Losing Weight and Feeling Great
So right now I am pretty pumped, I went on a couple more hikes last week and have been eating better and I have lose about 3 pounds. I only have around 12 more pounds to go before I get to where I want to be around 180 to 185 pounds, and hopefully at that weight I can start turning my excess fat into muscle when I get back from the hike with Chalean Extreme. I will probably just start the whole 90 day workout all over again, when I get back from the hike. Hopefully I do not get huge blisters like I did last year on the hike, so I do not have to wait unitl my ankles heal to do cardio exercises. Our last hike wen really well, I think we built some pretty good mental strength, because we were pretty tired. We both were not feeling well from our New York City trip, I think it was the subway systems and the smog that got us, my lungs just felt so congested and I was having a hard time breathing, but we pressed on, took a little water break and made it to the top. We did not stay long at the top though, because there were tons of mesquitoes…I hate mesquitoes!! We will probably do another hike on Tuesday, and then we might hike Mt. Si on the weekend, which is about an 8 mile hike round trip.
I also heard of a new home workout routine that I want to do after the Chalean Extreme Workout, it is called Insanity with Shaun T, it is only a 60 day workout program, it uses only the weight of your body and it looks intense!! It pretty much is an all out cardio workout routine, with tons of core workouts and push ups. If you do not know who Shaun T is, he is the Personal Trainer who came out with the popular Hip Hop Abs, personally I have never done Hip Hop Abs, I am not much of a dancer. But Shaun T’s Insanity looks like it is for real. Check it out
Getting Serious With Weight Loss
So if you do not know by now, I have put my Chalean Extreme Workout on hold. If you want to know what the workouts are like, you can definitely search my blog to find what you need know. I will eventually pick the workouts back up, but right now I am trying to get in shape for my 17 mile hiking trip. I absolutely love the Chalean extreme workouts, but I definitely need to focus on getting my legs and brain into shape for my hike. I also am going to lose 10 to 15 pounds before the hike, the minimum weight loss I would like to achieve would be 10 pounds, any more weight after that would just be a bonus.
So I did a couple more hikes from the last time I wrote, I did Poo Poo point again, which is a two mile hike up and then a two mile trip back down. It was a lot of fun, I actually pushed myself harder than I ever have. There are two clearings, after the first clearing there is about another quarter mile hike to get to the very top, well for the most part my friend and I ran that part, and that was after the hardest part of the climb. I also had another friend who was a little behind, so I ran back down to the first clearing and hiked back up with her. Running that last stretch really got my heart pumping, it was the hardest I have breathed in a long time. After the hike I felt really good, like I could have done it again. A couple days later Ben and I(Ben is going on the 17 mile hike with me did a hike called Mt. Peak. It is only about one mile high but it is very steep. I was breathing hard in no time, but we did not stop until we got to the top. Mt. Peak is the hike that we would like to do twice back to back with 20 pound packs on our backs. Ultimately that will probably be the hike that gets us into expert hiking shape.
Tomorrow I will be doing mt. peak again with Ben, this is our first hike since Wednesday of last week, because Thursday we left for New York and we were there till Sunday. I definitely did not stay on a diet when I was in New York because there is just so much good food, and if you go to New York, you got to do it up right. But we are back now and I am back to eating healthy and doing hikes.
