Now that I have completed my 12 weeks with Hero Living's, Rudy Reyes, I am "kicking it up a notch" and going to the next level! I am growing what I gained by passing it on... paying it forward if you will.
I am now training some people at work and became a coach for Team Beachbody.
If you are interested in following my new adventures, please see my new blog: http://arlean.blogspot.com/2009/01/day-one.html
You can also join me on my fitness journey by signing up to be on my Beachbody team, www.beachbodycoach.com/virtuefit Please write me if you have any questions. :)
Friday, January 16, 2009
Friday, December 19, 2008
The Free Tour
Recovery meal: none
Breakfast: Croissant with two egg vegetable omelet
Snack: Almonds
Lunch: California Roll, Cup of Chowder and Fresh squeezed OJ (Hey, I am coming down with a cold, it sounds like a weird mix, but I think my body wanted it.)
Snack: EAS Rich Dark Chocolate protein Shake
Dinner: Salad with Salmon (planned)
Got my free tour of the sporting club from Nicole L today. Amazing how quickly the time flew by on the treadmill with her there to chat to. I could have probably gone the whole hour. We made time for weights and for abs and then we got to relax in the steamroom. Every gym needs a steamroom and jacuzzi.
Unfortunately, today I succumbed to a cold! Bummer. I am currently dreaming of my bed and hoping a few minutes nap will take the edge off the symptoms. i gotta get better by Monday because my baby boy nephew is in town. Gots to be able to freely hug and squeeze him!
I was able to give Nicole a copy of the Bas. if any other Rudy Reyes peeps are reading this, here is a tip I suggested to Nicole based on what I do to change things up a bit and make Bas more interesting. For Defense, I will raise my knee into a defensive position or I will will do inward blocks, twisting my bow stances. Also, When he calls the numbers, instead of just striking forward in a square stance, I will alternate striking to the left, right and in front. That way it is like I am fighting people on many sides of me. It's fun, try it :)
Breakfast: Croissant with two egg vegetable omelet
Snack: Almonds
Lunch: California Roll, Cup of Chowder and Fresh squeezed OJ (Hey, I am coming down with a cold, it sounds like a weird mix, but I think my body wanted it.)
Snack: EAS Rich Dark Chocolate protein Shake
Dinner: Salad with Salmon (planned)
Got my free tour of the sporting club from Nicole L today. Amazing how quickly the time flew by on the treadmill with her there to chat to. I could have probably gone the whole hour. We made time for weights and for abs and then we got to relax in the steamroom. Every gym needs a steamroom and jacuzzi.
Unfortunately, today I succumbed to a cold! Bummer. I am currently dreaming of my bed and hoping a few minutes nap will take the edge off the symptoms. i gotta get better by Monday because my baby boy nephew is in town. Gots to be able to freely hug and squeeze him!
I was able to give Nicole a copy of the Bas. if any other Rudy Reyes peeps are reading this, here is a tip I suggested to Nicole based on what I do to change things up a bit and make Bas more interesting. For Defense, I will raise my knee into a defensive position or I will will do inward blocks, twisting my bow stances. Also, When he calls the numbers, instead of just striking forward in a square stance, I will alternate striking to the left, right and in front. That way it is like I am fighting people on many sides of me. It's fun, try it :)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Shopping and the Decorating
Breakfast- 6 pieces of chocolate
Snack- Two scrambled eggs with yolk; cottage cheese and 8 grapes
Lunch- Wendys Mandarin chicken salad
Snack- almonds and 2pieces of chocolate
Dinner- 6" Cold Cut with plenty of lettuce and tomato and cucumbers
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Almost done with all my Christmas Shopping and the tree is up :)
Almost bought a Billy Blanks DVD for $4 at Ross just out of curiousity.
Called the Sporting Club to get a free tour sometime soon.
