Halfway There!

I love that I planned ahead and thought the calisthenics challenge was completely reasonable and manageable. So happy for day 15 rest day! Why on earth would I think building up to 100 burpees, 5 min wallsit and 5 min plank over 30 days would be easy?! Not to mention the added squats, lunges and bridges?! I will complete the challenge and I already feel stronger for it, but it's definitely adding to my early morning grumpiness.

This Friday, meeting one of my closest friend's son took priority over the kayak pool session.... so the roll will wait a week. I have followed through on resume/cover letter work and am feeling more confident about some potential prospects.

The most exciting thing I did this week was finally bite the bullet and start an online photo portfolio! I've been talking about it for ages and am so grateful for the feedback I've received so far. If you're interested please check it out: https://500px.com/katywinship 

I hope you're all having fantastic weekends and accomplishing your goals!

Almost there!

So the week's almost over and I've almost achieved all my goals (gym wise) for the week yahuuuu!

So far I've been to the gym on monday for boxing, tuesday, wednesday and friday for a regular workout. Yesterdays session was cut short as I was not motivated to do anything so I just ran a quick 2k warm up did some leg, tummy and arm workouts and that was that :)

Today I start my pole dancing course I'm rather excited! I'm hoping to go to the gym tomorrow as well if I've got time! There's a massive Russian test coming up and I should be studying for that...

If you've got any workouts you think I should try let me know :) I'm always up for trying something new!

Enjoy the weekend

Friends don't let friends sleep in

muahahaha.

Well this morning I woke up before 6 am and decided I should go for a run. It was then or never because I had a breakfast and lunch with work so wouldn't have time for the gym. I texted Antonella to see if she was planning on running and if she wanted to come.

Awww..what a good friend!

So I got ready to head out into the dark- head lamp and all.

I have never used  a headlamp and was excited to try it out.

I got outside and couldn't stop laughing because it was quite light out and I did not need a headlamp at all. It was definitely overkill. I kept it on for a bit just for fun and then put it away.

Anyway we did around 5k and the pace was faster than what I usually run on my own.

Antonella didn't believe that I run as slow as I do..so here is the proof

I realized I barely ran at all in October..only 17.2km..woops. Back at in November.

See all the meh faces for my mood?  it is still better to do a mediocre run than none at all!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  Try and stay focused on your goals but still have some fun! If your goals are too strict or you are finding them unreasonable, please re-adjust! Weekends are usually the hardest for me for nutrition..so I will try and be mindful and not sabotage myself [completely].

Making fat cry on a daily basis!

Challenge accepted!! Apologies for the delay in submitting my goals for these 30 day, I'm a newbie to the blog world.

So the following are the habits I plan stick with:

• 30 ~ 40 min. of Nike+ training 5 days a week
• 20 ~ 30 min. runs 2 days a week (weather permitting)
• Find and try new quick healthy energy boosting snack/ meal recipes. (I’ll sifting through El’s other blog to find ideas.) Suggestions welcomed.

The goal with sticking with these habits is to build up my energy level (I hate feeling sluggish), and to do better in my next 10k or ½ marathon race.

Today I did the Fighter Fit workout and substituted running in place, back pedal, and light jog with skip rope. I did this so I can build up my skip rope endurance.

I find thinking “Sweat is just your fat crying” while I workout funny, and motivating.

80-20- Eating Healthy!

Have you ever heard the saying " Abs are made in the kitchen" ?

Well they really are!

They say that 80% of it is nutrition and only 20% is exercise.

This 80-20 rule also applies to other things. For instance, eating healthy 80% of the time and indulging 20%. And some say it goes for kissing too, go in 80% and let the person come to you for the other 20%.

Anyway.. back to eating healthy. How boring. I usually am starving and wanting to eat my lunch by 11 am..but today I wasn't hungry and at all, and I realized it is because I had a salad for lunch. wah wah.  I need to spice up my salads with something delicious. Like maybe pasta. Just kidding.

healthy dinner from the other day-
salad with chickpeas and pomegranate seeds

I came across this article with tips on how to deal with your post-workout hanger.

 I am doing okay with getting workouts in but the next step is to really focus on nutrition if I want to see any results. I am so inspired by all of you! you are working away towards your goals.. not making excuses and getting it done! That is awesome.


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Starting the day off right :)

So far I'm quite pleased with my progress.  I hope I can keep it up.  Yesterday El and I went to a spin class at lunch.  It was a great workout.  There are fans all over the room but they don't seem to turn them on so the place becomes a sauna.

In the evening I played floor hockey.  Although we lost, we played really well.  Some of the guys on the opposing team were really aggressive so I took it a bit easy.  Even still, I've got a lovely bruise on my thigh from blocking a slap shot on the net.

This morning El and I went to the U of O pool for a swim workout.  I managed to swim 1000 m in about 30 min.  It felt good to be back in the pool although I need to work on perfecting my flip turns before my competition in May.

Starting out..

I'm doing this in the hopes of getting stuff done, during the summer I have sent El so many squat challenges and what not challenges I completed exactly 0 of them.

So now I've come up with some smaller easier goals which are:

1) Finish my boxing course. - Be able to do all jumps on the jumping rope and skip for a minimum of 15 minutes.

2) Enjoy my pole dancing course. I start this on saturday and can't wait to improve my arm strength !

3) Lose more body fat gain muscle -eat healthy!

4) Go to the gym at least 4 times a week (including boxing//excluding pole dancing) so do sport at least 5 times a week

5) Go running at least once a week whether its in the gym or outside.

6) Also add at least one kilo of weight to the weights I lift.

7) Lastly start trying to prepare lunches for work.

So far I've done my boxing for the week, Ive added a kilo to one set of weights that I lift, and I've been to the gym 3 times! I have also managed to skip with the jumping rope for 2x5 minutes :)

Yaaaay!