Mid-Point Measurements

Results:

Round 2 Starting Stats: Weight: 167.5 Neck: 12.5 Chest: 37.5 Waist 1: 33.75 Waist 2: 30 Hips: 44 Bicep: 12.25 Thigh: 25 Calf: 14

End Round 2/Mid-Point Gold's Gym Challenge Weight: 162.9 Neck: 12.5 Chest: 36.75 Waist 1: 32 Waist 2: 29.5 Hips: 42.5 Bicep: 12.25 Thigh: 24.75 Calf: 14

Overall that is a loss of 4.6lbs and 5".

What were my round 2 goals?

Keri's Round 2 Goals:
Workout 6 times a week - Done
Burn 1000 calories each workout - Done
Lose 8lbs - Missed, but with starting back to work, I'm pretty happy with where I am.
Drop Waist 1 measurement to 32" - Success
Drop Waist 2 measurement to 29" - Pretty much
Hip measurement to below 43" - Success
Thigh measurement to 23" - Nope

Gold's Gym Midpoint Check-In - Trying New Things

WOW! I have been so flipping busy lately that I've not had much time to post on my blog. I just wanted to give an update about what I'm up to. I had my midpoint check-in for the Gold's Gym Challenge today and I'm pretty happy with where I am considering I started my job right about the same time I started their challenge. I haven't been to get in double workouts since I started working, but I am bringing it.

My lovely husband bought me a new Heart Rate Monitor for Valentine's Day. It replaced my beat up Sportline Heart Rate Monitor that I bought from Sport's Authority almost two years ago. My new Timex works amazingly. It tracks heart rate, calories burned, zone rates, avg. heart rate and more. Plus it is more accurate! I've been able to step it up and hit about 1,100 calories in 60 minutes.

It's Been So Long! But With Time Comes Good News - Week 5 Results

Sorry it has taken me so long to give an update. I actually have had a lot of progress in the job search lately. Lots of interviews - 10 in about 2 weeks. Which means more good news that I will post about once it is all finalized! However, this kept me really busy and I did keep working out and journaling, but never got around to posting. So this may be a long one.

My Butt And Calves Are So Sore!

As you know from a couple days ago, I am taking on the BodyRock.tv Challenge. You may be wondering what the hell is wrong with me and why must I become involved in multiple challenges (6-week Challenge, Gold's Gym Challenge and the BodyRock Challenge). I am just way too competitive for my own good. If you ask my sister and anyone I ever played softball with they would tell you that if we lost a game I would either speed off in my Chevy Beretta, punch the crap out of a fence, or run!

I love competition for a few reasons: I want to be the best and it keeps me motivated. I went to the gym today to do Day 3 but the BodyRock website was down, so I did my own thing that I'll post below as well.

BodyRock Day 2:
12 rounds with interval timer set to :50 work and :10 rest.
10 high-knees then 10 mountain climbers
2 squat-jumps then 2 push-ups and 1 tuck jump
Center to elbow jumps (Think plank and you jump your feet in toward each elbow)
Clean and press, squat and press, push-up
Tuck jump, 5 burpees, squat and hold
Spider knee push-up, push-up
Lunge and press
Side lunge, side punch, tuck jump
10 squats then 10 squat jumps
10 elbows to knees each side (Hop while you do it)
Wide leg jump and push-up
Run in place

This workout will kick your butt literally. I feel like my butt cheeks have not been this sore in awhile. Plus random things happen while you do this workout. Big muscular guys come ask you how to do burpees like you are some sort of plyometric champion. Secretly, I hate plyometrics. I think it goes back to my soccer days.

Following this workout I moved on to do my circuit training of biceps, chest and back doing high-reps. Then 20 minutes of arc-trainer.