Looking for a second job to help my family more and not limit my activities too much :)
Snack- Two scrambled eggs with yolk; cottage cheese and 8 grapes
Lunch- Wendys Mandarin chicken salad
Snack- almonds and 2pieces of chocolate
Dinner- 6" Cold Cut with plenty of lettuce and tomato and cucumbers
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Almost done with all my Christmas Shopping and the tree is up :)
Almost bought a Billy Blanks DVD for $4 at Ross just out of curiousity.
Called the Sporting Club to get a free tour sometime soon.
Looking for a second job to help my family more and not limit my activities too much :)
Monday, December 15, 2008
The Final Picture
Breakfast: Kick bootie Apple/Fig Cereal from Kellogs that I got in Switzerland
Snack: Same as Breakfast
Lunch: Barley Soup and a Grilled CHeese Sandwich
Snack: Handful of almonds x2
DInner: 4 beef taquitos with guac and cheese
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So my diet ain't so hotnowadays, but I'm still working out!
Saturday I did the moonlight beach workout with Tricia, Nicole, Nicole, and Patrick... so there! And I've been doing Bas on my own and just bought a cool new workout video guaranteed to give me results in 10 days or my money back...let's see if it can svelt my middle to my desired sveltness...
OK! On to the photoshoot yesterday.
When I got there, it was only the photographer, Jeff. I took the shoot in my 'bad' outfit and was disappointed that my belly still looks yucky in it frontal... with out my 'bad' pants, my stomach looks pretty decent. Anyhow, the side view is pretty good. I know this because Jeff said, "You lost a lot of weight!" He showed me my before photo, and I am stunned at how horrible I used to look. I knew it was bad, but now that I am 'back to normal', I can really see what McDonald's and dessert every night can do to a woman! Holy cow! Pun intended...
Geez! My belly was like one big circle. Heart attack and diabetes? see Arlene's old belly.
No one was there to weigh or measure us... I kind of felt abandoned... or just kind of forgotten. It was nice though that Rachel and Sherri were there. Gosh those women look gorgeous! I was able to peruse the computer to see mostly everyone's after shots and I the photos made me so happy because all of my friends looked happy and had such beautiful smiles. Their body and posture just exude it! The energy that day must have been infectioius! I am sad that I missed it.
I guess I am a little bummed that I was made to feel like I hadn't disclosed that I was going to Switzerland the first week of December. I know I did and I know that Karen said it would be okay because the program was 12 weeks. By having the program end the first week of Decemeber, the program became 13.
Anyhow... I'm also bummed that they never announced who made the cut for the next group. I had to guess who I thought made it and then ask who else made it.
It's kind of like, I came into this program with the intent to bond and become a cohesive group, and I did all that I could to make connections with people and then bridge people together... and in the end... I missed out on the climax... like I never summitted...
It's threefold this feeling... one, I didn't get to finish with everyone or attend the party with everyone and all I ever tried to do was get people together outside of class. The time I tried to put it together, two people came. It was nice and intimate, but I never got to experience the whole team in that way. Two, I just don't think my pictures or final weigh in will show 'true results' because of my trip and the difference in time between photo and weigh-in/measurement time. Three, I wonder why I wasn't asked to continue... was it because I left for vacation? Didn't seem to put out enough effort? Didn't want to sign up for a gym 40 minutes away from my home and pay $50 a month for an unknown amount of time? Was it because my results weren't compelling enough? Was I too social? Did I grunt too much in class? haha Who knows?
Anyway, I came in with the best attitude I could muster during the time I was sad, lonely, fat and directionless and feel like I leave stronger in body and mind, but actually with less of the Hero in me than when I started... I'm not as positive nor hopeful. I am almost disedified and disillusioned for reasons not only mentioned here, but others that will just stay in the silence of my heart and with a few close confidants.
I will go on and I will take with me what I learned and I will continue to love people and share and hope then same thing I have hoped since I was a young girl... that no one will be lesser in their life for having known me.
