Tuesday July 26 - Day 134

The Trainer said he's make something up for me, but they got busy so I didn't want to interrupt whatever they were doing in the firehouse.

I made it up as I went:

150 jump ropes (there is something fascinating about this exercise....besides the fact my hair won't stay up in the ponytail when I do it lol)
100 calories on the bike
50 squats
50 sit ups

Not much, but enough to please me.  I am now on vacation, so I won't get a real workout until I come back.  Unless I text him from Vegas and ask for one on a few of the days I'll be out there.  I did invest in a $3 jump rope at Walmart a few weeks ago, so I am taking that so I can use my aunt's back deck/patio area to get some cardio in on a few of the days.

Monday July 25 - Day 133

Since I missed Friday and then it was the weekend, I was hoping the Trainer would remember to send me something after I asked him too.  Kind of wishing he had forgotten!

200 calories on the bike
200 sit ups

Really?

I ended up doing:
100 calories on the bike
100 jump ropes
175 sit ups

I would call him names, but since I ask for them, I can't fuss at him too much.  Or can I?

Thursday July 21 - Day 132

I never heard back from the Trainer today, so I made something up that would be quick and would not kill me in the 115 (or whatever it was) heat index temps with humidity so thick I thought my lungs were filling up with water.

100 jump ropes
75 calories on bike
50 squats
30 sit ups

I then melted into a pile of mush on the blue mat in the gym lol

Wednesday July 20 - Day 131

I'm a glutton for punishment.  Or my obsession with remaining fit has become higher and more intense.  I constantly ask for this shit from The Trainer....

100 cal on bike
100 sit ups
100 squats
100 lunges

I ended up only doing 60 lunges - but I did the rest of it.  KICKED MY BUTT!

I got home at 5:50 and was in the shower by 6pm.  I am exhausted.  I'm glad I don't have to do anything tonight.

Remaining accountable...

I skipped my workout today.  We had no A/C in the office, but I ended up sitting on the other side of the building so that wasn't why I skipped it.  I skipped it because the union had our annual family picnic and I chose to go to that.

I may miss tomorrow too.  I have a meeting at 1pm, that is scheduled for 2 hours and then I have my physical therapy appointment at 4pm.  I may end up rescheduling the PT appointment.  If I do that, I'll do my workout.  If I don't, then I won't be working out tomorrow either - unless I decide to use the elliptical here at home.

Friday July 15 - Day 130

Fairly early in the day, I asked The Trainer for a workout.  A few hours later, he sent me the workout.  Let me just say, before posting it and then giving my thoughts on it that after I read it I wanted to cry.  Literally wanted to curl up in a ball somewhere and cry.

30 lunges
30 sit ups
30 cal on bike
30 squats
10 stair runs
30 alt v ups (did regular v ups cause the alternating ones hurt my shoulder)
30 Russian twists
30 supermans (lay on stomach with arms extended in front, lift arms and legs at same time, hold for 5 seconds)
As fast as possible

The stairs killed me.  It was horrible!  Since the little window a/c unit we have down there is a POS, it was wicked hot in the gym when I got down there.  This workout made it 10x worse.

The good news, I finished it all and I can now relax for the next two days before asking him for more torture.

Thursday July 14 - Day 129

My legs were pretty sore from the lunges yesterday, but I figured I'd ask for a workout anyway.  Wowzers.  What was I thinking?

10 jump squats
20 cal on bike
30 sit ups
15 minutes - AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)

I did one full round before remembering to turn on the timer.  Ooops!  And then I did 4 rounds plus 10 jump squats and 12 more calories on the bike.

Originally, he wanted me to do 20 push ups and I had to remind him about my shoulder.  Would LOVE to do that, however, my physical therapist and I would not appreciate it much when my shoulder went downhill instead of progressing the way it is.

And now that I can hardly walk due to the lunges yesterday and jump squats today, I'm going to go relax until it's time for school at 8pm.

Wednesday July 13 - Day 128

I sent a request for a workout and he did not disappoint.  He also kicked my ass.

50 lunges
50 cal on bike
50 sit ups
4 rounds

The lunges did me in!  Holy hell those hurt!  I was laying on the blue mat after my last round of sit ups, thinking to myself for f*cks sake! How am I going to climb those stairs to go get my stuff and go home? I also sent that to him and his response?  "Sweet....mission accomplished."   Jackass.

I checked the machine I thought would help me with my physical therapy exercises and it's a no-go.  Not the type of machine I need so I won't be able to incorporate those exercises from yesterday.  Bummer!

