I had such a busy day today. Usually, I get out from lab at around 5:00 even though the lab officially ends at 6:50 PM. Today, we had to use the entire lab to finish one long experiment, and it was very tedious and strenuous. But I'm glad that it's over, and a stressful day means there will be a good workout to relieve all that negative energy. I've been doing a lot of strength training workouts lately, and I noticed that I wasn't really losing any fat. I didn't really see any difference, although I may have been expecting too fast of a result. But regardless, I don't really feel like I'm losing that much weight or fat as much as I did before. The blogilates calendar has Thursdays as a cardio day, which I feel like I need to incorporate more into my workout routine. Pilates has a lot of strength training where you use your body as weights, making it very convenient to do at home, at work, or wherever you are. The only downside is that it doesn't have too much cardio. Strength training is good in itself in that it helps your body burn calories consistently as it tries to repair tear in your muscles. Don't worry, the tear in your muscles aren't dangerous, they're an everyday process that occurs when you work your muscles a little more than usual. However, strength training is not something that will help you lose fat on its own. Cardio workouts are major fat burners, and you must do aerobic exercises in order to burn fat. Cardio works your fat, and weight lifting works your muscles. You can do a ton of weight lifting, and have beautiful sculpted muscles, but if you have a layer of fat covering them, you won't see them. So, I've made a dedication to at least run 30 minutes a day in the mornings to get my blood pumping throughout the day, and to have that extra fat burning workout. I have this really stubborn little pooch at my lower abs that I need to get rid of.
I also have another awesome news to tell you. Cassey's new book called "Hot Body Year Round" has been officially released at your local bookstores! So please get them while they last! I pre-ordered mine, and will be going to Cassey's meet and greet even this coming Monday! I'm super excited to go, and I hope she'll instruct a class so I can join her pilates class personally! :) If you couldn't tell already, I'm a pretty big fan of blogilates because it definitely is the best weight lifting workout for me. It burns my muscles, pushes me to challenge myself even further, and shows the results I need.
Workout:
41 min of Blogilates (100 burpees burnout was today.. I died)
25 min of T25 with dad
Diet:
Breakfast - Brown rice with turkey bacon
Lunch - Ezekiel bread with fig jam
Dinner - Brown rice with turkey bacon
Snack - Strawberries and half a navel orange
How I felt:
I actually felt pretty good despite eating less than 1200 calories for the day. I downloaded myfitness pal on my phone, and started to calculate my calories. I know it might backfire on me if I keep obsessing over the amount of calories I eat in a day. But calorie counting is pretty essential to whether you will see results or not. If you burn more than you eat, then you'll see results. I also downloaded myfitness pal because I also downloaded an app called Pact where you make a pact that you will eat certain amount of fruits and veggies by the end of the day, workout certain amount of times per week, and log your calories and food in your myfitness pal. If you succeed, you earn money. It's not a significant amount of money that you earn, but I feel like it's a good motivator to get you going. I hope to post recipes every Friday if I can think of something new to introduce every week.
Question of the day: Do you like burpees? Are you more of a cardio person, or a strength training person?
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