Week 2 ~ TapouT XT

Day 8 ~ August 20th ~ Competition core
~ Im glad to say that I was able to complete at least 85% of the workout tonight! I was so happy, it felt good. Im starting to get more flexible but my stomach is still preventing me from doing a lot of good moves and my arms are till crap. Also Im starting to have issues with my knee again, I though it was healed and that i would not have any future problems but i was wrong. It really started hurting and just about buckled under me. I hope that maybe i can push through it and strengthen my knee or get to were I can wear my brace. Either way this isnt good.

Day 9 ~ August 21st ~ Strength & Force Upper + Ultimate Abs
~ With the two videos combined I was able to complete maybe a total of 80% of it all. My arms/shoulders are killing me and are tired. Im starting to be able to do a lot more of the moves although I can only do a few of them at a time but its still progress. Im trying to push myself but Im not wanting to push myself to the point of getting hurt which is hard. Tomorrow is the 10th day, will be redoing my stats and my ten day pics, not looking forward to that cause I know I havent changed much.

Day 10 ~ August 22nd ~ Plyo XT
~ DAY 10 STATS ~ 

• Weight 231.8
• Jeans 19
• Chest 45 inches
• Bicep 15 inches
• Waist 48.5 inches
• Thighs 22.5 inches

Can you see a difference? I can!

Day 10 of Tapout XT is complete, Plyo XT is complete! I was able to complete roughly 90% of it and was shiny and sweaty at the end. Feels good to be able to do more and more and more. Cant wait till Day 30 now.

Day 11 ~ August 23rd ~ Yoga XT
~ Gotta remember what Mike says during the dvd, yoga is all about me and what I can do. I need to slow down and not push past my limits, only do what I can do. I think I may have pulled a muscle in my arm/shoulder :(  its slightly sore and Im hoping its better in the morning.

Day 12 ~ August 24th ~ Legs & Backs
~ Forgive me if my updates become short, Im getting bored with my blogs again and I will blame my ADHD. I have not wanted to workout the past couple days but I make myself anyway, its been cooling off here and Im practically cold blooded so when i get cold its hard for me to warm up or want to do anything. I rather hate it. As for tonights workout, I did it but it doesnt feel like i did much cause we had to keep stopping and dealing the the boys. Ugg anyway I need to go curl up in bed cause Im FREEZING!

Day 13 ~ August 25th ~ Cardio XT + Ulitmate Abs
~ OMG Im so looking forward to not having to workout tomorrow! Cardio can BITE ME!!!!!!!!!  Im tired, cold, sore and just really irritable right now.

Day 14 ~ August 26th ~ Rest Day
~ I cant wait to get a pair of weighted gloves, some puzzle mats and a different yoga mat. I have also spotted a pair of yoga gloves and socks on amazon that would come in handy for a lot of the moves in all the workouts. I have also came to the decision that I will be starting AM workouts tomorrow and getting up at 4:30am and starting my workout at roughly 5am. It may take a week or two to adjust to the early mornings but at least that way it will just be me working out and I wont have to deal with a 3 year old and now 7 month old.
~ Im doing better on my eating now too. Im still eating the same stuff just watching my portions and calorie intake very closely and I have added in a lot more fruits and veggies and drinking at least 100 ounces of water a day.

Week 1 ~ TapouT XT

Day 1 ~ August 13th ~ Cross Core Combat
~ Wow I dont think Ive ever been so amazed at something lol i think for a good portion of the workout I stood staring at the tv like what the fuck lol. I didnt think it was going to be easy but I guess I didnt really realize just how difficult it would be. Im tired and going to be sore I know that for sure and Im actually looking forward to tomorrow.

Day 2 ~ August 14th ~ Strength & Force Upper + Ultimate Abs
~ You know when you look at those resistance bands you truly dont think that they can or will do much but boy can I tell you they can be hell! We had two workouts tonight and the first one I managed to do roughly all of it with hardly any slack thankfully but I will so be feeling it tomorrow lol as for the second video we made it less then half way through cause Trystan started getting very upset so we had to head home but there is alway next time. Oh and neither of us are looking forward to tomorrow.
~ Ok so we have been home for an hour and Ive been sitting on the couch watching tv roughly the entire time and I just stood up to let the cat in and I can NOT move I already hurt so bad from the workout lol ya this is going to be a long program.

