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Yes, it is here everyone.  I am stoked about this new DVD from Tony Horton.  The next DVD installment from his new One-on-One series.  I have not had a chance to review it, since it just came yesterday. 

The Olympics only comes every four years, so I have been glued to the TV watching Michael Phelps take charge and sweeping the world with his gold medals.  You go Michael.  I am thinking about adding swimming to my routine.

I finally realized why I don’t like to run.  I have been on the treadmill twice this week.  I have squeezed in 3 cardio sessions in so far.  Yeah me!  But, yesterday I realized that my little toes get all bruised up.  I hate that and they are so sore.  After my class yesterday, I had to take my shoes off to let my toes breathe.  That is why I think I will go swimming.  Give my little toes a break.

Remember change is good and a variety of cardio exercises is great.  You need to mix it up people.

I will get back with you on how it went with Tony.  Can’t wait.

Anyone seen “The Celebrity Fit Club” featuring Dustin Diamond?  Ha!  The first time around he thought he could do all the exercises and stick to his own diet plan.  The truth be told he ended up coming back on the show and actually started listening to Harvey. 

Someone told me the other day and really stuck in my head.  You know how you tell your kids something and they just seem to ignore you?  Then, like the next day or so your kid comes running in the house and says that somebody told them something and it happened to be the same thing you said the day before only since it came from someone else it made better sense? 

That is kind of what happened to me the other day.  Thank You Fit Girl.  I know in my heart what it is I am suppose to do. I have read all the literature and heck I even went to college for this stuff.  Nutrition people.  It is all about Nutrition. 

I found my Power 90x Nutrition Booklet.  yeah Me!  I made copies of my Fat Shredder Phase 1.  I will paste one up on the fridge  at the beginning of each week and mark off the little blocks on what it is I can eat and how many servings he told me I could have.  According to my level or activity and on my other stuff, I can only eat 1800 calories.  So, I started this today.

Why did I start today?  Thought I better start now.  So, as you can see I can have like 5 things of protein and only 1 fruit.  I still need my vegetables for today, I don’t think that is going to happen.  It is about 6:30 p.m. and I am freakin starving.  I went up to the burger joint to get everyone else something to eat, but I myself passed.  I am so proud of myself.  Yes, I know that nutrition is the name of the game.  I always start good and then I keep exercising, I will not give that up, and then like every normal human being I just eat what I want.  I do have a heart monitor so in each of my workouts and classes  I have been keeping track of my calories burned but I need to be able to jot those down too.  You don’t have a heart monitor where you can actually see what you are burning and some cool ones have to where you can store the information up to a month.  That is cool. Cause, people, if you intake the same amount of calories burned or you don’t burn more calories than you intake then what is the point.  You will see yourself as a failure and then the worst happens the big britches come out and you start eating the carbs.  The bad ones.

I did my cardio 3 times this week in which I ran twice and did a TurboKick class at the studio.  The other workouts were tough this week also.  Felt a little tired on Friday.

So, I still have my deadline and really have to get serious.  If you want to see results, you not only have to bring it to every workout but you have to focus on what the heck you are putting into your gas tank (body)

So keep it real people.

Oh, by the way I am working on a Light Yoga video.  I am so excited.  I will of course let you know when you can stop by www.myphysiquinc.com to purchase one.  You can read about that one next week on my other blog www.myphysiqueinc.blogspot.com

No Excuses this time.  Just do it for yourself.

I switched my routine from the Power 90x lean routine to Power 90x Doubles routine.  why?  Well, because along with my eyesight I have lost some brain cells along the way. 

I thought with every cell in my being that I needed to push my self and add more cardio to my regimen.  I do, really, if I want to get rid of the stuff that is covering what many have told me is the rectus abdominis aka six-pack to show, then I am going to have to do more cardio.  Yuck!  I hate to run. I don’t have time to go to the base and get on the spin bike or treadmill.   I know I have said this before in the “What was I thinking” post.   Why can’t I just shove an enama up my you know what and just get it over with?  No, I couldn’t do that, I guess I will just have to eat bushels of apples, or is that bundles of apples? 

Well, I have gone running twice this week.  Two times too many this year.  I feel alot better and my shins are aren’t talking to me as much.  I guess that is good.  Now, I was suppose to do my chest, shoulders and triceps on Monday also, but man I was really exhausted after my workout in the morning class.  We really did work hard and I did not really want to because I knew I was suppose to do the Power 90x routine.  I put it off.  So, now I am behind and I did the routine today after my evening classes, which no one came for on Wednesday.  Now, I will have to do the back and biceps tomorrow which was suppose to be just YogaX.  Well, I have two Yoga classes to teach on Thurdady, so I will do those and figure out if I want to do the back and bicep routine after I have lunch with my friend.  You know priorities.  :) 

I think I will do a little jogging tomorrow again, not too bad so I will keep it up.  I will do my back and bicep routine.  I really need to get my push-up routine going as well.  When am I going to have time for all this blogging and working out?  Urgh!

I do have a dead line and I am sticking to it.  Just apples and yogurt.  Oh, and I found an awesome protein drink too.  it has a cinnamon taste to it.  I love cinnamon.

No excuses. 

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Okay, here I am, on week number four.  I am a little depressed since it doesn’t look like I have dropped anything.  On the other hand, I feel good about myself in the fact that after last week’s shoulders and arms I am stronger.  I can definitely do more weight. 

I received my one-on-one with Tony and viewed it with much excitement.  It looks pretty darn exhausting.  I am crazy enough to try it.  Heck yeah!  I will probably just do it once.  ;)  If Tony can get extremely exhausted I know I will probably regurgitate which is really appealing.  Well, we will just see.

Okay, this week is suppose to be like a little one, but you know I feel like I have not done enough since I did have to bonk on a few days because of other things I have got going.  I am going to start running again in the morning before my Yoga class.  Just 30 minutes I think ought to do it.  So, that means I will have 3 activity things going on back to back.  Um! I think that should work.

Did you know that there is a way to run?  I taught a summer jogging class.  The techinique and the breathing are really important for running.  Now, we all should be able to run if we don’t have jacked up knees like I am seeing in younger kids these days.  What the heck people.  Arms are suppose to be by your side and hands nice and relaxed.  The stride should be a nice confrontable stride with heel toe, heel toe, not flat footed.  Ouch! :(  The body should not be straight up but slightly leaning forward to help the body propel forward. The breathe should come through the nose and the exit the mouth.  Nice and deep and not choppy.  There you go.  Of course when you get towards the finish line you should speed it up lenghten the stride pump the arms and get going.

Next week, I am going to try the doubles routine.  That means I will do a workout in the morning about 7:30 and then proceed with my other workouts and come back in the p.m. and do another one.  This is really suppose to jump start my butt and get me where I need to be.  Wish me luck.