I am still grateful for this experience. There are some things I might have changed... like starting the double workouts sooner and maybe being a little more reserved but other than that. This exeperience is a part of my life and the people from it now are too. They will alwyas be. It's another building block of the person I will be.
Here is a poem that I remember reading on my mother's wall when I was first learning to read cursive. I still remember it... it is by Karen Ravn:
Tomorrow is a Dream that Leads Me Onward...
Tomorrow is a path that I've yet to choose,
It's chance I've yet to take,
A friend I've yet to make,
It's all the talents I have to use~
Tomorrow is a dream that leads me onward...
Always just a step ahead of me,
It's a joy I've yet to know,
A love I've yet to show,
For its the reason I have yet to be~
My mother is my hero. All the good and kind in me, she has put there. The hope, the positivity, the caring, the generosity, the tenderness and empathy... I definitely don't have it as much as she has, but it's even there in the slightest bit becuase of her. I grew up reading self-help, power of positive thinking-type books. They were in the house becuase she was always reading and improving herself. I was in 7th grade reading The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino. I think I took a lot of that and tried to live it early on. Somewhere along the way, the idealism got squooshed by the world and some of the yuckiness in it. But, Rudy's love and positivity and idealism, reminded me of who I am and gave me renewed hope. I learned though that nothing is black and white and that maybe Hero Living is really just the power to carry on. "Nothing Gold can Stay". There will be the highs and the lows, but don't let anything stop you. Good or bad...just carry on. Speak your truth even if no one listens or believes you or sees you. Carry on.
One of my favorite Rudyisms was this, "You can do it. You are doing it."
Now I go into the world... and I carry it all with me... all my past, in my present, into my future.
Let's see what tomorrow brings. I will do what I can to bring it.
Snack: Same as Breakfast
Lunch: Barley Soup and a Grilled CHeese Sandwich
Snack: Handful of almonds x2
DInner: 4 beef taquitos with guac and cheese
+++
So my diet ain't so hotnowadays, but I'm still working out!
Saturday I did the moonlight beach workout with Tricia, Nicole, Nicole, and Patrick... so there! And I've been doing Bas on my own and just bought a cool new workout video guaranteed to give me results in 10 days or my money back...let's see if it can svelt my middle to my desired sveltness...
OK! On to the photoshoot yesterday.
When I got there, it was only the photographer, Jeff. I took the shoot in my 'bad' outfit and was disappointed that my belly still looks yucky in it frontal... with out my 'bad' pants, my stomach looks pretty decent. Anyhow, the side view is pretty good. I know this because Jeff said, "You lost a lot of weight!" He showed me my before photo, and I am stunned at how horrible I used to look. I knew it was bad, but now that I am 'back to normal', I can really see what McDonald's and dessert every night can do to a woman! Holy cow! Pun intended...
Geez! My belly was like one big circle. Heart attack and diabetes? see Arlene's old belly.
No one was there to weigh or measure us... I kind of felt abandoned... or just kind of forgotten. It was nice though that Rachel and Sherri were there. Gosh those women look gorgeous! I was able to peruse the computer to see mostly everyone's after shots and I the photos made me so happy because all of my friends looked happy and had such beautiful smiles. Their body and posture just exude it! The energy that day must have been infectioius! I am sad that I missed it.
I guess I am a little bummed that I was made to feel like I hadn't disclosed that I was going to Switzerland the first week of December. I know I did and I know that Karen said it would be okay because the program was 12 weeks. By having the program end the first week of Decemeber, the program became 13.
Anyhow... I'm also bummed that they never announced who made the cut for the next group. I had to guess who I thought made it and then ask who else made it.
It's kind of like, I came into this program with the intent to bond and become a cohesive group, and I did all that I could to make connections with people and then bridge people together... and in the end... I missed out on the climax... like I never summitted...
