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With that being said a new year brings me here...to this blog! My best friend Amber is the co-blogger and we have been talking about doing this for a while. Not too long ago we both got hooked on pinterest. As our fixation on pinterest grew, we quickly discovered it would become a topic of conversation. 'Oh, did you see what I pinned?' 'I tried this on pinterest last night..' and so forth. Amber and I have been friends for a little over 5 years now. She is married to a wonderful man who is in the military, which has moved her away from me. We thought this blog would be a great thing to do together. Give us a chance to share our experiences and reviews from pinterest but also to provide new, fun ideas that can be pinned as well. It is also a great way for us to stay connected, even though we are not physically close together. With that being said we decided each month we will have a theme and do a post on that theme, this month's theme being a new year, a new you. I want to share with you what my New Year resolutions are, and some ideas I have to keep them or achieve them.
I normally don't do resolutions because I have a hard time keeping them. I have been in school for about five years straight, going straight from my undergraduate to my graduate degree. I will finish my master's degree on February 15! Woo-hoo so close. With my time freeing up I want to set some resolutions and accomplish them. I am 5'0 and what I would describe as curvy. I have never weighed much though. In the past two years though I started to put on weight and knew it. I felt uncomfortable and had to go up in sizes in clothes. Being so short I also felt that I carried my weight more prominently. I didn't realize how bad it was until I saw a Halloween picture in 2010 of me and knew something needed to be done. In the beginning of 2011 I started running and doing boot camp. I ended up losing 10 pounds last year and completed two half-marathons along with numerous bike rides and other 5k races. It felt great; however, I seem to have plateaued at my current weight. I now weigh 123-125. I fluctuate between that, and can't seem to get any lower. Ideally I would like to 115, with how I am built, this is where I would feel comfortable weighing. That being said, that is one of my resolutions. My plan of attack is to kick up my running as I would like to get my running mileage at 10 minutes a mile and to do various workout plans I have found on pinterest.
The workout below is one I will incorporate with running. I plan on working out 5 times a week. Running three and a boot camp type work out two times a week. It is really important to remember to try to do different work outs. Towards the end of 2011 I was really just running and not doing boot camp, I think this may be why I plateaued as well. The work out below is one a co-worker and I have been doing randomly through December. We notice a diffierence in our muscles the day after. It is a GOOD work out. We try to repeat this two times. In addition we do the first three sets of exercises, and then we do some form of cardio. Sprinting back and forth, crab walks, high knees, butt kicks etc. It gets the heart rate going a bit faster. Go at the pace YOU are comfortable pushing yourself too. You don't need to incorporate cardio either. We plan on doing this for a month to a month and a half then switching so our body does not get use to it.
My other two goals....not so much resolutions are to do RAGBRAI and to learn how to swim.
RAGBRAI is a HUGE bike ride across Iowa and this year is the 40th anniversary. I have signed up with a team and need to train for it. However, it is a lottery drawing so it is not guaranteed we will get in. I will dedicate a post just to this because I could go on forever about RAGBRAI. Biking is a passion of mine though so this is a goal I look forward to accomplishing this in 2012.
In addition, I want to do a triathlon. I have not signed up for one yet though. A triathlon is biking, running, and swimming. I can bike and run however, I can really only doggy paddle. I am HORRIBLE at swimming and I refuse to sign up for a tri. until I know I can for sure swim. The last thing I want to do is get in deep water and start to struggle. My plan of attack for this? Adult swimming lessons. Please give me good vibes that this works as I REALLLLLLLLLLY want to do a tri! Do you have tips on how I can become a better swimmer? I like input and look forward to it!
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