Week One: workouts

SUCCESS!!!

I did it! Three work outs in a week! Well, five days! I DID IT! This might seem lame, but I only feel slightly lame because for me, this was a BIG deal. I haven't worked out in um, years. Unless you include walking around the block with my rachel roommate a few times this last summer. Week One was a great week! Today's movie was IRONMAN! i have to admit, I LOVE Ironman. It really gets my heart rate up too! I hovered around 105 today and burned 360 calories and elipticalled, ha, 2.24 miles. Better than yesterday and I tried a few little tricks like where i put my feet and it really worked my calves and ahem, backside. It was great! AND the real kicker here is that I was laying in my bed, (I had time for an hour nap, I slept with the light on trying to read a play...) and I was just hitting a REM during my nap when my alarm goes off. Let me tell you I did not want to get out of bed. I still had 2+ hours until work and not sleeping all night long was a justifiable reason, but then I remembered my goal to work out 3 times this week and that I would receive help from above so I rolled out of bed and woke up my roommate. It was funny because, we had both been laying there hoping that the other one wouldn't get up and justify ourselves not getting up. ha! We did it though and got to see some of Ironman. Yum. So i'd say it went well today. We conquered the Naptime bed! Onto next weeks goals....

Success!

Today was the SECOND day of the week that I worked out! I think that deserves a WOOT WOOT! Emy and I went again at 1:15 to Golds. We walked there, its not too far, I could throw a baseball and hit it....almost.....well I usetacould. Anyway, we did the elipticals again today for a half an hour! It was much easier this time and I got my heartrate up and hovering around 95! YES! and I did 2.2 Miles! and burned around 300 calories (estimated). I feel pretty good about it. Friday here I come! I even came home and stretched and did a few arm curls with 6 pound weights. It sure does feel good to move my body!

The best part of Gold's Gym is the Cardio Cinema. You can work out in the DARK! and they play a movie. Today's Movie was APOLLO 13 and we got there in the last half hour of the movie, perfect timing. No wonder my heartrate was up! You gotta love movies like that that make you invested in the characters so much you cheer and cry for them even though you can barely breathe as you bust your bum working out! I just kept thinking, well if they can go to the moon, then I can get this body into shape! and I love the part where Tom Hanks is talking on the tv about one of his other missions and how he was flying and would never have gotten home if his intruments hadn't shorted out and the lights gone out. He had to fly in the dark but because of that he was able to survive.

It reminds me of a talk by Elder Bednar that says, "Faith in Christ is inextricably tied to, and results in, hope in Christ for our redemption and exaltation. And assurance and hope make it possible for us to walk to the edge of the light and take a few steps into the darkness—expecting and trusting the light to move and illuminate the way. The combination of assurance and hope initiates action in the present."

I love this quote, that sometimes we just need to have faith and hope and put our trust in God and take that step into the darkness and the Lord will provide a way by then lighting our path. That is what I have been trying to do health wise. I really want to be heathly and happy. I know that is what the Lord desires for me. He wants me to be happy and successful. I know that as I do my part He will provide the rest. As a take a step in the darkness of the Cardio Cinema and put one foot in front of the other, the Lord will shine a light on that path and I will be able to accomplish my goal. I know that this is true. He love me. He will light the path as I step into the dark and onto that eliptical.

It's amazing what one workout will do for you.

Well the goal of the week is to work out on Monday, Wednesday and Friday with my roommate Emy at 1:00pm for at least a half an hour. And I am happy to say that I did it! We went yesterday to Gold's Gym and ran on the elipticals for 30 mins! WOOT WOOT! I feel pretty good today. I felt like gold yesterday. I think I am going to like this new routine. I go to school in the morning and then come home workout, lift weights, eat lunch, stretch, shower, then off to work, home again, dinner and then rehearsal from 7-11pm then home, homework, sleep and start all over again. Busy, but I felt good adding the workouts into my life. My next goal is to make an appt. more my lab tests. Wish me luck!

Visualizing My Goal-Marilyn style.

I in no way idolize or want to be like Marilyn Monroe, but I do want to have her body. I am going to try to visualize my goals and really see myself where I want to be. So, I picked out a body role model. Marilyn. I have heard that she was a size 16, or 12. Anyway, in our days it would be more like a 10 or a 8 I think...I want to be a size 8. That is my goal dress/jean size. 8. I want to work towards that size goal and to look like Marilyn physically. I really love the substance to her. She isn't a little stick, she has curves. No matter how much weight I lose, I will always have curves (i hope!) I especially love her arms and her legs, her stomach too...so, I think I have picked a realistic goal and i am getting pretty excited!

A New Goal For Life

"The first wealth is health."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson