paulapop’s BodyBlog

I had dental surgery last week, had two wisdom teeth pulled on tuesday.  I did a one hour CORE class the morning before the surgery thinking I had better get some gym time in because I wouldn’t be going on tuesday.  Well I was right about that, I sure didn’t go on tuesday, or wednesday, or thursday, friday or saturday.  I really didn’t expect to be set back by the surgery so much.   What could having 3 useless teeth pulled possibly do to impact my workout schedule.

Wednesday I was actually feeling "ok", not well enough for the gym, and I had been instructed to keep to calm activities for the day to keep the blood pressure low and control the bleeding.  Thursday I was actually feeling pretty well, and could have maybe did a light workout except for one thing……I couldn’t eat anything.  I was living on protein shakes and yogurt, no fuel for the machine means the machine don’t work so well. So I ended up with nearly a week off from the gym.

To make up for missing my session with the trainer on saturday, I have two sessions with her this week.   1st one was tuesday, at which she informed me that we were going to "get me back up to snuff".  Funny thing is, I thought I was snuffed enough.  Again, I was wrong.  We did an upper body 1.5 rep workout.  I can still feel it in my chest, and I have to say, I have never reached failure so often.  I was doing 3 sets of 12 and on every excercise I couldn’t finish the last set, I would start struggling at 8, regain my focus and push out 3 more, and then fail on the 12th.

My kickboxing class started up again this week, EGADS.  It has been revamped a bit and is definitely up a notch.  I am feeling my workouts this week, I guess I really wasn’t "up to snuff".

Spent some at the gym this evening and ran into my trainer who is freshly back from a conference where she learned all kinds of new tortures for her clients.  She went over one new method with me tonight.  Its the one and a half rep, rep.  For example, a simple leg press….bring knees in to chest….full extention out, bring knees into chest again, the only extend half way out, and bring knees back in……that is ONE rep.  That half rep is a killer.  I could feel my eyes bugging out when I tried it.  It was awesome!  Trainer lady told me it is great for building strength.  I told her I was already strong enough, thank you very much.  Needless to say she wasn’t buying that one lol.

 Hope everyone is having a great week!

On friday I had to go to the Ministry of Transportation (DMV for my U.S. friends) to get my license plate renewed.  Its never a fun trip, and the lady that works at our local office can get very stressed out by her job and tends to take it out on the patrons.  Anyway…..it was a real hassle while I was there, I had to run home twice, once to get my drivers licence (didn’t know I needed it to renew the plates on the car), and then again when I was finished because I had an old set of plates I wanted to get rid of.  With all the running back and forth, she kept in good spirits and when I was finished she said to me "well now I know how you stay so thin with all the running around you do"

Yes, you read that correctly…..she called me thin!!!!!!!!  I’ve never had a comment like directed at me before.  I hear things like, "wow you’ve really gotten thin, how much weight have you lost?"  This woman just assumed I was always thin.  It definitely made the trip worth it.

As for workouts, Saturday was a day off that I spent gardening, and Sunday was a 6 mile walk with my walking group, then more yard work.

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!

Wow, I can’t believe its been two months since I’ve been on here……..has it really been that long?  Gosh, I have no excuse for it either, except maybe summer time, two jobs and zero computer time.

Over the course of this summer, I’ve finished off my nutrition plan and transformation contest.  Gained some muscle, did a bootcamp (was sore for a week after that one)  Got Food poisioning and lost 10lbs in three days (not good!) and started a sunday morning walking group.

I am still up and at it at the gym everyday, I took a month off from personal training and am looking forward to starting back up with it on september 6th.  I don’t even know how much weight I’ve lost……I know I was in the 130’s when I stepped on the scale this morning, and was probably in the 150’s the last time I posted on here.  I will have to trot over to my profile next and update everything. 

I hope everyone had a fabulous summer!

Do you remember what it was like being a child and playing in the park?  Climbing on the monkey bars, pulling yourself up with no problem?  How about grade school gym class, jumping on the trampoline?

I spent some time lately revisiting these childhood activities and I have to report they are way easier when you are a child.

Climbing the monkey bars not only requires agility, it also requires GUTS.  As a child I can’t remember ever thinking about falling as I climbed.  As an adult, it was all I could think of.  I couldn’t beleive the amount of strength it took just to do the "monkey walk" across the bars.  My nieces thought it was very funny to watch good Ole Aunty Paula on the monkey bars.

