August 31, 2010 - hot hot hot

and two weeks later...

first the hip, then the cold strikes and voila no gym or exercise of any kind in the last two weeks. walking to get the mail 100 meters doesn't count, I know! Today I ran! Yup a whole 2kms at a nice easy pace. Sweat pouring off my skin and the lungs working in over time. The coughing and hacking will commence at any time now. So how's the hip? well so far so good. No pain other than "you haven't used me in a long time" kind of pain. We'll see how the day progresses.

View from the treadmill
Excellent, only b/c it's been so long. Tooooooooo hot to run outside and pretty warm inside too. But got it done

Did some weights as well today. Where did all the hotties come from????? I mean usually they are sparce at the 11:30am time zone, but today there were several. Especially the one who was doing bicep curls with 50lbs dumbells on the boso ball. very impressive! typical flaw, skinny legs!

The music - was with me today!

Proud Mary - Glee
Just Dance - Lady Gaga
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Down in New Orleans - Princess and the Frog
Crawling - Linkin Park
Dance in the Dark - Lady Gaga
Decode - paramore
My Life Would Suck Without You - Glee
Safety Dance - Glee
Can You Feel It - The Jacksons


It's 6 hours after the run, hip freaking hurts!!! insert swearing rant here!

August 16, 2010 - back to pump

I know I know, I'm a slacker. But when you can't do the one thing you are to be training for, you lose a little motivation. But after a weekend of crazy and lack of sleep, I needed to workout today. So I went to a pump class. Tim taught so I wasn't expecting much but in actual fact, he was good today. He even asked if we wanted arms today instead of shoulders and lunges, and we all voted arms. Plus! I didn't aggrevate my hip. It felt great, I'm still tired but at least I got rid of some of my tension.

View from the mat:
Other than the sweat! LOL. I did a 15mins warm-up on the elliptical. Either I'm getting use to it...it was ok. I still would prefer to be running.

Tomorrow I will go back and swim.

August 10, 2010 - swimming

So I tried something different today. I went for a swim. It's been over a year and half since I swam lengths. I need cardio and since I can't run, I thought lets swim.

I'm so tired!!!

Workout:
warm-up - 800m freestyle relaxed, 100m kick
main set - 5 x 100 free, 20 secs rest, each set faster
cooldown - 100m slow

I didn't want to over do it, it took about 40mins. Sadly my hip is sore after which is something since I barely kick.

August 5, 2010

I ran, hip still sore, I sad...back to the elliptical boooo!

August 4, 2010 - Body Pump kind of

Back at it again. I saw the chiro in the morning and then at lunch went to a body pump class. Before the class started I did 10mins on another type of elliptical. This one was better, but I still hated it. Then the class started. I made it to the lunge track and then had to stop, thought I was going to pass out. I guess I didn't eat enough this morning. Not sure. Exhaustion also very present in my day today.

View from the mat:
Saw the stick bug chick again. This time she was preening in the locker room. I honestly have never seen anyone spend so much time and product on the placement of each individual hair. It was frightening really. As for the class, it was great. Maya taught, she was the club manager at Vanier for a long time and she's awesome! It was also the new release, I can say for what I finished, it was evil. I will be really sore tomorrow. So far I'm just a little sore and my hip isn't hurting, so here's hoping!

August 3rd, 2010 - OMG where did the summer go?

Well I was back at it today. And by it I mean I went to the gym and worked out. No running allowed. SI joint is imflammed plus a couple of my lumbar discs aren't happy campers, so instead I used the elliptical. OMG I HATE IT!!! But it has to be done. If I do nothing I will just erase all my hard work. So that and some weights were achieved today.

View from the mat:
Can I tell you once again how much I hate that machine. So boring. Yes I did break a sweat but it's just so dull. You don't go anywhere. I do feel the same about the treadmill except I feel like I've accomplished something on it at least.

The Workout:
Elliptical - 1 mile
bicep curls - 3 x12 reps - 30lb dumbell
tricep pull down - 3 x 12reps - 30lbs
Overhead press - 3x12 repos - 25lbs
seated row - 2 x 25 reps - 45lbs
deltoid raise - 3 x 12 reps - 15lbs
situps
stretching - lots of stretching!

The Music:
I went with a shuffle of all the Glee soundtracks I got from a friend. Made the dullness that was my workout bearable!