Day 3 ~ August 15th ~ Plyo XT
~ My body is killing me! It literally hurts to move, Im sitting on the couch not wanting to move, not wanting to do anything at all. Im pretty sure I didnt make it through even half of the workout tonight cause my legs gave out on me and didnt want to hold me up anymore and then I started feeling like I was going to puke. I had to stop, with my blood pressure issues I will not chance passing out. Im so thinking I wont be moving in the morning and will be thankful that tomorrow is yoga.

Day 4 ~ August 16th ~ Yoga XT
~ If you would have talked to me about mid day today I would have told you I would be putting this program on hold and not doing anything for a few days. Well apparently I managed to get a pinched nerve in my back, every move triggered a powerful very painful pain shooting up my back and causing me to not be able to breath. It sucked, I have never felt so much pain and this is coming from a women that only a few days after having my first c-section stupidly stopped my pain pills and then a week after my second c-section walked an easy 10 miles. We completed the video tonight but it only took us about 30 minutes longer then what the video actually is lol Im surprised that I rather enjoyed the parts of the video that I was able to do, although my arms wanted to give in on my so many times and i did collapse to the ground a few times.

Day 5 ~ August 17th ~ Legs & Back
~ Ok made it through day 5 thankfully and I cant at least count on Dante to cheer me on since he stands in front of me say 'you can do it; do it, do it' lol We have realized that we need to invest in some interlocking mats to use cause our hands and feet slip a lot which makes its almost impossible to do some of the moves. I have also realized that for the time being I will be seriously struggling to complete the workouts cause my arms and legs can not hold my weight for very long and that my breasts are seriously irritating obstacles and I have never wanted to be smaller/flatter chested more then I do now :( Its sad that for the first time I can look in the mirror and really see what I look like and Im honestly disgusted by how I look and what I have let happen to my body. This is something I never wanted to happen, I never wanted to by the fat, obese mother that cant run and play with her kids, the mother that sits on the sideline cause she gets out of breath when she plays with her kids. I would love to hide in a corner eating my emotions away but that wont help. They only thing that will help is being proactive, getting off my ass and making a difference in my life. Next step is over hauling what we eat every day which I hope wont be met with a lot of resistance.

Day 6 ~ August 18th ~ Sprawl & Brawl
~ Week one of workouts complete!  It sucks that I cant do push ups, cant hold my weight with my arms, cant do full sit ups. That means most of the video I physically can not do and if I cant work through this mental block that is kill me I will probably not make it. I cant see any results, I can feel it but I cant see anything. Im fighting the urge to step on the scale, but its best to wait till the 10 day mark, 30 day mark and 90 day mark.

Day 7 ~ August 19th ~ REST DAY
~ Its rest day and Im surprised that Im not as sore as I thought that I would be. My upper arms are sore from last night, thighs are slightly sore too but thats really it. I know that Im more tired then I have been since we first brought Trystan home. We have been looking over the Workout Calendar and talking to others that are doing the program and the program only gives you 84 days instead of 90 days so we have came to the conclusion (alone with others that are doing the same) that we will add an extra 6 days to the program and make it a full 90 day program and pick either a full week to repeat or pick out a program daily to do.

Week 2 Calender:
Day 8 ~ Competition Core
Day 9 ~ Strength & Force Upper + Ultimate Abs
Day 10 ~ Plyo XT
Day 11 ~ Yoga XT
Day 12 ~ Legs & Backs
Day 13 ~ Cardio XT + Ultimate Abs
Day 14 ~ Rest Day

TapouT XT Starts Today!