My next little adventure in childhood memory lane came when my wonderful nieces convinced me to come jump on their trampoline with them.  All I can say about it is……WOW!  It requires a tremendous amount of balance to stay on your feet while jumping with 5 kids.  Do you remember doing the knee drop or the seated drop?  Where you drop to your knees then back up on your feet in one very eloquent movement?  That was the best quad excercise I have done in years!  Think of doing squats on a bosu and multiply that feeling by 10 and you get the idea.

  The time I spent playing with my neices was a great deal of fun, a fantastic workout, and it taught me sometimes play can be the best form of excercise.

I am now, officially the proud mother of a university graduate!  I spent last week in Ottawa for my oldest son’s graduation.  He graduated with a degree in computer science and is enlisted in the canadian armed forces. 

 My youngest son and I made the trip up for the graduation and had an amazing time.  It was really great to spend some time with my youngest son, especially since his brother has been sick for the past month or so, he has been somewhat feeling neglected.  My degree is in history, so I was absolutely in my glory to take my son to our parliament and show him some Canadian historical sites.

The bad part of the trip was of course comming home and leaving my oldest son there.  He will be home for a very short visit the 1st week of July, then will be gone for a month tasking with the army.

Hope everyone has had a great week, I am wondering through my friends blogs and catching up with everyone, look for a new blog reguarding my workouts and progress tomorrow!

I’ve been off here for a while, because my son was sick and in the hospital (as some of you know).  My son is much better now and his injury is looking like a "normal" scrape on the leg, which is a far cry from a bone infection.

Just because I haven’t been on here doesn’t mean I’ve given up.  I stayed on my nutrition plan and kept with the Ulitmate transformation contest that I am in.  I am at the one month mark on the plan and the training schedule.  Had my measurements done this morning and the stats are as follows:

 Waist-stayed the same

Biceps -down 1/4 inch

Chest- down 2 inches

Hips- down 1/4 inch

Thighs- down 1.5 inches

Weight- down 10lbs

Body fat- down 3%

I am fairly happy with that result.  I am 13lbs and 3% from my goal weight/bf% and have two months to go. 

I hope everyone has been working it hard!

I’ve been off here for a while, because my son was sick and in the hospital (as some of you know).  My son is much better now and his injury is looking like a "normal" scrape on the leg, which is a far cry from a bone infection.

Just because I haven’t been on here doesn’t mean I’ve given up.  I stayed on my nutrition plan and kept with the Ulitmate transformation contest that I am in.  I am at the one month mark on the plan and the training schedule.  Had my measurements done this morning and the stats are as follows:

 Waist-stayed the same

Biceps -down 1/4 inch

Chest- down 2 inches

Hips- down 1/4 inch

Thighs- down 1.5 inches

Weight- down 10lbs

Body fat- down 3%

I am fairly happy with that result.  I am 13lbs and 3% from my goal weight/bf% and have two months to go. 

I hope everyone has been working it hard!

Well I survived a full week on my nutrition plan from EmpoweredNutrition.  I found the plan very easy as the foods involved are all food  I like.  The grocery list was a little overwhelming at first and it took some getting used to and organization for me to plan my weeks meals.  I actually started the plan on wednesday and my stats on here have been updated to reflect the weights and measurements my trainer took wednesday morning.  So far I have lost 2lbs……I am impressed!

I ran my first today as well, and not only did I finish the 10k but I wasn’t last!!!  My time was 80:05 for 10k, I don’t know if that is good or not, but since I am still nursing a glute injury I was impressed.  However by the time I finished the pain was shooting down from my glute to my toes and I am seriously considering the possibility that I might just need to think about seeing a chiropractor.  Can you sense my enthusiasm about seeing a chiropractor?  I am absolutely terrified of them, I have trouble even being in the same room as one.  I am not sure why….It is just one of my phobia’s.  My trainer is trying to get me to see one, or a massage therapist (believe it or not, I am more terrified of a massage therapist than a chiropractor).  I’ve been told they do things with ultrasound that really could help my muscle.  I am giving it some thought……

Well, I was at the gym for 6am on friday, did the monster cardio session that the trainer had set out for me…..at one point I was looking around the gym to see if there were any firemen/EMS workers of any kind present, save the trouble of dialing 911 when I had the heartattack.  I survived the cardio, and the one hour training session, went for a tan then went to work till 11pm, came home crashed and was back at work for 9am.  What a bloody long day!

I did something today that I very rarely do….I had a nap.  I got home from work around 1pm, and napped till just after 3.  I went out to the barn to visit the horse after my nap. 

I spent the evening editing some pictures and watching a movie….I am getting used to taking saturday’s as an off day from the gym and just doing the fun stuff like horseback riding or jogging.  Tomorrow is jog day!  I can’t wait, I am so psyched now that spring has arrived!

I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend.