#triingharder

[mbear489]

Back at it

First of all, I am horrible at blogging. But, I feel the need to do it and write things somewhere, hopefully help someone else in some other small way!

I spent the last 10months studying and studying for my personal trainer certification through ACE Fitness. And I passed! I am now a certified personal trainer. I have a full time job already but I have this new found passion for fitness I wanted to explore and needed to keep my brain engaged. I miss school terribly (yes, I’ve heard this is slightly out of the norm) and this was the affordable and flexible way of getting my fix while working full time. BOOM done, now I know slightly more about working out than I did before.

Since I last blogged in the Philippines in November 2014, I have been a busy bee. Competed in another 70.3 tri (PR’d), ran Grandma’s Half Marathon again (an abysmal time, but I was also fairly ill), and signed up for Grandma’s Marathon for next year. I can also proudly announce I was able to clinch another sprint tri this summer, placing in 2 different categories again. 13 half marathons since 2012, 2 70.3’s, and 3 sprint tri’s. I feel quite accomplished and have some lofty goals in the future.

Speaking of the future, I’ll hopefully be posting (Wait yes I WILL be posting) about my journey into personal training, training for my first full marathon, AND an exciting adventure a friend and I are undertaking to raise money for Make A Wish Foundation. 4 words: Running Duluth to Canada. It’s happening.

In the meantime, I am waiting for a rescheduled flight from Reykjavik, Iceland to Copenhagen. Hopefully getting to Munich, Germany by the end of the day.

#triingharder Over and Out. Choose to have a great day!

[ellnes]

So I've been going through my blog, way back to it's beginnings, and right now I'm at February 11th, 2013. About 10 months ago. Things were so different. I have been through so much in the last 10 months, and I'm about to go through even more, but I have never given up. And I will continue to not give up. Life has thrown so much at me, and I've taken it all and made myself stronger.

Life is good right now, thanks to all the hard work I've put in, and I'm going to continue that.

I haven't been eating very clean, but that starts tomorrow again. 8-9 hours of sleep per night, eating clean, training hard. that's what I need to be doing. I did HIIT today for the first time in awhile and it kicked my butt. I'm gonna be doing HIIT about 6 days a week so I can start to shred.

Both mentally and physically, I am in a much better spot than I was 10 months ago. Time does heal almost everything.

[ellnes]

So, a couple weeks ago I posted some stats and some goals:

Current:

Squat: 5x145 lbs

Bench Press: 3x115 lbs

Deadlift: none (yikes)

Pullups: 2

Goals:

Squat: 175 lbs

Bench Press: 145 lbs (my bodyweight)

Deadlift: something

Pullups: 4

Here is what I now can do:

Squat: 1x5 165 lbs

Bench press: 1x1 135 lbs

Deadlift: Still none (today?)

Pullups: 2

  So much closer  to my goals!! Today is leg day, and while I won't be upping the weight, I will be deadlifting and hopefully that'll help all my other lifts. I'm thinking I could easily deadlift at least 85 lbs, which I know is nothing lol. I need to work on my squat form to make sure I'm going low enough so that it gets my booty well. I feel like shit but I also feel like I need to keep working on my lifting. idk.

[ellnes]

I have absolutely no motivation to get my butt out of my warm bed to go to the gym and do some cardio. UGH. why is it so cold out. why do I have school today. my Thursday is so jam packed, I will hardly have a break all day. hate it.

on the bright side, today is leg day #2 of the week for me, and I will be working on my SQUATS some more, taking in all the suggestions I have gotten from people and putting them to good use ;) so thank you all! Hopefully in a couple weeks I can continue adding weight, I'm addicted to progress.

[ellnes]

winning that election literally made me feel like I could take on the world. What a great feeling. :) it also makes me feel so excited to reach out to my (future) constituents soon. I know people feel like politicians are so corrupt, but I don't want to be thought of as a politician. That's not how I view myself. I want to use the opportunities I get in the Legislature to do cool, good things for people. I want to help people out. I want to make people's lives a little easier, a little better.

I'm excited for the next triathlon season. We had our triathlon club awards dinner tonight and I sat there and realized I could have done SO much better if I was consistent with my training, so that is my goal for next season. I'm going to make it the best season yet. Not much to go off of but still lol. I want to shave over 6 minutes off my time at the Pawling Triathlon next June, and I think with consistent, smart training I can easily do that. Totally stoked.