I know I have been Missing In Action the last few days with
my blog posts. BUT…that doesn't mean I
have been slacking in my workouts. Since
we last hooked up, which would have been February 28th; I have
danced with the Addicted To Sweat
workouts and finished up Month 2 of the Oxygen Magazine “Build Your Best Body”
program.
Plus, I have started a Squat
Challenge for the month of March. I
wanted to write about this the other day to get you started on it as well, but
I just wasn’t feeling the greatest to sit down and write. So here is the scoop…
Month of March Squat Challenge
These can be done with weights or without. If just starting out, your own body weight
will probably be enough.
Day 1 – 110 Day 2
– 120 Day 3 – 130 Day 4 – 140 Day 5 - Rest Day
Day 6 – 150 Day 7
– 160 Day 8 – 170 Day 9 – 180 Day 10 – Rest Day
Day 11 – 190 Day 12
– 200 Day 13 – 205 Day 14 – 210 Day 15 – Rest Day
Day 16 – 215 Day 17
– 220 Day 18 – 225 Day 19 – 230 Day 20 – Rest Day
Day 21 – 235 Day 22
– 240 Day 23 – 245 Day 24 – 250 Day 25 – Rest Day
Day 26 – 260 Day 27
– 270 Day 28 – 280 Day 29 – 290 Day 30 – 300
Day 31 –
Completed. Well Done!
I am doing my squats without weights for now. I may do another month with weights.
It was originally posted with a Rest Day on the 26th
instead of the 25th, but I switched it.
Just after the 3 days of doing this challenge I can
certainly feel it. These squats are in
addition to the ones that I do in my regular workout. Have fun with it!
This morning was the beginning of Month 3 of “Build Your
Best Body”, but before the workout could be done, some prep work had to take
place first. I went grocery shopping
yesterday for the meal plan and I prepped my Stay Strong notebook for this
month’s workouts.
As you can see, someone else had to prep her notebook too.
I was glad to change things up this morning. Bring on the dumbbells. I bought myself some 12 pound dumbbells
yesterday. I wasn’t sure what weight I
would be using for this, but I thought I would start with at least 10’s. I used 12’s for most exercises.
Here is the rundown…
LEGS (4 sets of each)
Plie Squat - 12-15 reps
Romanian Dead Lift - 15 reps
Lunge – 12 each leg
CHEST/BACK (4 sets of
each)
Floor Press - 12-15 reps
Floor Flye - 15 reps
Bent-over Row – 15 reps
SHOULDER (4 sets of
each)
Overhead Press - 12-15 reps
Upright Row - 12-15 reps
Bent-over Lateral Raise – 15 reps
ARMS (4 sets of each)
Biceps Curl – 12-15 reps
Triceps Kickback - 12-15 reps
ABS (4 sets of each)
Weighted Crunch – 20 reps
There are also three HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workouts to choose from to do complete 1 of them after
your strength training. One can be found
in the magazine and the other two can be found on the Oxygen Magazine website.
I did not have time this morning after my training session
to get my HIIT workout done, so I will have to figure out when I am going to
get it done. On my “off” days of
training I will definitely being hitting the cardio and some of the HIIT
workouts, plus doing my Squat Challenge.
For today's workout I used the 12 pound dumbbells for all but one of the exercises. I had to drop down to 8 lbs for the Triceps Kickback. I tried using 10's but they were just too much after curling the 12's for the Biceps Curl. I thought my arms were going to fall off. I will work my way up though.
I will talk more of this workout and the weights that I use as the month goes on.
Along with a new workout, comes a new meal plan. The meal plan for Month 3 is called “Time
Your Meals”. It’s set out to show you
when YOU should eat each particular meal.
I might not do so well with this layout because I really don’t like eating
before I workout, plus I workout in the early morning and I do NOT want to wake
up earlier to eat before my workout.
This may hinder my results, but I will do my best to Stay Strong and
stay on track.
Today’s food…
Breakfast: Rolled
Oats & Egg Whites with Raspberries & Flax Seed
I switched up the blueberries to raspberries for this one.
Snack: Greek
Yogurt with Strawberries, Kiwi and Slivered Almonds
Lunch: Grilled
Chicken and Avocado Sandwich with Tomato
I took some of the avocado and tomato and blended it with my
Magic Bullet. I then spread it on the
bread before I placed the chicken, tomato and the rest of the avocado between
the two pieces of bread.
Dinner: Broiled
Tilapia with Steamed Vegetables and Avocado Hummus with Homemade Pita Chips
I didn’t eat my snack between lunch and dinner so I decided to incorporate into my dinner meal. Dinner was to be the tilapia with steamed broccoli along with a mixed green salad with oil and vinegar. But I nixed the salad and made the mixed vegetables instead and ate my snack along with it.
YUMMY!!!
Today was a great day with a terrific workout and wonderful clean
foods.
As I made my tilapia and veggies for myself, I made
something else for my family. It was
from a recipe I found through Facebook.
It was a lemon chicken recipe that made with all REAL foods. I did have a small taste of it, and it was
good. I will share this recipe later
this week along with a few other recipes that I have come across.
I will catch up and share more recipes and update some of my
other pages too.
Tomorrow I will be hitting the dance floor…well…my dance
floor. I will see how my legs feel and I
may just do the ATS Towel Workout again.
I need to get another 40 squats done before I go to bed, so my legs might
just need to loosen up in the morning with some dancing.
Until then…Stay Strong!
Good night
Trina
This is not fitness related but rather to do with family. On Friday my daughter asked if she could get her ears pierced. I told her that I would talk it over with my husband and we will go from there. On Saturday, she told her Dad that she wanted to get her ears pierced. He replied, "If that's what you want to do, then do it." So her and I went to the mall to get them done. I was hoping to have both ears pierced at the same time but both places where I inquired, they both only had one person to do the piercing. So I had a little talk with my daughter, and explained to her what had to be done. She was still wanting them done. "All right then, let's do this".
She was so brave and silly of course. Here are a few pictures of our time getting her ears pierced...
Measure twice or thrice...
...pierce once.
This was the first ear. She's so serious.
There were a few tears, but they were wiped away and forgotten and she was up for having the other ear done too. A few more tears were shed and we were done.
Her pretty little ears were now decorated with pretty pink flowers...
I love my little drill sergeant. She's so tough.
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