Supposedly Sane

So let’s talk about my week! I haven’t blogged blogged in forever.

I was REALLY sick on Sunday… I think I had the 24-hour flu. I woke up around 3 am… threw up, 5am….threw up… 7am…threw up. I’m sure you see the pattern here. And trust me, it continued! I didn’t even have energy to move. I was dehydrated and seriously felt like I couldn’t even drink on my own LOL. Then I would just throw up the water so it would piss me off and I wouldn’t even try to drink. It was not fun. Good thing it was only 24 hour though… blessing from God because I REALLY can’t miss work, especially with how volatile it is currently.

Skipped camp Monday because I was sick but Tuesday I went… it was the hardest day we’ve had so far. We did:

200 jump rope
20 “burpees” (basically up/downs… but with push ups in between)
40 sit ups
1 lap around the school (about 1/8 mile… plus going up 1 flight of stairs, down one)

SIX TIMES. All of that 6 times…. I know it doesn’t look like that much on paper but try doing it as intense as you can 5 times straight and get back to me! Needless to say… since I was sick Monday I was like… OH MY GOD IM GOING TO VOMIT haha I thought I was going to throw up about 4 times so I didn’t make it all the way through but it was still the hardest thing we’ve ever done.

I honestly don’t know if I felt sick on Tuesday because I was genuinely 100% sick, or if it was 80% genuine-sick and 20% fat-and-out-of-shape sick. I’m guessing #2, but don’t tell Joel (our trainer).

I just got back from camp today (Thursday). It was hard, not as hard as Tuesday though. We did our usually warm up… then we did a 30 minute circuit of:

10 “burpees”
15 steps ups on each leg
20 dips
25 squats
2 laps around the school

So we just did that overrrr and overrrr and overrrr and over again. After that we did tons of sit up circuits,  ”flutter kick” circuits, and plank circuits.

I’m writing all of it in here for 2 reasons. #1 so you can have it if you like working out. #2 so that I can do this if I ever can’t afford this in the future (which is more than likely).

The good news is that I’m already seeing results. Well… maybe not SEEING as much as feeling. I’m too chubby right now to tell really big muscle difference other than in my legs and arms a little… but I KNOW there is a lot of muscle building because I can feel it. Once I start losing more weight I think it will be awesome. I just feel better, ya know? I’m not as tired during the day even though I should be exhausted. I feel like I’m eating better and not craving foods that are bad for me. I have all these girl scout cookies and I haven’t had one in like 4 days… I don’t really crave them. Except when I write about them in my blog… like right now :(

So yeah, I just wanted to fill everyone in on what I have been doing. I will maybe start posting out workouts?  The main key the Joel says is to do it “tabata” style which is 30 seconds intense, 10 seconds rest…. for a few minutes. Count how many you do the first time and the last time. If you’re doing it 100% the whole time, it should go from like… say 50 the first time… to like 35 the last time. Or 10 the first time and 7 the last time. It’s just supposed to steadily go down. Mine usually stays the same which means I’m not trying as hard as I should in the beginning. WORKING ON IT!