And lets just say Im more nervous and scared then anything else. I was supper excited when it came in the mail and now that its time to start it Im scared. I have been lurking in the support group for it on Facebook and what some of the others that are doing it are saying about it I know I wont be able to make it through a full workout for some time but I guess as long as I push my self at it and do my best then thats all I can do and thats all that matters. 3 months/12 weeks/90 days. How ever you look at it, this will be a long journey and I hope it starts my new life that I need.

Week 1 Calendar

• Day 1 ~ Cross Core Combat
• Day 2 ~ Strength & Force Upper + Ultimate Abs
• Day 3 ~ Plyo XT
• Day 4 ~ Yoga XT
• Day 5 ~ Legs & Back
• Day 6 ~ Sprawl & Brawl
• Day 7 ~ Rest Day

Day 1 Stats

• Weight ~ 233.6
• Jean Size ~ 19/20
• Chest ~ 44 inches
• Bicep ~ 15.5 inches
• Waist ~ 49 inches
• Thigh ~ 24 inches

Its Here, TapouT XT!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes thats right we received our TapouT workout in the mail today and I was more excited then Tim was lol

The program consists of 6 workout dvds each with two workouts and a bonus dvd, one resistance band, one training band, food and nutritional guide, 10-day slim down guide, workout calender for the entire 90 days with room to note your day one, day 10, day 30, day 60 and day 90 weight jean size chest bicep and waist measurements, workout towel and a TapouT XT decal. 

Workouts: Ultimate Abs XT, Legs and Back, Ripped Conditioning, Cardio XT, Muay Thai, Competition Core, Buns and Guns XT, Sprawl and Brawl, Yoga XT, Cross Core Combat, Plyo XT, and Strength and Force Upper. The bonus disc is Strike Training. 

Workout Calender I will list each weeks schedule each Monday, each week consists of 6 days of workouts and a rest day. There are a few days each week were you are to do more then one workout and those will probably be the days that I kill myself lol but we will see. 

The slim down guide and food guide I will probably not be following at least not the first time through just to see how my body adjusts to the workouts before totally shocking it with a drastic and super healthy change in diet. For now I will eat the same things just more healthier portion sizes. 

So hopefully in 90 days I will be down a good chunk of weight and on my way to a healthier and more active life 

A New Beginning Will Begin Soon!

Ive debated on whether I actually wanted to make this post today or wait till later in the coming week. I have obviously decided tonight that I will write it. So anyway for the last I would say month Tim has been bugging me about this new exercise program that is designed by a MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter and has been wanting me to watch one of the infomercials about it. Well a few days ago I was super bored before bed and one happened to come on and it caught my attention. I was amazed at the stores I was seeing of people dropping weight and toning up that the next day I went onto the website and fell in love with it. Well after looking at how low the monthly payments for it were and then our budget I saw that it would fit into the little wiggle room that I leave each month. So today I ordered it and it would be the TapouT XT workout program. I wont get into much detail about it right now since its just about midnight here but its linked up so anyone that is interested can take a look.

Weight Loss 2012 Begins!

Okay so looking back on my old posts in the blog I realize that I never posted about my 'medical issues'. Well what happened was that last June I became pregnant with out second child. I continues to workout for a few months into my pregnancy and managed to drop down to 188 pounds (pre-pregnancy weight was 200). I discontinued workouts when I started having health problems in my pregnancy, namely blood pressure spikes that started to put my life and that of my unborn son's life at risk, yes son we now have two boys. Anyway it came to end at 34 weeks and 3 days with my second emergency c-section which I was still terrified about and grieving over but at least my son and i are both here. Anyway Trystan Lee was born January 27, 2012 weighing just under 4 pounds. He was on room air after 24 hours and got to go home after just shy of three weeks in the NICU.  He is strictly on breast milk be it straight from the tap or pumped and bottle fed and as much as the pump is taking a toll on me i plan on him having breast milk for as long as possible.  

Anyway back to me and my journey. I initially started working out again last month but messed up my ankle that I stayed off it mainly till a few days ago when we started back at the gym.  We will be going 5 days a week for at least an hour, i will be back at my old routine of cardio and strength exercises. I also have plans on in the near future purchasing one of the Beach Body programs and using that as part of my cardio, possibly will start with Chalean Extreme.  


