These past couple of weeks have been beyond accomplishment! I have been building up speed in cardio blocks during Team Training at my gym, Chuze. It has been so amazing to endure 3 minute stints of jogging just over 4.5mph! That may not seem like much for some, but I have never been able to keep up speed at an actual jogging pace for more than 30 seconds. Even those 30 seconds were constantly counting down and checking the time to see when I could just start walking.
The first time I took it to 5mph to max out my effort in the middle of the cardio block for 1 minute. I almost began to cry in the middle of the workout because I had never done it before! I did cry after training ended and I was in my car. If you are part of the Half Size Me Community, I shared a *video on the Facebook group about it.
That was what I worked on last week. This week was more focused on endurance, so we increased inclines (which was rough) and the strength block was about heavy weights. My personal best was today when I lifted 20lb. dumbbells for deadlifts into shrugs and did a 2 minute high plank! I was pretty sure my arms were going to fall off, but once I got home and enjoyed breakfast with my family, I felt pretty darn good!
I'm currently still practicing maintenance, but because I have increased activity and not calories, I'm down to 175. My previous window was 183-185, the window has dropped twice over the last 2 months (180-182 then 178-180), now it is 175-177. Likely, I will increase calories in November to 2300-2500 on active days and 1800-2000 on active rest days in order to prep for the holidays. I will also be taking the sane with the scale course and listen to the webinar series on *thriving during the holidays from Heather on the Half Size Me site.
Thanks for sharing in my weight loss journey. I love that I am growing as a fit mommy. The goals I want to work through over the next month is doing more at home with my girls to set an example of fitness with them and not only at the gym.
*Note: You will only be able to view the video or watch/listen to the webinar series if you are a Half Size Me Community Member.
The first time I took it to 5mph to max out my effort in the middle of the cardio block for 1 minute. I almost began to cry in the middle of the workout because I had never done it before! I did cry after training ended and I was in my car. If you are part of the Half Size Me Community, I shared a *video on the Facebook group about it.
That was what I worked on last week. This week was more focused on endurance, so we increased inclines (which was rough) and the strength block was about heavy weights. My personal best was today when I lifted 20lb. dumbbells for deadlifts into shrugs and did a 2 minute high plank! I was pretty sure my arms were going to fall off, but once I got home and enjoyed breakfast with my family, I felt pretty darn good!
I'm currently still practicing maintenance, but because I have increased activity and not calories, I'm down to 175. My previous window was 183-185, the window has dropped twice over the last 2 months (180-182 then 178-180), now it is 175-177. Likely, I will increase calories in November to 2300-2500 on active days and 1800-2000 on active rest days in order to prep for the holidays. I will also be taking the sane with the scale course and listen to the webinar series on *thriving during the holidays from Heather on the Half Size Me site.
Thanks for sharing in my weight loss journey. I love that I am growing as a fit mommy. The goals I want to work through over the next month is doing more at home with my girls to set an example of fitness with them and not only at the gym.
*Note: You will only be able to view the video or watch/listen to the webinar series if you are a Half Size Me Community Member.
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