Friday, November 4, 2011

Push ups on the floor and food success!

First off, I want to mention that I have been having great success following the Paleo way of eating. I started off following the 30-day Whole30 plan, now I have things that are off plan every now and then (like once or twice a week) but I NO LONGER have the cravings for sweets that I used to. (That was especially nice during Halloween.) I am eating almost no grains. (I did indulge in a few pieces of bread total over the last month and I had a helping of rice at a Thai restaurant - both totally worth it.)  I am consuming almost no dairy. (I did have some yummy cheeses one day and have had a little pastured butter.) I have had almost no legumes besides green beans since I started, which was almost 2 months ago.  I am definitely leaning out.  I see hubby changing, too.  But, it's common that when I pay more attention to food, he loses weight.  In fact, he does faster than I do, the jerk.  :) (just kidding, sweetie!)

As a result, I get to cross off one more goal that I made for myself toward the beginning of the year. I got back to the weight I had originally declared with Weight Watchers back when I was doing that plan.  This time, I feel better, don't count ANYTHING and I have a butt.

This morning, I finished the last Phase 1 Body of Fire workout. I did ALL the pushups on the floor!!  WOOT! Of course, they were not banged out, one after the other. I had to pause a lot in the last sets.  But, they got done with good form, full range of motion (chest hitting floor) and arms in. Wow. I surprised myself.  That's 91 pushups, by the way!  It was cold out for the sprints.  23F.  But, it was only six minutes, so I survived.

BOF Ph1/Wk4/WO4
Warm up - Jump rope 4.5 min, golf ball roll 30s, cat/camel x10, wall squat x10
Split jack - 4x23
Squat thrust - 4x13
Wideout drop and push-up - 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13 (on  the floor, arms in, full range!)
Sprint intervals - 6x30s run + 30s walk
Stretch - 20s ea - hip flexors, calf, chest, T-spine

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