Day 115

12/31/15

Day 115: Last workout of 2015

Good day friends and family! I figured today would be a perfect day to make a post seeing as this is the last day of the year. The workout went really good and I am super sore. I am debating if I am fighting off a cold or I am just feeling this week's workout. It could be both.

The workouts have been progressing smoothly and I am lucky enough to have found a new member so I can take advantage of the deal that Coral is running so I can keep on trucking with my workouts for the month of January.

I feel like I have accomplished so much in the months that I have been working out. Mainly in my strength vs appearance. I am not a big fan of setting goals for the new years but I will stick with my getting healthy goals that I unofficially made.

Lately since my Son is on school vacation, I have been very bad and just sprawling on my couch watching netflix and playing on the computer. I do take breaks but I am really seeing the suffering from not being as active as I should be! Since we had a 5 day break for Christmas and normal days off, I was really feeling everything we did once we started up again.

I was crazy sore and tonight is not really any different even though I did start up on Tuesday instead of monday (I really just wanted to sleep in, so I did). I think that I am going to be very greatful once school starts up again and my normal routine begins again.

I am pretty basic: wake up, wake the kids up, drop of Son to school, go to workout class, come home, make food for everyone then just chill or do chores until it is time to pick up Son from school. This is followed by making an afternoon snack for the kids and then prepping dinner and getting the kids ready for bed and then just finding some me time before the next day starts.....well, now that I am typing it all out, I certainly feel as if I do a lot more than just sit around being lazy!

I also want to give a quick shout out to everyone in the Mama's group who have been really supportive of me and for putting up with my depressive moments. I really am getting better, I promise!

On that note, I will say good bye to an unhealthy mama in 2015 and welcome in a healthy, social mama that is loving to workout in 2016.

Day 111

12/22/15

Day 111: It's been a while

Question: What is your favorite holiday tradition that your family does?

Answer: I currently don't have one but when I was little, we would get to open one present on Christmas eve.

So as some of you may have noticed, I stopped blogging and posting on my facebook account for the past 8 days. I have been working out at every class so please don't think that I dropped off the band wagon! I am going strong but I didn't feel like blogging like I used to and I think the break really helped. 

Workout classes have been going great, I have been working up a sweat every day and Coral had a theme of the 12 Days of Christmas a few days back and it was crazy intense! Everyone was panting and dripping sweat once that class was over! When I got home and took my shower, I think it was the best feeling ever, lol. 

I will make sure to keep everyone in the loop but I will be changing up my blogs to be when I feel like posting and more of a thought process instead of listing out everything that I had done that day. 

Happy Holidays to everyone who celebrate and I will check in again, perhaps on Monday, our next class! 

Final notes: I had the great idea of a gift for myself or for anyone else in the class: I would love the gift of a month paid for my workout class, lol, that just occurred to me this morning and I thought it was pretty dang genius! It is something I would use and get the most joy out of. This will also be applied around the time of my birthday. I will never say no to a gift that I can use!

Day 103

12/7/15

Day 103: booty workout

Question: What is something cute or silly that your kid / kids have done recently?
Answer: Lilly has taken to wearing my socks and they look like leg warmers on her. During the sparkle, Santi kept looking up at the sky looking for Santa

- warm ups stretches
- warm up liners for one song
- get your bands out
- old mac donald
- Hop like a bunny
- go to the barre
- leg flexes
- grape vines in-between leg lifts
- get out mats
- Rotations of
- push ups
- quick feet
- mountain climbers
- donkey kicks and pulses
- hip circles
- yoga poses
- stretch and cool down
- pack up and go home

I am really feeling those push ups that we did today, which is odd since we were mainly focusing on our butts. I did the leg lifts and become covered in sweat! Who knew holding up your leg at that angle would give you such a workout but it was! 

The mix of the bunny and old mac donald felt good on the legs, I was happy that my red band was working good today and I am really surprised that I am not feeling sore in my legs more. 

The hip circles were nice, my hips always end up so tense after our 3 days off so they like to have the stretching. I really need to make sure to go both directions before bed, lol, we kinda dropped the bad since Coral had to leave the room for a moment. 

The mat leg work involved some moves that were pretty crazy, the pulsing part really got me so I had to take it easy. The leg extensions were pretty intense on my hips but I am thankful I stuck it through. 

The yoga stretching felt good on sore legs and arms. I am going to have to really pump up my yoga flexing just so I can stop feeling all creaky and popping through out the day.

Day 102

12/3/15

Day 102

Question: If you celebrate, do you have your Christmas tree up?
Answer: Not yet, I should get it up this week end though

- Warm ups
- Get into 2 lines, grapevines and other things across the room
- Get out bands, rotations of
- arm circles
- step out, step in
- hammer curls
- overhead press
- inner thigh band pulls
- Dinosaur book
- Mama Bear
- Get out towels for yoga stretches and flexes
- Bicycles
- Cool down, pack up and get ready for playdate activity!

