Week 39 Lessons... Life with a Puppy

So I have been tracking workouts here, however right now I'm spending time figuring out how to live with a puppy in the house. 

Fitness wise this means walking three to four miles a day, sometimes five on Saturdays! This week the puppy and I walked over 23 miles together!

Mike and I walked to the gym on Sunday where I did a variation of last week's workout... one of my favorite parts of the weekend for sure :)

I decided I'm swapping out this upper body challenge with a more intense one I found online from the ToneItUp girls (Alyssa first told me about them and has done a few of their challenges in the past.. looks to be good stuff though I can't say I'll be doing any toning in my bikini). 

I'm setting some refreshed goals for the month of October... Now that I'm more used to the puppy schedule I'm hoping this new challenge will get back to "training".  

October Goals:

 - walk 3.5 miles / day with the puppy

 - Tone It Up's Frisky Fall challenge: http://toneitup.com/2014/09/friskyfall-challenge/

(I'll be starting with week 2 on their 3rd week..)

 - stretch or foam roller three times / week

Week 38 Workouts & Stuff

Flew home Sunday evening and was definitely suffering from allergies / cold / hangover... Something bringing me down - but I wanted to stay above that... So:

Monday.. Walk to the Enclave (about a 12 min walk) where I did my #lbd workout in the park:

 - 60 tricep dips

 - 60 jumping jacks

 - 60 mountain climbers

(I did three sets of 20 of each (from what I recall)

.. then I walked home

Tuesday.. Still under the weather but I did manage to rock the end of my #lbd challenge!

 - 60 high knees

 - 60 squats

 - 60 lunges

Tuesday night, things got crazy here in the Kubicki house when I took in a stray puppy that my neighbor rescued on Monday. So with fighting a cold and taking in a puppy, my strength training was kind of put on hold - but my walking increased a TON! 

Wednesday Thursday and Friday (and Saturday & Sunday for those keeping score) I woke up and walked the puppy at 6:30AM for about 30 minutes. 

Wednesday Thursday and Friday I took a couple breaks throughout the days to walk the puppy and we probably did 20 minute walks in the evenings. 

Saturday was killer! Got my walk in with the pup at 6:30 and THEN ran into a crew about to walk the loop and so Mike and the puppy and I joined... Bringing my day up to about 70 minutes of walking!  Not much after that, just low key taking the puppy out and stuff. 

Sunday I FINALLY made it back to the gym!  Mike and I walked up to the gym where I did a killer lower body workout:

 >> 3 times through:

 - 10 squat jumps

 - 10 knee tick jumps

 - 20 squat with alt. press (12.5 lb weight)

 - 10 "Island Hop" lunges each leg (12.5 lb weight) ((front lunge, side lunge, reverse lunge 10x one moving leg then switch)

 - 20 dead lifts (12.5 lb weights)

 - "Glute Burner" (10 leg lifts, move leg to front and do 10 more, bend leg and lift while kicking back, tap knee to knee / ankle to ankle 10 times... Repeat then switch to other leg)

 - 20 "Body Surfing" (like a superman with leg curls)

 - 10 One Leg Booty Bridges each leg

 - 20 "Booty March" (marching high knees while in a bridge)

I also kicked off a new 30 Day challenge (woo!) so in between the tree rounds I did:

 - 6 tricep dips

 - 4 push ups

 - 8 mountain climbers

And after the 3rd round I did the R.I.P.P.E.D ab workout (4.5 min)

Felt good so let's see where next week and this new challenge (oh and that puppy) take me!

Week 37 Workouts & Stuff

On the road again... Late nights and little sleep didn't do the body much good - I did get in two solid workouts and I'm looking forward to stepping up my game when I get home next week!

Monday.. Walked to the gym and did my #lbd workout (45 jumping jacks, 45 burpees and 45 high knees) and then I did the R.I.P.P.E.D ab workout - def counting this as a cardio day!

Tuesday.. Travel day.. if only that was a workout in itself! Office and work-dinner so no workout

Wednesday.. Up an to the office and out for a team dinner - no workout today

Thursday.. Woke up today ready to take on the world! I claimed up from the hotel basement to the 3rd floor then hit the gym!

I did the below circuit from top to bottom and then reversed it (just one 100 sec plank as the peak of my pyramid). 

-100 jumping jacks

-20 squats (one 20lb weight)

-20 plié squats (one 20lb weight)

-30 tricep dips

-30 mountain climbers

-40 leg lifts (20/side)

-40 bicycle crunches

-50 lunges (two 15lb weights)

-50 sec wall sit

-100 sec plank

Friday.. Travel day again

Got a killer workout Saturday morning as well in honor of the little brother's 30th! 

September Goals:

- Strength workouts: Thursday (sorta Saturday?)

- Cardio workouts: Monday (sorta Saturday?)

- Loop walks: 0/5 (toward monthly goal)

- Rower workouts: 0/5 (toward monthly goal)

- Current plank time: 100

- Fruit consumption: There has got to be a way for me to think fruit when I'm on the road!  Got some good eats over the weekend thanks to Kristina! 

Week 36 Workouts and Stuff

Happy September Y'all!  I'm finally writing this post on Sept 12 and realizing I gotta get back to doing this regularly so I get better notes about what my workouts were and how I felt!

Monday.. Kicked off this month with a good workout up at the gym! I warmed up with a 5 minute walk on the treadmill next to Mike, then when he got into his run I hit the weights...

I used 12.5 lbs weights the whole time except for the forward step-ups with shoulder press, I dropped down to 10 lbs for the 2nd round of those. 

Once I finished the #lbt set at the bottom I went through the leg routine as a single circuit (1x on everything, none of the timed parts). Again with the same 12.5 lbs / 10 lbs combination as before. 

At this point Mike was still cooling down so I did a quick 8 min ab routine: 50 sec work / 10 sec rest.. 

- rolling t's

- bicycle crunches

- high plank knee circles

- penguins

- up/down planks

- flutter kicks

- Russian twists

- superman hold

One word for today... KILLER!!

Tuesday.. Hit the gym after work with Mike then rocked this arms & abs workout using 12.5 lbs weights

After the above I had a few minutes before Mike was ready to leave so I did the ab routine from R.I.P.P.E.D.

Wednesday.. Pretty sure I did something this day but cannot remember!!

Thursday.. Some days you have to make time... I had about a 40 minute break before my end of the day conference calls so I got my butt up to the gym!  Quick lower body workout with some cardio worked in... I owned it!

Friday.. No workout but I tried to make up for it by hitting the gym with Erin on Saturday AM!

September Goals:

- Strength workouts: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 

- Cardio workouts: maybe Wednesday?.. Gotta step this one up!!

- Loop walks: 0/5 (toward monthly goal)

- Rower workouts: 0/5 (toward monthly goal)

- Current plank time: 90 sec

- Fruit consumption: 2 apples this week...