Biggest Loser Week 5

Havent had the greatest week eating wise.. no eating out. But had a really bad evening wednesday which was FULL of snacking.. have managed to exercise Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Have gotten my full 8 glasses or more each day of water. Missed the push ups/crunches/lunges yesterday but I will make up for it today by doing double today.

Someone kicked me in soccer on Sunday so Ive got a nasty bruise on my right ankle which is making it painful.

I need the motivation to loose this weight... very frustrating. I was super super motivated when I first began this 2 months ago - and now I am slowly slacking!!

Thanks for the kind words.. I'm definetely not giving up, but its a very easy thing to do!!

I went for a half hour rollerblade.. hoping to get in a game of tennis with a friend later if she wants to.

Will get to my lunges, crunches, push ups right now!

Managed to get the eating under control yesterday - only 4 calories over had more than 8 glasses of water, 30 min rollerblade, 3 serv f/v, no eat out
T
uesday - 50 mins of tennis, 10 lunges each leg, 25 push ups, 50 crunches, at 8 glasses of water and its only 3:30 pm. Have my dinner and evening snack planned out and it looks like I will be just under calories for the day! Maybe I'll be able to get in the challenge exercises I didnt do yesterday.


I am down for adding in some free weight workout for our arms, I believe my roomate has a pair of free weights upstairs. What about everyone else? I think its very important to add something new each week so it challenges our body and changes up our routine.

These are some I found: http://www.essortment.com/family/bodysculptwom_szxp.htm

Biceps Curls

You can either stand with feet shoulder-width apart or sit down on a bench in an upright position. With dumbbells that are at least five pounds each (you can increase the weight as your arms become stronger), hold one in each hand. Let your arms hang to your sides and hold the dumbbells using an underhand grip, palms should be facing forward. Bending at the elbows and keeping your elbows close to your sides, curl the dumbbells up to your shoulders. Make sure that you are using slow and smooth movements; in other words do not jerk the dumbbells up or let your arms drop down to your sides quickly. Always control the movements.


Hammer Curls

While the biceps curls
work only the biceps muscles, the hammer curls work both the biceps and the forearms (brachioradialis muscles). Again grab a dumbbell in each hand and let your arms hang to your sides. This time, however, grab the dumbbells in an overhand grip, palms facing inward. Alternating sides, curl one arm up in front of your body, keeping your palms facing inward.


Triceps Dips

With your back to a sturdy bench or chair, keep your legs outstretched, your arms straight and your hands facing forward on the bench or chair. Slowly lower yourself down in front of the bench or chair by bending your elbows until your arms are parallel to the floor. Slowly and smoothly bring yourself up to the starting position with your arms straight. If you want an easier variation of this exercise, you do not have to have your legs stretched out but rather bent at the knee with your feet flat on the floor.



Triceps Extension

Sitting upright on a bench with your back straight, hold one or two dumbbells directly over your head (you may want to start with a single five pound dumbbell) using both of your hands. Your hands should form a triangle over your head. Slowly and carefully lower your forearms behind your upper arms forming a ninety degree angle behind your head. Slowly bring your forearms up to the starting position.


Maybe pick two of them and add it to our workout? or should we do all four? I know it says on the website that you should do these plus push ups 3 times a week. What is everyone elses thoughts

For each exercise we should do around 3 sets of 10-15?


Start my new job tomorrow! Very excited for that, but hope that I can still manage to get my exercise in being back to work.

Great first day on the job

tomorrow is a holiday here in Canada because it is Canada Day. Than the program I work for isnt running this Friday so I have a 4 day weekend!! Happy for lots of relaxing time.. but not so nice because we will be drinking a lot. I know we are tonight for a friends surprise party.. for sure Friday night because its the b,.f's sisters bday so we are goin out to celebrate and Saturday and Sunday we are most likely going camping. a fun filled weekend


I did my 25 push ups for the day, 25 crunches and 20 lunges. Havent done the arm workout yet - not sure what we decided on? all 4 of those exercises everyday? or only 3 times in a week?