Today's Workout:
Today I decided to do some Tabata intervals. Tabata intervals are the exercise that suck the life out of you, and if you do them while running on a treadmill you may end up being that girl who falls on a treadmill and gets flung onto the floor. That didn't happen to me, but it was close to happening.
Set an interval timer to :30 work :10 rest.
I used a treadmill my work speed was 7.5 and then for the :10 rest I just jumped off onto the sides of the treadmill because there wasn't enough time to change the speed. Then I did 16 sets.
Follow this up with my circuit training focusing on triceps, delts and abs. Then I did 25 minutes on the arc-trainer and 5 minutes on the bike.

New Workouts - Trying Out The BodyRock Challenge

A few months ago I stumbled across a fitness blog after finding a recipe for Portobello Mushroom Pizzas. I had added the recipe to my Pinterest board, but couldn't for the life of me remember that I had done this. The website/blog was really amazing. I was kind of overwhelmed the first time I looked at it. There is just so much information. Then last week I stumbled across the website and found that starting early January they began a 30 day fitness challenge. They have HIIT workouts everyday. The longest workout being about 12 minutes. If you don't know what HIIT is and what it can do for your workouts read this article. So, yesterday I decided to give the 30 day fitness challenge a go. It starts off with a FIT test. Think Presidential Challenge in elementary school. You are timed and you do as many reps of an exercise that you can in that time. Then you track your marks and at the end of the challenge do the FIT test again to see how far you've come.

Workouts and Week 2 Results

It is the end of week 2 already, can you believe it? I can't! It seems to be going faster this second time around. Maybe it is because I am now used to the portions I eat, journaling my food and pushing hard at the gym.

I was talking with Matt the other day about goals and he was trying to persuade me to join the Gold's Gym 12-week Challenge. It is a National challenge divided by sex and age group. Typically the winners are the ones who went from fat to flat, and somehow got professional hair, make-up and a spray tan. Michelle and I mocked these photos when we first started this challenge, trying to stick our bellies out as far as possible and refusing to inhale. It's winter so I didn't need to work on being pale as a ghost.

Oh New Year's, We Have A Love Hate Relationship!

Obviously, the first round of "6-week health challenge," is over. What does that mean?

It means that I spent the following weekend partying rockin'. We went out with friends each night, had a delicious but HUGE New Year's Eve dinner and drank lots of champagne. Now, lets be honest now that we're blog friends, that means I probably put on 1 or 2 pounds in between the end of challenge 1 and beginning of challenge 2. But, I was celebrating!

When Monday rolled around the truth showed on the scale! I was at 169.something after drinking and eating delicious Japanese food. So my goal for this week was to get back to where I was at the end of the first challenge and maybe surpass that number. So, what happened?

Today I jumped on the scale and I was at 167.5 - the exact weight I was at after challenge 1. I'm going to guess that this is going to drop a bit more over the week since it's Lucky Lady's Week. If you know what I'm saying (John refuses to use the P word and we just say I'm sick.) I have a few fun facts to share with you today that John found for me when I didn't lose as much as I wanted one week.

Fun Fact #1 - If you poop once a day your body is retaining 6lbs of poop. If you poop every other day your body is retaining 9lbs of poop. That's a LOT!

Fun Fact #2 (GUYS MAY NOT WANT TO READ) - You can gain 2-5lbs during your period. Lovely huh? It's usually water weight and comes off, but still annoying.

Now - Even though my weight stayed the same this week, which was actually only 5 days (from the last challenge), I did still have Matt do my measurements and they have changed.

Round 2 Starting Stats: Weight: 167.5 Neck: 12.25 Chest: 37.5 Waist 1: 33.75 Waist 2: 30 Hips: 44 Bicep: 12.25 Thigh: 25 Calf: 14

Week 1: Weight: 167.5 Neck: 12.5 Chest: 37 Waist 1: 33 Waist 2: 30 Hips: 43.25 Bicep: 12.25 Thigh: 25 Calf: 14

For a total of 0lbs lost and a total of 1.75" lost. Notice my neck measurement went up? I think it just never went down lol. Lost from waist and finally a decent amount from hips.