9 Hours later

      So far, I have had 18 workouts with Tim as my coach. That means that I have worked out for only 9 hours and have gone from my size 12/14 jeans to 10/12 jeans without really losing weight.

     Yes, I'm aware that muscle weighs mor than fat and it also takes up less room. You also might think that since I do other activities that I work out more than that. I have always skated on Tuesdays, walked on some of my lunches and jumped in water at any opportunity as well as working out occasionally to some VHS/DVD at the house. Those things helped me lose 20 lbs in 2 yrs. but I was just maintaining. The fear of getting bigger kept me on  struggle. This time, I'm losing inches!

      Tomorrow I will go walking/jogging with Dawn. Like my trainer, she will not let me know how much further I have to go. I tell Tim that I don't want to know the time and I'm going to try and get him to not tell me how many left either.

     

Well this is the result of my run. 

An average of 12'23" per mile.

Lets see if I can't get that 2'23" shaved off my time on Monday.

Preparing to be killed tomorrow.

     Well, I need to go make my smoothies for tomorrow and tonight's metabolic accelerator smoothie.

     I drink an energy smoothie before I go workout plus 12-16 oz of water before I go to Kelly Personal Fitness with Tim Parravano. He'll probably bump my weights up again and last week I was sore the same day instead of the soreness hitting me the next day. I was also sore until Friday afternoon.

    I did go ahead and run for .5 miles on Sunday. We of course went to Schlitterbahn on Sunday and I did get a good overall workout.

Now off to the kitchen.

Having a workout and visiting with friends too!

I like to do activities I like and if I get to socialize along the way, even better.

Tuesday evenings I usually go rollerskating for 2 hours and I talk with probably around 20-50 people on a given night. When I first get on the to the rink, I try to do 25 full laps to equal approximately 1 mile. Then a chat for a few laps and take it easy then I try to beat a 5 lap minimum of taking my legs in and out continuously.

    What you try to do is tuck your rear end under a clinch those the glute muscles while tightening your abs as you go. Breathing long intense deep diaphragm breaths is necessary to get the max workout of your abs.

Don't slump.

Use those inner and outer thigh muscles to move your legs by squeezing in and pushing out and pressing your skates

Hard into the floor. Your legs don't have to go way out but this way, YouTube fast and keep your stride short and efficient.

Today, I met up with Dawn at town

Lake/Zilker park and walked for almost an hour for about 3 miles. We got to chat. Along the way. Next time she will have me at a faster pace as she knows my gaol is to do a 5K in 25 minutes.

Looking forward to going kayaking with Brian and maybe we will get to take the dogs and my sisters out hiking at McKinney Falls this year when the weather is cooler.

Of course going to the

Waterpark is also more exercise than you think until you get home

And collapse early in the evening.

Where are my Zumba DVDs?

Groan!

Well, last week, my workout was rescheduled for Fri.

So I still had enough days to recover before I worked out today.

Today, Tim worked me out hard.

He is taking a 2 week motorcycle trip, so he wanted to make sure I had a good lasting workout.

Mission accomplished.

I feel like every last drop was squeezed out of me.

I'll definitely feel sore next week.

I'm going roller skating tonight and that will be my reward for my workout.

I have been thinking about packing a bathing suit and towel and going to Zilker after work at least once a week to swim in Barton Springs.

Sleep?

So 8 hrs of sleep. 

Hmmm.

Over 3 months ago I needed over 8 hrs and still felt tired.

Lately, I am going to bed at midnight and waking up at 4:30-5am. I just lay there until it is time to get up.

Maybe I should go ahead and get up and start on some of my projects.

I've only worked out how much?

Tim told me I have only worked out the equivalent of 6.5 hrs.!

Most people spend that much time per week in a gym and don't get the results I'm getting!

14 weeks in

I can't believe how bad my right hand was quivering on the last machine today.

I didn't gain full motor control of my body until about 10am.

After 2 weeks on my own while Tim Parravano had a vacation, last week, was a short workout as I reached muscle failure really quickly. This week, I went my full 2 min. and on a few I made it either barely past a minute up to minute forty-five.

I still have not decided if I am going skating tonight or not.

Can't wait until next week!

Update for the 4th

Looks like I have lost another 2 1/8 inches from various parts of my body.

I lost 1/2" off each thigh!

I'm sore in my shoulders, flutes and hips and I can feel the burn in my abductor muscles every time I sit up.