I wish I could take a camera with me when I run.
As I'm running up the monsterous hill behind our neighborhood, I look up at the sun. It's slightly overcast, but the rays and colors were stunning. I got to the top, wishing I had a camera, but knowing no picture could do the moment justice. The combination of running, the beauty and the sense of accomplishment was amazing.
I also realized I have a new high.
Running. Seriously. I remember back in high school our cross country coach kept trying to get me to run. I always thought it was boring and, other than losing/maintaining weight, it was pointless.
Tonight was my second night running. I call it running, but it's more intervals of walking, jogging and full out running. After I realized I ran a mile (I know, I know, it's just a mile) I decided it wasn't so bad. It was exhilarating pushing myself that extra little bit when I thought I couldn't anymore.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
My answer to everything
As I put on fb, I now believe the answer to everything is a good run with a great dog.
I've been in one of my "moods" lately and just couldn't seem to pull myself out of it. Tonight I went for a walk with my kids around the neighborhood. Half way around the neighborhood, Connor needed to go potty. So him and I ran home. I know it was only 4 year old speed, but I enjoyed it. After we finished our walk, I grabbed Duke and went running. Before you get all impressed I ran the hills of Albuquerque, you should know I did intervals instead of running the whole 2 miles.
I had my iPod, and at the beginning of the walk, I'd jog during the chorus of whatever song was playing. By the end of the 2 miles, I'd run the first half of the songs. It felt GREAT! I got home all sweaty and nasty. And I've been flying high ever since.
Tomorrow starts my 2nd round of P90X. I didn't completely finish the first round, but I really want to see the results when it's done all the way through.
I've been in one of my "moods" lately and just couldn't seem to pull myself out of it. Tonight I went for a walk with my kids around the neighborhood. Half way around the neighborhood, Connor needed to go potty. So him and I ran home. I know it was only 4 year old speed, but I enjoyed it. After we finished our walk, I grabbed Duke and went running. Before you get all impressed I ran the hills of Albuquerque, you should know I did intervals instead of running the whole 2 miles.
I had my iPod, and at the beginning of the walk, I'd jog during the chorus of whatever song was playing. By the end of the 2 miles, I'd run the first half of the songs. It felt GREAT! I got home all sweaty and nasty. And I've been flying high ever since.
Tomorrow starts my 2nd round of P90X. I didn't completely finish the first round, but I really want to see the results when it's done all the way through.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Mantracker
So my new fitness goal - I want to be on Mantracker. It's a little known show on Science Channel, but it's super cool. It's basic - two people on foot try to make it to a "finish line" with Mantracker tracking them. They have 2 days to do it through wilderness and whatnot. But at the beginning of the show, they show the "prey" and give them a little gauge of fitness and outdoor experience. I want my gauge to be FULL!!!
I decided to continue this P90X session. I'm on month 3, week 1. Chest and Back Monday, Cardio X Tuesday, Shoulders and Arms Wednesday, supposed to be Yoga X on Thursday, Core synergistics today, Kenpo tomorrow. I did Monday - Wednesday, yesterday was an off day with a headache and visiting friends. Today, "it's my favorite! SUPERMAN BANANA!!!!" So I'm off in a bit to do that!
Coaching is going well so far. I just wish I was better at letting people know how awesome and beneficial it is! But I don't like bugging people, and I know when I talk to my mother, all I talk about is beachbody. I know she's getting tired of it.
Since people have been coming to my blog, I'm going to give the benefits on here. If you don't want to read it, or have heard it from me before, well...
Coaching is an awesome opportunity with beachbody. Minimum of 40 bucks to start your own business, pretty much. After that, it's 15 a month to run your 2 websites. Anyway, you can also buy different packages when you sign up to jumpstart your business. Shakeology samples to mail out (Dude, the chocolate is AWESOME), programs to try and lend out, stuff like that. If you go to vistaprint.com, you can order free business cards and, like I did, they have free promotion items. I ordered a cool t-shirt and tote with my website on it.
