Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Skinny Jeans... Here I Come!!

Skinny Jeans... Here I Come!!

We started back up with classes this week.

We finished up a few contests and did a ton of workouts, so see tomorrows blog for the contest winners and workouts.

Wendy Greashaber won Camper of the Week a few weeks ago by coming to class every time, bringing in her food journal, doing her homework, applying her knowledge and teaching others about fitness.

Thank you and congrats to her. She won a $25 Gift Card to Bolero Salon and Spa.



I have made a lot of changes from what I eat to how I exercise. Overall, I have always been a healthy eater, but I wasn't hitting all of the food groups the way I should have (and still am at about 80%) Changes that I've made in my diet include increasing fruit, decreasing salty snacks, taking a multi vitamin and a fish oil supplement, decreasing diet soda, increasing water and using the knowledge that I gained from the "grocery store" tour to plan our family's meals. I'm realizing that I can't live my life without occasionally giving in to my favorite salty snacks, I just have to learn to say no a little more often. I try to start each day off right and I don't beat myself up over the bad days.

Another change that I've made is that I am now jogging/running on a regular basis. I'd never been able to make it more than half a mile until I started boot camp. I now run 3.5-4.5 miles on Mon., Wed., and Friday mornings and then run 5-6 miles on Tuesdays and Saturdays. I have to credit boot camp for giving me the core strength that I had been missing, but needed to do this. I work on core doing dynamic "around the world" 2 mornings a week after my run.

Overall, I've learned much more than I initially expected about fitness by just listening in class, trying to do what I'm supposed to, and seeing the results. I'm glad that we never know the daily class agenda before we get there because I'd have a hard time making myself go on days where we do leg excercises. I really have to focus hard at fully applying myself to lunges -- I hate them! (but the pain does wear off -- ha ha!)

My advise to everyone in the class would be: 3 steps forward and 1 step back -- Make your "good days" the best days ever -- see how far you can go! Don't beat yourself over the bad days.

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