HARD CORE FITNESS MANIACS FOR JULY 11

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Today I did Amy Bento's Kickbox Power Surge. It was my first time and a lot of fun. A couple moves I need to get down.

M1- Protein shake
M2- Protein shake w/strawberries
M3- Tuna, veggies, peach
M4- Salad with chicken and a lot of veggies
M5- ?

 

[orphylea]

Morning! Workout done this morning- did a variation of PUB. First, I did pyramid up only. I also broke up the supersets- rested during the flyes and did bench presses, then played it again and did the reverse. I went heavier on stuff, of course. It felt good, especially since I did PUB as designed earlier in the week.

Roselyn: Glad you liked the new AB workout- it's a fun one with good music.

Have a great Saturday everyone!

 

[orphylea]

Made this for dinner last night and it was very good- just thought I would share.

Crock Pot Spinach Lasagna

2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
16 oz cottage cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2-3 teaspoons minced garlic
2 jars marinara-style pasta or spaghetti sauce
6 - 8 oz no-boil lasagna noodles (I use whole wheat)
2 frozen box packages of chopped spinach
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
pinch of red pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt

Thaw spinach and drain. Mix 2 cups mozzarella cheese, the cottage cheese (which I put in the blender first), parmesan, garlic, black pepper and red pepper and salt. When the spinach is thawed, drain it and mix it with the cheese.

Spray the crock pot with non-stick spray. Put a layer of spaghetti sauce in the bottom of the crock pot. Then put lasagna noodles. Break them to fit. Then more spaghetti sauce. 1/3 of the spinach/cheese mix. Do this sequence 2 more times. Put one more layer of lasagna noodles and cover with sauce.

Set crock pot on low for 6 hours.

 

[Fitnessfreakk366]

I'm down one more pound. Clocked in at 132# this morning. So that is making me happy. Finally, the scale is going down.

Today was cardio and yoga. For cardio I chose Cathe's 4DS High Intensity Step work, only 30 minutes but it was so fun. Very tricky combo's in this, I'll have to do this one a few times before I get it all. The 3rd combo I was just standing there going, Huh???? LOL! Usually I catch onto Cathe's step quickly, this one has me stumped.

For yoga I did Karen Voight's Yoga Stretch. It's on the Yoga Focus DVD. Love this one. All sitting stretches. It really loosens up my hips.

HR STATS FOR CARDIO ONLY:

30 minutes total
3 minutes below zone
16 minutes in zone
11 minutes above zone
236 calories burned

LOVING THIS ROTATION. It's so nice not to kill myself with each workout. My body needs this. It was hard to make my mind up to do something like this, but I'm glad I did.

Roselyn - I'm glad you finally tried KB Surge! It is a fun one!! Nice workout!

You all have a great weekend! Got my mom's surprise retirement party today. I can't wait to see her reaction when we get her to the restaurant.

 

[buttercup78]

I did wk 2 plyo legs this a.m. 41 minutes 413 calories.

Roselyn-it took me about three times to really get KB surge and get a rhythm

Debbie-I did the same thing with 4DS HIS the first few times LOL. She threw me off because she keeps repeating on the same side three times before alternating it in the combo. Hope your mom enjoys her party

Patti-thanks for posting the recipe, I will try it next week.

Here's one for you:
7 layer Southwest salad

1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)
1-2 bell peppers chopped
1 head romaine (or any other kind of lettuce) chopped
3-4 tomatoes
1.5-2 cups greek nonfat yogurt
3/4 cup salsa
4 oz low fat shredded cheddar
*note-you can add cooked chicken to this to make it a complete meal

Put in a bowl in the following order:
peppers, black beans, romaine, (this is where you add the chicken if you want), tomatoes

then mix the greek yogurt and salsa together----->spread over the salad and then add the cheese

 

[meowracer]

OK - now my mouth is watering!! Both recipes sound yummy

Theresa - you asked what bike I got - it is the Orbea Diva. This is a pic of one just like mine.

Debbie - have fun at your mom's party, and congrats on the 1#! I have yet to master 4DS HIS, not that I've had the desire to try many times. I get too irritated

Patti - Sounds like fun on PUB, which is one of my fave workouts. So you did totally up on all moves and then repeated going down?

