Hostyle Workout - Group class - Tabata arm killer

This morning we hit the Hostyle conditioning class for mor tabata fun!

It was setup like this...

Jumping Jax

Push Press

Weighted lunges

Band Press

Weighted Lunges

Push Press

Jumping Jax

Each section is 4 minutes long, 8 rounds of 20 seconds with 10 seconds rest between....

Was terribly difficult. Overhead lunges was fun with Curd constantly giving me more weight to try. Finished push press rounds with 1 arm presses with the 45 lb olympic bar LOL. Crazy wobbly...

I pushed myself as hard as I could for this, was a great workout!

Strength Workout - Bench - Tricep FUN!

Well today was my final week working on my triceps.

It was a tough one and I really felt like I worked my arms a lot!

Here is the routine:

5 sets of 20 reps of blue band pull downs

1 minute break between sets

4 board close grip bench presses focusing of course on triceps

4 sets with 135lb bar

1st set -6 reps, elbows were in good and tight

2nd set - 8 reps, all good

3rd set - 7 reps, all went well.

4th set - 5 reps, arms were done

35lb plate raises, side grip on all.

3 sets of 15 reps, and the 4th set I did 20 reps.... That was the end of my arms LOL

Cardio - Stationary Bike

YAY! Another cardio update!!!

haha, 10 km's.... On the bike!

Will keep this short...

Ok I'm out of here...

Tomorrow is lifting time! More tricep hell!

Hostyle Workout - One on One "4 min Mile"

Today was my one on one with Curd and weigh in day. The weigh in was crazy... 6 lb's UP! LOL Well I am modifying my diet slightly to shake things up a bit, however we are sure this is still residual affects from dropping the water pill... I am going to see the doctor as well, to see why I am retaining so much water, on such a strict diet.

Todays workout was tough...

4 minute rounds doing as many reps as possible...

4 minutes of,

15 Box steps

15 push ups

1 min rest

4 minutes of,

15 box steps

15 burpees

1 min rest

4 minutes of,

15 box steps

15 clean and press, 40 lb sandbag

1 min rest

4 minutes of,

15 box steps

15 squats

1 min rest

4 minutes of,

15 box steps

15 push press, 55 lb bar

1 min rest

Then I had 2:45 seconds to complete as many ball crunches as I could. I did 85.

That was it.

Cardio - Stationary Bike

Today was another installment of the exciting...cardio! WOOO!

LOL

Well I biked 10.3 kms as usual and had a good sweat.

I think I missed advising of my weigh in last week due to the fact I was sick for a couple of days. I weighed in at 337.4, up another 2 lb's. Well tomorrow will be my last stabilizing day from what Curd is telling me, so I am expecting another weight gain. I am prepared for it.

I am excited about getting back to the losing weight phase of this process, but I am even happier about not being diabetic any longer, and only talking 1 pill for hypertension, instead of 3-4!!!

I will hit my mini goal of 320 soon. Maybe I can convince my doctor to give me back the water pills for a couple more weeks to hit my goal, win the bet, then go off of them again... NAW, that wouldn't be right, would it??????

;)

Monday - 300 reps! - 1st week

Well today I changed up the movements from the last 4 weeks. I enjoy doing them and trying to beat my previous times.

I decided to challenge myself with harder movements. 3 100 reps exercises.

If I was able to complete them with extra time available, I have 100 ball slams ready to go. Needless to say, I didnt need them this week! LOL

Here is what I did:

100 Squats (standard for me, will always have squats as part of the routines) - 4:49

100 Pushups - 8:19

100 Horizontal Rows (Did my version of these, kinda like a cross between pelvic raises and back extensions while holding myself up) VERY challenging for me! - 9:21

Total time for routine... 27:22

Close enough to the magic 30 mins. Arms were destroyed...

I hope to incorporate 100 ball slams maybe by the 3rd week or 4. I need to cut all of my times first.

We shall see!

Hostyle Workout - Group class - Sicko

Well yesterday was by far my craziest workout so far and the 30 minute "limit" on my workouts was eclipsed. 46 minutes later I was done, and beaten into the ground.. but at least I finished it.

I am now going to try and remember what we did.

40 clean and preses from the floor

20 box steps

25 jumping jax

40 T Bar swings

20 burpees

50 jumping jax

40 Push ups

20 Red band chest stretches

100 Jumping jax

40 Weighted box steps (used the 40lb sand bag)

20 Squats

150 Jumping Jax

40 push presses (used 45lb bar)

20 Squat thrusters with 20lb bag, and had to throw the bag across the gym each thrust

200 Jumping jax

And that was that. I was happy to complete this rediculious workout. Seems they just keep getting harder and harder, but I guess thats the point!