I've been working out!

Regardless of the lack of posting, I've been working out! Trust me...My body feels it too.

Instead of Body Sculpting one night a week, I'm going twice a week - Mondays and Thursdays. Monday night was hard. We did the bridge, as shown in the photo work out your abs. Which trust me, it does. I still get the feeling that I may be doing it all wrong since its usually my arms that give out and not my core. Either way, it does work the abs, I can tell that much.

I've also noticed how much stronger my arms and legs are.. Always a good thing!I think two nights a week worth of this class and I should be in great shape come try outs!

Last night I went a did my normal routine - Weights and then the olypical.

However, I changed it up a bit - mainly because the machines were all full - but it worked out. I started off with the weights - lateral pull down, leg press, ab abduction, hip abduction, back extensions, ab crunch, chest press. I then went a did the olypical for my normal 27:44. The workout was great - ended up feeling really good.

So here is my bitching part of the Y - Right now its towards the end of January and there are a ton of people in there who are making open, empty promises to themselves that they are going to work out, get in shape, loose weight, etc. etc. So naturally you see a lot of different people in there. You see the fat people who come one time and you never see again, you see the older people who, at one time, was probably in great shape trying to come back to being that way - just adding 25+ years and then you see the girls...When I say girls, I do not mean the women or ladies that are in the gym who just had babies or are really there to better themselves, I'm talking about the girls under 18 who have no clue what to do and are only at the gym to meet some "Hot Hunk" with "a great bod". These stupid girls are the ones who have turned my work out from 45 minutes to 1hr and 15 minutes. Prime example - last night I had to do the weights first since all of the olypicals were taken - so I do my chest press, lateral pull down and get all the way to the hip abduction, ab abduction (same machine) and I have to weight. So I position myself in a triangle allowing me to see both sides of the room - the olypicals and the machine I need to use to finish my work out. I have my Ipod with me, so I'm listening to some tunes and before I know it - my 5 minute, totally awesome, rockin' Dave Matthews song ends and this one girl is still on the machine. It would be okay if this one girl on the machine was working out - but she hadn't done a single rep in the 5 minutes of my waiting. Grr.

So I turn my Ipod off, but keep my head phones in to make it look like I'm still listening to the music. They, the girl on the machine and the girl standing by the machine who is obviously her Friend, are talking about "The Hot new guy in Drama"....I wait, 3 minutes goes by, not one rep. So I leaned in and said, "Excuse me, but if you aren't going to do the work out, get off of the machines and let people who need to work out, work out." She looks at me, rather puzzled and says, "okie" and then starts doing the reps! Does one set and then lets her friend on to do her "work out". Gah! How fF*(&() annoying! So I wait and wait - no olypticals are open and the one machine I needed to use was still being occupied by these stupid, ugly, freckled faced, idiot, high school losers who wouldn't get the hot guy in drama even if they wanted. . . 15 minutes later, I have the machine. I do my work out in about 5 minutes and then go to the olypticals where everyone on them was a new face and had just started the work out......good thing the one guy was one of the "Fat" people (horrible, aren't I?) and he only used it for about 5 minutes before he looked like he was going to fall over in a new grave if he continued any longer....

Now I know, was totally a punk ass brat in this post about the "fat people", the "old people" and the stupid lame as brats who are annoying as hell, but I give them props - they are trying....

This one older lady in my body sculpting class is probably in her late 40's and she kicks the shit out of everyone there!!

Alright - I'm a Y junkie now - and I can totally feel it....

What the weekend can do...

This weekend was interesting mainly because a lot of things happened, but it didn't feel like I did much of anything.

I went and playing womens league on Saturday, which I have to admit I find repulsivley boring, and then went to go and set up for our Holiday Party. . .

Sunday consisted of much of nothing...

Good News!
I'm back down to 143! Who knew......

Going to the YMCA tonight!

A thing called "weight".

At one point in your life, whether when your old or young, you will at one time feel that you are too fat, weight to much or flat out just don't look the way you want.
That time in my life is now.

