My Personal Fitness Challenge: Week 4 Summary

QUICK REVIEW: My workouts look a little different this week, and not just because I'll be seeing my personal trainer next week when I go visit SC. My editor, Kriscinda Everitt, invited me to join her in a 30 day arm challenge on Facebook. I decided to go for it since I already workout anyways. Doing a little something extra will be fun, and probably help me feel better about seeing no weight loss results. I'm seeing physical results, but still bummed that I haven't been dropping weight too. Ah well. This is about getting healthy, right? Right!

Or, as in my case, look at the scale and see no change.

Week 5 is going to be delayed since it is travel week. Though I am getting some exercise in during travel week (running around the airport with a heavy bookbag on and a cat carrier in tow totally counts since I was sore as hell the next day. More sore than any of my arm workouts. Crazy.) like swimming and shopping. I'll slip back into another routine once we check into the hotel and I'm not bouncing around my relatives' houses and have access to a gym.

DAY 10: JUNE 30th
Cardio: 15 minutes on the ellipti-stepper at 5 resistance and 5 cross ramp for a total of 1.28 miles

Strength training:

Leg extensions	4x12	60lbs
Bicep curl	3x12	10lbs
Dumbbell side bends	4x12	20lbs
Calf raises (machine)	4x12	110lbs
Bent over triceps extension	3x12	5lbs
Dumbbell rear delt row	3x12	5lbs
Decline sit ups	3x10
Leg press	4x12	110lbs
Dumbbell front raise	3x10	5lbs
Dumbbell lateral raise	3x10	5lbs

Summary: Pretty good day and still working out with the hubbins, which does help for the most part. I'm upping my weights and getting there with the reps too. Though my arms still feel very weak with the front and lateral raises. I didn't feel completely obliterated the day after, which is good since I am throwing more cardio in.

DAY 11: JULY 1st
Cardio: Cardio day! Well, and arm challenge. 15 minutes on the ellipt-stepper at 5 cross ramp and 5 resistance for a total of 1.25 miles.

Arm Challenge Day 1: Today we were supposed to do 10 bicep curls, 5 dips, 10 seconds of punches, and 5 push ups. I adjusted mine since I can't do normal push ups or do dips at all because of my wrist. There's something about bending it and putting pressure on it that really makes the injury worse. I also doubled up on bicep curls because the 10 lbs weights were taken at the gym.

Bicep curls	2x10	5lb
Wall push ups	10
Air boxing punches	20 sec

DAY 12: JULY 2nd
Cardio: 10 minutes on the ellipti-stepper at 5 resistance and 1 cross ramp for a total of .84 miles

Strength training: I honestly don't remember what all I did for the arm challenge, but I'm pretty sure I did it.

Bicep curls	3x12	10lbs
Leg press	4x12	110lbs
Dumbbell front raise	3x10	5lbs
Dumbbell lateral raise	3x10	5lbs
Standing chest flies	3x10	5lbs
Leg extensions	3x12	60lbs
Dumbbell side bends	4x12	20lbs
Leg curls	3x12	80lbs

Summary: Along with the arm challenge (10ish wall pushups, 45 seconds of air boxing, and something else that I can't remember. Meh.), a pretty good day. 

DAY 13: JULY 5th

Cardio: 10 minutes on the ellipti-stepper at 5 resistance and 1 cross ramp for a total of .84 miles

Strength training: 

Bicep curls

3x12

10lbs

Calf raises	4x12	110lbs
Bent over triceps extension	3x12	5lbs
Dumbbell rear rows	3x12	5lbs
Dumbbell side bends	4x12	20lbs

Summary: Overall, a very weak day. My energy levels are crap right now, which doesn't make much sense to me but maybe it's stress.