Thursday 7 March 2013

fitness test week 4 results

Today was my fitness test, i gave myself the week of workouts to get my fitness up a Little after being sick for those 2 weeks.  having only managed the week and a half of exercise before i got sick meant i was not going to get anything in the fitness test. so this week i worked my ass off,  pushing my body past what i was thinking it could do. i was doing actual jumping jacks, i have not jumped in years, if there was a snake under my feet , i ain't jumping, i will  yelp but i wouldn't jump, lately i have been lifting my body up off that floor and jumping, albeit a little awkward looking but jumping just the same.

 Today i did a ten minute warm up, it started  as a walking thing but in three minutes it became me entertaining two of my kids and mum with some rather excitable jazz hand dancing. i was getting a little carried away though and had to pull myself in check when my heart rate was hitting too close to 180.  i managed to blitz my 1km by 3 minutes, mainly due to the fact that the first time i was walking it as fast as i could, to actually jog/running some this time. i did better with all my times , over doubling and tripling some. my flexibility is still crap  but i blame my bad back for the reach thing, maybe it will loosen but I'm not going to be angry because of a little flexibility problem,  not when the rest of me is doing so much better.  I burned 401 calories today, which  is not something that happens for me.  i want to hibernate for a while but at least i got my workout and fitness test done... i   cant wait to see what happens to  next weeks weigh in. *fingers crossed 

I don't even want to imagine what it must have looked like for mum, who was running behind me, she has  always been a runner but i just look like a fat chick trying to escape. when i run my form is crap , i really do look like someone who is running and they hit a downward slope and they spend the rest of the run trying not to fall, so they have arms all flailing and such. 

not only have i lost the  gain from last week, and 26cm overall, i have managed to go from a 10+ min walk to a 7+ run/jog/walk for my kilometre. 

i did  76 push ups instead of the 25 i started at 4 weeks ago. i managed a 1.59 minute plank over  my 45 second one.  i doubled my wall sit,  and i felt great... next time I'm going to be tougher on myself and do my plank on my toes.

 I'm looking forward to seeing what i can do in 4 weeks time and how much i can change my body.