It's threefold this feeling... one, I didn't get to finish with everyone or attend the party with everyone and all I ever tried to do was get people together outside of class. The time I tried to put it together, two people came. It was nice and intimate, but I never got to experience the whole team in that way. Two, I just don't think my pictures or final weigh in will show 'true results' because of my trip and the difference in time between photo and weigh-in/measurement time. Three, I wonder why I wasn't asked to continue... was it because I left for vacation? Didn't seem to put out enough effort? Didn't want to sign up for a gym 40 minutes away from my home and pay $50 a month for an unknown amount of time? Was it because my results weren't compelling enough? Was I too social? Did I grunt too much in class? haha Who knows?
Anyway, I came in with the best attitude I could muster during the time I was sad, lonely, fat and directionless and feel like I leave stronger in body and mind, but actually with less of the Hero in me than when I started... I'm not as positive nor hopeful. I am almost disedified and disillusioned for reasons not only mentioned here, but others that will just stay in the silence of my heart and with a few close confidants.
I will go on and I will take with me what I learned and I will continue to love people and share and hope then same thing I have hoped since I was a young girl... that no one will be lesser in their life for having known me.
I am still grateful for this experience. There are some things I might have changed... like starting the double workouts sooner and maybe being a little more reserved but other than that. This exeperience is a part of my life and the people from it now are too. They will alwyas be. It's another building block of the person I will be.
Here is a poem that I remember reading on my mother's wall when I was first learning to read cursive. I still remember it... it is by Karen Ravn:
Tomorrow is a Dream that Leads Me Onward...
Tomorrow is a path that I've yet to choose,
It's chance I've yet to take,
A friend I've yet to make,
It's all the talents I have to use~
Tomorrow is a dream that leads me onward...
Always just a step ahead of me,
It's a joy I've yet to know,
A love I've yet to show,
For its the reason I have yet to be~
My mother is my hero. All the good and kind in me, she has put there. The hope, the positivity, the caring, the generosity, the tenderness and empathy... I definitely don't have it as much as she has, but it's even there in the slightest bit becuase of her. I grew up reading self-help, power of positive thinking-type books. They were in the house becuase she was always reading and improving herself. I was in 7th grade reading The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino. I think I took a lot of that and tried to live it early on. Somewhere along the way, the idealism got squooshed by the world and some of the yuckiness in it. But, Rudy's love and positivity and idealism, reminded me of who I am and gave me renewed hope. I learned though that nothing is black and white and that maybe Hero Living is really just the power to carry on. "Nothing Gold can Stay". There will be the highs and the lows, but don't let anything stop you. Good or bad...just carry on. Speak your truth even if no one listens or believes you or sees you. Carry on.
One of my favorite Rudyisms was this, "You can do it. You are doing it."
Now I go into the world... and I carry it all with me... all my past, in my present, into my future.
Let's see what tomorrow brings. I will do what I can to bring it.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Month 3 Week 4 Day 2
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This was the last workout at Frogs for me.
Tomorrow will be Tamarack.
Friday will be Torrey Pines.
Then next week, I am in Europe, so I will miss the last week; and then the program will be over...
So we did our workout on the patio outside. We warmed up with some basics, open/close, running in place, shadowboxing... and then we were supposed to go inside for some Bas Rutten, but unfortunately the dance class with the older ladies ended up showing. So we grabbed our weights and our mats and headed outside.
I only went for the 7.5 lbs because my body was just still so tired.
We started with squat, press, twists and Rudy told us to really focus on our movements. Straight back, deep squats. I really forced myself to go deep and my bottom was feeling it! We did 20, then we went into 20 biceps curls (sometimes they were hammer curls) and then we did presses. We did this set a few times. He threw in the backwards lunges with dumbbell raises and we ended with killer ab work. I can't remember what we did to blast our stomachs, but we did and then he had us do the darn flutter kicks and I just couldn't hang.
Rudy was a comedian again today. Just so funny when he talks to Sal about his choice of words for describing Peter's baby.
