Three Months!

Woah, how did this happen?! It's three months until our wedding - I feel like just yesterday it was a year. Time flies when you're planning a wedding I guess.

So. Workouts. Let's get started.

Thursday's Cardio X left me with a bit of a crick in my lower back. I worked from home part of the time on Friday and then took it easy on Saturday. Icing and heating helped and by yesterday I was feeling like I could get a workout in and not hurt myself. Yesterday was a Kenpo day. I honestly thought I was going to like it better, because I love kickboxing. I think it's that there is a 20 minute stretch in the beginning when all I wanted to do was kick and punch. Once it got started, it was a blast.

I started today with legs and back, one of my favorites. Gunner still hasn't figured out what to do in the mornings when I'm working out for an hour before his walk. He thinks me stretching is petting time. When I run in place, he thinks we're getting ready to go. Eventually he just climbs back into bed and goes to sleep. Hard knock life for that one.

I knew that if I watched Downton Abbey last night, I wouldn't get to sleep until like midnight, so I recorded it. It's the two-hour season finale. I'll watch it tonight.

Already feeling the soreness in my butt and upper quads. It's fantastic.

Happy Monday!

Balentime's Day!



Secret campus gym.

Happy Valentine's Day! Or if you're Emily and you've been my valentine for years, Happy Balentime's Day!

Started off the morning with a Cardio X workout and a very creaky knee. It doesn't hurt or anything, but there's this loud popping. It's odd. And I hope it goes away. There's nothing like doing a side kick and hearing your joints cracking over Tony's corny jokes.

I got in a few more workouts last week. Ok, just one on Thursday. I knew there was a small room on campus with a treadmill, but I didn't realize it was actually a moderately sized gym room. I ran and did elliptical, and then sweat all over my school group in our meeting later that evening.

For lent, I'm not giving up anything this year. I'm adding six workouts a week. I'm a soldier when it comes to lent, I lock it down on whatever I'm giving up. Cheese, meat, chocolate, etc. I never look back. Which is ironic, because I'm sort of agnostic.

Anywho, six workouts a week. Today is one!


Brownies and Bond!

Hopefully this morning's cardio helped to offset last night's Valentine brownies. I have class tonight so Scott and I made dinner and brownies and watched Skyfall. Btw...I don't really understand the Bond movies. Except that he attracts a LOT of crazy hot women, and never seems to die.



Red Lobster

Last night Scott and I had an impromptu date night at the Red Lobster down the street. We had a gift card and who doesn't love those crack cheddar biscuits. Sue me.

I had to get in a Core Synergistics workout, so I ate super light at dinner (we don't need to talk about the biscuits). About 45 minutes after we'd eaten, I suited up for some Tony-time.

Things got interesting. Once you get past the burping-up-biscuits phase and the why-are-cinder-blocks-tied-to-my-legs phase, it's actually pretty OK. I had energy, so that was a good thing, and I managed to keep my dinner in my stomach, so that was another good thing.

It wasn't a particularly good workout, or a particularly bad workout. I slept like a champ, so I know it helped with digestion.

The only side-effect was a hammering headache. Which I'm assuming is from my lack of hydration yesterday, and not to the gargantuan amount of sodium that I'm sure is in those damn biscuits.

Oof

I'm feeling yesterday's workout everywhere. It's fantastic.

Debating doing cardio tonight in lieu of Core Syn.

Welcome Back, Tony!

Why hello there friends! It's been too long. No really, too long. Like a month and a half!

My excuse for this absence is this: I haven't had time. There. I said it. Between the holidays, the wedding and the semester starting, life has been a blur!

I'm happy to be back this morning reporting that I've started the P90X program again. I've been doing the workouts sporadically, but I'm actually on the plan starting this week. I didn't want to start too much before the wedding because I burn out quickly on this program. But now that we're at the 3.5 month mark for the wedding - it's time. The first dress fitting is in three weeks. Focus!

It also happens to be restaurant week, too. So it will help offset those calories. ;)

I've lost 11 pounds since the holidays, and hope to shed another 10 to 15 before the nuptials. I will say that this workout this morning is a whole lot easier sans 10 pounds. I felt strong, and not really that out of shape.

This morning I did Cardio X. Gunner gets really confused when mommy is jumping around and feels like he has to jump around, too. It gets some of his energy out, so it's a win-win.

Tomorrow will be Core Synergistics.

Heaven help me.

Oy vey.

I did P90X's Core Synergistics for the first time in over a year today, and I think I did relatively well! I've been working on more lunges and squats in general so I blazed through those parts - it's the upper-body workouts that kill me. Pushups, etc. Oy.

I got in a few runs this week, some elliptical. All in all, not too shabby. I've had to start entering 28 as my age on the treadmill. It's depressing.

Tonight, the ballet and a schmancy dinner to celebrate my fourth 25th birthday. :)

Remember me?

Ok, ok, ok. So it's been a month since I've posted. I honestly had no idea it had been that long.

But that doesn't mean I haven't been staying active! I've been running a mile a few times a week, and recently started adding in a cross-fit-esque workout as well. At first, I was super sore from doing lunges and squats again, but not anymore. My legs are getting stronger!

I also recently discovered that there's wireless Internet in the gym, so I've been jamming out to SVU on the iPad. Which makes it SO much easier to lose track of time.

Gunner and I ran a mile this morning and he was surprisingly well-behaved. He did the turn-and-bite-the-leash thing about halfway through, but I was able to distract him long enough to keep him running.

And for lunch...the "Elaine from Seinfeld" big salad.

3 cups lettuce

1/2 tomato

1/4 red pepper
1/2 t. pecans
1/2 t. craisins
1 T. french fried onions (It's not enough to do damage, but it's enough to taste fantastic.)
3 oz. turkey
1 T. light italian dressing.
Cracked pepper (yes, I keep a pepper grinder at my desk.)

Last month was so insane I couldn't keep it straight, but I promise to try to be better this month. Exams are over. Holidays are here.

Boom.