Training Update

I haven’t talked too much about my training lately so I thought I’d update you guys on how things are going.

Last week my gym membership expired; so now I’m officially in the working out from home phase that I’d mentioned I was going to try.

It’s only been three days, but so far so good.

Monday was 45 minutes of swimming (2000 metres), level three of the 30-day shred and 20 minutes of yoga

Tuesday was a 3-mile run, in -20 C weather I might add, and level one of the 30-day shred

Wednesday was 50 minutes of swimming (2000 metres) and level two of the 30-day shred

Today, so far I’ve done level three of the 30-day shred already this morning and tonight Eric and I are going for a 4-mile run and I’m going to try and get some yoga in.

A few things that I’m doing differently now is I’m not going to masters swimming anymore. I loved masters swimming, it really pushed me to another level, but the fact that I don’t have a vehicle just makes it too inconvenient. By the time I catch the bus there, swim for an hour and ride the bus back it takes three hours out of my night. What I’m doing now is walking up to the pool on my 2-hour break from classes that I get on Mondays and Wednesdays. I only have time for about 45-50 minutes of swimming rather than a full hour, but it’s better than nothing. The same is true for the gym; it’s just to inconvenient to commute there and back on the bus. I plan to rejoin the gym this summer when I have a vehicle again, for now I need to shake up my routine. I am one of those people who need to change up their workout at least four or five times a year or I get SO bored. Is anyone else like that?

The 30-day shred DVD is still totally kicking my butt. It’s the best 20 minute workout I’ve ever done. I also find that now that my workouts are split up, it feels like I’m doing less when I’m really doing just as much or more than before. On Mon/Wed I swim on my break between classes and then do the 30-day shred at night. On Tues/Thurs/Fri I do the 30-day shred first thing in the morning and then run after school. I squeeze in yoga whenever I can.

The other fabulous thing about the 30-day shred, I throw supper in the oven and then I pop in the DVD and do it while supper’s cooking, in the morning I do it while the coffee’s brewing.

Our 3-mile run on Tuesday night went great. We were both kind of dreading it because it was SO cold out, but then we just got out there and did it. We ran the entire route, which was a first for us, there are so many big hills we usually had to take walking breaks before, and we did it in 31 minutes when the fastest time we had done it in before was 35 minutes. I thought shaving off four minutes was pretty good!

So that’s basically my routine for now. I’ve been doing pretty good following the training program I showed you guy’s here. Eric missed last week because he was gone and didn’t get any running in at home, but he’s bounced back remarkably well.

Oh, and I’m doing 100 sit-ups a night. I’ve been inspired by Chic Runner, who is doing 200 a day! I’m hoping to work up to that, but for now it’s 100. My abs don’t feel too sore the next day but they are SO sore when I’m actually doing the sit-ups. I do them in four sets of 25. I do a set of 25 regular sit-ups and then a set of 25 where I do cross punches at the top holding seven-pound weights in my hands. It’s pretty brutal.

So, does anybody have other suggestions for workouts to do from home or outside since *knock on wood* it seems to be warming up slowly?

PS: This is what we had for supper last night. Eric gives it a skeptical look and goes, “this is what we’re having for supper?!” He then proceeded to eat three granola bars after supper. Ha.