With new info, the plan morphed!

Okay, so for the most part, I've stuck to the plan. There have been 3 deviations though that I need to admit to:

1. I didn't workout on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. I put family first and took a break.

2. I didn't log any of my food for the past 3 days. I get back on track tomorrow.

3. No slide board today since... THERE WAS SPEED PRACTICE INSTEAD! Woohoo!

There is going to be speed all week, plus the rink opened up some open skates so I will be doing 2 hour speed skating sessions Monday(DONE!), Wednesday and Friday. And then maybe doing open skate on Tuesday/Thursday for some fun. We will see. But I'd like to stick to the weight lifting portion for the rest of my scheduled time.

I'm feeling good about my choices other than the food choices of the past few days. Back on track there tomorrow.
Warm wishes,
Grace

December Plan

Here's a quick synopsis for the rest of December starting today:

Thursday: P90X Arms/Shoulders, Ab Ripper X
Friday: Speed Skating - 2 hrs
Saturday: Run and core work
Sunday: P90X Legs/Back & ARX
Monday: Slide board
Tuesday: P90X Chest, Shoulders & Triceps and ARX
Wednesday: P90X Legs & Back, Slide board
Thursday: Run & P90X YogaX
Friday: Slide board
Saturday: OFF! Stretch X

It may sound ambitious, but I have some goals to hit in just over 5 weeks. Plus seeing a 4lb weight loss this week was SUPER nice. I know I can't expect that every week, but it was a great "re-boot".

That's all for now! Happy holidays!
~Grace

A Day of Rest and Struggles

So I have followed my last blog posts plan to a "T". I did open skate on Saturday and worked on smaller skills while just getting rink time in. I did both derby practices on Sunday and the one on Monday. What surprised me the most is while I was a bit sore and achey, today I'm not feeling it at all. I guess I'm finally getting back in to the swing of skating and the workouts are finally making a difference. This to me means, time to up the ante!!

Tomorrow is another derby practice, the last for the month. I will be doing speed on Friday and then it's on to my newest tool, my Slide Board for my skating workouts for the coming weeks. There will be some open skate sessions I can do as well, but mainly I'll be relying on the slide board to maintain my derby fitness and keep me on track for tryouts.

As today was a rest day, I really watched what I ate and logged everything in to MyFitnessPal. Unfortunately tonight I have a bit of the blues and that's when I know I'm vulnerable to stress/boredom eating. I recognized it though and made the choice to instead sip on water and focus on puttering around the house. Next up will be some stretching, maybe some basic core work, upper body weights and then a hot bath. But I WILL NOT give in to temptation, though they are many this time of year: caramels (homemade), chocolates, fudge, cookies etc.

As I spent my day doing the various household things a mom does on a daily basis, I put together some simple goals and my workout plan for the upcoming Beachbody "Reveal the New You" challenge. I submitted everything to my coach and will be posting the entire shebang here once its finalized to both of our satisfaction. I tried to keep my goals simple and my workouts realistic. I have to work them in around derby, so that's what we're customizing.

The basics of the plan go something like this, with plan 1 and 2 alternating each week:
PLAN 1
Sunday - StretchX and Derby
Monday - Derby
Tuesday - Chest & Back / Ab Ripper X (ARX)
Wednesday - Derby
Thursday - Shoulders & Arms / ARX
Friday - Speed Skating / Back & Biceps / ARX
Saturday - Core Synergistics / Rest Day / Yoga X (depending on how I feel)

PLAN 2
Sunday - StretchX and Derby
Monday - Derby
Tuesday - Chest, Shoulders & Tri's / ARX
Wednesday - Derby
Thursday - YogaX
Friday - Speed Skating / Back & Biceps / ARX
Saturday - REST DAY / Stretch X

This is not the finalized plan and obviously is not for everyone. The goals of this are to balance the intense leg workouts that I get with derby and speed skating with some upper body, core and back strengthening.

Off to finish up my rest day and figure out my plan for the rest of this month. Once I have the rest of December outlined, I'll post it here!

Happy Holidays!
~Grace

Speed Skating

Tonight was speed skating practice. My first in over a month since vacation and life hit. It felt amazing and I'm so glad I went. I feel like I'm finally getting back to being myself and being able to jump back in with both feet. So I pushed a little at speed and felt great!

More news, ran tonight and also felt great running. RYBO! was a great success and I will be publishing a review of the program coming up shortly for a good friend of mine on another site. I will link to it here when it's complete. As for running, I plan to continue to use it as a cross-training aide and just enjoy it for fun, but at the moment I don't have plans in the works to do any organized runs locally.

From this coming weekend I have 6 weeks until Derby tryouts. I am going to push a bit and try to get ready for this. It means being able to skate 40 laps in 6:45 or faster and be able to juke and move through the pack, take and give hits and do sprints then be able to jam through the pack. Going to be interesting. To prep, I'm resuming speed skating on Fridays, doing as many open skates as I can just to work on technical skills outside of derby, then do derby practice Sunday, Monday & Wednesday. This week I need to do all 4 days of Derby, so I'll be adding in Tuesday. Pray I don't burn out!!! :)

Starting January 2nd, I am joining a small group of people on a fitness journey. We are making it 60 days and we'll all be doing our own Beachbody program hybridized with our current fitness routines. I'm really looking forward to it and will be posting about this more as it gets closer.

In the meantime my workouts this week are:
Friday: Speed skating - 2 hrs - Intense sprint work and off-skates leg workout
Saturday: Open skate - 2.5 hrs - This is my relaxed practice, technical skills time.
Sunday: 2x Derby practices - 4 hrs
Monday: Derby - 2 hrs
Tuesday: MAYBE OFF. We'll see. Otherwise, derby!
Wednesday: Derby - 2 hrs
Thursday: Crosstrain core, yoga, stretch
Friday: Speed skating!!
Saturday: OFF!!!

That's as far as I have it planned out for now. I will be building up and posting my routine for the 60-day Beachbody challenge this weekend.
Stay tuned!
~Grace