Roselyn - all of this talk of Surge - I really should give it a try.

Yesterday, I had my fastest running and swimming times to date! I was thrilled. The only problem is, in the race tomorrow, my swim time that I gave is slower than what I do now. Oh well. Maybe I will get to pass some people I swam 40 seconds faster than the time I gave them, which was accurate 2 weeks ago. The practicing is paying off. The run was on a TM yesterday and the street is a whole other beast for me but I will do what I can. The race starts at 6:30AM so hopefully, it won't be too hot. I have been sneezing my head off last night and today and really hope that this goes away.

Happy Weekend!

 

[SheWolf]

Woke up this morning and was so tired from yesterday's running around and my glutes and hamstrings are SO sore, that I didn't want to do anything. But I dig drag myself out of bed and manahed to do Kimberly Spreen's Cardio Camp Workout. It alternates Hi-Lo Combos with Kickbox combos. It was a lot a fun and took about an hour and I burned 408 calories.

Now here are the stats from yesterday's Disc 3 - Legs

Walking Lunges & Plie Squats (body weight) - 6 rounds
One Leg Touch Down Squats - BW/15
Firewalkers (band) - Blue/10 rounds
One Leg Elevated Lunges (1 dumbell) 35#/6
Deadlifts Wide Stance (dumbbell) -35's/15
One Leg Slide Back Lunges with Paper Plate (dumbbell) -20's/16
Side Slide Lunges with Paper Plate - 15's/16
Wall Squat with Ball and Leg Extension (body weight) 10 reps
Squats (dumbbell) - 30's/16
Calf Raises (dumbbell) - BW/40 reps (did not use weight for calf as my calves are looking too big these days)
Front Lunge Same Leg (dumbbell) -25's/15
Stiff Legged Deadlift on Platform (dumbell) -35's/15
Wall Squats Double Leg (body weight) -15's/8
Lateral Step Ups (1 dumbbell) - 40#/15
Drop Side Lunges & Stand with Leg Lift (1 dumbbell) -25#/15
Sequential Lunge Into Front Kick Combo 25's then 20's/12 & 3 (25's were too heavy)
Squats Narrow Stance (dumbbell) - 30's/15
Calf Raises (dumbbell) BW/40
Deadlifts Wide Stance (dumbbell) - 35's/15
Pulse leg to side strait leg 24 reps (R & L) Bent Leg Pulse to Side balance paper plate - 24 reps
Front/Back fan Kicks 12 reps (f & B = 1 rep) Calf Raises (body weight) - One leg 25 reps
Tibialis Press and Pulls with Stability ball 25 reps

 

[meowracer]

Linda - it is a workout to just write all of that down! I look forward to doing STS again. The leg part was my favorite part of Meso 1.

 

[SheWolf]

Linda - it is a workout to just write all of that down! I look forward to doing STS again. The leg part was my favorite part of Meso 1.

Shana - Actually I just cheat and cut and paste the exercises from my spreedsheet. Hey, really nice bike!

 

[WD]

We had a concrete person come out with an estimate this morning and I got calls from my Dad (my brother is in the hospital due to unknow reasons, maybe a bite) and a close friend. Took awhile but I got my workout in. I started out with Amy's Slo Mo lower workout. I then did Kimberly Spreens cardio combat surge using the premixes for kickbox and combat with the body bar, I went on to do her Rumble Heavy bag workout #1 and finished with the cardio combat surge fusion stretch. My hr monitor drove me crazy going from 202-0 bpm. Tooke me a bit but finally got it to read right. Total calories burned was 817. So far today meals have just been coffee and watermelon. I need to work on that. Weighed in today and was surprised at the weight of 116. I really thought that weight gain would have been more with all of the eating out and non choice meals. Tomorrow I will do the bodyfat measurements to see where they are.

Shana, nice bike. I love the color.

Teresa, the recipe sounds yummy. I would add lots of chicken . Just something that I do

 

[meowracer]

Linda and Diane Sue - thank you! I am riding it in the race tomorrow. I was going to wait but had no problem clipping in so I'm going for it! It is a fun new toy Diane Sue - hope your brother is ok.