Manic Monday

Getting close to the end of this 3 week workout plan and today was a rough workout.  But before that today was the last day of the memorial day weekend.

  Got a bad burn yesterday on my shoulder.  Guess none of the lotion made it that way.  So it hurt all last night and still today.  Was glad Danielle slept in and didn't want to go anywhere today.  She did get to play in her mini pool with a couple of her friends today.  Lunch was Qdoba today esp since they were having a BOGO deal.   They now have new wheat tortillas.  It was good.  Oh and this morning I added half a banana in the Cream of Wheat.  It tasted better.

Anyways, back to the workout.  Bleh.  Supposedly it said concentrating on upper body, but I swear they had 3 leg strides and 2 or 3 mountain climber (very similar) and some running.  BOOOO!  I got to knockout the workout a bit earlier since Jen was watching the girls outside.

Der staz: Time: 27:55, Cal: 126.9, Avg bpm: 135, Max: 169.  28 activities.

Heinz Tomato......Catch up!

Well I am a bit behind.  Sunday night and I'm watching the Coke 600....so I need to get the blog caught up.  It's been a busy extended Memorial Day weekend with one day left.  Start off with Thursday which I took off.  Danielle was very busy playing with all the neighboring kids.  Count em 6 including Danielle not the whole time but some of the time all together..and playing in and around her rinky dink pool.  But she had a good time.  Ended up playing with some of them for about 6 hours.  Also I installed a new kitchen faucet.  It looks nice esp compared to the old one that came with the house.

Friday was back to work but also a workout night.  And man the game thought it was funny and thew up a tough one with doing leg strides three different times. BLEH!  Concentrating mainly on lower body, it was a doozy esp since all my workouts since that day I changed are all on medium level.  Extra weights stayed on the wrists.  Stats: Time:  27:52, cals: 143.9, avg bpm: 138, max: 179.  28 tough activities in that workout.


Saturday what did we do yesterday?  We did have a family dinner with the inlaws and her brother at Famous Dave's BBQ.  Ya know BBQ is a part of the Texan diet :)    Did my Saturday workout that night.  A full body workout and no evil  strides!  WOO!  Weights went on the ankles.  It was still a workout, but it went smoother with less breaks during the workout.  Main things were foot fires and skipping (jump rope).  Stats: Time: 26:27, cals: 139.5, avg bpm: 128, max: 167.  25 workouts but it felt a lot better than Friday's workout.


  Oh yeah for breakfast I tried some Cream of Wheat Instant Healthy Grain.

I got it because it looked to be really healthy.  7g protein, 6g fiber, 0 sugars.

Zero taste :(  I ate it with water, but it was pretty rough.  That afternoon we had to do a bit of grocery shopping and I got some bananas.  It should taste better next time.

Sunday (today) was a day off workout, but it really wasn't.  We went to White Water (waterpark in Branson) and were down there for about 6 hours.  It was sunny, windy, and warm (high topped around 90).
Lots of walking and getting wet....a good time.  Danielle loved this ride.  She hadn't been on it before, but I think we went on it 5 times in a row before the park closed. (no that's not us) ;)

Well when I got home (we had BT Bones for dinner.  I had a pretty good steak), I loaded up Wii Fit to check my weight.  It said 169.5 pounds.  Going down :)  Prob not as fast as it could since I still eat some stuff that's not "diet food", but I am eating better and less.  Best thing is my main goal is feeling better...and that I am doing already!

Blade Runner - a8

As I start this blog tonight, Blade Runner is starting on 539.  Good movie.  But you know who's in this movie?  Duh of course "him"...but look at some of the other actors that are not the first couple of names:  Edward James Olmos and Daryl Hannah.  And it starts out....3 years ago.  Made 30 years ago...now you feel old.

As for EA workout #8, it was more than a coke workout. ???   Coke has 140 cals.  So far the most I have done in these workouts was 131.  It was going to concentrate on lower body so I knew it would be a doozy.  After looking through the 25 activity list, I didn't see the evil ones so on went the weights on the legs.  It was rough...but not evil.  Worked up a good sweat...which reminded me after it was over that I need to find the sweat band I bought.  Did some mountain boarding, sumo squats (no diaper needed), and some foot fires to name a few.

Stats: Time: 27:37, Cals: 149.7, Avg heart rate: 134, Max: 178.


Tomorrow Just Dance 3 goes back.  I'll do another workout with it before then.  Did the "Just Sweat" mode the night before and boy did I.  I picked the 80s group of songs and danced through them.  I think there were 5...maybe 6.  Funniest thing and it was ROFL funny was the way they choreographed the KISS song I was Made for Loving You.  They may have as well been a "happier" version of the cast from "Queer Eye"

Enjoy:

Walkabout

Well I tried out those weights at full weight in my workout today (2.5 lbs each).  And yep I could tell the difference.  It wasn't too bad on the wrists or the legs until I had to the dern legs strides twice... and a new one called mountain climbers (also twice).  It's pretty much the same thing just lower to the ground.  After one of those that was enough on the legs.  Though when they did the short runs and walks, I moved the weights back to my ankles.  I can see me getting another pair so I can have them on wrists and ankles at the same time.  I have to pause the game when I want to switch.

After that had some good ol BBQ chicken pizza.  Nah it wasn't on the diet, but it was good and I didn't consume mass quantities.  Then after dinner Jen wanted to take Duke for a walk.  Time to walk off some cals.
I put the weights back on my ankles and we had a good mile walk around the subdivision.