Anyway, the biggest benefit for me is the motivation. How can I persuade people to get fit if I'm not trying myself? I'm not going to say I'm in the best shape, but people who see me from week to week are noticing the difference and mentioning it to me. Which is, of course the perfect opportunity to mention what I'm doing.
Shoot, kids are getting fussy and crabby. I'll be back, I promise!
So I'm back, a whole 24 hours later.
The way coaching works is this... I signed up under my coach, Alisha. I have two websites, my shakeology, http://myshakeology.com/CoachTessK and my beachbody,
http://beachbodycoach.com/CoachTessK . These websites offer my customers a couple services. They can sign up to join beachbody (which is a great idea for ANYONE wanting to lose weight, and I hope to have time to go into that), order workout programs or nutritional suppliments, or sign up to be a coach.
Joining beachbody is a great place to keep track of your weightloss and meet new people working toward the same goal as you - to get healthier! I signed up there before even getting my P90X just to have somewhere to keep my measurements. To date, I've lost 14 inches (not including the whole INCH I added to each arm).
The workout programs are great. Each are easy to follow (however, that's not the case when it comes to doing them) and usually come with most of what you need to workout with (bands usually). There are programs to get the nice lean look, or the muscular look, depending on what you are going for. Remember, you can email me for the program right for you!
If you sign up to be a coach, make sure to do it from my website. Along with getting a commission on programs you sell to your customers, if you sign 2 coaches up under you, beachbody will send you FREE customers! And whatever they buy... ta da - commission! Or, better yet, if you want to order something, become a coach, THEN order. BAM! 25 percent off! The initial cost to start up is 39.95 (42 something with tax and whatnot) which is pretty good, considering.
Anyway, the kids are fighting over something and I lost my train of thought. I hope that covers most of it, but I'm sure it doesn't. I will revise it later if I need to!
I decided to continue this P90X session. I'm on month 3, week 1. Chest and Back Monday, Cardio X Tuesday, Shoulders and Arms Wednesday, supposed to be Yoga X on Thursday, Core synergistics today, Kenpo tomorrow. I did Monday - Wednesday, yesterday was an off day with a headache and visiting friends. Today, "it's my favorite! SUPERMAN BANANA!!!!" So I'm off in a bit to do that!
Coaching is going well so far. I just wish I was better at letting people know how awesome and beneficial it is! But I don't like bugging people, and I know when I talk to my mother, all I talk about is beachbody. I know she's getting tired of it.
Since people have been coming to my blog, I'm going to give the benefits on here. If you don't want to read it, or have heard it from me before, well...
Coaching is an awesome opportunity with beachbody. Minimum of 40 bucks to start your own business, pretty much. After that, it's 15 a month to run your 2 websites. Anyway, you can also buy different packages when you sign up to jumpstart your business. Shakeology samples to mail out (Dude, the chocolate is AWESOME), programs to try and lend out, stuff like that. If you go to vistaprint.com, you can order free business cards and, like I did, they have free promotion items. I ordered a cool t-shirt and tote with my website on it.
Anyway, the biggest benefit for me is the motivation. How can I persuade people to get fit if I'm not trying myself? I'm not going to say I'm in the best shape, but people who see me from week to week are noticing the difference and mentioning it to me. Which is, of course the perfect opportunity to mention what I'm doing.
Shoot, kids are getting fussy and crabby. I'll be back, I promise!
So I'm back, a whole 24 hours later.
The way coaching works is this... I signed up under my coach, Alisha. I have two websites, my shakeology, http://myshakeology.com/CoachTessK and my beachbody,
http://beachbodycoach.com/CoachTessK . These websites offer my customers a couple services. They can sign up to join beachbody (which is a great idea for ANYONE wanting to lose weight, and I hope to have time to go into that), order workout programs or nutritional suppliments, or sign up to be a coach.
Joining beachbody is a great place to keep track of your weightloss and meet new people working toward the same goal as you - to get healthier! I signed up there before even getting my P90X just to have somewhere to keep my measurements. To date, I've lost 14 inches (not including the whole INCH I added to each arm).
