Muscle & Fitness

Hello to everyone who still checks my blog even though I haven't written anything in a long time! I have a new goal and I want this blog to be the place where I talk about it so that you can all keep me in check! I need someone to keep me honest :)
This past weekend my friend Edwina and I decided that 9 days left in Spokane was too many, so we took off for the Wenatchee Valley. Edwina to visit Rachel and Matt Murphy, and me to visit my fam damly. Mom had all these new magazines called Muscle & Fitness Hers on the coffee table. She had saved one just for me that has a 4-week workout and nutrition guide. Here's the breakdown:
Mondays: Upper body free weights - 4 circuits. 5 minutes of varying cardio in between each circuit
Tuesday: Lower body free weights - same set up as above.
Wednesday: hard cardio 40-45 minutes
Thursday: Upper body free weights
Friday: lower body plyometrics
Saturday: HIIT cardio: high intensity interval training, in a 2-1 ratio. So like on the bike, 2 minutes pace, 1 minute sprint. 20-25 minutes. then 20 minutes of basic cardio
Sunday: cardio - 5 minutes pace, 1 minute sprint.
I figured that every week i could make an excuse as to why I should wait another week to start this thing, so I'm just starting it now. I know I still have another final and its graduation weekend so my nutrition plan will be hard to follow (if I could learn a bit of self-control that would be great!) but I really wanted to try this! I love weight training and I'm much better at losing weight when I have a GOAL and someone telling me what to do!
DAY ONE
Today was upper body free weights days. I woke up an hour late because I can't figure out how to work the alarm clock apparently, so my 7:30am breakfast came around 8:45: blueberries in oatmeal & 4 egg whites. I added a few cups of black coffee. After about an hour of studying I went to the gym and did my circuit:
barbell bench press: 30lb, 15 reps
overhead press: 20lb, 15 reps
lat pull down: 45lb, 15 reps
standing bicep curls: 8lb, 15 reps
tricep curls laying down on bench: 8lb, 15 reps
exercise ball crunches: to fail
reverse ab curls: to fail
plank ball butt lifts: to fail (which was quickly accomplished)
5 minutes varying cardio: bike, jump rope, walking at an incline, bike
And I did that four times through! It was a fabulous workout and only took about an hour. The gym is in the undergrad campus so I was one of maybe 5 people at the gym this morning. It was fabulous!
Well it's passed noon and I've managed to procrastinate studying a little bit more...so I should probably do something "wills & trusts" oriented. Check back tomorrow around this time for the lower body day!