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Hello there! I'm going to start blogging my weight as motivation to get back into shape and look my best for my fiance on our wedding day!

Goal Weight: 100-105 w/ muscle, 22-23 inch waist (i'm short!)

Starting Weight: 123lbs (lost 9 lbs so far), 29 inch waist

Current Weight: 114 lbs, 25 inch waist

Pounds to lose: 10-15 EEK!

Plan: Spinning, tennis, thaiboxing, jump rope, weights, eat less meat and more veggies!

11/14/09: 114 (with more muscle and less fat!), 10/29: 114 lbs, 10/16: 115 lbs, 9/22 117 lbs

       Starting: 115                  Near Future: 100-105 :D

Chest Exercises:

Upper Chest: Declined push-ups

Middle Chest: Regular push-ups, narrow grip push-ups

Lower Chest: Exercise ball push-ups

Butt Exercises:

Squats, lying butt bridge, glute kickbacks, Leg presses

Abs

Upper: Flutter kicks

Middle: Ab tuck crunches (legs up, then crunch!)

Oblique sides: Lying leg raises, bicycle

Back:

Lying back presses, wide grip pull-downs

Lower back: dumbell stiff leg deadlifts or lying back presses

Middle: two arms dumbell rows, hyperextensions

Legs

Calves: Calf raises

Hamstrings: Leg lifts, dumbell lunges

Quads: squats, jump squats

Quadriceps: dumbell lunges

Shoulder: front: dumbell raises over head, middle: twist dumbell raises

Trapezius:

Arms

Forearm: Standing dumbell reverse curls

Triceps: Narrow grip push-ups (v push-ups)

Calisthenics

9/21: Spinning

9/22: 117, ate an almond Auntie Anne's pretzal :(  This will throw me off!

9/23: 118!!!  That evil pretzel did this!! My biceps def look bigger though.  Spinning, abs, leg lifts

9/24: 12-1pm, thaiboxing. 6:30-7:30pm bootcamp - NOPE

9/25: Spinning 5:30-6am (Aiming for it...) -NOPE and I ate pho and duck salad and vanilla ice cream!!!

9/26: GOTTA WORKOUT! NOPE :(

Sun, 9/27: Ran 20 minutes, weights- arms and back :D

Mon, 9/28: 11:30am-12:15pm-Spinning Yay, it was hard. Glad its over.

Tues, 9/29: 6-7am Spinning, 7-9:30pm class - NOPE, took a break because I have blisters all over my feet :(

Wed, 9/30: 11:30-12:30 spinning Yay, today was hard... 115 lbs with a full stomach :)

Thurs, 10/1: 12-1pm Thaiboxing  So freakin hard...boxing is tough...I'm sore all OVER.

Friday, 10/2: 5:30-6:30am Spinning or Run then weekend begins!!

WEEKEND OFF - Engagement pictures and Dress Shopping!

Mon, 10/5: Spinning 11:30-12:20

Tues, 10/6: Thaiboxing 12-1pm

Wed, 10/7: Spinning 11:30-12:30, then dress shopping I'm back to 118 due to my NY trip. Blah to eating and drinking!!! I'm also going to start lifting weights more regularly, that seemed to help out a lot.

Thurs, 10/8: RUN, Thaiboxing 12-1pm, then dress shopping - NOPE

Friday, 10/9: Thaiboxing or spinning or running - NOPE

Sat, 10/10: OFF

Sun, 10/11: Boxing/light run - NOPE

Mon, 10/12: Spinning

Tues, 10/13: Weights, Spinning, 5 min precor

Wed, 10/14: Weights, Spinning, Tennis Weight: 116, waist: 25.8

Thurs, 10/15: BREAK - TOO SORE!

Friday, 10/16: Cycling 30 mins, weights (arms) - Weight 115, Waist: 25.1 inches!!!! YAY!!!!!  Playing a sport I love makes working out easier (tennis for 2-3 hours) and throwing in precor and running helps.  I hardly eat chicken, mostly fish and veggies, and occasionally ice cream when I'm craving it (around PMS time).  Hopefully I can get to 112-113 next week...I do, however, need to stop eating so LATE!

Sat, 10/17: OFF

Sun, 10/18: Tennis

Mon, 10/19: Weights, 30min cycling

Tues, 10/20: off

Wed, 10/21: 20 min run, 10 min cycling, light weights, 1.5 hour tennis

Sun, 10/25: Tennis

Wed, 10/28: 60 min spinning, two hours of tennis 114 lbs!!! YAY!  I'm def slimmer.  I'm at the point where I love working out because I can FINALLY see the results.  Lately I've been wanting to run so I can lost 4lbs in a week or so.  Spinning has become really easy - I'm going to do the extended spinning class on the Saturdays and maybe light running before spinning.  Woohoo...105 is almost here... :)

Fri, 10/30: 20 min run, weights (arms, back)

Mon, 11/2: Spinning

Tues, 11/3: Run, weights

Wed, 11/4: Spinning, Tennis

Thurs, 11/5: Run, weights

Friday, 11/6: Gym

Saturday, 11/7: 2 hour tennis match (we won in 3 sets!)

Monday, 11/8: Spinning, 2 hour tennis match (sweeped the other team!)

Wednesday, 11/11: Spinning, 2 hours of tennis (won!!! on a role...)

