T25 - Day 35

I need to play a bit of catch up before I fill you all in on my amazing achievement today!

Tuesday (yesterday)

I had a perfect day for nutrition, a medium good day for water and I actually enjoyed my workout! It was crazily enough, fun! It was upbeat and the variety was awesome. It worked in a level system, so it had "round 1", "level 1" and you did like 5 different exercises or so per round, and there was 3 different levels each round. So you repeated all the different exercises each level it just got faster and faster. Then at the end you did everything all over again but not for as long. I liked this one a lot. It was called speed 2.0 which is funny because I really disliked speed 1.0.

The only thing that I will say is that I stupidly did the T25 in the morning BEFORE breakfast. Dumb move. I almost puked, and I know a lot of times people say "I almost puked" and they exaggerate... this time I am being quite literal. I was gagging and swallowing back the urge and my stomach felt so ill, almost like stomach flu ill. Not good. Lesson learned, you can't do a workout like the T25 on an empty stomach. Won't do that again!

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful for blogging about...

Today

I had the mother of all difficult workouts today... so far... Rip'd Circuit. It was the first time ever using weights (or resistant bands were allowed too) and each exercise move you had to hold for at least 1 minute solid. The ab moves were intense and really worked your core. Even the simple cardio moves I've done in Alpha and even the last 2 days of Beta were difficult because instead of having to tough it out for 30sec I had to push it for even longer! There was a lot of moves that used dumb bells too so the added weights, with arm moves was pretty intense. I was hurting.

I have been doing my exercise in the morning after breakfast to get it over and done with (well except for yesterday, as I said I won't do that again!)

Speaking of food... again my food has been good today. Poached eggs and toast for breakfast with a tiny section of banana, apple for snack, chicken souvlaki ceasar salad for lunch, rice cakes and mixed nuts and a thinsation chocolate bar thing for snack then for supper I just had a chocolate/PB protein shake (half of it) then Joelene and I went out...

Okay so I am SO pumped about my exercise night! I did the 20 lengths in just over 15min again, and this time I did take breaks and I was practicing my flip turns under water and chit chatting a bit with Joelene so I guess if I had pushed myself extremely like I have been I may have been in the 14min range but I don't care. It was a great workout, plus I was so sore from the workout I had already completed today. My shoulders ached and my quads. I am pretty proud of my time.
After we did our lanes we sat in the hot tub for a bit then we decided to spontaneously go try to do 10KM on the bike in the upstairs gym!

So we got dried off and headed upstairs.

I am so happy to report that I pushed super hard, and after 28min I did 10km on the exercise bike and I felt like falling to the ground and not moving but... I DID IT! I ACTUALLY DID IT!

OH EM GEE! I am so pumped, shocked, happy, surprised, impressed, amazed, blown away, stunned... *insert similar words here* ME? .... ME!? I did it! I never in a million years would have thought that I could do something like that and yet... I did!
However, I have to admit I had NO IDEA how hard 10KM would be. Really puts this triathlon into perspective for me; but I only have to add on 5KM run now and that is the triathlon. I was able to do my swim and biking in 45min. Not bad if you ask me.

So all in all I think today has been a good day. I feel so tired, but yet I have that euphoric high after the workout... my legs are like jelly, I am clearly physically worn out but I feel so pumped still. I could definitely sleep, and I hope that I will sleep well tonight since that was probably something that contributed to my terrible time with the rip'd circuit today. My baby and toddler woke me up SO MUCH last night that I felt like a walking zombie today. A restful night sleep and good nutrition is key when having energy to do all this intense exercising. However, that being said, I still was able to do all I did today on limited sleep -- but mostly due to the proper food to fuel me! I was also able to get almost 4L of water in today too.

Well this has been quite an exciting update but I must go now, shower and enjoy an hour or so with my amazing, supportive husband then I am going to enjoy falling into bed!

Night!