Schedules are Good M'Kay

This has been a very long week, and it's only Wednesday!  I am getting to a place where I look forward to hitting the gym and giving it all I got after work.  I think my favorite piece of equipment so far is the elliptical.  I use the one with the hand swingy thingies.  I have a heart rate monitor that works with the machine so it displays my heart rate non stop.  This allows me to stay in the target zone for the most fat burn my entire work out.  Love it!

Schedules, I feel, are a very good thing.  They are a good way to hold yourself accountable for getting the exercises in to reach your goal.  I started out with just going to Curves three times a week.  That was the spark that began the journey.  My second schedule was a novice program created by Hal Higdon (a well known runner and author) that got me into walking with a goal of reaching the 5K distance.  I never faltered from my schedule.  Every day, I had to take time for myself and get the exercise in.  I completed this goal with SBF during the Cupcake Fun Run March 24, 2012.  Onward to the next schedule.

The next schedule for me is the one I am currently following.  My goal is a 10K walk which I intend to complete on 5/25/12.  I'm feeling like this will happen around Greenlake.  Just a nice 6.2 mile walk, two laps around the beautiful lake, all by myself...just me and my headphones.  Yeah, I'm excited for it.  :)

My next schedule is done and ready to begin 5/28/12!  I'm excited about it!  Not only am I excited about the newness there, but of the additions I have made and the calories I shall burn..I can almost feel it already!  It's gonna go a little something like this...

Mon: Cross Train: 30 min equipment, Yoga Fusion 6pm at the gym

Tues:  Strength & Stretch: Morning interval training, Curves, P90X arms

Wed: Walk: 3-5 miles walk Langus

Thurs: Cross Train:  Morning interval training, 45 min equipment gym 

Fri: Strength & Stretch: Curves, 2 mile walk, P90X yoga

Sat: cross train: 60 min equipment gym, evening interval training

Sun: Rest

It's important to get a variety during the week and to not let anything keep you from it!  The only way a training program works is if you work it!  The only day I have missed so far this entire year is my birthday.  Even when I wasn't feeling all that great, I got out there and walked the distance.  Funny thing is, the more I exercise, the less days I feel sick anyway.

Cross train, followed by strength & stretch is a good way to go for a schedule... and SBF approved!  :) Today, I added the morning interval training to my current schedule.  Even though it wasn't in the original plan, due to the result of the training, it will be a great thing!  It takes just 10 minutes a day but will help me to burn calories all day long.. around 12 hours.  That gives me time to do the work thing and hit the gym in the afternoon and keep the calorie burn going till the next morning!  10 minutes...wow!  Gotta love that man of mine who told me about this training tip that will help me burn baby burn.  :)

This week, I went to Curves on Monday, walked three miles with my daughter on Tuesday, 10 minute interval training Wednesday morning followed by 45 minutes on the elliptical and about 10 minutes doing laps in the pool.  Then, the best part of all..the jacuzzi.  Spent about 15 minutes stretching in the jacuzzi...that alone is worth all the sweat, money and glory lol.  Ahhhhh.  Tomorrow I will be visiting Curves followed by a 2 mile walk.  Friday, 5.5 miles around Langus park and then Saturday is back at the gym for 60 minutes on the elliptical.  Come to me Saturday!!