Saturday, day 6 of week 5

Well today sucked, I had to be at work all day and I dont get off until midnight tonight, so I wont be able to get my interval training in. I was thinking about doing it on sunday which is normally my day off, but I might just take the day to rest. I think my knee needs it.

When I got home last night as soon as I stepped out of my truck my knee cap twisted weird and I got 2 sharp tinging pains on either side of my knee cap. It didnt hurt too much and I didnt think anything of it, I was too busy thnking of gettin changed so I can get my resistance training done. So I started my routine and I didnt really feel anything during the warmup period, but once I got into the routine and was changing from one position to another I kept getting the sharp pain again. I gave it 100% and really pushed out 3 circuits and was pretty sweatty, but it just hurt too much to do one more, so I only completed 3 circuits. I was a little bummed but I knew it would be stupid to push my knee harder and risk seriously injuring it.

So maybe its good I had to be at work all day, and now that I just got done overlooking week 6's routine, I think I will relax tomorrow too to make sure my knee is totally fine for mondays routine. Week 6 has alot of leg stuff and standing jumps so I want to be ready.

I weighed in today at 164.5 lbs, so I am still losing weight, which is good cause Im really getting antsy about the gut still lingering. Despite my nearly 3" loss it still stares at me in the mirror and just mocks me. I will be cranking up my interval training next week too. I have to, since I will be posting pictures again at the beginning of week 7. Gotta show improvement for those pics!!

Keep it up everybody and have a great weekend!

Thursday, day 4 of week 5

Not too much to report, I was a little busy yesterday so I didnt blog. But yesterday went good, it was exactly the same as Monday, I did the advanced level and did 4 circuits. I did sweat alot more than on monday though for some strang reason.

Today was a good interval day too, I did the exact same thing that I did on tuesday. That 2 minutes at 9mph goes good, until about a minute and a half, then that last thirty seconds kills! But I did it, and I felt great afterwards too.

For some odd reason its been a little hard to get the will going to get up and go do my workout. It was like that yesterday and today, but once I do start it I feel better and Im glad that I did start. Im not tired or anything, so Im not sure why Im feeling like that...maybe it will pass. Even if it dosnt I will not be giving into it, I will still workout no matter what!

300 - No Mercy

Best scene in the movie!!

Tuesday, day 2 of week 5

Today went good with the interval training. I kicked it up a bit too. I started out with my normal warmups, and then did 30 reps forward and to each side for the wheel of death, my ab routine. Im surprised how I handled adding 5 more reps from last week. Then after the abs I jumped onto the treadmill and did the following routine:

2min at 3mph, then
2min at 6mph, then
1min at 9mph, then
2min at 6mph, then
2min at 9mph, then
6min at 7mph, then
5min at 6mph, then
2min 30 sec at 3mph, and then
30 sec at 2mph.

All running was done at a 2% grade with the coushining level at 3, which makes it a little harder cause it simulates running in sand almost. I was happy with myself being able to do 2 whole minutes at 9mph....I got to 1min and thought why stop, im not tired yet, but then I got to 1min 30 sec and I got tired. But I pushed it out all the way to 2 min. Little goals and little accomplishments, they're nice.

Ive been looking at all of your blogs and I have to say great work you guys. Keep it up! As the weeks go on we will really start to see some major changes in eachothers bodies. You can see it already in some of your pictures.

Dont give up, keep going!

"NO PRISONERS,...NO MERCY!!!"

Monday, day 1 of week 5

Alright, so todays the day, the day I have to take pictures. Im a little nervous because I sit and look in the mirror and Im really not seeing that much of a change, except for in my arms and legs. But I said I would post pictures so I have to psych myself up for them. First off heres a couple of my stats as of today:

Beginning of week 1: 8-27-07

weight- 177.5 lbs

gut measurement- 39 7/8"

Beginning of week 5: 9-24-07

weight- 167 lbs

gut measurement- 37 3/16"

Total weight loss = 10.5 lbs

Total inches around gut lost = 2 11/16"

Im really glad I took measurements of my gut from the beginning, because if I hadn't I probably would have stopped by now. Even with all your guys support and encouragement it is really a downer to look in the mirror everyday and still see a fat belly. But with the measurement numbers right in front of my face I cant deny that this program is really working! Much better than I had ever imagined!! So I sit back and think about the numbers for a second....WOW...Ive lost 10 lbs, and almost 3" in 4 weeks!! Thats frickin awesome!!!! Thats whats really going to keep the fire inside me lit!!!

Now that I have that out of my system, here's my pics from today:

Here's a comparrison set that I made from week 1 and 2:

As for todays week 5 routine, it went very good. I still had to do my usual warmup #1 because I didn't get enough stuff out of the way in the garage to allow me to use my jumprope. No biggy though. I stuck with the advanced level since this week is also circuit training like week 4. Today kicked my butt a little!! LOL The switching the balance ball from hands to feet KILLS my abs!! But I love it...and the balancing on the ball pushups really arent that easy. Its amazing how much it makes your abs burn....they remind me of planks...not so much pushups. I wanted to add some stuff of my own but ran out of time, maybe wednesday.

Saturday, day 6 of week 4

Well today was my last interval day of the week. Today was a littl hard because it was such a beautiful day out and I started doing some stuff in the garage and was just getting into that so much that I really didn't want to workout. I even started to tell myself maybe I'll skip today and do my interval tomorrow, but luckily I snapped out of it.

So after stretching and doing my warmup routine I did the wheel of death for my abs, 25 straight and 25 each side for obliques, just like thursday. This time I threw in some bench presses, some dumbell curls, and some dumbell shoulder shrugs. WOW did those burn!

Then I hit the treadmill and did the following:

2min at 3mph, then
2min at 6mph, then
1min at 10mph, then
6min at 6mph, then
4min at 7mph, then
3min at 6mph, then
2min at 3mph, then
1min at 2mph for cool down.

I did the entire routine at 2% grade until the last 3 min of walking, I went up to 10% grade. That felt really good in the front of my lower legs.

So thats it for this week, another one down. I cant wait to start week 5, Im getting really excited now because Im starting to notice more and more changes in myself, and people around me are starting to notice too. Tomorrow I might put together a stats list of my progress so far, or I might just add it to Mondays when I take my week 5 pics...not sure yet.

Hope all of you are keeping up with it! Its hard but dont forget, ITS WORTH IT!!!

I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO MY OLD WAYS,.....EVER!!!!!

Friday, day 5 of week 4

Todays resistance went very good, I pushed myself a little extra today. Same thing as usual though, started with the warmups, then only waited 1 minute and started the resisitance routine. I chose to do the advanced level again for a total of 4 circuits, which really had me sweatin. I snapped a quick pic of me right after I was finished with my training today.

Enjoy week 3 guys, cause week 4 starts circuit training, FUN!!!! Deffinetely not as easy as I originally thought.