No Day Better Than Today!!

Today is the day I start my personal challenge. I am lucky to have an amazing bestie (Angie) to help me through it all too! I love to be active but it has always been hard for me to work out on my own. I've had times where I put money in to trainers at the 24-Hour Fitness here in Boulder (back in college). I've worked out with teams (snowboard, swimming, diving, soccer). I've worked out with classes at the gym with my coach, Stephen. It's expensive to be part of a gym and gosh, have you seen the price of yoga classes?! It's so hard as a upper 20's individual trying to make it in this wonderful economy to find the time to be active and still have the money to afford healthy food, gym memberships, ski passes, etc. When you find a workout buddy, it's rare that their schedule matches up with mine. Not that I have that much of a (set) schedule...the crazy life I live! It's time to make improvements in my life. A healthy and fit body is a happy body!!

Lucky for me I have an amazing girlfriend who is in tune with her body and knows her stuff when it comes to the human body! Angie worked at the Mapleton branch of the YMCA of Boulder Valley for a long time. This is the gym I am joining (they offer financial assistance to those of us with less money). Angie and I are doing this together. Angie is going to be my personal trainer and I am her workout buddy!

Our goal is 20 pounds (and tighter bod) in 5 weeks. After that we will reassess and continue leading a healthy and happy lifestyle :) Another part of my goal is to update this blog every day (or at least ever other day) even if all I put is the workout that I/we do.

The toughest part for me is going to be waking up for these 6.30am workouts!! Waking up early should give me more time for errands and "me time." The other tough thing for me will be managing my workouts and eating right when I am on the road -- as I often am.

Day 1:

Warm-up: 4 lap run

Circuit: 3 x 45 seconds (350 calories)

• split squat w/dumbell bicep
• mountain climbers
• dumbell lawnmower pulls while lunging
• legs at 90 degree angle, bring bar (perpendicular) up to toes
• kicks on bag

Dynamic Cooldown: 12 minutes on Stairs (75 calories, 40 floors)

Stretching

Tomorrow I will use the HR monitor and start time = 6.30am!!

Killing it!!

<3 Summ