On a 15 pound mission

Tracking my insanity progress and ready to join the #fitfam

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Day 5 Rest Day!

Unfortunately today is going to be a rest day. I’ve been at the library since 9am and it doesn’t look as if I’ll be going home anytime soon. Lots to study for!!!

Amazingly, I am not sore at all today! I did some extra stretches after yesterdays workout and had an egg protein shake in the morning before the workout and a whey protein shake after the workout. Looks like it is working because I am not sore at all! wooohoo! 

Gotta get back to these consolidation problems, tomorrow I won’t skip Pure Cardio - I swear! 

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Day 4 Plyometric Cardio Circuit

The regret I felt after day 3 was real. I was still feeling the soreness this morning but made myself keep going. Amazingly, although my calves were super sore, when I started today’s workout, I was so concentrated on doing the exercises that I forgot about the pain!

Plyometric Cardio Circuit was about 70% harder than the Cardio Power and Resistance. The “fire drills” were so hard, I paused the video twice for a one minute breather before I could go on. I know it is designed like this though. Even the actors in the video couldn’t keep up! I am happy with the workout , it was really intense but tis rewarding when completed -- even with some pauses along the way, ha! I’m excited to see the progression. I want to do this same workout a week from now with more intensity and less catch up!! 

I did some grocery shopping today. With this whole fitness business, it is important to eat healthy and supply your body with things it needs. Pringles were on sale for a dollar and it was sad to consciously not put them in my basket. Go hard or go home! 

In terms of studying, I am still on consolidations. I was hoping to be on foreign currency translations by now but unfortunately this is not the case. I hope to finish the inventory and land holdback and releases tonight. I realize no one knows what that means but I feel a strange peace when I blog about my day! 

In other news, the new dudes who will be taking over my apartment moved in some of their things today. It is bittersweet to leave this fine apartment. Lots of memories here, 4 years of memories in fact! Watching my roommate pack her stuff is tear inducing. She’s on her way to NYU and my other roommate is half done her masters in speech pathology! Moving onwards and upwards, but can’t help but feel sad that it’s the end of an era. Starting fulltime work in September and I’m so proud of all of us. It may have taken an extra year for my roommate and I, but we got to where we wanted to go. The postal service has a line that has been incubating in my brain:

“Big dreams, false starts... You gotta know that this will turn around” 

Hardwork most certainly does pay off. 

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Day 3 Rest Day!

Holy moly I am sore. It has dawned on me that I will continue to feel this soreness for the entire 60 day duration. I felt so sore that I took day 3 as a rest day. Yes, I know, only 2 days in and she needs a rest day. The soreness I was feeling was beyond just muscle fatigue, it was PAIN. My roommate said that I was walking like a zombie. The stiffness was mostly in my calves and I ended up taking a tylenol before bedtime. Reflecting on it, I believe the pain was due to the fact that I didn’t have any protein after my other workouts so my muscles must have teared and there were no nutrients around to help heal them. 

In addition, I pulled an all-nighter last night. Went to school at 9pm and got home at 5:30am. I got work done but in hindsight my body probably needed to rest as well. I knew insanity was going to be intense and I really regret taking a rest day so soon into the program. I will remember this regret to motivate me to push through the next time I’m feeling this way! 

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Day 2 Cardio Power and Resistance

I’m embarrassed to say that I woke up extremely sore from Day 1′s fitness test. During class, I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to get through today’s workout because of how sore I was feeling. It’s good to know that your mind gives up faster than your body does, cause here I am finished day two, wooo!

I noticed during the workout that I need to work on my full body movements. The “hit the floor” and “globe jumps” really get me and I notice that I can’t keep up with Shaun T. Of 30 seconds, I would have to rest for at least 15 of them for these particular exercises. They are definitely movements I will be working on in the coming weeks. 

So since accounting bootcamp started last Monday, I have been back to taking naps again. In second semester of HBA2 I didn’t nap at all after school. I actually had a regular sleep cycle. I think this is because I enjoyed my classes and kept myself busy with other things as well. In accounting bootcamp, I have zero interest in the classes and as such, each 3 hour lecture just does damage to my body. “Follow your passions and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” has never rung more true. I feel that accounting may be the opposite of my passion, so day in and day out just feels like work. Very dreadful work. Sleep just washes it all away and is why I’m back to napping. I’m hoping that with insanity, I will be able to combat this fatigue and fight through the day without napping. You really become to a slave to your fatigue as a napper!

I have my first exam on Monday for Corporate Financial Reporting. We started this program less than two weeks ago and I already have lots to study for before Monday. We have covered about 600 pages worth of material. Admittedly, I have only read through about 70% of the assigned readings and have completed even less problems. Topics covered are consolidations of financial statements between parent companies and subsidiaries and foreign currency translations. Here’s to starting a productive study grind in the coming days! 

See you tomorrow for Day 3!

BT

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Day 1 Fit Test

Day 1 of Insanity down! Here are my results:

2 years ago I lost 15 pounds, and was in the best health of my life. I felt more alert, strong, productive and powerful. After starting business school, I lost this fitness level and gained back ~60% of the weight back. Although I would get back into it during the summer, I knew I had lost the progress I worked so hard for during that year. Very simply, I prioritized studying and extracurricular activities over gym time, and in reality all are needed to lead a well-rounded life. 

I want to get back at it! I know I can do it because I’ve done it before. This summer I am in my last rally of school (wooohooo!) and hope to gain back  the fitness level that I had. This summer is about being better, in all ways. It is about being aware of my self imposed limitations and deliberately going out of the box to grow as a person. Psychologically and physically. Changing who I am because I know this isn’t enough. I hope to be better. I hope to be great. And these hopes need to be held accountable in order to convert them into reality. I hope to be accountable to this blog and to start my full time job in September with tools to keep me healthy and fit. Shaun T will give me what I need to whip me back in shape, and I’m excited for this journey I will undertake! 

Today’s Insanity workout killed me! I felt myself losing steam around the middle portion of it, especially when it came to the globe jumps. While doing these exercises, I felt the blood rushing into my head and can literally feel the fat that I had accumulated over the years. This is a turning point for me. I will get better! There are 60 days in Insanity and for each 20 day rally I go uninterrupted, I will allow myself to purchase $50 worth of fitness gear! We need incentives to motivate ourselves towards out goals. 

See you tomorrow for Day 2! 

BT