I pushed up my rest day to Tuesday. Not intentionally, I tend to go to the gym when Hubs gets home from work, and I just didn’t have the time (I also went up to Bridgeport to apply to a subbing job).
Day 2 – Strength training
I used my EA active today – Hubs got it for me for Christmas and I had been wanting to try it for a while now. OH. EM. GEE. Whenever I’m too lazy to go the gym, 30 minutes on hard will work just fine for me kthx.
150 calories burned in about 33 minutes, 17 strength training workouts with a couple of cardio moves thrown in – high knees, butt kicks and boxing (a la Jillian Michael’s in the 30 day shred). Seriously, it kicked. My. Butt.
Day 3 – Speed training
I decided with marathon #4 that I wanted to try the Yasso 800′s. So today, I did 2×800 at 4:45. Let me just tell you…my legs feel amazing. Like jello, but amazing.
Warm up: 5:00 @ 11:34 pace
800 @ 9:22/mi pace (4:42)
rest period: 5:00 @ 11:34 pace
800 @ 9:22/mi pace (4:42)
rest: 5:00
cool down: 1:30
Also, ran home from the gym – .66 miles in ~7:05
workout summary: (not including run home…up hills)
25:16 total time
2.36 miles
10:42/mile average time
Eating wise I’ve been doing pretty good – today I had cheerios for breakfast, some TJ turkey chili and brown rice for lunch (i saved some for tomorrow too) a PBJ sandwich on whole grain bread for my afternoon snack followed by broccoli/onion/mushroom stirfry with shrimp. Oh mah gah. Soo good. I’m having a small bowl of ice cream for dessert. Everyone deserves a small reward right?
Tomorrow, I’m meeting with a trainer again (3 trainer. Out of 3 meetings I have had three different trainers. Not. A. Fan.). I’m hoping to find a trainer I can stick with. I dunno, I’m really finicky about my gym – I worked at one for over a year, I know what a good quality gym is when i see one. My gym? Not it.
Gym pet peeves?
1. People who don’t use locks on their lockers. I opened up SIX lockers without locks that had stuff in them tonight. People…use a lock!
2. When I pay to work with a trainer? I really want to work with just one. Not three. I know this can be remedied but still.
3. No towel service? Really???
4. Who uses FM radios anymore? Why have TV’s up if people can’t listen to them unless they tune in to FM station listed on the TV.
All in all, I’m 3 for 3 as far as my workouts go, tomorrow was supposed to be a rest day but since i’m training, I’ll have only slightly altered this week’s schedule. Go me.
