#myworkouts

Delightful upper body work today. I also tried to focus more on shoulder work because I realized I usually like to do back and chest exercises, subconsciously. I definitely do love back exercises (which I am just now realizing!). It’s all important, but shoulders are definitely not to be neglected!

My legs were still too sore today to do too much, so tomorrow while we are visiting my parents I’ll do a lower body HIIT workout of some sort.

Berry protein smoothie to top off my afternoon!

2020.04.01 Walk

My first non-yoga home workout of lockdown. It’s so tricky in the world’s pokiest flat, I had to modify a few things to fit the space I have available but 30 mins still absolutely wrecked me so all is well 😅

Look at that 1 month progress 😍

Weighed myself today (1/6/2020) at 128.1lbs. And in just a month I went from 35% body fat to 31.6% and added 2.8lbs of muscle, still losing weight overall!(which means I’m burning off that fat 💪🏻).

Also won my DietBet for the holidays - this is so motivating going into the new year!! Focusing on Whole30 meals also helps me feel WAY less bloated) as much as I miss bread and pasta, I think it’s worth it to feel this confident!

I know I haven’t been really updating about my weight loss or workouts or anything really (except for my work things, lol!)

I’m currently not on track - also not super off track. Since the whole co worker thing that attacked me I’m afraid to go to the gym. (Because we went to the same one)

Also, my contract at my old job ended (summer job) - so I’ve been looking for a new job which so far has been good.

I already did two test days at a snackbar, today is the last test day and then they’ll see if they’ll hire me. 😇

From the moment I get hired and get my work schedule I’ll be going to the gym again and getting back on track with everything.

I’ll just have to find another gym, which for me is stressfull because I really liked the old one, oh well. 😂

So I’ll be updating soooooon.

Just switched things up with a home workout, and I was sweating and soooo tired after so I thought I would share---at hand I had two dumbbells, one kettle bell, and a resistance band:

Circuit 1, repeat 4 times:

-10 resistance band leg kick backs (standing)-each leg

-10 resistance band squat jumps

-10 bicep curls-each arm

-10 split squats w/4 high kicks in between each squat 

-50 reps bicycle crunches

Circuit 2, repeat 4 times:

-10 resistance band side leg kicks (standing)-each leg

-8 jumping lunges (each side)

-10 reps stiff-leg deadlift w/ kettlebell 

-10 pulse squats w/ kettle bell

-10 lateral raises w/ dumbbell (each arm)

Circuit 3, repeat 4 times:

-1 set Walking plank (about 8 feet), frog jumps on the way back

-10 kettle bell front squats (weight held at shoulders)

-30 line jumps forward, 30 line jumps side

-10 hammer curls (each arm)

Good week overall :D

Positives: 

-Got 6 workouts in this week. First time in who knows how long (more on this below)

-Slept a lot! I got 8.5 to 9 hours of sleep a night. I’m either catching up on sleep or need more sleep because I’m starting to work out again. Who know!

-Scale victory: the scale moved (a lot!) this week. CW:217.2 lbs (98.5 Kg) ; Last week: 220.1 lbs (99.8 Kg). I suspect a lot of this is water loss as I haven’t really been restricting my calories (though I wouldn’t know since I’m not really tracking them. I guess I should say I haven’t felt hungry at all this week). 

Things to work on: 

-Still haven’t been tracking my water intake

-I’m waking up at different times each day (within a two hour window), biological clock is starting to get the memo though, maybe this coming week I’ll finally get to my “target.” (BTW...have you guys been keeping up with the Nobel prize announcements? This year’s Nobel in physiology and medicine went to three “basic” researchers in biology for their discoveries on biological time-keeping/circadian rhythms  (not basic as in “basic bitch”, but as in “fundamental” or “pure” researchers as opposed to applied, clinical, or transnational researchers)

-I said I wouldn’t spend too much time on my “re-start,” however I somehow managed to use up all of my free time yesterday on meal prepping. Sadly, despite spending a lot of time on this, I only managed to make mashed egg plant (sounds lame; tastes amaaaaaazing!) and roasted zucchini. Gotta somehow make the rest of my meals in about an hour today/tonight.