Daily Stats - 5/17/05

Calories eaten: 1974
Breakdown(c/p/f): 38/16/43
Water: 2.5L

Workout: upper body, walk
Distance(walk): 5.78 miles
Speed(walk): 3.6 mph
Workout time: 45:44, 1:36:50
Average HR: ?, 122 bpm
Calories burned: 278(125), 626(344)

I bought the Kathy Smith "Lift Weights to Lose Weight" DVDs using part of the amazon giftcard I got through the company fitness program. Since Noah was getting an award yesterday morning (Most outstanding 4th grade choir member--yay!), I stayed home in the morning and worked out at home after the awards ceremony.

I was pleasantly surprised by the DVD...I had emailed Renee about them, because I wanted to get a feel for how perky (read: annoying) and fast-paced (read: impossible for my clumsy ass to master) they were, and she set my mind at ease enough for me to place the order. After doing the upper body workout from vol 1 and the first 3-4 minutes of the abs, I think they're going to work out just fine. I'm still not sure how Kathy's whooping is going to hold up on subsequent workouts...but there wasn't a whole lot of it in this first one, and it wasn't as nerve-grating as I thought it was going to be anyway.

The upper body workout was about 20 minutes, but I went ahead and warmed up with a 1-mile WATP workout beforehand, and then did some of the abs on the Kathy DVD after the upper body. By the time she got to the planks, though, I had to stop. My abs, not so strong they are. (/yoda)

lmao @ yoda

Cool, I'm glad you enjoyed it so far, I think it's the legs part where she lets out such a squeal, I want to backslap her. Hard. :\

Watch for the sweaty dude in the yellow shirt to lunges at her. I think it's around the plie/inner thigh workout.

hee...I'm doing the legs tomorrow. I'll have to keep an eye out for him.