Thurs, 11/12: 1 hour thaiboxing (killer)

Sun, 11/15: Weights or OFF

Mon, 11/16:  1 hour AM Spinning, 1.5 hour PM Spinning

Tues, 11/17: Tennis, Thaiboxing

Wed, 11/18: Spinning, 2 hour tennis match

Thurs, 11/19: Thaiboxing, 2 hour tennis match

Friday, 11/20: Off

Tuesday, 11/24 1 hour spinning, 15 weights (arms, back, shoulders, abs)

Wednesday, 11/25:  look at bridesmaid dresses!

Thursday, 11/26: Weights (arms, squats), run, 25 push-ups, gobble gobble.

Friday, 11/27: Run

Saturday, 11/28: Run

Sunday, 11/29: Weights

Mon, 11/30: 1.5 hours Spinning, weights

Tues, 12/1: 2 hours tennis

Wed, 12/2: Spinning/run am, Weights, 1.5 hours Spinning pm

Thurs, 12/3: Run 45 min, weights

Fri, 12/4: Run, 25 push-ups, weights

Sat, 12/5: HIIT

Sun, 12/6: TBA

Tues, 12/8: 2 hours Tennis

Friday, 12/11: HIIT, weights

Sat, 12/12: Spinning, 2 hours tennis

Sun, 12/13: Spinning/Run, 2 hours tennis

Mon, 12/14: Spinning, 25 minutes HIIT, chest press, lat press, deltoid/row press, triceps, fly, shoulder press, pull down. 3X 40lbs, abs, lunges

Tues, 12/15: HIIT, weights

Wed, 12/16: Spinning/tennis

Thurs, 12/17: Spinning

Although I have silver Stuart Weitzman's (present from my cousin), I really want eye popping colorful shoes. Check these out:

Love the yellow Jcrew wedding shoes.

These Christian's aren't eye popping, but I love the heel!

Steve Maddens. But not sure if they're as comfortable.

Love these Chinese Laundry shoes!

I think the teal chinese laundry shoes are more me. Hmm, where to get these...

Trying to do more weights!!!

Weight Training:

I tend do have heavy upper body workouts (low reps)and use light or moderate weight for legs (high reps). I always wait 24 to 48 hours before training the same body part again - in order to aid in muscle recovery and growth.

Monday: 25 minutes HIIT cardio on elliptical and treadmill

Tuesday:DAY 1 Weight Training(Back/Chest) AM: 30 mins cardio on treadmill PM: Circuit 1 - Repeat X's 3 Warmup - 15 minutes on elliptical Lat pull down (15 reps) Cable Rowing (15 reps) Overhead lat flexion (15 reps) Circuit 2 - Repeat X's 3 10 burpies Bench press (15 reps) Wide grip push ups (15 reps) Close grip push ups (15 reps) Circuit 3 - Repeat X's 3 Abs on ball (30 reps) Reverse crunch (10 reps) Combo on ab bench (10 each)

Wednesday: DAY 2 Shoulders/bis/tris] AM: Cardio - treadmill PM: [B]Circuit 1 - Repeat X's 3[/B] Running on floor in push up position (30 reps) Overhead press (15 reps) Side Lat Raise (15 reps) Bent over delt raise (15 reps) Circuit 2 - Repeat X's 3 10 burpies Bicep curl (20 - 25 reps) Tricep cable press downs (15 reps) Push ups (15 reps) Circuit 3 - Repeat X's 3 Cable crunch abs - heavy Lower AB with cable (10 - 15 reps) AB curl on medicine ball (30 reps)

Thursday AM: DAY 3 - LEGS[/I] Circuit 1 * 2[/B] Pylometrics (2 minute intervals) Walking lunges (50 reps) Pile Squat - (50 reps) Circuit 2 * 2 One legged squats (10 - 15 reps) Sumo deadlifts (40 reps) Abs on ball (back on ball, feet against wall - 30 curls) Circuit 3 * 2 Leg extension - (50 reps) Step ups (15-20 reps) Kickboxing side leg lifts (20 reps)

Friday: 30 mins cardio

Saturday: 45 mins cardio

Sunday: OFF

Cardiovascular:

I do one session per week of HIIT cardio and do 1/2 hour to 45 minutes 5 times a week usually on the treadmill or elliptical. Jump rope and kickboxing classes are also a fun addition.

 

HIIT 20-30 minutes

Warm up by fast walk or light jog for 5 minutes.

Run at 8 miles/hr pace for 2 minutes
Walk at 4 miles/hr pace for 3 minutes
Run at 10 miles/hr pace for 2 minutes
Walk at 4 miles/hr pace for 3 minutes

Repeat this cycle 2 to 3 times for a very intense H.I.I.T. "cardio" session followed by cool-down and stretching.

You got the idea? You can also change up the intensity or work-to-recovery ratio by modifying the pace and duration. If you increase the grade or incline level like running uphill, your cardio intensity increases as well.

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5 minute warm-up jog, 5mph, slight incline

1 minute 6 mph

1 min 7 mph

30 sec jog

1 min 8 mph, 30 sec jog

1 min 9 mph, 30 sec jog

1 min 10 mph, 30 sec jog

(decrease, then repeat again)

5-10 min cool down

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30 second walk
30 second sprint
15 sec jog/walk

1 min sprint

30 walk/jog

2 min spring

1 min jog

(repeat)