Current Weight 232.4
Goal #1 is 175
Goal #2 is 150
Final Goal is 135


For when I reach each one of my goals I want some way to celebrate, to reward myself but Im not fully sure what i want to do. I do now that along the way I will need new clothes so that will not be a reward but I do want more tattoos but I think it would be slightly redundant to have a tattoo at each goal, or well maybe not. Something I will need to think about I guess, anyway I plan on making a post once a week updating on my progress and I hope to drop one to two pounds a weeks so fingers crossed I can do this!

Yes I know the date is wrong, should be 6.16.12 but Im not sure what happened to mess it up will have to try to fix  that.

Frontal view, stretch marks are bad 

Side view, i can still easily pass a pregnant

Been Awhile

Its been awhile since I have blogged and I kind of feel bad about it.  We have been trying to keep up with the 6 days a week and 5 am wake ups.  Now with Dante home and a medical problem with me that has arrised (not ready to talk about yet and may be a month or so before Im willing to) its been getting harder and harder.  Im getting in at least 3 days a week but I want to get back to 6 days a week.  Im sticking to the 45 minute walk, 30 minutes on a stationary bike, 20 minutes of strength and 30 minutes on an elliptical. 

With my eating and all things food related, Im not cutting things out of my day or 'diet' (well other then soda) but Im just eating smaller healthier portions and added in more whole grains, fruits and veggies.  Its also been extremely hard for me to stay away from chocolate but Im slowly cutting back on how much I eat. 

Last Monday Of The Month ~ Time To Set A New Mini Goal.

I wanted to do this soooo bad last night but I needed to wait till this morning when I weighed myself so I could set a reasonable goal for the month of July.  Well I now weigh 195.8 pounds, thats the lightest I have been since I was pregnant with my son back in 2008!  Anyway... So now that I now where I am roughly starting at for the month I can set my goal, if I go by loosing 1 to 2 pounds per week that would be 5 to 10 pounds to lose by August 1st (First Monday of the month). So I would need to weigh in at anywhere from 190 to 185 on the 1st of August! I would so love to be 175 by then but its not reasonably possibly nor would it be healthy to lose that much that fast.  In order to do that I would need to drop 20 pounds or 4 pounds a week, I guess it could be possible to do it a healthy way but I would have to work my ass off and eat mainly fruits and veggies which everyone knows I have to have a good helping of meat in my diet or I go insane lol. Anyway wish me luck cause this morning I started my first day of daily doubles! Although this mornings workout was cut short Im not too worried since we go back to night.  My workouts for this week will be as follows: 45 minute walk, 15 minutes on the elliptical, 60 minutes of strength, 15 minutes on elliptical. That will be done twice a day Monday thru Friday, Saturday I will only do a morning workout and next week on will be only morning workouts. 

First mobile post! May be short

So this is my first mobile post and i chose this blog to do it in. This may be super short cause of that. Anyway i have been thinking of taking advantage of my last week without my son. I plan on the early morning workout six days a week but also im thinking of for this next week of doing it in the evening also.  Im not sure if i really want to but just for a week it may be doable. It may even help me more and jumpstart what i need my body to do even better. So anyway just thought i would throw that out there.

Week Coming To An End

Its Friday evening and tomorrow is my last workout for the week! Im so looking forward to it.  It means I can sleep in Sunday lol tomorrow there is an activity going on here, its the Kinzue reunion (for those that dont know Kinzue in an old logging community that shut down long before I was born, its where my grandfather was raised and my moms boyfriend lived). Anyway my mom is coming tomorrow so I may not get my evening walk in tomorrow and probably will not be eating very healthily :(  Im sad about that but I have to do my best to stay on track.  Anyway I pushed myself hard today on the elliptical and on my second 15 minutes I managed to break 200 calories burned! I promised myself I would break 200 before the end of the week and I did it, I want to try to break 200 on both 15 minute sets tomorrow.  It will be great for me and help me out alot if I can.  I also keep adding more and more strength exercises to my workout and Im now doing 15 minutes on the elliptical, 60 minutes of strength and 15 minutes of elliptical.  Oh well its better for me cause muscle burns more fat and calories.

