The Push

There comes a time in every girl's fitness journey where she has to raise the bar. I have noticed that my cardio routines don't get my heart rate up as high as I need them to be and I have to change my routines. That means, harder, faster and more pain. But I gotta push through the pain!! I'm going to be brave this week and do a cycle class Friday morning. Holy moly, I'm scared. But I was scared when I first went to my kickboxing class and I love that so much, I do every week now. So this will be a great thing!

I'm on a new eating schedule. I was eating my fruit parfaits before the gym and then realized that I was really hungry afterwards and my banana and almonds just weren't cutting it. So this week I am eating an egg and a half piece of cheese before the gym and eating the parfait afterwards. So far so good. I usually eat lunch at 11:30 and it's now 12:30 and I'm still not that hungry.

I was surprised that I wanted to use the treadmill this morning after my run yesterday. My legs weren't sore at all from yesterday. My usual treadmill routine is 4 min. incline of 5, 1 min. incline of 0, jog for 1 min., 1 min. incline of 0, 2 min. incline of 5, 1 min. incline of 0, 1 min. of jogging etc. So this didn't produce the heart rate I needed this morning so I discussed it with Ashley during our session and she suggested doing 2 min. of walking and then 2 min. of jogging. I will try it next time I use the treadmill. And in general, I'm just going to have to up my resistance on all the machines now. Here comes the push ladies and gents!!

Ashley worked my back today and my lats feel awesome! I have noticed such a big difference in my arms and back lately, thanks to my lovely personal trainer. I hope I can work with her throughout this entire process. I wonder why we haven't done legs in awhile. Oh, I didn't tell you about the ab workout she had me do. You lie on your back with an exercise ball. You then spread your legs wide, lift them up to a 90 degree angle as you life the ball from your head to between your legs, you then shut your legs and as you go down, you lower the ball down to over your head. Oh...my...gollygeewillickers. It was hard! But I felt it quickly and that is my kind of exercise!!

Just going to do cardio tomorrow. Ashley wants me to do 4 days of just cardio now. There's just not enough days in a week to do everything you want to. I can't remember the last time I did Pilates and it makes me sads...