My first race of the spring is this weekend on Sunday – a five miler, nothing hard, I’ve been maintaining 5 milers as my long run while I get into training. After this weekend, I’ll slowly start increasing my mileage since I have a ridiculous number of weeks before Vermont City.
This week though, my trainer kicked my ass with a relatively tough circuit workout – I can feel myself getting stronger, I’ve been working with him for about a month now so that’s exciting. This brings me to…The Fitnessista’s Winter Shape Up 2010. Are you in?
I’m going to keep track of everything up here, mostly I’m going to stick to her tips, since I’ve been doing strength training/XT 2x/week and running 3 days. I give myself two days of rest (as opposed to her 1 day of recommended rest) but still find myself getting a decent amount of working out in there.
So, yesterday, my workout:
{sets of each at 20 reps}
Knee Raises
Jumping squats
jumping jacks
pushups
crunches
plank (2 @ 20 seconds)
dips
seated knee raises
low row (45 lbs)
high row (25 lbs)
then, he worked my core with the crunch machine (2 sets: 1 @50lbs; 1 @40lbs) and 2 sets of 20 standing crunches.
Yowsa!
Unfortunately my eating has been awful being that we’ve been in Vermont, travelling and I haven’t had a chance to go grocery shopping. The other night we ordered chinese after getting back to Stamford – new favorite dish (which is horrible but oh so good) General Tsao’s Tofu. Mmm. We went out to lunch yesterday and and I had a slice of caprese pizza – mozzarella, tomato, basil and red peppers. Mmmmmm.
Today:
Breakfast:
cinnamon swirl oatmeal w/1 t of brown sugar
1 glass of OJ
snack:
banana protein smoothie
lunch:
leftover pizza (after my workout yesterday I had eyes bigger than my stomach and ordered two slices but only ate one. I didn’t have time to eat lunch before a job interview so I was STARVING)
snack:
fruit of some sort?
dinner:
whole grain shells, cheese (low fat cheddar) with steamed broccoli
spinach and tomato salad
Am sooo excited.
I need to go grocery shopping – we’re low on fruits and veggies which I’ve been trying to keep stocked, and since we were traveling end of last week, I’m trying to get caught up.
Finally, last week’s weigh in had me at 147. That’s down 3 lbs for those of you counting. Gah, I always feared the day when I’d be 150. I’ve gotta get this all in check. Also! Last week I tried on a pair of pants that hadn’t fit me in months – they were a little tight but I could get them on and zipped/buttoned without worrying about dying. A small step for mankind (well. Me.) amidst the battle against the bulge. Go me?
