Starting to feel good

What an amazing workout tonight was.  Actually glad I didn't get up early for the ZWOW.

Boxing was so intense tonight, combined with a lot of cardio on mini trampolines it was so much fun! I burnt 511 cals in 49.24 mins. A record!

Looking forward to trying the trampoline class tomorrow night. Yay!

Pilates

Found pilates really hard tonight because my muscles are really sore. But in 45 mins I burned 187 cals.

Won't do ZWOW tomorrow either as muscles are so sore and doing boxing tomorrow night so don't want to over do it.

Zumba and break from ZWOW

Tonight did 43.35 mins of zumba and burned 330 cals.

My muscles are so sore, feels like every one of them is aching.  I'm torn between doing ZWOW 3 tomorrow and taking a break on Wednesday or taking a break tomorrow AND Wednesday.  Leaning towards taking a break tomorrow and Wednesday as I  don't want more soreness and to injure myself in the process.

Will be doing pilates tomorrow and boxing on Wednesday so that's ok.

I know I said the other day that getting up early will be the problem...it's not...it's definitely the muscle soreness! So definitely not counting this as a failure.  As soon as muscles have recovered a bit (by Thursday I'm hoping) I'll be getting back into it.  Even if I have to do 2 days on, 2 days off or something.

ZWOD #2

Day 2 of July and time for ZWOD #2

This one consists of:

• 5 x Manmakers
• 20 x low burpee hops
• 10 x twisted push ups
• 25 x competition sit-ups

3 rounds as fast as possible.

My modifications:

• Manmakers - used 2kg dumbbells as that's all I have and did the push up and row on my knees
• low burpee hops - just did normal burpee without the pushup but did the low hop thingy
• twisted push ups - did normal pushups on my knees as my back is a bit iffy and don't want to risk injuring it
• competition sit ups - just did normal sit ups

Ok so I did modifications on all exercises but that's ok as I figure as I get fitter the less modifications I'll have to do!

Times for each round:

Round 1: 8:14
Round 2: 8:41
Round 3: 8:46

By the way my total time for this one was 25:41 and I burned 198 cals.

Now it's 6am and time to get ready for work!

July 1 part 2

Also decided today to try running again.  Managed to run from the carpark near the softball fields to the Wynnum wading pool and back in 40 mins and 30 secs burning 416 calories.

I did intervals, with 5 minute warmup followed by 8 mins running, 3 mins walking, 3 mins running, 3 mins walking, 3 mins running, 2 mins walking, 3 mins running, 3 mins walking, 3 mins running, 2 mins running, 2 mins walking...or something like that!!  I definitely started with the 5 min warmup and 8 mins running. :

Worked out on map my run that I ran 5.18km. :)

New month new challenge

So the burpee challenge was a major fail.

As it's July 1 I've given myself the challenge to do a ZWOW every day for the month.

Just completed the first one which I've done before.  It was only a month ago and already I feel I've improved in technique so we'll see how it all goes by the time I have to do it again.

Here's the link to the video ZWOD #1

The exercise consists of:

• dive bombers x 10
• burpees x 5
• squat leg lift x 20/leg
• burpees x 5
• side plans lift x 10/side
• burpees x 5
• pistol squat x 10/leg
• burpees x 5

3 rounds as fast as possible.

Upper body strength is still crap and so are legs but I've improved a little, completing it in 19mins 51 secs (last time was 23:18).  Just did normal burpees without pushups and did the dive bombers on my knees. But this time all side planks were done with the correct technique (yay!) and I attempted the pistols by using chairs as support and going as far down as I could.  Much better than before!

This time I wrote down the times for each round too:

Round 1: 6.49

Round 2: 7.22

Round 3: 5.40

Wow pretty good!  Can't believe I did the last round the quickest! Perhaps trying to get it done?

Calories for this workout were 198.  But I kept the timer going until I stopped breathing heavily (only about another 3 mins) and I burned 213 altogether.

That's it!

PS. I know I go through all these little exercise crazes or things that I'd ideally like to do to (like a ZWOW a day) so even though I said up there that I'll do it for a month, the real test will be getting up early to do them before work. *fingers crossed*!!

Check in

Here are my current stats:

Chest: 84cm
Waist: 70cm
Hips: 87cm
Thigh: 53cm
Weight: 57kg

Will see what this is next month and whether any changes have occurred.