Turbo Fired Up

This morning I did day 2 of Turbo Fire.  So far, I’ve done the Fire 30, HIIT 15, and the Stretch 10 (which is done pretty much every day after a workout – a good 10 min stretch session).  I’m really enjoying the workouts and really feeling the burn during them.  I think because I love Turbo Jam (hello, my name is Kim and I’m a Chalene Johnson groupie…) these seem a little new but a little old at the same time.  Old in a good way – the familiar way.  I’m really happy I bought them, because I can totally see these making a big difference in my cardio workouts.

The only downside is that they are really light (it seems anyway) on the strength training,  so I will be mixing in some weight lifting/body weight exercises.  Probably 2x a week.  I know I needed a better cardio program to help burn the calories, but I know from experience that I need to do strength training in order to really see my body change.  I’m not sure how to mix it all together yet, but I’m working on it.  It’s really hard to get to the gym during the week, but I think one night a week I can make it work.

I’m also using the beachbody site (the free version – not the paid membership version) to track my workouts.  I’m going to play around on there because they have some way to combine workout programs I think.  That would be nice if they could develop a program like that.  We will see.  I’m kind of annoyed with the site though….there seems to be 2 or 3 ways to track a workout and they all don’t register the same.  Maybe it’s just me though – it is only the 2nd day I’ve tried to track a workout.

Anyway, enough workout talk.  After work tonight I have a big goal of completing our wedding invitations!  They are printed and I’m in the assembly phase.  Let’s just say that  Goo Gone was my friend this morning…

The one where I talk about my lack of motivation

Hey…yeah I know.  I’ve been gone forever.  Life just got the best of me.  No, let me rephrase that – travel + wedding stuff got the best of me.  My life has been consumed with that stuff, which has thrown me off my game.  Plus some other things that I’m not going to go into too much here, but just know that it’s nothing dramatic or bad…just something that has inspired me to create a different kind of life going forward.  So I hope to share more of that in the future, it’s still in the works

Other than that, my other struggle is lack of motivation.  It’s been HOT here – over 90 degrees almost every day.  Let me tell you – that does nothing for exercising.  When you leave at 5:45AM for bootcamp and it’s already 86 degrees, that is a serious problem.  As a result, I’ve seen my exercise level drop off dramatically – the weather and my pile of projects have both been great excuses to sit and eat bon bons and catch up on seasons of tv (hello my new obsession Mad Men).  Okay I wasn’t eating bon bons…but I did watch all 3 seasons of Mad Men in the last month and a half because I like television.  The other thing – I’m bored.  I love my trainer Lindsey and her programs are killer and they work.  But I’m bored with them.  I need something new.  This happens to every few months so I’m not surprised, but I should be prepared, eh?  I wasn’t and I hit the wall hard.  So I recently ordered Turbo Fire, Beachbody’s newest program from my most favorite trainer ever – Chalene Johnson.  It should be here any day now and I can’t wait to get started.

Alright, that’s all from me for now.  Just be prepared for some awesome things in the future