Well the weekend is over and overall, I did….ok. I always find the weekends to be the hardest to stay on track and focused on the healthy life style that I am trying to get accustomed to. This weekend was especially hard.
I love my future mother-in-law’s (MIL) cooking! The funny thing is, she doesn’t like to cook. I think the reason it is so good is that it is pure Midwest home cooking! That said, there is NOTHING healthy about it. On Thursday night she made enchiladas. They were so good and I will be making them again for Andrew. The good thing about them is that they were super filling and I only ate one, until Andrew’s dad pushed the plate my way….then I had another half of one. I had a serving of rice and some delicious homegrown tomatoes! I tried to fill up on the tomatoes and I think that helped my urge to eat more enchiladas!
On Friday I did pretty good as well. I had an English muffin and banana for breakfast and a grilled chicken sandwich for lunch. Then came the rehearsal dinner. It was a cookout style dinner with hamburgers, potato salad, etc. I did pretty well, until the sundae bar open. I only had one scope of ice cream and put some peanuts on top to make me feel better about the calories I was eating.
Saturday came and I had another English muffin for breakfast…..and then we went to Connie’s (future MIL) family reunion. The food was oh so good, and I indulged quite a bit. The good thing is, when the wedding came around I didn’t eat very much because I was just not hungry after the huge lunch we had.
The wedding was a blast and I was so glad to hang out with Andrew’s friends (which I have come to consider my own friends as well). I always have a great time with this group and the wedding was no exception. We are all pretty spread out, and I wish that we were closer and could do reunions of this sort more than just weddings! The next time we get together will probably be our wedding and I know that we will have a great time there as well!
On to this week’s topic. I recently purchased a kettle bell and I am very excited to learn how to use it. I have some experience with them, but the exercises I do are mostly the ones I have seen others do at the gym. I want to get three kettle bell workouts in this week. I know that you should alternate your works outs (i.e. upper body and lower body) so I want to get an upper body and abs workout in tonight. I am also planning on going to my hot yoga class, so hopefully I won’t be too wiped out.
I first exercise in my upper body routine will be a floor press that will work the chest muscles. My like bench presses you start lying on the floor and alternate pushing the arms up with the kettle bell in hand.
Next I will do an alternating shoulder press by standing and raising the kettle bell over my head.
The last upper body exercise will be the tricep press. This is pretty much the same as a free weight tricep press, except you hold on to the kettle bell.
Now, on to abs. The first exercise in this series will be the windmill. In this exercise you start with the kettle bell raised over your head. You then reach down to the floor with the opposite arm, keeping the kettle bell raised to the ceiling . This will work the obliques.
The next abdominal exercise will be the figure eight. In this exercise you pretty much move the kettle bell in a figure eight motion around your legs. You have to alternate the hand you kettle bell is in while you are doing the motion.
I will end the work out sit ups holding the kettle bell to my chest to give more resistance.
I plan to do two sets of 12 reps of each exercise list. Wish me luck! I will give a full report tomorrow!
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