Saturday, January 4, 2020

G.Y.M O.M.G.

Starting Weight (SW): 271
Current Weight (CW): 197
Goal Weight (GW): 175 (ish)

Primarily I set up this blog to post weekly updates and victories as I progress toward, and maintain, my weight loss goals. Here is update number one.

I am down two pounds this week :)  I am glad to be getting solidly into the 190's.  For a few weeks I fluctuated between 198 and 201 so to be at 197 feels amazing.  This is especially exciting since it is right after the holidays.

Other victories for this week include joining a gym, and actually going!  I joined the gym right before the new year and had my orientation on New Year's Eve.  I signed up for some sessions on New Year's Day but they ended up being canceled so I signed up for them again on January 3rd.  It was great, and painful, all at once!  The first session I went for was a design your own program where I spoke with the personal trainer and created a plan to help me reach my goals of health and weight loss.  Then I did a session for stretching.  I originally thought theses sessions would be  like classes, where they teach a group how to do things, but, so far, they are more like personal training.  I was the only one who signed up for these sessions and that helped with the one-on-one training aspect.  It will be interesting to see how the sessions go when, if, other people sign up too.  For stretching we focused on the lower body because I was going to do my run afterward.  Let me tell you, I stretched muscles I didn't know I had!  It felt good though.  Later in the day I also had a PF360 Strength session.  We did work with hand weights (5 lbs), weight plates (2.5 lbs), a medicine ball (4 lbs), yoga ball, kettle bell (10 lbs), and rope pull.  This session KICKED MY BUTT!  I enjoyed it though.  I know I worked muscles I have never worked at home and today they are talking to me. My arms and legs are SO sore!  Again, we focused mainly on the lower body, So.Many.Squats.,  with a little bit of arm work too.  I'm going back for my second session on Wednesday :) 

Right now my planned workout routine is this:
Monday: The program designed during "design your own program" and run
Tuesday: Rest
Wednesday: PF360 Strength
Thursday: Rest
Friday: "Design your own program" and run
Saturday: Run (at home)
Sunday: Rest

We'll see how that routine works and what needs to be tweaked.

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