Day 22: Booty

Last Time doing Booty in Phase 1!! 👊💥

A little relief sure, but knowing we'll do a different one in Phase 2 lessens the relief. 😆😅  2 rounds, 15 reps each was so hard. And painful. And sweaty!! Today's workout was fun though. The cast was silly, Autumn laughed so hard she cried, and we survived!! 

I gotta tell you the first and second rounds were the most painful. Holy OUCH! I pushed through it and dealt with the pain. Usually I would give in and call #pineapple. I won't get results that way and I know that now. I tried the blue band more often and doubled up when they did. Oh boy did it make it burn that much more and that much quicker. 😳

Oh man am I hungry today! Make sure you're sticking on your nutrition. Sticking to your meal plan, eating only what's on the food list, and eating on the timed plan. It's all working for you so you have to follow it and let it work for you! I mean, all we have to do is eat and who doesn't love that?! 

Pay attention to how hungry you are though. Autumn wants you hungry because that lets you know your metabolism is revved up, but if you get too hungry, like you are absolutely ravenous, then maybe you need to change your meal plan. Check with the FAQs and Autumn's videos for more information. 

Tomorrow:
Day 23: Cardio Core

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Week 3 Round Up

So I totally slacked on posting this week. 

I started feeling like crap and it really took it out of me. I had a sore throat with a touch of scratchy. Nothing too major because I can't handle a sore throat well at all. Add in the stuffy, icky head feeling and I was just feeling blah. The first day or two it hit me I had a fever. How fun! No body aches thankfully. I first thought it was allergies because I was sneezing my head off but allergies don't last this long. Right? lol Even though I was feeling icky I still knocked out each workout everyday to the best of my abilities. I'm pretty proud of that! 

Here's a quick recap:

Refer to Day 15's post for Total Body Core

Day 16: Booty

This one hurt!! Like for real pain. lol I was screaming so much the first round my cat came to check on me. She figured I was ok and started to attack my hair. Typical. 😹

Day 17: Cardio Core

Holy sweat!! Last week I didn't do so hot with this workout so this time I got more sleep and was determined to kick its ass. Then I got sick and I still wanted to kick its ass so I did the best I could. I pushed and I kept going when I wanted to quit and I totally kicked this workout's ass! I pushed so hard I hit 185 bpm and my max for my age is 187 😬

Day 18: AAA

You know Autumn loves to bring the pain so that little plank hold she added in was dirty!! lol I did 20s most of the time but I had to do 15s for the hammer curls. Had bad form with the 20s so I dropped to the 15s. Play it smart! Also, still doing push ups on the toes 💪 Last time wasn't a fluke! I can really do pushups on my toes now!! Only took me a year and nineish months. Progress!!
Look at my progress and take it in for a second. If you think you're not improving on some moves or in some areas and you get discouraged, don't!! We progress at a rate our bodies can handle. There's no how-to manual to operate our bodies or to tell us how long it will take to lose weight or build muscle. You just have to keep at it and keep your head in the game long enough to see the progress. Sometimes we don't even know we made progress until we try something we thought we couldn't do. Pushups have always been a frenemy of mine and now I am OWNING them. My range of motion may not be like Richardson's yet, or it may never get there, but I'm on my toes and that progress makes me happy and pushes me to keep moving forward.

Day 19: Legs

Autumn started out with 25s so I was down with trying that. 20s are getting easier, not easy, but easier. Yea, that was a big no for me. lol I was feeling icky and my left hand was giving me serious pain holding that 25. Like it hurt so bad I dropped the weight. So 20s and 15s for me on leg day. Still rocked it out. I even did one 30 for the squats to give my hand a little more rest. I squashed this workout while feeling crappy. #beast
Something that's helped me get through these workouts while feeling under the weather is my dad. When he would start to feel a cold coming on he would go for long run. I remember him being sick once growing up. When he was sick he was sick. It scared me he was so sick. My dad was the pinnacle of health so I took a tip from him and sweated it out this week and I'm glad I did. I think it helped me to not get worse.

Day 20: Cardio Flow
I wanted to see how much progress I had made with this workout, even though I hate it. Not love/hate it, hate it 😆😂 I didn't allow myself breaks and I did every move to the best of my ability and I survived!! I only took breaks that Autumn and the cast took and I hung in there.
Fun Fact: I had a dream about Cardio Flow the night before. Crazy, right? In my dream I'm doing spider push ups and they're crazy easy. So easy I don't feel any stress, any strain, any struggle. It's like I'm floating through the push up, easy like Sunday morning. Yea, that's not how it felt come Saturday morning. lol However, I did gain a little more range of motion in the pushups so a little progress happened!! Woot!

Sunday Rest Day (not day 21)

I get a lot done on Sundays now. More so than ever before, which I give a little credit to 80 Day Obsession. I knocked some chores off my to-do list and even did a little mini workout. Autumn posted a #commercialchallenge for people watching the Super Bowl #goeagles I am not watching it and just voting for the underdogs #sueme lol 

I just did one of each and it was fun, not easy though! lol Afterwards, I did Stretch & Release. 

Tomorrow:
Day 21: Total Body Core

WEEK 4, ya'll!!!

Day Two: Booty

Day Two, y'all!! 

We worked the booty today and, oh boy, did it hurt!! Sure we got to lay on the ground for what seemed like most of the workout, but that just means we worked harder!
It was smooth sailing, well not really, but you know what I mean, until we got to that third round where we lay on our sides. First of all, if you did 21Day Fix then you know about the toe taps from Pilates Fix. They were excruciating, but they worked. She added those to 80DO: Booty. Still excruciating! Especially when you add in the clam move and that push move. O-U-C-H! 

I was screaming to focus on something else besides the pain. I wanted to pineapple, but it's only day 2. I can handle it! Did I say I did it the first time with the green band? Yea, ouch. For the second half, I did it with the yellow band. While it wasn't as hard as the first time around, it still hurt and I still had to push through it.
Overall, this workout is her most intense booty workout. I'd like to admit that ALO: Booty did not prepare me for the pain she would bring today. 😆😅
I'm looking forward to my epsom salt bath later!

What did you think?