OOPS! I Did It Again!

Yup. I kicked some serious workout A** today. I got that boxing mood going in my head with yesterday’s post and since my glutes were on FIRE from the Brazil Butt Lift stuff going on, I wanted to do upper body today. I wanted to punch some things as well and pretend that they were certain people I detest stressful thoughts. 

I had a headache. I had the beginnings of another Aunt Flo migraine. I weighed myself on my new BFF EatSmart Digital Scale and my weight was EXACTLY THE SAME AS LAST WEEK. I got pouty at first, then I realized that I should be glad in the midst of an Aunt Flo sleepover that my weight hadn’t gone UP what with normal water retention and all that baloney. This unpretty number on my scale put me in a sour mood. My working out plan? I didn’t FEEL LIKE IT. (working out) IN fact, I felt like taking a nap pretty much from the moment I woke up. But, I remembered my calendar in here, in my office and the pretty stars and such that I put on great workout days. I thought about my favorite jeans and what I would encounter if I put them on AT THAT MOMENT– and that made me say JUST DO IT KELLY. 

That’s right. Every day, I’m getting stronger, leaner, faster and just plain BETTER inside and out. 

This is SOOOO TRUE and a lot of what I’ve been sharing with you and will be sharing. What’s different about me NOW are the new HABITS I am creating. I’m replacing some bad habits and negative thought patterns and attitudes (many that I didn’t even realize I had) with new POSITIVE and more POWERFUL ones. 

EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT YOU DO SOMETHING AGAIN, YOU ARE MAKING IT MORE OF A HABIT. SO WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO NOT WORKOUT, THAT’S ANOTHER POINT ON THE SLOTH BOARD. WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO HAVE DESSERT AFTER YOU HAD A BIG YUMMY CHEESEBURGER BECAUSE, “WHAT THE HELL?”, YOU ADD POINTS TO YOUR FLABALANCHE BOARD. 

When you choose to kick butt, work up a sweat and push yourself, you get closer and closer to your ideal and optimal physical state of wellness. You don’t create abs and arms like that without HARD WORK and discipline. You don’t have to stop enjoying life- just make SMART CHOICES. Balance it out. 

I threw in Cathe’s MMA Boxing DVD:

She rocks = and this had a nice cardio/sweat factor. I did 35 minutes of this and then moved on to my friend Steve Pfiester’s little lower body challenge, HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF GOD!

I dare you to do this tomorrow. KILLER. I was crying during this but sooo killer. Notice- no equipment needed. This is a portable workout- can be done anywhere and will smoke your lower body. NO EXCUSES!! Then, as I shared in my sweaty vlog below, I wanted to “round off” my workout with some extras that would complete a killer circuit blast for both upper and lower body….I took “inspiration” from Charlotte’s review in her book (The Great Fitness Experiment) of Tracy Andersen’s workouts. OMG people as much as she gets on my last nerve what I chose to do works. Why does she get on my nerve– well take a peek here, I talk about how she discusses her “dance moves” as if she’s Janet Jackson or Britney and um, she looks like some 11 year old girl dancing in her room, and she calls THIS choreography:

I die laughing when I see her try to discuss that as something you have to learn. Like I have to learn how to hold a fork. Anyway, I did 100 each of these:

• 100 Walking lunges
• 100 Arm circles, arms to side
• 100 “Door Opens” arms to side
• 100 Bent Arm Shoulder raises
• 100 Basketball Toss Pushes, arms overhead
• 100 arm circles, arms directly in front
• Bent Arm Plank- 1 minute hold
• Straight Arm Plank- 1 minute hold

All in all, my total sweatfest workout was 600 calories burned. **Note- I only targeted a 500 calorie burn, the rest was slightly accidental–I’m NOT getting back into overtraining. Just was enjoying the experiment. See my video below where I explain the moves and how much they KILL your arms even with no weight– and then my theory based on hello- fact/observation of basketball players:

And….

And:

And:

Basketball players, although men with issues and generally man-whores, have the best ARMS. Why? 95% of the time they are training and playing, they are using their arms– always above their shoulders–when your arms are above your “heart” as they say– and in motion, pushing or throwing, you are conditioning the heck out of them. Try doing any repetitive arm motions == with your arms above your heart, without putting them down for 5 minutes straight. Get back to me. 

See what I mean?? Find me at Sweat.com. Or YEAI’MYOURDADDY.COM. 

Question of the day: How do YOU talk yourself into working out when you don’t feel like it??