Third week of FIT challenge...

Week three... going okay.

I made it to days 1-4 in week 1 which felt pretty good... then missed friday/sat and felt like crap.  It sucks, the time that has to be put in to make it to classes, and when it's hard to have any free time at all in the day, carving that time out sucks.

I can list the excuses for missing classes, I suppose... trip to Iowa, visiting my aunt in the hospital... one day I had a headache and was dizzy.  One day I had a pretty crappy day at work and just wanted to go home.

This week started a new 10-week challenge, so classes have been pretty crowded.  Kickboxing classes are so noticeably lighter than the FIT classes, even though instructors have FIT members doing things between exercises like pushups, burpees, whatever.  I miss doing hooks and uppercuts, though... so I threw some in on my own between sets... :-)

I was trying to focus on roundhouse form yesterday, turning my hips over when striking and pulling my leg back before putting it down to the mat.  I figured since my right knee has been feeling fine the past week or so, I could start pushing it a little.  Well, then late in the class my right hip started hurting deep down inside when I was doing right rounds.   So I gave up on it and was just doing knee kicks... when we switched to left rounds, the right hip was still hurting the same... so did left rounds too.

I took a few days off of work...  Sarah's on 'fall break' for school right now so I took the time off so she could have some real time off to recharge, was hoping to go this morning but sarah slept in (which she needs) and I wanted to get dishes done and was on kid duty.  <sigh>  Today is also our anniversary, so I guess I'll have a relax day and plan to kick tomorrow morning and then make it Saturday morning for five attendances this week.  I made it to four in week 1 and only three last week.  :-(

Randy came up to me Tuesday and said he has to take my picture again for the challenge... I laughed... because that's really fair right, taking my 'before' picture in week  3?  He laughed and asked if I'd lost 20 pounds or something.  Touche, Randy.  At least he took the picture BEFORE the upper body strength training session (he took the first ones after the class)...

also, I checked my body fat yesterday, I'm down about 0.4%...   what incredible progress.   (note sarcasm).  With ten weeks left, to get down to 22% I need to go down 0.5% a week.  <sigh>  I may have a 'zero carb' phase coming up.

Day 4...

Okay, for the first time since last December I made it to four classes in one week.  I'm at 100% attendance this week.  Whoo-hoo!  It's been rough, it's definitely all FIT classes, this week and next week before the next 10 week challenge starts.  it's been pretty rough, thanks to my slacking off the past few months.  Well.  Past six months.  Okay, the past nine months.

Lauretta pulled me aside before class today because she took my body fat measurement wrong on Monday... so I'm at 28%, not 33%... which is great for my self-esteem but crappy for the challenge.  Oh, well.. I'm not winning the challenge anyway, I just want to make my own improvements.  I'll set some goals here...

After crunching some numbers, here are my goals:

22% body fat (this is what I was at in college when my buddy started making fun of me)
290lbs (this is what I should be at if I get down to 22% body fat without losing/gaining any muscle mass.
60 pushups (aggressive... that's up from 39)
80 situps (up from 45)

I have no idea what I might lose of my waist and belly and everything... be nice to knock it down, but wherever I end up if I meet the goals above are fine.

I want to the mile run again, too... in 7 minutes or less.

My lower back keeps bugging me... we did around the world lunges which I hate, I worry about my knees and ankles and turf toes doing those lunges every time and don't do them very well... plus it's crowded and I need a lot of room to lunge in every direction, so I had to make sure I wasn't hitting the wall or the woman next to me.

Other fun stuff from class today... Surrenders, burpees with pushups, hen pecks, donkey kicks, a bunch of ab stuff (been a lot of that in general this week).  We also did sumo squats which wasn't terrible, seated flys, some isolated tricep extensions which went pretty well.  Beat up the triceps though, there's been a LOT of pushups all week.  When we started the second set of burpees with pushups, I went down for the first pushup and there was nothing left in my arms, I basically fell to the mat.

Sarah's taking it easy (like I said earlier)... she's meeting me for the 4:30 kickboxing class tomorrow.  I hope we warm up with gauntlets through the bags instead of the stupid jumping and running across the floor.  We'll see.