Correction This Is My New Plan LOL

Ya so I have dumped some parts and added to other parts of the plan I talked about on Monday.  First with the elliptical ~ I stated last time that I would be doing two 30 minute intense workouts on it but have cute it down to two 15 minute intense workouts with a goal to burn at least 200 calories per 15 minutes before upping to either a longer time or higher resistance.  Second my strength training ~ I had my typical routine that I had been sticking to since I started working out but I have been slowing adding more strength exercises to were I am up to training for 45 minutes a day.  Today's morning workout marked half way for the week, or 3 our of 6 workouts.  Im glad that I am finally sticking to this and all I keep saying to myself is that I will be better when I reach my goal.  I also think I will start posting pics of my scale weekly too but have to wait till Monday for that.

New Plan

So I have yet to be able to fully stick to a plan for an entire week.  So I will make it easy from here on out. This morning was a 5 am wake up with us out the door by 5:45 and at the gym a little later then I wanted at 7.  We walked two laps around town for a total of 1 hour and 15 minutes then I did 15 minutes of high intensity on the elliptical and 30 minutes of strength training (also our afternoon walk of 45 - 60 minutes).  So I have decided to do the same thing everyday, 6 days a week till its no longer effective and then I will change it up.  So from here on out I will get up at 5am, drink my protein shake at 5:30, out the door at 5:45 for a 45 minutes brisk walk, then hit the gym at around 6:30 for 30 minutes of high intensity on the elliptical, 30 minutes of strength training then another 30 minutes of high intensity elliptical.  Fingers crossed I stick to this plan.

Well Oops LOL

Ya so with starting back up with daily workouts I figured I would have no problem doing them since its now in the am and Im more then anything a morning person.  Anyway yesterday was more then anything a cheat day for me and today is looking like being one too.  Yesterday we got up early like planned but I cut my gym workout short since we were to be heading out of two.  Only got in the 45 minute (roughly) walk around town but then only did 30 minutes on the elliptical.  I figured with all the walking I would be doing around Costco, Wal-Mart, Safeway and varies other places I would be fine. I also figured that I would have no problem eating good.  Boy was I wrong on that.  I ended up going almost 1000 calories over my goal to eat and felt like shit by the time we got home. 

As for today since niether of us went to to bed before midnight last night I shut off my alarms and we slept in and I have no plans on working out today.  Im doing my best to watch what I eat but we brough home junk food and my willpower sucks.  Anyway I do feel good knowing that I have lost some weight and Im so hoping that I can finally keep it up and stick to it.

Finally AM Workouts Start!

This morning was the first time I have worked out in a week and my first AM workout!  I set my alarms on my phone for 5:15am, 5:30am and 6am, got out of bed at about 5:20 and was out the door about 6am.  Tim got up and we stuck Dante in the stroller and reclined the seat the entire way for him to snooze.  Went for a brisk 30 minute walk around town and at about 6:45 was in the gym and managed 30 minutes on the treadmill at an incline of 4 and speed of 3.5, but only got in 11 minutes on the elliptical cause Dante was getting restless.  Went for our evening 45 minute walk also so did pretty good today.  Im actually surprised how well I have felt for most of the day but I can tell I/my body is extremely tired from the early morning.  I so cant wait for my body to adjust.  I readjusted my alarms for 5am, 5:30am and 6am, so maybe that will be better, just I will just have to wait and see. Oh and I have practially tossed my workout plans, I more or less freestyle it now.  I still follow a general plan but not something strick now.  I plan on Monday/Wednesday/Friday to be my treadmill/strength training/elliptical days and Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday to be my pure cardio days with treadmill/stationary bike/elliptical days.  Anyway lets hope it does some good.

