Weekend Workouts -April 20 and 21

It was an absolutely beautiful weekend in Alabama. Cool and sunny, just the way I like it. On Saturday morning, I hit up my favorite Zumba class. I love Zumba, and I love the calorie burn from it even more. After I got home, I worked in the yard for a bit and then headed to town for a mani/pedi.
Today, I took advantage of the beautiful weather and went back outside for a walk/jog. According to mapmyrun.com my walk was 4.31 miles and took me a little over an hour. Pugsley went with me. He is getting better and better on these walk/jogs.

After I got home, I worked for over an hour on the Zumba competition song. (My zumba studio is doing a student competition where we choreograph a song of our choice, and the instructors will choose one to add to the playlist.) Whew. I still have a lot of work to do on that!

I wish everyday could be the weekend :)

Workout April 18

Today's workout was supposed to be Zumba Toning class. Unfortunately, I was the only person to show up for class. The instructor and I both thought that the predicted bad weather was what kept everyone at home. I had been very excited about class (because I don't always get to go on Thursday), but when I got home the thought of doing a DVD instead was less than appealing. Honestly, I contemplated skipping the workout altogether, but already skipped a workout on Tuesday (because of a unexpected family dinner). I decided to take a chance on the weather and headed out for a quick walk.

My walk was right at 30 minutes and the heart rate monitor registered 277 calories burned.

April 17 Workout

Today was beautiful, and I had to take advantage of it's beauty.  I hit the pavement again for a 40 minute walk with massive hills. The heart rate monitor said I burned 388 calories. I should have headed to the gym after work for strength, but I just couldn't wait to get home and walk in the sunshine. I love these longer days. During the winter, it is dark when I leave in the morning and dark when I leave the library for home. I enjoy winter, but I love the SUN :)

April 15 Workout

I struggle with not know what to post. When I started my blog back up earlier this year, I posted a weekly review of my workouts and my weekly WI. Then I felt like this was very boring. Now, I am going to try to do daily updates of my workouts. And see how that goes.

*Warm Up with .25 miles on the treadmill

*Strength-
3 sets of 12 bicep curls 20lbs
3 sets of 12 tricep pushdowns 50lbs
2 sets of 12 assisted pull-ups
2 sets of 12  assisted dips

*1 mile on elliptical 9:17 (My intention was to run a mile on the treadmill, but they were all full.)

30 minute walk outside at home. HR monitor showed 270calorie burn for walk.

Weigh In

Last week's weight- 200

This week's weight- 200

Change: No Change

I am very happy with this weigh in because my eating has been very rocky this week. On Friday after my early WI, hubby suggested Chinese food for lunch. I agreed, and while I didn't go overboard, I knew the sodium was crazy high. Then on Monday, we had crazy storms most of the day. I had taken the day off work, and had lots of big plans for the day that got scraped with the weather was so bad. The power was off most of the day, and because I had planned to grab groceries that morning I had nothing in the house and ate cheezit's for lunch.. UGH and then because we still had no power, we went to a small diner for dinner and I had a burger. On Wednesday, a Mom at the library brought me a dozen freshly baked Snikerdoodles. I had every intention of just bringing them home for my hubby, but lost all sense and ate TWO cookies on the way home. 

In total, there are 21 meals in a week plus snacks, and I only had three slip ups, but I try to keep my food in better check. 

My workouts were good all week, but on Monday with the storms and lack of power, I skipped my workout for the day (two rest days for the week). 

So all in all, I was very happy to stay the same at this WI. But Next week I plan to kick butt and make it into the 190s :)

Oops...I forgot.

I forgot to post last week's Week In Review Post. Overall it was a good week. I exercised 6 days including Zumba, a timed run, WATP DVD workouts, and strength.

This week, I am looking for a new training schedule. I am thinking about following Hal Higdon's Novice 10k schedule. Have you guys done this training program? I think I can work it nicely into what I am already doing :)

Weigh In- A Day Early

Today I am posting my WI, because I have 99 girl spending the night at the library with me tonight! Tomorrow I may not even remember my name, much less remember to WI :)

Last week's weight- 201.5

This week's weight- 200

Change:-1.5

 

Happy about a loss after last week's half pound gain!