The workout programs are great. Each are easy to follow (however, that's not the case when it comes to doing them) and usually come with most of what you need to workout with (bands usually). There are programs to get the nice lean look, or the muscular look, depending on what you are going for. Remember, you can email me for the program right for you!
If you sign up to be a coach, make sure to do it from my website. Along with getting a commission on programs you sell to your customers, if you sign 2 coaches up under you, beachbody will send you FREE customers! And whatever they buy... ta da - commission! Or, better yet, if you want to order something, become a coach, THEN order. BAM! 25 percent off! The initial cost to start up is 39.95 (42 something with tax and whatnot) which is pretty good, considering.
Anyway, the kids are fighting over something and I lost my train of thought. I hope that covers most of it, but I'm sure it doesn't. I will revise it later if I need to!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Finally
I signed up as a Beachbody coach. I'm really excited and can't wait to really get started. Hubby gave me three months, which is fine - I have given myself the same deadline. In three months I will have finished (and started a new round) of P90X, helped motivate 5 or more people to energize their lives and 2 or more people to become financially fit, so to speak.
Today I decided to bust out the last month of my P90X. I started my third month with Chest and Back. I meant to get a walk in too, but it has been raining and the husband was in a bad mood. Instead, I got more things done for the beachbody business.
Well, it's been a long day. I hope to be on again soon!
Today I decided to bust out the last month of my P90X. I started my third month with Chest and Back. I meant to get a walk in too, but it has been raining and the husband was in a bad mood. Instead, I got more things done for the beachbody business.
Well, it's been a long day. I hope to be on again soon!
Friday, June 18, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
After 2 weeks of excuses...
I'm back to working out. Last week I did the first 3 workouts of the week and then, with all good intentions, literally ran out of time the rest of the week. This week, I've done the first 2 workouts, plus I found a walking partner, so I walked about a mile after my Cardio X. I LOVE that that mile walk felt more like a cool down than exercise. I remember not even 2 months ago, I would have done that walk and been DONE.
I really feel like that's the main reason why I love working out. I love that every day I realize I can do just a little more than I used to. I lost sight of that lately.
Anyway, I promised I'd tell all about Cancun... so here it goes.
Cancun was incredible. I did SOOO many things outside my comfort zone!
The trip there was interesting. When we booked, the lady at Expedia told us we were going from Albuquerque to Phoenix to Charlotte ( she pronounced it with a long o ) Mexico (she said it was just outside Mexico City) to Cancun. The whole week before hand, both Hubby and I are relating this information to people. She also told us to be at the airport 3 hours before departure since it was an international flight. We get to the airport 3 hours before, and within 15 minutes, we're checked in and through security. Yay. We found out if we would have booked though the airline we would have cut out Charlotte all together.
Anyway.... We get to Phoenix where we had a 5 1/2 hour lay over. About 20 minute before we board, I'm looking around, thinking to myself, "Man, there are a lot of white people in hoodies heading to Charlotte Mexico." I catch a little kid's conversation next to me and decide we're not going to Mexico. We're going to Charlotte, North Carolina. I relay this information to Hubby, who asks the guy sitting next to me where the plane is heading. After a goofy look, he confirms my suspicions. So we head east, after heading west, to go south.
We get to Cancun at 10 their time. By the time we get through customs and to our hotel, it's 12. We get to the hotel and it's right on the beach - just gorgeous. Our room wasn't ready yet, so we ate lunch at the buffet restaurant. We did the all inclusive and had 4 restaurants to choose from - the one was a buffet open for all meals, one was Spanish, one seafood and the other Mexican. They were all awesome - but the Spanish one (Don Quijote I think) I ordered a T-bone steak. It was HUGE!!! I didn't realize I had more food until I was half done because it took up the whole plate. Anyway, our first day was awesome - just relaxing on the beach, drinking margaritas.
Sunday, our second day, we decided to go on the See Sub tour. That was really neat - Hubby drank too much on the boat ride out, so when we were in the submarine, he had to pee the entire time.
Monday we did the Chichen Itza tour. I can't begin to describe how awesome that tour was. We learned so much and had so much fun.
Tuesday was the jungle tour - pretty much we got our own boats and Hubby went snorkeling along the reef.