Been putting off new posts

I have so been putting off making any new posts cause what I want to write just all seems to be excuses now.  I havent worked out since Monday except for today and all I did was walk around town for 45 mintues.  Anyway there are two reasons as to why I havent been going to the gym in the evening with Tim.  One is that Monday evening when we were down there when we were finally alone I fought with Tim.  When we started out going down there it was to be our time, the three of us as a family doing something together.  But now there is this kid that has started going down there and Tim has practically took him under his wing and was total ignoring Dante and myself.  It was being left totally up to me to watch our son, which is so not easy when you are trying to workout.  So I blew up, I yelled and was pissy for the rest of the night and when the next night came I told him he could go alone.  Well the other reason is cause we got an email from on of the ladies that is kinda the head of the gym saying that people were complaining about Dante and that we were not watching him and that he was going to get hurt.  Well I know exactly who it is and well she is a bitch and I honestly dont think she likes me anyways.  Well first off Dante was always watched, yes he played on the equipment but he is 2 1/2 years old! There is no way we would be able to keep him from playing on or around the equipment.  Anyway I was pissed cause everyone knows that we do not have the extra cash to pay someone to watch Dante for the 2 hours 6 days a week and there is no way my grandfather would be able to watch him.  So I no longer want Dante in that gym.

So I decided that I need to keep up with my workouts so I was going to start going in the mornings at 6 am but I just cant make myself do it.  Wednesday mornings I slept through my alarms lol and this morning I got up at 5:30am and went into the bathroom and about 5 minutes later crawled back into bed.  Part of the reason for this morning was cause when I woke up part of my bottom lip was swollen and had/has my slightly worried, also its that time of the month and I just dont feel good. 

On the up side last week I lost almost 4 pounds, that more then I was aiming for and I am still tracking and recording what I eat. 

Two Days In

So I am two days into my official workout plan and I feel dead.  Yesterday wasnt that bad, all I did then was walking and strength training but today is what got me.  Today was my first day of the C25K program.  Im actually surprised though that I was able to make it through it, I actually found that jogging the easier part of what I did today.  It was the damn elliptical that got me the most.  I really never used one for the purpose of exercising, I would usually just play around on one and never set the resistance or anything on it.  Well anyway Im so going to relax in a nice warm bath and let my muscles relax and hope that they dont hurt too bad in the morning, although my neck already hurts.

Lovely!

I was gonna post this earlier but got busy with something else.  Anyway today was my weekly weigh in and right now I could kill my scale!  I gained 0.2 pounds, ok ya I know that aint much but I killed myself last week on the treadmill.  Oh well its another week and another chance to drop weight and workout harder.  Anyway Im about ready to head to the gym for a couple hours and start my nine week plan (see previous posts).  Im so gonna be dead tired when Im done and gonna be sore as hell tomorrow but I have to push through it in order to get to where I need to be.  It so gonna totally suck for the first week or so but its for the best.  Wish me luck! (Im gonna need it)

My Nine Week Work Out Plan

Week One (May 16 - May 21)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 2 speed @ 3.5

Shoulder Press 3 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Crossover 3 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Lat Pulldown 3 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Preacher Curl 3 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 30 minutes

Elliptical 15 minutes

Leg Extensions 3 sets of 10 @ 40 lb



Week Two (May 23 - May 28)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 2 speed @ 4

Shoulder Press 3 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Crossover 3 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Lat Pulldown 3 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Preacher Curl 3 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 45 minutes

Elliptical 30 minutes

Leg Extensions 3 sets of 10 @ 60 lb



Week Three (May 30 - June 4)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 4 speed @ 3.5

Shoulder Press 3 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Crossover 3 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Lat Pulldown 3 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Preacher Curl 3 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 60 minutes

Elliptical 30 minutes ~ increase resistance

Leg Extensions 3 sets of 10 @ 80 lb



Week Four (June 6 - June 11)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 4 speed @ 4

Shoulder Press 4 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Crossover 4 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Lat Pulldown 4 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Preacher Curl 4 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 60 minutes ~ increase resistance

