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2012 Health and Fitness Challenge: January
1. What are your January goals?
2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week?
3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week?
4. H&F plan for this week?
5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier?
Re: 2012 Health and Fitness Challenge: January
1. What are your January goals? let my arm heal from tendonitis, while maintaining most of my hard-earned muscle
5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier? Food: more protein rich food for breakfast (yogurt, scrambled eggs) rather than cereal to keep me full for longer. Keep a healthy snack like almonds in my desk for when I get hungry. Don't go back for seconds on dinner unless it's something really good- if I'm still hungry later I have a small snack instead. Don't walk past where the donuts are at work on Friday. Exercise: sneak in some air squats or calf raises while brushing my teeth or in the bathroom stall at work2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week? I meant to do 1 more workout, but I was lazy. Other than that, yes.
3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week? still having some trouble with my left arm. Vertical motion is fine, but I get some popping under the bicep followed by a dull ache when I add horizontal components (i.e. wide grip lat pulldowns)
4. H&F plan for this week? Lift today and Thurs, focusing on lower body and core, swim at least once, walk dogs 1-2 times
1. What are your January goals?
Train for and complete my first half marathon! 12 days until the race!
2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week?
Mostly. I just skipped my legs strength training because it was the day before my long run and I didn't want my legs to be sore.
3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week?
AWs: I ran 11 miles Saturday!! And DH and I started new meal plans from bodybuilding.com. It's difficult to stick to, but I've already lost 4 pounds in just a week! I'm officially at my original goal weight. Now I just need to tone!
Struggles: My foot. I'm pretty positive it's a bunion (my big toe is starting to turn toward the other toes.) This sucks, I kind of wish it had been a stress fracture, at least stress fractures heal on their own. I've also started getting blisters on the other foot. I bought some new running socks that I'm hoping will solve this problem.
4. H&F plan for this week?
I started a new strength training plan yesterday from bodybuilding.com. Hopefully I can stick to it. I also want to stick to my new meal plan. M: Chest/Shoulders/Triceps. T: 3mile run. W: Legs/Abs. Th: Back/Biceps and Speedwork. F: Crosstrain. Sa: 5-6 mile run. Su: Chest/Shoulders/Triceps.
5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier?
Getting to the gym. Also tracking my food. Making sure my calorie intake is an okay amount and making sure my carb/protein/fat ratio is where it should be each day.
ETA: Corrected formatting (still getting used to my new phone)
Kaylee & Cole 06.14.08
8/6/11 First 5k! OG&E Expo Run 34:47
9/3/11 Brookhaven Run 5k 34:18
9/17/11 Healthy Sooners Fun Run 5k 33:38
10/15/11 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 33:31
10/29/11 Monster Dash 5k 32:06 PR!
11/11/11 Veteran's Day Run 11k in Dallas 1:13:15 Instant PR!
1/28/12 Texas Half Marathon 2:38:03 Instant PR!
3/25/12 Earlywine Dash
2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week? Yes! I finally got myself back on track and stuck to my WW points and quit eating crap.
3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week? AW--I lost 3 lbs
4. H&F plan for this week? The usual--Stick to WW points, drink more water5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier? Last week I focused on eating more fruit and veggies. I didn't enjoy the insane amount of gas that the veggies gave me, but it's part of the sacrifice I suppose
1. What are your January goals? Keep doing P90X 6x/wk. Keep counting calories, learn better food habits.
2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week? Pretty much... I did P90 every day, but I only jogged once - my goal was 3x.
3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week? Jogging is SO HARD! I took ginger's suggestion to run for as long as possible and time it, with the intention of running one more minute the next time. Seriously... I can run like 4 minutes right now. So embarrassing. I'm apparently even more out of shape than I thought. About six months ago, I could run 11 minutes with no problem.
4. H&F plan for this week? P90X 6x, jogging 3x, count calories.
5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier? I've been making time for working out every day. I've been balancing out meal choices (if I have a big lunch, I really cut back on dinner, etc) and counting calories.
1. What are your January goals?
Besides what I already accomplished, Work phase 1 of NROLFW consistently and keep running regularly. Try to get in an actual long run sometime soon.
2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week?
Yes and no. I did lift MWF, but I didn't run enough. I was sore most of the week though and completely zapped for energy right after lifting! I did do a full 5k in addition to lifting today so hopefully I just needed to get into a groove.
3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week?
See above. Also, I'm already seeing improvements in my lifting. My pushups are pathetic though. I think I need some help understanding what variations to start with and what to move up to next to get better.
4. H&F plan for this week?
Lift and run MWF. Maybe a long run this weekend.
5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier?
I've cut the candy and random snacking at work that was so prevalent during the holidays.
Awesome job! You can totally make your goal!
Don't forget that rest days are important too, so don't beat yourself up if you miss a workout!
1. What are your January goals?To run 3x a week and stick to a paleo eating plan
2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week? My plan was to run MWF and go to kickboxing on T, TH. I ran Monday and went to kickboxing on Tuesday. I was so sore I could barely walk on Wednesday so I skipped out on running on W,F but went to class on Thursday to work the kinks out. I think I have found a new love in kickboxing. It's not your typical aerobics class and I love the aggressiveness of it.
3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week? I lost two pounds but my soreness really held me back.
4. H&F plan for this week? Continue eating well and go to class. Run at least two days.
5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier? Drinking a ton of water. I can't seem to get enough.
And yay for loose pants--way to go!
1. What are your January goals? Finish Stage 3 of NROLFW, not going to happen. My new goal is to have food prepared by the end of January to feed myself lunches for most of February. And keep on the NROLFW wagon.
2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week? No, I did something to my quadriceps last Monday so I did go to the gym, but only did the exercises that didn't focus on legs. And I didn't run. I'm going to re-do my last two Stage 2 workouts this week to get the leg workouts in.
3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week? I work too much.
4. H&F plan for this week? Re-do the last two workouts from Stage 2 to get the full workout in before moving to Stage 3. I'm going to have to do some of this at a gym in Texas because I'm OOT for a conference Thur-Mon.
5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier? Drinking more water is the best, easiest, cheapest thing I've done.
P90X allows for one rest day, and believe me, I take it. It alternates lifting with more cardio-type exercises. So far I haven't stuck to the 6 days on/one day off schedule, anyway. :P It's a goal.
Congrats on the pants!
1. What are your January goals? continue tracking my daily calorie intake
2. Did you stick to your H&F plan last week? not really, we ate out a couple of times and I drank a lot.
5. What are some small changes you've made to your daily routine to be healthier? I'm really trying to plan ahead and cook more. I've been testing out new recipes to keep it interesting.3. AWs and/or Struggles from last week? still having some trouble with my left arm. Vertical motion is fine, but I get some popping under the bicep followed by a dull ache when I add horizontal components (i.e. wide grip lat pulldowns)
4. H&F plan for this week? I hurt my back yesterday, so my plan may fall through. But, my intention was to start a beginner's exercise plan I found on Pinterest. It has really simple exercises like 50 jumping jacks and 50 crunches for each day. I think it may be a good place for me to start out.