Another Workout

I decided to head up to the gym today. I didn't think that it was going to be busy but I was wrong it was busy. I decided to do the weight machines today and concentrate on upper body. Lat pull down, rows, shoulder presses, fly machine bicep machine and tricep push down machine. Then afterward I headed up to the treadmills. The upstairs was the busiest so I just walked 20 minutes on the treadmill.

Fort Worth Turkey Trot

This year my mom and I decided to do the Fort Worth Turkey Trot instead of the Dallas Turkey Trot that we have done the last two years. We just didn't want to have to deal with the crowds in Dallas and Fort Worth was a 10K instead of 8 miles. After finding a spot to park and walked up to where the race would start we noticed that it was 48 degrees outside.



Starbucks was giving out free cups of coffee and another store was giving out hot chocolate. Hmm that was a hard decision since I like both of them but I picked the hot chocolate (bigger cup) over Starbucks.
Along the race route...
I was glad to see the mile markers only 2.6 miles to go....
This is the second race that my mom and I stayed together throughout the race. She pushed me to run for 6 minutes and walk for 3 minutes except when there was a hill and then I walked up it. We finished it in 1:24:10 and my mom got third place in her age group Way to go Mom!!

Another Training Session!

Today was lower body workout. I started off at the leg press machine, leg raises,step ups, lunges, wall sits and calf raises. My legs were tired by the time the session was over. Then I headed upstairs to do about 30 minutes on the treadmill. I did 5 minutes of walking with 6 minutes of running three times (after 4 minutes I had to tell myself that I only had 30 seconds left four times).

Monday's workout

At the gym I go to I had signed up for monthly training sessions and so after a year of doing this off and on. I decided to cancel them but I have 9 sessions to use up before I lose them so I scheduled a session with a trainer that I haven't used since he had an opening and the other two trainers that had openings I have used before and didn't like them. We did upper body today which was good. It was more like a circuit style workout. We did shoulder presses, bicycles (3 sets) then moved on to lat pull downs with my hands facing me with bench dips (3 sets) pushups (first set was regular pushups which I could do 5 and the other 5 I didn't come all the way down for the first set and then modified push ups for the last two sets) and plank (3 sets), ab work flutter kicks , touching right hand to left leg raising shoulders off the ground, (3 sets) moved on to back extensions and mountain climbers (3 sets) and then moved on to the bicep curl machine only I was trying to keep the trainer from pulling the handles down. Then when I was done with the session I went to try and do 20 minutes on the step machine (I only lasted 10 minutes no wonder I don't use this cardio machine a whole lot since I don't really like it.)

Monday

Busy Weeks

It has been a while since I have blogged due to some crazy couple of weeks of school work. The semester is almost over and so that means projects are starting to be due. Hopefully I can get some things done while I am off from work and then I won't have to worry about the due dates sneaking up on me and only having a couple of hours of sleep.
My mom and I had went up to the gym today to do the Jillian workout we did workout #2 this week and it wasn't that difficult. The crabwalks and reverse planks I just wanted to not do since they put pressure on my wrists but ended up doing them but not as many as the card said to do them. Then when we were finished with the workout we did the box jumps. I am using the step that you using in aerobics and have raised it up with 7 of the legs on it. Then we headed up to the treadmill to do some cardio which I was having problems doing for some reason my chest started to hurt and made breathing kind of hard hopefully I am not coming down with a cold. I was pretty bummed this afternoon since I didn't make my goal of running 30 miles in four weeks but when I logged on to Nike plus it let me extend it for a week so I have 5.87 miles to go before I hit 30 miles which I will probably have it done before the week is over.

Sunday's workout

For the last couple of Sunday's I have been using Jillian's workout cards. This Sunday I was really tired and decided to just go up to the gym and use the treadmill. I decided that I was going to walk for 5 minutes and run for 5 minutes. When the running time came my brain was telling me that I couldn't do it at 2.5 minutes so I started telling myself that I only had 30 seconds left and then another 30 seconds in till I got to five minutes. I hope I wasn't talk out loud to myself if I did I don't think anyone noticed since the gym only had a few people using the treadmills. I ended up with 3.33 miles. Hopefully I will be able to accomplish my goal of running 30 miles by November 22nd. Only 25 miles to go.....