Over the past year I have gone from skinny little - 127 lb Samantha to a whopping 148 fat ass - blob and I look horrible. So, I've been going to the YMCA and if you've been reading, though I doubt anyone is reading, you've seen the work outs. I just don't understand why I'm not losing any weight! I got down to 148 and then it shot right back up....within a week.
Pathetic.

I've done body sculpting, cardio, weights and I don't weight anything less! I weigh the same, if not more. Someone, if you know anything about helping people loose weight, please let me know!!

I've even been so hard on myself that I only drink one glass of sweet tea - and that's only in the afternoon at lunch time! The rest of the day its water, water, water. So what I'm going to do is this - only water, milk and apple juice to drink. No caffeine, no sweet tea, no nothing. UNLESS, its after a tournament- then its okay to have something with sugar.
I can't believe I'm giving up my favorite food, but no more Mexican. The cheese is killing me!

I need to get to 130 pounds by April 11th. I have 89 days left....

-New Subject-

I talked with Amy - aka Shortcake - last night and found some comfort in what she was saying. She and I naturally fell into talking about ultimate Frisbee and my, as I'm calling it, "Freak out Fiasco" a few months back. She had some great things to say - some things that comforted me - some things that made my hairs stand up on end, but ultimately, I agreed with everything she said.
Now - the hard part - taking what she said, using it effectively and hoping that the best comes from it. I have three tryouts coming up soon - I need to be 100% on top of my game and listening to what she says - Good idea....

Body Sculpting - day 2

So I've been trying this Body Sculpting class with Mikey and it's awesome.
I'm sore in places I didn't even know I had muscles! The work outs are intense, strong and a pain the next day. It's a great work out and it's a lot of fun.
We did this thing tonight that really killed. You lay on your side and you push up on your elbow (or entire arm) and point your other hand to the sky. Much like the photo shown. I can't begin to explain how many reps we did of this, but I can tell you that they hurt like hell. I had to stop and rest a few times during the work out just because of the amount of pain in my abs. My hopes from this - to have an awesome core!

We also did a lot of squats and calf raises with the weights. It's crazy. If anyone wants to try - let me know - I have a guest pass for someone to try out this class....

I'm also leaving my FitLinxx summary, just cause' -

QUICK STATS (Jan 1 - 18)

FitPoints	3,158
Workouts	6
CV Time	8:26:00
CV Calories	4,047
Stations	28
Weight [lbs.]	34,805

Tryouts baby - here I come....

Two Posts in one!

Hooray!
Yesterday I was a little pre-occupied at the doctors office to be typing in my blog.

Anyway. The day before last I did my work out. 24:77 on the olypical, 10:00 on the stair master and then my weights. Followed by swimming.
Current weight (since Ive been forgetting to put this): 144 ... guess the holiday's are still with me...

MY STATSMy FitPoints
2,242
Through Dec 12
0
All of Dec
0
Through Jan 12
Workouts
3
0
0
CV Time
6:01:11
0:00:00
0:00:00
CV Calories
2650
0
0
Stations
21
0
0
Weight [lbs.]
23,240
0
0
Standings: My Facility
FitPoints
4/139

119/119
Calories
6/139

119/119
Weight Lifted
15/139

119/119
Group: Females, ages 20-29


Looks good huh?

Then last night I did this thing called Body Sculpting with Michelle, aka Mikey.
Man, that was freaking hard! I'm still going to go though =)

FitLinxx online...

Last night I went and did my work out. The only thing I left out was swimming, but that will be added in tonight.
The cool think about FitLinxx is that it allows you to access everything online, like my work outs!
Here are my "Quick Stats"
QUICK STATS (Jan 1 - 10)
FitPoints
1,795
Workouts
2
CV Time
5:05:00
CV Calories
2,134
Stations
14
Weight [lbs.]
12,970
>> Full Stats
>> Standings

To summerize, I ran on the cardio machine for 27:44 and on the stair master for 10:00 and then did all of my weights...Felt good! Can't wait to do it again tonight.

