Saturday's workout

Saturday my mom and I went down to Luke's Locker to register for the Jingle Bell Race next Tuesday night. My mom and I will be doing the 5K race and my dad and Allie will be doing the 1 mile race. When we got back from registering all of us my mom asked me if I wanted to take a walk with her since it was so nice out. So we walked throughout the neighborhood paths. We ended up doing about 4 miles.

Swinging into the holiday season

My mom and I went up to the gym to do our Jillian workout, it had been a couple weeks since we had done one due to a busy weekend last week. My mom picked card number 5 and boy was it hard . Then afterwards we did cardio and my mom talked me into doing it outside instead of inside on the treadmill. So we came home from the gym and started out. We passed by a couple of kids on their bikes and said hello then afterwards they said " Do you know who that was. That's the cafeteria girl". That was neat to hear. We ended up doing 5.22 miles.

Busy School Project Week .....

The last couple of weeks have been quite busy with getting final projects done for my classes. I haven't not worked out but just haven't blogged about them. Last Sunday was my workout with my mom and the Jillian workout cards. I was doing one of the exercises and another gym member was trying to tell me that I wasn't doing it correct and which type of exercise was I doing? We answered that we were doing a Jillian workout he decided to leave us alone with any more comments. Then we headed upstairs to have some treadmill time.

Tuesday after class I decided to go to the gym afterwards and just do the treadmill but was having some issues no water (I forgot to bring some with me and my throat being a little sore) so I only lasted 15 minutes.

Friday- went to the gym to do some cardio and was quite disappointed that my ipod didn't have a full battery so I wasn't able to record my full workout. I have challenged myself to run/walk 40 miles in 5 weeks my deadline is January 2, so I still have some time to be able to finish this. I ended up doing 3 miles of running/walking.

Another Workout

I decided to head up to the gym today. I didn't think that it was going to be busy but I was wrong it was busy. I decided to do the weight machines today and concentrate on upper body. Lat pull down, rows, shoulder presses, fly machine bicep machine and tricep push down machine. Then afterward I headed up to the treadmills. The upstairs was the busiest so I just walked 20 minutes on the treadmill.

Fort Worth Turkey Trot

This year my mom and I decided to do the Fort Worth Turkey Trot instead of the Dallas Turkey Trot that we have done the last two years. We just didn't want to have to deal with the crowds in Dallas and Fort Worth was a 10K instead of 8 miles. After finding a spot to park and walked up to where the race would start we noticed that it was 48 degrees outside.



Starbucks was giving out free cups of coffee and another store was giving out hot chocolate. Hmm that was a hard decision since I like both of them but I picked the hot chocolate (bigger cup) over Starbucks.
Along the race route...
I was glad to see the mile markers only 2.6 miles to go....
This is the second race that my mom and I stayed together throughout the race. She pushed me to run for 6 minutes and walk for 3 minutes except when there was a hill and then I walked up it. We finished it in 1:24:10 and my mom got third place in her age group Way to go Mom!!

Another Training Session!

Today was lower body workout. I started off at the leg press machine, leg raises,step ups, lunges, wall sits and calf raises. My legs were tired by the time the session was over. Then I headed upstairs to do about 30 minutes on the treadmill. I did 5 minutes of walking with 6 minutes of running three times (after 4 minutes I had to tell myself that I only had 30 seconds left four times).

Monday's workout

At the gym I go to I had signed up for monthly training sessions and so after a year of doing this off and on. I decided to cancel them but I have 9 sessions to use up before I lose them so I scheduled a session with a trainer that I haven't used since he had an opening and the other two trainers that had openings I have used before and didn't like them. We did upper body today which was good. It was more like a circuit style workout. We did shoulder presses, bicycles (3 sets) then moved on to lat pull downs with my hands facing me with bench dips (3 sets) pushups (first set was regular pushups which I could do 5 and the other 5 I didn't come all the way down for the first set and then modified push ups for the last two sets) and plank (3 sets), ab work flutter kicks , touching right hand to left leg raising shoulders off the ground, (3 sets) moved on to back extensions and mountain climbers (3 sets) and then moved on to the bicep curl machine only I was trying to keep the trainer from pulling the handles down. Then when I was done with the session I went to try and do 20 minutes on the step machine (I only lasted 10 minutes no wonder I don't use this cardio machine a whole lot since I don't really like it.)