Help!

I really need an exercise bike to borrow - does anyone have one they can lend me for a week?  Feeling really down about the fact I will be back to square one when I finally get back to the gym.

Longer than anticipated :-(

Well been to GP this morning.  They are confused as to why I have mumps.  Not only have I been immunised against it but I already had it in October 1981!  You aren't supposed to be able to get it more than once.  Trust me eh?  GP has taken some blood to confirm diagnosis and for now I am in quarantine for at least this whole week.

I have let the personal trainers know.  I feel really really bad about the fact I must have been contagious when I had my PT session on Thursday.  I really hope this doesn't set me back too far because I really felt like I was getting somewhere finally.  Can't do anything all week though can't exercise or anything.  Can't even leave the house.

Here is a *lovely* photo of my massively swollen face.  Nice eh?

FATFACE

Well this has stalled a little as I have mumps :(  I actually feel alright in myself so far but I am contagious so I can't go to the gym until at least Wednesday/Thursday.  I also look absolutely ridiculous.  My face looks like Monica from Friends when she wears the fatsuit.  Or when Drop Dead Fred gets his face shut in the fridge door.

Its rather sore at the moment but if I am OK on Monday I will try and do some exercise at home.

Week 3 training session

Worked HARD tonight but you know what - I think I recovered a lot quicker!  We did 5 mins fast rowing on rowing machine to warm up then I did 20 mins on treadmill running at 10kph for 30s then walking at 6kph for 60s.  Thought I was going to die when it got to 10 mins.  I never usually run at 10kph - usually I run at 8 or 8.5 so it was quite a step up.  Then we did a weights circuit with shoulder presses/seated rows and all manor of tortuous things.  Then a whole raft of abs work.  Tired wasn't the word.

Anyway I got my challenges for this week which are:
1 - Treadmill run 30s at 10kph/walk 60s at 6kph for 20 mins
2 - Ab workout 3 times
3 - At least one class (in addition to bootcamp).  Preferably body balance.

The body balance is in there as I have no balance whatsoever.  I can lift whatever she asks me too but when it comes to standing on one leg or owt off centre I am a wobble merchant.  Hopefully this will help!

Then I ruined it all by going out for a meal directly after and stuffing my face silly.  I stuck to water to drink though because I didn't want coke as I need to sleep well tonight and I couldn't drink as I was driving.  Oh well.  Least the meal was after when I was still hopefully burning cals off!

Going it alone

Been to gym to do my challenges today at 3:30pm When I got there I had forgotten my bloody training plan.  I could remember that I had to do 2000m in less than 12 mins and to try to beat previous time but I couldn’t remember the long list of things on the run/walk list.  So rather than do nothing I went on the treadmill and did last weeks challenge of walk 1min/run1 min for 20 mins that I didn’t manage to complete last week.  Then I went on the rowing machine and managed to do the 2000m in 10:46mins this time!  A full 36 seconds faster than the first time.  Arms are KILLING me.  So are my hands actually.  I think I need to take my rings off next time.


Got a text about when next weeks bootcamps are.  Monday 6:45am, Tuesday 7:30am, Wednesday 2pm and Saturday 1pm.  I can make Tue and Sat no problem and possibly even wednesday with a bit of jiggery pokery with picking the kids up as I don't think Xander will be able to go to swimming lessons after his ear operation.  Not sure how doing 3 bootcamps will impact on my gym challenges though?  I guess will find out tomorrow night!

Week 3 Bootcamp

Bootcamp was this morning at 7:30am.  Was HELL as usual.  Must be said though – seems to be tiny bit easier than last week.  Dunno if I am very very slightly fitter or if they took it a little easier on us.  Who knows.  I feel a little tighter all over and my skirt did up a bit easier this morning.  Might be all in my mind though of course………….  I am very stiff and achy again though so must have worked hard.  It's my shoulders and triceps today that hurt most.  That damn weight bar.   


Next bootcamp session is on Friday at 5pm which I can't make cos of Alexander's operation.  Shame but there are more important things than my fat behind in the world.  I will try and make it to the gym Saturday and Sunday to make up for it. Am sure I will have plenty of chalenges to complete when I get to my PT session on Thursday!

Sicky piggy

Am rubbish.  Kept feeling sick on and off all weekend and so did James so neither of us has been to gym at all.  REALLY hoping I feel OK for Bootcamp tomorrow.  Need to keep this up.  Not been tracking my points either and I know I have eaten loads.  I made a tart au citron at the weekend and  it was amazing if I do say so myself!  Ate 2 pieces of it but in the end I dropped it off with my mum to stop me eating it all (she then ate it all!). 

Car or gym?

I had planned to gym today but instead I ended up test-driving a new car!  Bad Michelle.  Instead I did the abs challenge at home.  Chuffing killed.  I forgot what one of the exercises was but I did some approximation of what I thought it was.  

Why did I do it?

Made mistake of weighing myself this morning.  No loss.  This has made me VERY grumpy.  I shouldn’t have weighed myself at all.  The challenge is to lose 14lb in 6 weeks then 14lb in the last 6 weeks.  Next time I get weighed officially isn’t till about 15^th March.  I am an idiot, as now I feel really fed up.  I KNOW it’s because I was naughty at the weekend and it’s also my TOM, which doesn’t help.  But when I saw it this morning I really wanted to just quit.

