So, so, so, Tired.

Holy cow.

Power outage messing up sleep. (No power = no air conditioning. This is Africa. You do the Math.)

Twelve hour shift. (On which I did my planks - 1:30 front, 1:00 side; and my lunges - 25 each leg)

Forty-five minute meeting.

Then this:

30 minute weight workout (arms)
1 mile run! in 9:13
30 minutes elliptical

Now I look like this:

See those bags?!

And want to crawl into this:

If I weren't pretty much a zombie right now, I'd tell you guys all about how much my run rocked my socks (disappointingly just boring white socks) off, and how I wanted to go much further than just a measly mile, but stopped myself so I don't re-injure myself.

Kinda like I just did there. :)

I'm off to be in a coma for at least the next 10 hours. I'll be back to stalk your blogs then. :) 

I also have a special video to show you guys. It's awesome. 

Transvestites and Treadmills

Workout: 20 minutes weights (back and tricep) / 41 minutes elliptical / 19 minutes TM 3.0 mph 11% incline

Wooooooh, Buddy. My legs are sore. Between the squats yesterday, and the cardio today, they are screaming at me. I love it. :)

I was only going to my usual 30 minutes of elliptical, but then I came upon the Rocky Horror Glee Show. Seriously, it just made my week. I had to keep going. Brilliant. I love the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and almost started doing the Time Warp right there on the treadmill. 

If it weren't like 100% probability that my klutzy behind would fall off and break something I'm sure is neccessary to function.... let's just say, I would have been jumping to the left.... And a step to the RIII-IIII-III-GHT. 

I took pictures, and was fully prepared to post them.... except I'm a total tard and left my memory card in my computer. So they are stuck on the hard drive of my camera. Forever. Sorry....

I hope everyone has a great night! 

More Cowbell? Nope. Just Kettlebell.

I totally cheated on eating healthy tonight. We had a mandatory torture session going away dinner to attend tonight, and since I had to get up at 4:30 this afternoon to go to it. This translates into waking up 4:30 in the morning and going to eat a buffet-stlye food (which was mostly fried. I wish I were kidding.) and listening to people tell inside jokes that you are not clued in on.

It was a nightmare blast.

But oh well. I'm going to shrug it off, and focus on my workout after work, and then enjoy my two days off. See. Positivity. Pass it on. :)

I've gotten B.O.R.E.D. with my arm weights workout. It's not that it doesn't work- I am seeing really nice results- it's that I'm sick of it. My gym here on a base has a plethora of kettlebells, so I got to thinking.

Actually, I got to eyeing them suspiciously. Then glaring. All because they intimidated me, and I was a wimp.

No more.

I have found a workout here, though ou have to scroll down a little ways. Basically it is :

+10 Turkish Roll-ups
+10 Squat Jumps
+10 Double Arm Swings

I'm gonna give it a shot. I'll start with a 10lb kettlebell (that's the smallest one we have). Hopefully I survive and don't drop it on my head. :) I even convinved my co-worker to take some pictures! :)

Please let the gym be empty..... Haha.

Wish me luck!!

Is There a CA (Candy Anonymous)?

Workout: 30 minutes weights (arms-oh so sore!) / 30 minutes elliptical / 50 crunches

So I tried something new today. I worked last night, and everyone on my shift decided to go to the gym after work. Three people committing to the gym prior to a 12 hour mind-numbing shift?

HECK YEAH.


But when breakfast dinner time rolled around, I just so happened to be on the phone. And then work came calling, and I couldn't really get a break to go eat. GASP! You are seriously asking me work out, after 12 hours of work, on an empty stomach?

PSHHH. Yeah. Ok.


So I gulped down a GU energy gel. I have been reading about these from various bloggers as fuel for a long run, taken during the run. Not as a meal replacement. But. You work with you've got, right? And we had those in the shop. Among a truckload of candy.

Seriously. A truckload. If I could take pictures at work, (I can't because it's wayyyyy to embarrassing very illegal.) you would feel super bad for me. I mean, a sugar addict like me stuck in a room with candy ALL day and night? Might as well lock up and addict with a heroin needle. You'd get the same results..... Though I may have less willpower.


So, I figured, even though it's not a proper meal replacement, it will work in a pinch. And boy did it. That or I am just energetic superwoman. It was great. Well, not what I'd deem "yummy delicious" (which is the highest praise I can award. It never happens with galley food.) But no bad aftertaste which rocks my socks. Suh-weet.

I also went up a resistance level on the elliptical. I had been stuck for too long at the one I was at. I'm going to be doing that periodically, until I eventually max out. That's the goal at least... I also am looking for an elliptical interval workout. You know. For when I get brave enough to actually try it. So if you find one. Please point me in the right direction. And I'll think about getting out my big girl pants and giving it a shot. 


But before everyone stones me for not properly fueling before a workout, know this! I ate serious amounts of oatmeal last night. Like, I think I am single handedly supporting the oats industry. Well. That and Hershey. :)