weight train three times a week

I am ecstatic that I was able to fit the noontime class into my schedule today. Things were pretty calm at work, so I took an extra hour off at lunch to attend the class. I feel really good now, and I can’t wait to go again on Saturday!

I was a little concerned, due to conflicts I hadn’t been able to make it to the Body Pump class for two weeks, but it went fine.

I wish I could bottle the feeling after the class is over, it ’s a combination of adrenaline rush plus accomplishment. If I can just keep focusing on the results, it will be easier to work my schedule around to attend more than jsut on saturdays.

Again, another week where I only made an appearance at the Body Pump class once. I so want to go more than once a week, in fact I like it so much that I am omg serisouly considering going to the class at 5:30 AM on Monday. I feel so good after this class, I can only imagine how I’d feel if I went two or three times a week!

Only managed to lift weights twice. Darn! I went to the Body Pump class again this morning, which is the second time I attended it. I’m not nearly in as much pain as I was last week. I really like the class.

My plan for the next week is: Try, try , try to attend Body Pump twice, and the third time, lift weights at home, concentratin on my weak spots at the class, which are push-ups, lunges, and abs.

I only lifted weights one time, but it was a killer. My friend Polly is teaching a new class at our Rec Center called Body Pump. It was 60 minutes of weight training to music. It was very hard for me, but I managed to hang in there for the entire hour. (The worst part for me was the push-ups).

I’m glad I went to this, it was fun and very motivating. I’m going to try to attend the class twice a week from now on. Unfortunately, the only time that really works for me is the Saturday Class, going to have to shift some things around to make it to another one.

I managed to do the weight training routine two times this week. Not too bad for my first week, but I need to do better!

I picked up a new book called “strength Training for Women” which I just love! There are so many choices for making your own weight training program, and the photographs of how to correctly do each exercise is great!

So today, i did all the exercises from the other book I had been using, plus pushups, and two exercises for my back and shoulders. I feel sore in a very good way right now. I am very psyched to keep this up!

So yesterday I did the weight training routine from the book “Strong Women Stay Young” for the first time in a few months. It felt good. I decided to try the leg exercises with the same leg weights I had used before, and today my legs are quite sore.

I am convinced that to achieve my weight loss goals, I need to turn a lot of this fat into muscle. And I believe that weight training is the way to achieve this.

I’m going to look into possibly using some of the weight machines at my local rec center, maybe once a week, but I think in order to achieve this goal I need to do the weights at home at least twice a week.

Hurray!

September, for some reason, was a tough month for me to find the time for these workouts. So I’m very pleased that I did three good workouts this week (the week that ended on Sunday). Hopefully next week will be a good one too!

I got a new book to help me with this goal, Strong Women Stay Young (Revised Edition) . I had checked out a different edition of this book from the library a few months ago, and was ploeasantly surprised to see some different exercises in the new edition. In particular, the author offered a new exercise for the triceps which was more clearly explained than the old one. If the way my arms felt afterwards is a barometer, the different excercise for the triceps seems to be more effective as well!

but again I have fallen short of my goal. I only managed to lift the weights once this week, which was this afternoon. But, on a positive note, I did the entire set of exercises and they felt really good.

I am just frustrated because I can’t find time to do this as often as I want to. It’s because of this @#$% 45 minute commute to work each day. That just takes such a huge chunk of time out of my weekdays. Sigh.

for this weight training goal. I did find time to do the weight training three times, although one of the times I ran out of time and didn’t get to do the leg exercises.

Today, a new week starts, and this week I’m planning to add some weight on the arms. We’ll see how this goes!