UPDATE – Decided to buck my ideas up and stop whinging.  Went down to the gym and did challenge 1 and 2.  Challenge 1 damn near killed me.  There was one point where I was supposed to be running at 9.5 with an incline of 7.  I just couldn’t do it and I had to turn the machine down to run at 8 and incline 1.  I got really bad shin splints.  Disappointed I couldn’t do it as it was written down but I at least finished the whole 20 mins.  I then went onto the bike and I proper thought I was going to die.  After 3 mins I really didn’t think I could carry on.  I very very nearly quit again but kept thinking ‘just do one more minute see how far you can get’.  I completed the 2000m in 11:22.  I was shaking when I was walking back down and all the way home.  And SOOOOO hungry!!!  

Week 2 PT session

Second PT session today.  I was late thanks to traffic on Derby road and being unable to park on Alma Leisure Park.  I forgot that not only was it Orange Wednesday but it was also half term!  It was a nightmare getting there; traffic was just stood still for ages.  I finally got there about 20 mins late.  I managed to do what she asked and then we went through my challenges for the week.  They are:

1 – Walk/run incline treadmill 20 mins challenge

2 – 2000m @Level 5 in 12 minutes on the rowing machine (beating time each time I do it)

3 – Abs core exercises

All of which look absolutely horrible.  

Week 2 - First Bootcamp

Oh.  My.  God.  First bootcamp session.  I thought I was going to die.  It was like circuits with weights.  I completed it all but I had to change some of the exercises, as some were too hard!  At the end there was a bit where we had to push a weight wrapped in a towel the length of the studio.  I couldn’t do it, as I knew if I bent forward I WAS going to be sick.  I just jogged it out though.  Now I am here sitting on sofa my joints are so stiff and I might die.  Remind me again why I paid these women to torture me??

Piggy weekend

Been away for the weekend so no gym and no blog updates.  Had a really lovely time though – did eat and drink far too many calories though.  Oops!!  Xander is sick today though so James took the morning off to look after him while I took the car, then this afternoon I went home so James could take the car and work.  This one car business is REALLY annoying and impacting on gym more than I would like.  Thankfully James is arranging to borrow his boss’s car so that should take the pressure off from tomorrow.  

Alternative abs workout

No car so couldn’t get to bootcamp.  Hoped to get down to the gym to do my viper session when James got back with the kids but I forgot that we were going to see Jimmy Carr tonight!  Which was amazing by the way.  Really funny.  My stomach got a work out laughing anyway!

STUPID CAR

BAD F*****G DAY!  Stupid car broke down this morning on the way to work I had to get towed all the way back to Chesterfield.  Really grumpy.  I did manage to get to the gym though I got my brother in law to drop me off and my hubby picked me up on the way to get the kids.  I completed challenge 3 and did 10km on the bike.  It took me 31 minutes and when I got off my legs were like jelly!  I normally only do 10 mins at a time on the bike and I VERY nearly got off after 10 mins because I honestly thought I couldn’t carry on.  But I pushed through and I surprised myself by completing it.  No car is going to be a nightmare – am supposed to have Bootcamp in the morning at 6:45am but I won’t get back in time for James to take the car with the kids.  Grrrrr. 

Kettle bell hell

I did my kettle bell session today at home.  I have 2 x 7.5kg kettle bells so I did my 25 min session in my bedroom.  Feeling good about this!!

Week one - first PT session

Well that was embarrassing.  If you have ever watched Biggest Loser where they do their first work out and they are all sick – that was me!  Thankfully my trainers are a fair bit nicer than Bob/Jillian and didn’t just hold a bucket under me on the treadmill and say suck it up and carry on!  They very nicely got me a lucozade and let me sit down.  To be fair Jade had told me not to eat for 2 hours before as I was having the MOT tests.  When I got there I didn’t have the tests and got straight into the work out.  My appointment was 11am and I didn’t get up till 9:30am, which left me too late to have breakfast so I was really weak!  Still rubbish though.  How am I going to last 12 weeks of this?? 

I was given my weekly gym challenges to complete which this week are:

1 – Viper circuit

2 – Kettle bell session

3 – 10km bike ride

4 – Treadmill 15-20 mins walk 1min/run 1 min

I was also given an eating plan that is all common sense.  It’s difficult to follow when at work though as it’s all protein and no bread etc.  I think I shall stick to weightwatchers as I know it works and I know I can stick to it.  

In the beginning..........

Right I am going to do it.  I am actually going to sign up to Bootcamp.  I must be completely mental.  I have to do something though.  Since my stupid stomach thing I have put on the 2 stone I lost and I am very grumpy about it.  I know I need to get back into the gym (as let’s face it – eating less isn’t an option as I LOVE DINNERS) and I hope this will give me the kick-start I need to get my fitness back up to a level where it was.  I used to be able to run 30 mins without stopping.  I am lucky at the moment if I get to 3 minutes. 

It’s 12 weeks and will cost me £300.  That is what I normally would pay for 10 PT sessions.  For this bootcamp though I will attend 1 or 2 bootcamp sessions per week PLUS a PT session PLUS weekly gym challenges to complete.  So in effect more for my money.  I have to give it a go.  First PT session is tomorrow.  Wish me luck!!