VP Health & Fitness

Today marks Week 6 Day 36 of my Precision Nutrition Body Transformation Challenge & Week 22 Day 149 of my Civilian Fitness Program, AND…. Week 1 Day 1 of my Personal 4 WK Challenge.

Why so many programs you ask?? I don’t know, I’m crazy like that I guess.

But don’t worry… they are all intertwined because I started doing Civilian Fitness almost 6 months ago, I knew I needed a good nutrition & weight training program so… in comes Precision Nutrition & Turbulence Training (i’m giving away a FREE 4-week program in my downloads page). My Personal 4 –WK challenge is just a mini goal that I have set for myself for the next 4 weeks (more on that in a bit).

So… how is it going? This past week was pretty good. I did A LOT of cardio & not much resistance training this past week. I’ve also had a lot on my mind recently especially a comment my husband made this past Thursday… It made me angry, sad & embarrassed but it also gave me a new sense of determination that you wouldn’t believe.

So this is what happend: After we finished playing basketball & volleyball with a couple of friends, I wanted to go out to the track and do some HIIT sprints. So we did them (it was a GREAT workout by the way!!! TT interval training.) and we are doing our last 5 minutes of cool down when we (our friend Zelene, my hubby & I) start talking about what we ALWAYS talk about — nutrition & exercise programs & what works best. I started commenting on the BFFM & PN Habits and how there’s also this new book that I think hubby would like (because he likes to cheat on weekends), and I jokingly asked him if he would want me to buy it for him… and lo an behold, he goes on a rant telling our friend how bad I was because I buy all these nutrition & exercise books, read them, but never follow them and I never get results!!!

I said… “ I haven’t gotten results???”

and he said, “NO!”

I almost started crying of embarrassment and just plain anger … I could not believe that he didn’t acknowledge the 40+ inches i’ve lost and the 30+ lbs of FAT loss that I have accomplished these past 5 months. I was CRUSHED.

Not wanting to make a scene, I composed myself and kept on walking until we finished. That night I did a lot of thinking and although what he said was pretty mean, I knew that it was partially true. I mean… I consider myself to be pretty knowledgeable in the nutrition & exercise field, but I know that I struggle in practicing what I preach every day. If I want to be a good example to the people that I help now and in the future, my body needs to have something to show for it.

So… that is where my Personal 4 WK Challenge idea was born. I want to prove to myself & my HUSBAND and anyone else that has ever questioned my success & my knowledge, that I CAN DO THIS & practice what I preach. What I basically did was plan out my workout schedule for the next 4 weeks & I will still be following PN principles (because i’m still participating in the PN Transformation Challenge…) specifically concentrating on the 10 daily habits. I will be implementing these 4 WK challenges until I reach my ULTIMATE GOAL.

So, my goals for Challenge #1 (August 20 - September 17, 2007) are:

• Be at or under 180 lbs scale weight
• Wear a loose size 12 jeans/snug size 10’s
• Be able to ear wedding ring all day
• Loose 1% Body Fat

Time Frame: 4 wks (20 August, 2007 - 17 September 2007) - 29 days

Nutrition: Precision Nutrition’s 10 Habits

Workouts: CFP Classes, Turbulence Training, Turbo Jam, P90X & other beach body videos

My weight has been fluctuating between 188-190 lbs this past week… so that’s good. TOTM started yesterday & I feeling pretty bloated and I’m retaining a lot of water right now.  Weight should stabilize in a couple of days.

Anyhow….

Here are my exercise stats for last week:

• Official Exercise Count:7
• Exercise Time: 6.75 hours
• Total Calories Burned: 4,704

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SO, my dear hubby…………….

BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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