Sweat and Glory

Sweat. I hate it and love it. I love it because of what it does.. just that release of fluid and chemicals escaping your body. I hate it, because that would be a side of my dad I got.. I sweat like him. Couldn't be like my mom and barely sweat. It doesn't take me much. Such an unattractive quality.. anyway. I'm covered in it now. Yet again, I had to do two workouts today because I didn't do mine yesterday. "Yesterday's" consisted of a tuck jump, tuck under, press up one leg in, next one out, side plank leg lifts right, side plank leg lifts left. Each are done as many as you can in 5o seconds with 10 second rest between. You do the whole set through twice, making it 12 minutes. If you so desire, check out the video here.

The actual today's was an 800 rep challenge:
25 Push ups
100 High knees
25 Straight Abs (feet on chair)
100 High knees
25 Squats with weights
100 High knees
25 Tricep dips (hand on the seat of a chair and squat, push yourself up)
repeat

Well.. good news is, to do the first 400 only took me 8:41. If you've been following me through, the first 400 rep challenge took me 12:39, but I had to break it up in 2 sets of 200. These 800 I did straight through in 18:49, which again, looking back last week at my 600 rep challenge, it took me 18:25. Meaning I did 200 more in 24 seconds. SCORE. I also took a lot more breaks with this challenge too. I felt pretty good about it.

This week I'm excited to say hit 10lbs GONE! I only lost 2lbs this week, but it was still exciting to hit that first 10lbs mark. I was really, really surprised at it too because my diet has SLACKED this week. I mean, for goodness sake, I had PIZZA on Thursday! WITH a dessert pizza! It was my friend's birthday but I felt guilty the entire time. This week was just hard. And I've been losing motivation too. I mean, I have enough motivation to lose it, but I guess I'm just lacking the energy to do so. I've felt a lot weaker too. bleh. One week to go of the 30 day challenge though.. it's crazy for me to think I've stuck through it for thirty-freaking-days. The results are nice though.

During this workout, I turned on an old workout playlist I made for my cousin and I during our college years. It just makes me laugh so much. When certain songs come on, I can just see us in the gym on campus dancing while we do our cardio in between machines. Songs like, That's Not My Name, and artists like Mims... I miss my other half! Mini me, you complete me :)

Alright... LOTS to do tonight :) And SO excited for it!!

Oh yeah.. and another blog I was doing posted pictures of every 10 she lost. It was AMAZING to see the changes. Check that out at Runs for Cookies. So I think I may post pictures of every 10. Maybe that'll also hold me accountable? I bought a sweet dress to wear tonight.. so maybe I'll post a picture later or tomorrow of my first ten.

Until then...