Time for some chillaxin'

workout is DONE!! Chest, abs and intervals!!! Now time for some chillaxin'!
here's how it went:

Warm up- tanning
Bench
45x20
95x10x3sets -abs between- reverse crunch pulsese and crunches and
115x10x2 sets- abs between knee ups and leg raises on bench and bench dips also

Incline hammer press
90x10x3sets
abs between sets- knee ups on roman chair and hanging sit ups

Fly machine-
2 sets
45x20 reps
55x12
ABS between sets- Boxing drill- side to side shoulder movement

Tricep extension machine
55x10
60x10
Abs between- hanging sit ups

dips
11, 9

Incline flys
35x10x2sets
paired with isolation bicep curls
2 sets
and tricep extensions with BB
55x6
45x10x2sets

Run intervals- 15 mins total easy mins at 7mph hard mins at:
1x1min @8 mph
3x2mins @ 9mph

I started taking creatine again today to see if It'll help me recover from my mma training~ OUCHIE!! I am sore in some weird places, lol!

have a TERRIFIC DAY!!!

Love ya,

Michelle

"wanting to" becomes DOING IT!

9 days till Christmas!! and Grandma is on her way....my kids are so excited!!! I am excited too, but have lots and lots to do before the holiday! I was engulfed in Gracie's birthday and now I am prepping for my "day in the life photo-story" interview with the paper on Friday, that I must force myself to get some FOCUS on Christmas!

Anways guess what????

After years of "wanting to" I finally did it! I took my first MMA class...it was so fun!!! For those of you who don't know....MMA is mixed martial arts...are you familiar with the UFC? it's basically training that encompasses boxing, kick-boxing, grappling (wrestling), ground fighting, submissions, etc...
We did some mitt hitting/boxing training yesterday :)
And today I am sore in weird places from it, like my rib cage? and CALVES! wow- we did some major jumping drills. Let me see if I can remember what we did:

tabata intervals 20 sec on; 10 sec off 5 rounds of each exercise:

Burpees
Staight punches on heavy bag
Kettle ball squat/front raises- 15# KB one arm each round- I should have gone a little heavier on these
Hooks on heavy bag
Squats on Med ball as fast as possible- hands up by face- man that's low!
Kicks on heavy bag
Jumps touching knees to palms- these were totally killer!

Mitt hitting with trainer (3 or 4 rounds total)- learned how to do several combinationsusing the following: jab, straight, cross, hook, uppercut

While the other girl hit with trainer I did coordination training with:
Double end speed bag
Speed bag

Then we watched a video of the trainer's fight she had over the weekend...it was very cool to see! She's a little firecracker!

After the training I went directly to the gym...I lifted a little back, bi, shoulder and abs then ran intervals on the tready

Assisted pull ups (2 sets)
paired with weighted roman chair knee ups (20 pound DB between feet)- 15, 10+more unweighted


Cybex Lat pulls- 3 sets
paired with knee ups on bench


hammer strength bicep curl machine 3 sets
paired with shoulder press machine- 3 sets


Bicep focus inverted pull ups (2 sets)
paired with T-bar Row- 2 sets


abs on ball 2 sets
paired with db bicep curls 2 sets

20 min running intervals at 8, 9 and a couple at 9.5mph rest mins off for 20 sec then 40sec at 7mph

Well, i am off to clean, shop and workout before Grandma arrives...she spent the night in Council Bluffs so she'll be here in around the time the kids get home.

Have a super stellar day!!

Love,

Michelle

Totally Terrific!

Life is Totally Terrific!! for me~ Except that...2 days in a row I've caused a computer glitch and lost my entire blog post! ACK!!!! I am saving this NOW before anything happens to it!!

I did chest/tri/abs on Mon with a pb of 155x1- the very very first time in my life I've ever benched that much all by myself!! 135x7times was another pb that day. I did abs really hard too and ran intervals on the treaddy. Weight was 132

Yesterday I did legs.

Today is Back/sh/Biceps and running intervals- my weight this am is 131 and it's cday 5- I am down 4 pounds since last Wed-- HORMONES!!

The sent the SSS2 entries are TOTALLY AWESOME!! Yesterday I forwarded them to the judges, so we should have the winner decided by next MONDAY!! Watch for the announcement!!

Have a Totally Terrific Day!!

Now is the time for warmer clothes

BRRR!! it's been cold here this week~ Not that it gets anything like Minnesota, but it's been chilly compared to the 60's we had for the previous 2 weeks. I am pretty much against winter clothes...I hate bundling up!What do you think?? do you like winter clothes? Or do you like summer clothes better? But ~despite my protest, Now is the time for warmer clothes, jeans, scarves, coats and mittens ~ so...I've got to go up in the attic today to grab our box of winter accessories...I hope I don't get LOST up there, lol!

I had a great workout day yesterday...and I did good on my diet too. Low carb and I DID eat greens too!! YAY!!

Here's the workouts:

am fasted cardio:

10 min elliptical; 20mins of running intervals on treadmill; 12 mins of r-bike
then abs
3 sets of knee ups on roman chair
3 sets of crunches on ab roller
stretching between


pm LEGS
Squats
45x10
2 sets body weight bulgarians to help warm up
95x10
135x10x3sets

2 sets knee ups on bench for abs

Dead lifts
135x10x2sets romainian
135x10coonventional

Leg press
low weight high reps- 3 sets

Leg curls
70x10
80x10x2sets

That was it, it was all good!!

What do you think?? do you like winter clothes? Or do you like summer clothes better?

PB Day!

Today's workout was with DH again...we've workout 3 days together this week!! FUN STUFF!! Today...I hit a recent Bench pb~ 135x6 times; 145x3times and I did 155x1 with a LITTLE TINY help :)
Here's the breakdown of my workout

Warm up chest press 2 sets and 1 set of push ups (15 reps)
Bench
45x25
95x10
135x6!!
145x4 (3 by myself, the 4th with assistance)
155x1- like a said with a tiny bit of help
135x5

Wide Hammer flat Bench machine
90x10
110x10
140x8x2

Dips
10 (another recent high), 8

Incline Flys
40'sx8x2sets

Tricep push downs- 4 sets lots of reps!

Intervals on treadmill- 20 mins most high mins at 9 with recovery at 7. 1 min was at 10.8mph

In an e-mail today I read the following and though it was good enough to share:

"The goal of life is NOT to be happy. The goal of
life is to know what time it is.
In the words of King Solomon:
"Everything has its season. And there is a time
for everything under the heaven."
"A time to be born and a time to die."
"A time to weep and time to laugh."
"A time to wail and time to dance."
"A time to rend and time to mend."
"A time to be silent and a time to speak."
"A time to love and a time to hate."
"A time for war and a time for peace."
What time is it for you ? "





Have a super fantastic day!!
-Michelle