Today went smooth! I got a good arm workout in and I enjoyed the band work. I tried the bear crawls again and I made it once across the room then I switched over to high knees. I am slowly building up to moving in that position and I felt so happy. I am going to keep on trying and improve a little more each time. 

The towel yoga was pretty fun, I was able to do most of the drill, besides some of the sliding backwards stuff, I tended to slip a little too fast so I did it a bit slow and got at least a couple in. The side to side yoga stretches felt good and it really helped me feel my muscles in my tummy more. 

Day 101

12/2/15

Day 101

Question: What is your fitness / body goal at the moment?

Answer: Become more flexible and aim for a thinner tummy.

- Warm ups

- Thumbkin and wall sits

- Leg stretches on the barre bar

- Push ups / Plank hold

- Hi Ho the Dairy-o

- Burpees of various styles

- Yoga stretches and balances

- Cool down, pack up and go home

Wall sits, I know by now that I should have taken off my shoes so I could actually get my wall sit correctly but I did not so I just dealt with sliding.

The hi ho's were interesting today, everyone gave big numbers for their exercise and I feel like I could have gone bigger.

The Burpees! Thanks to Kara sharing a burpee video, Coral was inspired to try out a few and they weren't too bad! I can't do the fast burpees yet but I gave it my best until Lilly decided she wanted to be right under me, lol, I had to play a little dodge the toddler while preforming a couple of those moves.

Today was a good day over all, I had a positive attitude and we even went to story time after class.

Day 100

12/1/15

Day 100: Feeling sick

Question: What do you love and hate about Winter?

Answer: I love the chance to gather with family and friends for holiday parties and social gathering thanks to Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and my birthday! I hate the cold, the dirty icy snow that piles up everywhere (when we actually get snow) and the winter blues.

- Warm ups

- Run liners for the length of a song

- Get out bands

- Fly out and chest presses pyramid

- Dice Game

- Get out yoga mats

- Put a chair on it

- chair dips

- side climbers

- Yoga Stretching

Today I felt awful. I was tired, my stomach was really upset and I was cranky. I could hear all the negative coming out of my mouth but couldn't seem to stop being a downer. I went straight home after class, got into my pj's, heated up a quick breakfast and I just crashed in bed after telling the hubs that I didn't feel good. I took a good few hour nap and felt almost better.

The only good thing I could come up with for my question of the day was my water became cold. I could list off 1,000 things I hated about winter though!! Since I am feeling better, I decided to actually flesh out my answer and now I am happy with it. I would really like to have more get together's with friends but that requires actual friends and a good location to party.

I decided to go to Reno last night to get some winter clothing shopping done for the kids and husband, I hate shopping for myself but I did end up with a couple of pair of leggings! I ate fast food, which my tummy was not used to and even took a trip to Starbucks. I think the combination of everything just killed my stomach and wore me out. If I missed today, I would have been even more miserable so I just took it slow and was happy I went, bad attitude and all.

I did sit out on a bit of the yoga stretching and I kinda zoned out playing the Lilly and Addie so when I looked over at Coral, she was doing what looked like a tilted broken foot pose, rofl, I am going to have to start doing yoga again on my own so I can look somewhat decent with all the skinny mama's doing their thing!

So for those mama's who read my blog, I am so sorry for my negative attitude. I am really trying my best to change that. Please remember that even though I have been going to this group for 100 days now, I am really not used to hanging out with people and my personality shows it.

Day 99

11/30/15

Day 99: New hip moves

Question: Describe your Thanksgiving in one word

Answer: Enjoyable

- Warm ups

- Circle the square with different moves

- Dinah with the bands

- Get out our yoga mats

- Complete a few rotations of:

- hip to the wall, lift one leg. Switch sides.

- lay down on your side, butt to the wall, knees bent. Switch sides.

- still laying on your side, butt still against the wall, angled and one leg straightened

- Plank with your hand against the wall, switching

- Downward dog

- Place your legs up against against the wall and lay flat on the ground.

- Cool down, pack up and head home

So many new moves today, it was a really nice change of pace. I was running a little behind thanks to a frosted over car but I made it in time for the basic workout.

I loved all the new hip moves, I wasn't feeling weird or odd when I did them and I really like the stretching against the wall at the end. I took the time to do a few extra moves, since I was going to be travelling and siting in a car for a few hours.

As for the picture today, I can totally vouch for all of these improvements! Except maybe the looking younger, haven't been told that one yet, lol, this blog is helping me build up my memory and I am loving all of the compliments that I am getting lately. 

I decided to just shove all the negative away when it comes to my thoughts and replies when getting a compliment and instead brag about the Mama's class and try to get people to come enjoy a free week!