Pics of me working out

Arm raises

Working out the shoulder muscles

Leg press - currently doing 75Kg

Leg curl - 30lbs

Rowing machine - I do this EVERY day

Free-lancing day 2 - cardio

This mixing up of routine has made my porr muscles ache ike they did in the first week of starting this challenge. I woke up with sore arms, abdominal and thighs from yesterdays workout. Today I had cardio free lancing, which with my already sore body was just that little bit harder.

So the program today went pretty much like this:

10mins on the bike on the 'Weight loss' program at level 5 (the bike changes the intensity level every 45 secs)

Done thrice:
25 jumps over a flat bench (hands holding on the bench)
25 squats (no weights)
30 over head presses with 2kg dumbells

Then 10 mins on the cross-trainer, intervals at level 5 (intensity level changed every 45 secs)

Done twice:
Crunchs in sets of three with a hold of 3 secs on third crunch - as many as possible
Bicycle crunch (put your hands behind your head and crunch rotating with left elbow touching right knee) - as many as possible

My poor legs were just about giving out on me and my abs are really sore. Next workout is Tuesday so 1 days rest before doing another free lance session.

Results after Week 4

Another hard week at the gym. And another difficult week with my baby, but he is FINALLY getting better. With the two long weekends coming up I will be training on a Sunday instead of Mondays, and I am swapping my Thursday night training for Saturday morning training meaning that I will be training 3 days on, 1 day off, 2 days on, 1 day off. And with free lancing for the next week I am very interested in my results for next week.

Now for this week results:

 

Weight: 90.6kg (-1.2kg)

 

Waist: 123.5 (-0.5cm)

Hips: 122 (-1.5cm)

Upper Thigh: 60.5 (-0.5cm)

Lower Thigh: 45 (-0.0cm)

Flexed Bicep: 33.5 (-0.0cm)

 

Fat Percentage: 36% (-1%)

which equals 32.616kg (-1.6kg fat)

 

Not bad, the biggest indicator of how it's going is that I need new pants for work!

Freelancing

I have been hard at work in the gym for four weeks now. For the next week, I will not be working out to my normal written down routine - I am 'freelancing'.

So what does this mean? Each day, a trainer will take me through a series of different exercises based on one body group - today it was arms. None of these exercises I have previously done before. Today I had to do:

Done twice:
15 reps - presses with the cable cross over machine
15 reps - single arm flies on the 'bubble' bench
700 sprint on the bike, level 10

Then:
1KM on the treadmill at 7.0km
2.5KM on the cross trainer at level 10
3 x 20 reps, triceps press using cable cross over machine with rope, over my head, 10 seconds between reps

Then abs:
Laying down, legs at 90 degrees, with 5kg medicine ball on my ankles - holding for 1 minute (twice)
Legs in air and crunching with 5kg medicine ball as many as possible (twice)

This is the only time I am doing this particular routine.

So why freelance? Your body gets used to the workouts you are doing. But mixing it up occasionally you force your body to do something else and assists you in gaining your goals. If you do the same workouts again and again and again then you become accustomed to what is required and attaining your goals becomes that little bit harder. Tomorrow, I have back free lancing (They are closed for monday public holiday). I will go back to my normal routine after a week.

One story about the NICU

Here is a story published in the Canberra Times today about the work at NICU:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/shannon-beats-the-odds-with-miracle-early-arrival-20120922-26e94.html

It shows the great dedictation of the people the work there :)

Results after week 3

A bit of a crappy week. My baby was quite sick this week - he ended up on antibiotics, but it meant I didn't get much sleep for a week, probably and average of 3-4 hours a night, which meant that I was tired, missed a training session and found it difficult to get motivated. Lack of sleep also slows your metabolism down, meaning you don't burn as much. I also interrupted my new eating patterns as I skipped breakfast a couple of times as I was running late for work.

My baby is finally getting better, but I have somehow picked up another bug which has given me a massive headache which panadol/nurafen isn't doing much with. Hopefully I feel better by tomorrow for my next week of training.

From my measurements today:

Weight: 91.8kg  (-0.8 kgs) 

Total lose of 6.2kg in three weeks

Waist: 124 cm (-3.5cm)

Hips: 123.5cm (-1.5cm)

Upper Thigh: 60.5cm (-0.5cm)

Lower Thigh: 45cm (-0.0cm)

Flexed Bicep: 33.5 (+0.5cm)

 Overall not bad, my body is losing size in the important areas - around my waist. I have dropped one dress size already,

Adipose

You may wonder what these are:

This is an Adipose - from Doctor Who.

Young Adipose were hand-sized, marshmallow-shaped beings, composed almost entirely of fat. They had two eyes and a mouth, two arms with webbed hands and two stumpy legs. In Doctor Who,  Adipose Industries, marketed a special diet pill to London's population with the slogan, "The Fat Just Walks Away". They find that the slogan is literal: the pills use latent body fat to create the Adipose, small white aliens which spawn every night, removing a little of the host's body fat each time. 1 pill = 1 kilo of fat every night (Don't we all wish!)

So for each kilo I lose I will say farewell to one little adipose at the top of my blog.