FRIDAY! day 12 and only a half day on Satuday and it is time to rest!

Comments/Thoughts:

The big event of my day today was my personal training with Sam.  Sam was a contestant on the biggest loser and was the first one to reach his goal weight while still one campus.  Not to take anything away from the other trainers here.  I plan on training with some of them over the next two weeks, but when you are here with someone who has gone through what you are going through there is an instant bond and understanding.  Sam's presence is motivational, and his personality just adds to it.  The workout he put me through is probably the hardest thing I have ever done physically in my life.  I was actually screaming during my workout trying to finish exercises well past my point of fatigue.  It was a strength training session, but the majority of it was using my weight, plus some nice medicine balls and weighted bars every so often.  One big outside the box exercise was with this huge weighted rope he wrapped around a tree...  Essentially I had to hold both sides of the rope in a squatted position and smack it down until I nearly passed out.  There were several unconventional things we did and if anyone is interested just ask in comments and I will elaborate more.  The session was during lunch and people were outside the gym reading at the pool and wondering what the hell Sam was doing to me in the gym that was causing all the screaming.  I definitely got my moneys worth!  I plan on doing a session with him next week and with one or two other trainers.  I feel like I have a ton to get done and not much time to do it.

Here is a before and after picture of Sam.

Here is a video from NBC with him:

Statistics:

I walked 23,916 steps and 12.2 miles and burned 5,454 calories via my fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/user/22B6S6


Watch Calories Burned: 4689 calories!

Hike and Exercise:

The hike was backbone Latigo Canyon.  That was my hike last week (first one after my assessment) and it kicked my a$$.  So this week I was eager to see what kind of progress I had made.  The bad news was my right knee and left ankle were crazy sore.  I used walking sticks again today and that worked out great!  I did much better and did not stop once on the hike.  I made it through much quicker than the last time and enjoyed it more despite my semi injuries.

Once I got back from the hike I went and iced my knee and ankle instead of going to stretch class.  I did go to the morning stretch taught by Sam and burned 350 calories during a "stretch" class.  After that I had my session with Sam at Noon and then my afternoon classes ended up being circuit training and two pool sessions.  Today was cardio disco jam but I did not think that my ankle and knee were up for another hard on the joint session.  I will make sure I do it next week, the trainer who teaches it (John) dresses up for it and it is a great class.  I did miss not taking it.

Food:

I only took a couple of food pictures today since my meal times were rushed.  Breakfast was french toast and eggs, lunch was chicken stem and a roll (I had to eat that during a lecture at the pool in a togo container,) and dinner was meatball sub with veggies.  Again it was a great food day!  I hope I can make this stuff taste as good at home.

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