping, without the rope. These are timed and not for like 30 seconds, oh no, these are for a minute at a time, 10 second recovery, another minute, recovery, and so on. Sure, it doesn’t seem like a lot, but it is when you are doing it and even more so when your legs are so tired and she keeps making you go. My thighs hate my trainer!

You know what is really bad, when you type your post up and your upper arms begin to feel it!

Enjoy your day! TTFN,

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