165 lbs.

down 32 lbs. from start  

25 lbs. to my goal 

 

So we survived Day 1 with our personal trainer! I actually really enjoyed it. I'll try to tell you what all we did that I can remember.

 

We started off doing a circuit that included...

• Box Jump
• Push ups
• Running on a broken treadmill(so we had to literally push the belt to move.. lol)
• The thing where you take a stability ball and switch it back and forth from your feet to your hands.. working your abs.
• Dead lifts(don't remember the weight)
• An arm exercise with weights.. don't remember the name

Then we switched it up a bit...

• Toe touches
• Lunges
• Push up holds
• Another arm exercise
• Planks
• Side planks
• Some push up balance opposite arm and leg things
• Push up and high five Jeff things
• Squats

And there were a lot more but I don't remember. We also did...

• Pull ups
• Hyper Extension Bench
• This thing where I put a stretch rop thing around my feet and pull it with my hands and take sideways steps

OK, that is about all I remember. And I'm sure I'm boring you trying to explain things that I don't know the names for. But I actually did better than I expected to. Jeff was just trying to get a sense of where our fitness level is at. Surprisingly, Phil had a really hard time. He thinks it may have been because of the Chinese food we had before.. lol. But he felt like he was going to pass out and had to sit down for a while. I think he was kind of beating himself up over it and felt stupid. But if you haven't done high cardio stuff in a long time, you're going to have a hard time. He's going to do better than I will in a lot of ways. I think that I would have been in the exact same position had I not began cardio last Thanksgiving. Next time, Jeff said he plans to do some more strength training with weights. That will probably be more of Phil's thing than mine. Overall, I really enjoyed it and I look forward to more! Since our schedule this week is not our typical schedule, Phil is going to work out with him for 30 minutes on Thursday and I'll have my 30 minutes on Friday.

I'm going to zumba tonight to get my cardio in. I can't wait to see how my life is in 6 months!

See ya!

Melissa