Another cool thing - My old Grandmaster's Protege', Master Sue Ball is the Martial Arts Instructor at the YMCA. So guess where I'll be!!!

Hooray! Fun, fun fun.....

Fitlinx!

It is another Tuesday-should be a Friday- early morning and I'm so ready-to-hit-the-gym that is killing me!

Last night Teddy and I managed to squeeze in an early FitLinx appointment at the YMCA after Kenny and Cooper, the two "trainers on duty", called to see if we could make it in earlier so they too could watch the Gators kick the crap out of the extremely arrogant, ever so cocky, so glad they lost, Buckeyes. My poke at the Buckeyes and way to go, Gators!

Needless to say, my entire work out has changed! Changed for the better, mind you, but still changed. Kenny, who is my "Life Coach(?)" gave my work out a whole new twist. I'm going to run twenty-thirty minutes of Cardio and then hit the weights. I told him about my swimming and he said that it was a great thing.
I haven't tried my workout yet, but I'm going to start first thing tonight! I'm totally and extremely excited.

The cool thing: He asked me what my goals were and I asked him if he ever played Ultimate Frisbee. He acknowledged that he had, but not at the level that I was talking about. I explained to him that I have try outs for very important teams coming up and that I needed to work on being faster, stronger and more endurance. Without hesitation he said he could help me with that.

Well, now my goals have changed. My goals are to make one of the teams that I try out for. Of course one team means more to me than the others and two and two of them I don't think I have a chance of making, but I'm going to go out and try my hardest. I'm going to train and train hard; hope for the best and shoot for the moon!

I'm going to be in the best shape of my life at the end of this and I plan to stay that way!!

Woot! Yea....

Guilty of some things...

There are a few things in which I am gulity for.
1. Not posting about my work outs.
2. Not doing some of them since it was x-mas and people were all mad and nuts.
3. Thinking that I wouldn't enjoy this weekend...

I know that I haven't been posting about my work outs, but since I only got one done during the x-mas break and I did three last week, I decided to start posting yet again.
I have been working out on the olypical's doing 27 minutes of "weight loss training" where it changes the level of intesity between 1 and 8 every few minutes/strides. Then I have been doing the stairs, usually 20 flights followed by a five minute cardio run. After all thats done I hit the weights consisting of the torso rotator, the calf rasies, 2 different ab machines, a really cool machine that works your butt and then hamstrings and quads. Then comes the fun part; once my body is already pretty tired I hit the pool. I swim a 50 warm up lap to get my muscles use to the water and then I do 10 sprints. Five of the sprints are free and then the other five are butterfly... Anyway, I'll start posting more about my work outs as they progress.
Current weight: Unknown

Seven Little Idiots.
Am I guilty for thinking this weekend wouldnt be fun? Yes. Am I guilty for thinking it wouldnt be fun because of the team? No. Absolutley not. I was worried about playing womens, as I have always played mixed and wasn't sure how much I would like it. However, this weekend was kick ass! I really had a lot of fun and oh, how good I feel after working out! I can feel such a difference this weekend just with the little bit of work outs I've started. Emmie gave me the greatest compliment. Ever. It was the first point of the first game and she had a beautiful backhand huck to me in the end zone. She and I both thought for sure that she had over thrown me until out of nowhere this phenomenon happend. I excellerated from sprinting to an evens faster sprint! (Can I do that?) She came up and told me after I caught it that she thought for sure that she had over thrown me and then told me that "I've never see you do something like that! It was exactly what Tessie does; speeds up in the middle of her run!" Woot! Yea. I feel good....

The weekend was a blast. We went 1-3, but it was the most fun I have had in a long time. We lost to Backhoe, Ozone and Old #7 but we beat UGA! Ha. Yea....that always feels good. We all played great! I loved being out there....it was awesome...

Tryouts, baby, here I come! I've gotta keep getting in shape...but it feels sooo good!!!!