Elliptical 30 minutes ~ increase resistance

Leg Extensions 4 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Week Five (June 13 - June 18)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 6 speed @ 3.5

Shoulder Press 4 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Crossover 4 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Lat Pulldown 4 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Preacher Curl 4 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 60 minutes ~ increase resistance

Elliptical 30 minutes ~ increase resistance

Leg Extensions 4 sets of 10 @ 60 lb



Week Six (June 20 - June 25)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

 Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 6 speed @ 4

Shoulder Press 4 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Crossover 4 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Lat Pulldown 4 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Preacher Curl 4 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 60 minutes ~ increase resistance

Elliptical 30 minutes ~ increase resistance

Leg Extensions 4 sets of 10 @ 80 lb



Week Seven (June 27 - July 2)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 8 speed @ 3.5

Shoulder Press 5 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Crossover 5 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Lat Pulldown 5 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Preacher Curl 5 sets of 10 @ 40 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 60 minutes ~ increase resistance

Elliptical 30 minutes ~ increase resistance

Leg Extensions 5 sets of 10 @ 40 lb



Week Eight (July 4 - July 9)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 8 speed @ 4

Shoulder Press 5 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Crossover 5 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Lat Pulldown 5 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Preacher Curl 5 sets of 10 @ 60 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 60 minutes ~ increase resistance

Elliptical 30 minutes ~ increase resistance

Leg Extensions 5 sets of 10 @ 60 lb



Week Nine (July 11 - July 16)

Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Treadmill 60 minutes incline @ 10 speed @ 3.5

Shoulder Press 5 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Crossover 5 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Lat Pulldown 5 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Preacher Curl 5 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday

Treadmill C25K

Stationary Bike 60 minutes ~ increase resistance

Elliptical 30 minutes ~ increase resistance

Leg Extensions 5 sets of 10 @ 80 lb

C25K Program (Couch To 5K)

C25K

ONE ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging with 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes.

~ One ~ Two ~ Three ~

TWO ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then alternate 90 seconds of jogging with 2 minutes of walking for a total of 20 minutes.

~ One ~ Two ~ Three ~

THREE ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then do two reps of the following: jog 90 seconds, walk 90 seconds, jog 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes.

~ One ~ Two ~ Three ~

FOUR ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 3 minutes, walk 90 seconds, jog 5 minutes, walk 2 1/2 minutes, jog 3 minutes, walk 90 seconds, jog 5 minutes

~ One ~ Two ~ Three ~

FIVE ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 5 minutes, walk 3 minutes, jog 5 minutes, walk 3 minutes, jog 5 minutes.

~ One ~

Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 8 minutes, walk 5 minutes, jog 8 minutes.

~ One ~

Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 20 minutes with NO walking.

~ One ~

SIX ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 5 minutes, walk 3 minutes, jog 8 minutes, walk 3 minutes, jog 5 minutes.
~ One ~

Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 10 minutes, walk 3 minutes, jog 10 minutes.
~ One ~

Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 25 minutes with NO walking.
~ One ~

SEVEN ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 25 minutes with NO walking.
~ One ~ Two ~ Three ~

EIGHT ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 28 minutes with NO walking.
~ One ~ Two ~ Three ~

NINE ~ Brisk 5 minute warm-up walk. Then jog 30 minutes with NO walking.
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Add on to my earlier post

Well to add on to my earlier post I have been told that the best way to help lose weight and get healthier is to drink water and make sure you drink the amount that is right for your body.  The way to figure that out is to take your current body weight and divide that by 2, that number is the number of ounces of water that you should be drinking per day.  So if I were to use my weight from my last weigh in which was 203 and divide that by 2 that would equal 101.5.  I currently drink roughly around 80 to 100 ounces of water a day on average.  I know that for some the number they get will seem like a lot but really its not, I hardly notice that Im drinking as much as I am, and honestly since I increased my intact Im not as hungry all the time.  Yes the larger intake of water can be hard on your bladder but once your body adjusts to the increase it not bad.  I have also noticed that Im more relaxed, crave less and sleep better since I increased my water intake.