Health Challenge

My family has decided to have a Health Challenge for one year.  This challenge is to help motivate us all to be healthy.  We get points for exercising, for eating healthy food, for being physically active in a social setting, etc.  We get minus points for eating bad food.  We are all putting some money in a "pot" of sorts and after a year the person with the most points will get the money. That is definitely motivation for me.

Yesterday we started our competition.  I also officially started the P90X program yesterday.  My husband and I took the fit test yesterday and today we did the Plyometrics video. It. Was. Crazy! It is an hour long workout of death.  It is like doing those workouts 3 times in a row. It was intense.  I don't think I gave it 100% but I did work hard and I know I will feel it tomorrow.


I am not happy with my body at this moment in time. I am 5'1" and 155 pounds. I haven't been able to get the baby weight off.  I want to motivate myself to change.  So I am letting it all out there folks. I want to document this year to see how my body is changing.  I know that if I eat healthy and exercise I will lose weight and get fit.  Good bye donuts, chocolate, and nutella! You do not belong anywhere in my life!  You are the fat makers! haha.

BodyRock-30 Day Exercise Challenge

30 days ago I decided to take on a workout challenge from BodyRock.tv. I have mixed feelings about BodyRock. I love their workouts. I like the interval training. I hate that they never wear clothes--they are working out in practically nothing.  I hate how they have all these sexy poses in their sports bra and "shorts"--more like underpants. I wish they would show their pantry instead of their panties. I need to see what they are eating. I know exercising is not enough because I live it. Just because I workout doesn't mean I will loose weight because I just ate a pint of Ben & Jerry's in one sitting.  Can anyone show me a FREE website that has both eating plans AND workouts?

I digress.  Back to my exercise challenge.  30 days ago I took the 7 minute fit test, and started on my 30 day journey. They way the workout was set up was you worked out 5 days-Monday through Friday, and had two "rest" days. I think they wanted you to have an active "rest" day by running or hiking or something.To be honest, there were days I didn't do the workouts. I got sick, some days I was sore, I was also training for my 5k, excuse, excuse, excuse. I did enjoy the 30 day challenge though. I do feel that I have improved, and that I have muscles growing where they never existed.  The workouts were tough. Some days I couldn't walk after working out, or I woke up so sore.

Throughout the challenge there were 3 fit tests: a fit test on day one, one in the middle, and one the very last day.  As you know yesterday was Black Friday. It was also day 30 of my challenge.  I had stayed up til 3am  shopping and then I got up at 5:30am for more shopping. I had taken a 3 hour nap around 11:30am and so by the time I got to doing the Fit Test I was pretty exhausted.  Part of me wishes I waited until today to do it.  Maybe my scores would have been even higher. Never the less I did it yesterday. I still beat my original scores so I should be proud. Proud that I have improved and I went through with the challenge and didn't give up.

Here are the scores from my fit test, going from test #1 to #2 to #3:

Squat Jumps- 25/32/30
Push Ups- 3 reg 10 modified/19 mod/24 mod
Burpees- 8/10/12
High Knees- 70/96/110
Switch Lunges- 15/25/28
Tuck Jumps- 12/18/23
Straight Abs- 7/10/17

Now I need to figure out if I will continue BodyRocking or find other workouts to try. I am always up for suggestions.