Tomorrow will be time for some more Just Dance 3.  Only have it a few more days.

Oh and onto the stats:  26 activities, Time: 26:11 (took a bit longer since I was switching weight locations during it), 98.8 cals burned (felt like more with the weights - dunno if it factors that in by heart rate or not), avg heart rate: 126, max:165.


Total cals so far: 788.


Thinking about breakfast shakes.  My smoothy place on the way to work closed a couple months back.  May hafta start making some.

Rock em Sock em Workout

We'll call this a weekend post.  Yesterday was workout day and today is a day off.   The workout was good.  I kept in on normal/medium level and I am planning to keep it there.  My body is getting used to it.  A6 wasn't too rough being a full body workout.  No leg strides woo.   But they did have one called foot fires..reminded me of what football players do when they squat and move their feet slightly off the ground quickly.   A lil bit of basketball integrated into this one.

The stats:  Workout time: 22:40, Cal burned: 106.9 Avg Heart Rate: 130.  Max: 177

So, why no update last night during the OKC game (which they won)?  We rented Wolverine's rock em sock em robots movie.  AKA - Real Steel.  It was pretty good.

Today we had a dance workout.  While at the rental store, I also picked up Just Dance 3. This afternoon all three of us danced to some songs.  Jen was laughing hard when we did Land of 1000 Dances by Wilson Pickett.  It was a good time.  I'll have to play some more with game the next few days because it may be worth purchasing.  $20-$30 depending on where I want to get it.  Not much :)

Oh yeh forgot....went to walmart this afternoon and I found some wrist/ankle weights  http://www.walmart.com/ip/Gold-s-Gym-5-lb.-Pair-Adjustable-Ankle-Wrist-Weights/14894524

This should be a good addition that I can add to my wrists or ankles.  Each one has  6 separate bags to increase the weight up to 2.5 lbs.  They have a 10 lb adjustable set (2 5lb weights) but I figured that would be too much starting out.

A5 and TV

Hmm guess I should mention the OKC - LA game since I just turned it on.  Another close one going into halftime.  Maybe OKC should pay me since they have won the last two while I have blogged.  I'd flip on the truck race but I had to record the replay which starts in an hour.  Already had 2 shows recording at the 8pm hour - Supernatural and Grimm - two shows that we both (esp Jen) like.

Speaking of shows, it seems fewer shows appeal to us on network tv.  The shows we or I watch get canned  and replaced by a cheap to make "reality" show.  Fox is very bad about this. Cable channels esp SYFY are doing the same.   After Eureka (love that show) gets canned at the end of summer, how many actual sci-fi shows will be on syfy?  Almost none.

  I do like the Nascar truck races.  Usually it's the best race of the three on the weekend.  It's been rough so far this year...too many off weekends to start the season, but now it will start picking up.  This year I'm pulling for Ty Dillon and Ron Hornaday.  Been a Hornaday fan since he started driving for KHI.  And it's great watching both Dillons (Austin and Ty) climbing the ranks.

Did I do a workout today????  Yeh ;)   After doing the evil workout on Wednesday I was really expecting to feel it on Thurs.............but.....  I didn't.  Maybe a lil bit but it wasn't that bad.  So, I left today's workout on Medium.  Yesterday was a day off so why not?  Today was 26 activities, full body workout (more balanced), and they threw in some soccer.  Luckily I didn't have to go grab a ball and kick it at the TV.  ;)

Not too bad.  They did throw in a couple of stride jumps...bleh, but I did better.  Those
(besides tiring me out) hurt the balls of my feet the most.   Oh it also give you medals for meeting certain achievements.  Today I went over 500 total cals (though I was close to that last time). It's kinda cool to see them pop up.

Stats:  Workout time: 21:59,  Cals burned: 103.3, Avg Heart rate: 131, Max: 172,  Total Cal: over 600.  That short medium workout I did a few days back did not count in the 3 week workout.  That's why the cal numbers seem off. The initial goals it set was 600.  So I set the next one to 700 in 7 days.  I think it means 7 workout days.  If I keep it on medium it's a good goal.

Time to relax....the next workout is tomorrow.

A4 Crazy train

I had this crazy idea that since I did two last time one on easy and a short on normal that for today's workout I'd put it on normal.  DUMB IDEA!@@!!!!

Got OKC - LA on right now...close game this time and as they go to commercial you hear on the PA at the game "Everybody dance now"  I said NO I'm done dancing and sweating for tonight.  FYI the song was Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C+C Music Factory.  How appropriate.  I'm worn out.


Well anyways... I load it up on normal and it says tonight it will be concentrating on lower body.  I know it's going to be rough.  It has 24 activities.  I think 8 were warmup/cooldown.  But god those stride jumps and lunges about put me under.   I know at least 3 activs were those. I had to take a few breaks during those.  My legs were jelly midway through the 24.  But I persevered with more pauses and drinking a full water bottle and got it done.  I'm so going to pay for it tomorrow.  On the good side there was a new fun actvitiy.  This time it was mountain boarding.  Nice to have these to make it seem like not work.  Only had one though...bah.


Anyways on for the stats:   Workout time: 27:59, Cals burned: 135.3., Avg Heart rate: 124, Max: 170, Total cals burned: 479