Physical therapy today and progress on shoulder

It's been almost 3.5 months since I hurt my shoulder.  Since I somehow, in the middle of the night, managed to pinch or damage the long thoracic nerve.  In turn, the damage on this nerve caused the winging in my shoulder blade.

Since I started PT at the beginning of June, my shoulder has come a very long way!  It's winging at about half of the angle it was before, my strength is returning and I still have full range of motion most of the time.  I say most of the time, because sometimes it locks up on me and I don't have that.

At today's session, she gave me some new exercises after massaging the neck and shoulder area and manipulating my neck/skull where the LTN starts.  The tighter that area gets, the more my scapula wings and the more discomfort I experience.  I do my stretches for that area several times throughout the day.

I've still been doing my 30 wall push ups per day.  I do 15 in the morning and 15 at night.  Some days are better than others for that exercise.  Some days it doesn't bother me at all and others it makes my neck and shoulder hurt so badly I want to cry.

One of the exercises she gave me today was actually lifting weights (in a weird way) and I just giggled throughout the whole time we were doing that one.  It was a very low weight (5lbs), but damnit I was lifting weights again!  We have a machine in the gym at work that is very similar to the one she had me use today, so I'm going to see if it will work.  If it does, I'll be incorporating those exercises into my workout routine.  Every day.

Hoping to get a workout from The Trainer tomorrow.  If not, I'm sure I'll make something up!

Monday July 11 - Day 127

The Trainer was working today, but I rarely see him when he's in the building sometimes, so I sent him a text asking him to make something up for me.  I never heard back or got a response, so I made something up myself.

75 cal on bike
75 single jump ropes
75 sit ups
2 rounds

I ended up doing one round of the above and then one round of 60 each of those exercises.

The heat index is at 114 right now, per the weather channel, and it was 116 earlier when I started my workout.  I avoided running the stairs due to that and I still overheated to the point I got puke-y (but not from the workout).

Now to go try to cool off!

Friday July 8 - Day 126

I gave myself a few hours before posting here because it was disgusting and I wanted to hurt someone when I was done.  lol  Specifically, I wanted to hurt The Trainer.  I so hated him for a minute.

10 stair runs
100 cal on bike
100 sit ups
100 squats

DIED.  I'm certain I died at some point in the stair runs lol  Obviously, I'm being sarcastic and exaggerating quite a bit.  But it was hard, I don't remember sweating that much in a workout in quite some time.  It was awesome on one level and crappy on the next!

Now to enjoy my two days rest before he kicks my ass again on Monday.

Thursday July 7 - Day 125

I sent the Trainer a text, asking for a quick workout that could be done quickly since I had a 5pm hair appointment.

21-15-9
squats
sit ups
run stairs in between each round
as fast as possible

I ran the stairs once before I started and then after each round.

I finished it in 5:47.  I will do this one again in about a month to see how fast I do it.

Big Brother is on now!

Tuesday July 5 - Day 124

I was waiting on the Trainer to write down my workout and they got a knock out - so he had to run out.  *sigh* Since I didn't know how long they'd be gone, I started on the bike and my goal was 50 calories.  Thankfully, in the middle of that, they returned so he wrote me a workout:

50 cal on bike
50 sit ups
3 stair runs
50 squats
3 rounds

It kicked my ass quite well, but I did not puke this time.

Thankfully!

Fitness goals

Do you have fitness goals?  I do.  I've had them since I started this journey.  While my shoulder injury sidelined quite a few of those goals for me, I've created new ones.

One of the goals I was heading towards was being able to #1 - do regular push ups (not on my knees) #2 - do a pull up without having to jump or be propped up there.

Since the shoulder injury, I've done some research on Crossfit videos and I found one that pretty much sums up one of my fitness goals...

This is a guy doing GI Jane - a Crossfit WOD with pull ups involved.

Watch it.  The guy is a beast!  He does the WOD in about 10 minutes.  I'm sure it will take me much longer, but I will eventually do this workout.  I promise.  When I promise, I'm promising myself.  I've made commitments to myself during my whole fitness journey.  You know I've taken too many sips of the Kool Aid when my fitness goal involves burpees of any kind.

Happy 4th of July!

Friday July 1 - Day 123

I had sent a text to The Trainer, but never heard from him so I went downstairs anyway and did this:

75 cal on bike
40 sit ups
50 cal on bike
40 sit ups
25 cal on bike

And then some stretching.  I tried my shoulder exercises for the day, but after physical therapy this morning, there was no way it was happening.  My shoulder is very sore.

Now to enjoy my three day weekend doing homework and relaxing.