Wednesday we went on zip lines and four wheelers. That was the best part - it was so unbelievably fun!
Thursday we hung out by the pool and Hubby got super sunburned.
Friday we headed home.
I really have to come back and fill in the rest of the trip. I'm exhausted and I'm going to head for bed. Night all.
I really feel like that's the main reason why I love working out. I love that every day I realize I can do just a little more than I used to. I lost sight of that lately.
Anyway, I promised I'd tell all about Cancun... so here it goes.
Cancun was incredible. I did SOOO many things outside my comfort zone!
The trip there was interesting. When we booked, the lady at Expedia told us we were going from Albuquerque to Phoenix to Charlotte ( she pronounced it with a long o ) Mexico (she said it was just outside Mexico City) to Cancun. The whole week before hand, both Hubby and I are relating this information to people. She also told us to be at the airport 3 hours before departure since it was an international flight. We get to the airport 3 hours before, and within 15 minutes, we're checked in and through security. Yay. We found out if we would have booked though the airline we would have cut out Charlotte all together.
Anyway.... We get to Phoenix where we had a 5 1/2 hour lay over. About 20 minute before we board, I'm looking around, thinking to myself, "Man, there are a lot of white people in hoodies heading to Charlotte Mexico." I catch a little kid's conversation next to me and decide we're not going to Mexico. We're going to Charlotte, North Carolina. I relay this information to Hubby, who asks the guy sitting next to me where the plane is heading. After a goofy look, he confirms my suspicions. So we head east, after heading west, to go south.
We get to Cancun at 10 their time. By the time we get through customs and to our hotel, it's 12. We get to the hotel and it's right on the beach - just gorgeous. Our room wasn't ready yet, so we ate lunch at the buffet restaurant. We did the all inclusive and had 4 restaurants to choose from - the one was a buffet open for all meals, one was Spanish, one seafood and the other Mexican. They were all awesome - but the Spanish one (Don Quijote I think) I ordered a T-bone steak. It was HUGE!!! I didn't realize I had more food until I was half done because it took up the whole plate. Anyway, our first day was awesome - just relaxing on the beach, drinking margaritas.
Sunday, our second day, we decided to go on the See Sub tour. That was really neat - Hubby drank too much on the boat ride out, so when we were in the submarine, he had to pee the entire time.
Monday we did the Chichen Itza tour. I can't begin to describe how awesome that tour was. We learned so much and had so much fun.
Tuesday was the jungle tour - pretty much we got our own boats and Hubby went snorkeling along the reef.
Wednesday we went on zip lines and four wheelers. That was the best part - it was so unbelievably fun!
Thursday we hung out by the pool and Hubby got super sunburned.
Friday we headed home.
I really have to come back and fill in the rest of the trip. I'm exhausted and I'm going to head for bed. Night all.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
So I really plan on writing about Cancun
But I've been spending so much time on the computer lately! Class started yesterday and I've been researching becoming a Beachbody coach.
Anyway, after 2 weeks off, I've started working out again. I worked out Sunday with Lauren (I work out SOOO much harder when I have someone else there). We did Cardio Intervals AND UML on the introductory video. Yesterday I tried to catch up on housework (but failed miserably - I did well until my niece came up, then I did nothing). Today I'm up and moving - Core Synergistics down and I might bust out a Cardio X too later.
I feel so great! Not working out causes me to become tired and moody, so that's what I've been the past week. Cancun was too fun to be moody.
Anyway, I hope to get on later to tell ya'll about Cancun.
Anyway, after 2 weeks off, I've started working out again. I worked out Sunday with Lauren (I work out SOOO much harder when I have someone else there). We did Cardio Intervals AND UML on the introductory video. Yesterday I tried to catch up on housework (but failed miserably - I did well until my niece came up, then I did nothing). Today I'm up and moving - Core Synergistics down and I might bust out a Cardio X too later.
I feel so great! Not working out causes me to become tired and moody, so that's what I've been the past week. Cancun was too fun to be moody.
Anyway, I hope to get on later to tell ya'll about Cancun.
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