I was so blah tonight, maybe it's the blues that this is almost 'the end'. Maybe it's how tired my body is from the past two weeks, but my body has really changed for the better. I have more energy and fit in my clothes better...my size 8 jeans won't stay up... everyday someone else will comment on my weight loss and I have an opportunity to tell them all about Rudy and the program. It's nice.
This was the last workout at Frogs for me.
Tomorrow will be Tamarack.
Friday will be Torrey Pines.
Then next week, I am in Europe, so I will miss the last week; and then the program will be over...
So we did our workout on the patio outside. We warmed up with some basics, open/close, running in place, shadowboxing... and then we were supposed to go inside for some Bas Rutten, but unfortunately the dance class with the older ladies ended up showing. So we grabbed our weights and our mats and headed outside.
I only went for the 7.5 lbs because my body was just still so tired.
We started with squat, press, twists and Rudy told us to really focus on our movements. Straight back, deep squats. I really forced myself to go deep and my bottom was feeling it! We did 20, then we went into 20 biceps curls (sometimes they were hammer curls) and then we did presses. We did this set a few times. He threw in the backwards lunges with dumbbell raises and we ended with killer ab work. I can't remember what we did to blast our stomachs, but we did and then he had us do the darn flutter kicks and I just couldn't hang.
Rudy was a comedian again today. Just so funny when he talks to Sal about his choice of words for describing Peter's baby.
I was so blah tonight, maybe it's the blues that this is almost 'the end'. Maybe it's how tired my body is from the past two weeks, but my body has really changed for the better. I have more energy and fit in my clothes better...my size 8 jeans won't stay up... everyday someone else will comment on my weight loss and I have an opportunity to tell them all about Rudy and the program. It's nice.
Month 3 Week 3 Day 5 (AM)
Okay, I am writing this after the fact, and it has already been so long...
Im gonna have to do the others from week Month 3 Week 4 first and see if I can separate the workouts in my head...
Just gonna use this as a placeholder for now...
Im gonna have to do the others from week Month 3 Week 4 first and see if I can separate the workouts in my head...
Just gonna use this as a placeholder for now...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Month 3 Week 3 Day 6 (9th workout of the week)
Recovery- none
Breakfast- Chili Feta plate at Naked Cafe
Snack- other Half of Naked Cafe food
Lunch- 1/2 Parisian Salad and 1/2 Turkey Panini
Dinner- a bunch of morrocan spreads with some pita bread (bad) and some stuffed red bell peppers
Did the Tamarack Stair run today again. This time, I think the week had gotten the best of me and I wasn't in front most of the time. I was somewhere in the middle. One place that I still did well was the sprints. I paired up with Adam and think that we were very well matched. My guest today was good at keeping up with Rudy and was matched up with Sal for the sprints. My body was screaming for rest. I went to see Quantum of Solace for a little respite, it was good. I guess because I was expecting something horrible due to the reviews, it was better. I do agree that Casino Royale was better... I would buy the Blu-ray for Casino before Solace for sure.
But there was not too much rest for the weary because after the movie I had to get ready to help Angela celebrate her birthday! Those of us at breakfast showed up that night... the Mackles, Natalie, Ava and myself. It was great to see eveyone out of workout wear and even nicer to move in other ways than 'tough'. The girls really got their groove on in the club and it was amazing how we sweat almost even more than we do in the workoluts... Perhaps because our workouts are only 1 hour? Or perhaps the clothing we wore absorbs more sweat? Or maybe because most of us had our hair down, when we normally have it swept off of our faces? In any case it was a great, albeit sweaty, time.
Breakfast- Chili Feta plate at Naked Cafe
Snack- other Half of Naked Cafe food
Lunch- 1/2 Parisian Salad and 1/2 Turkey Panini
Dinner- a bunch of morrocan spreads with some pita bread (bad) and some stuffed red bell peppers
Did the Tamarack Stair run today again. This time, I think the week had gotten the best of me and I wasn't in front most of the time. I was somewhere in the middle. One place that I still did well was the sprints. I paired up with Adam and think that we were very well matched. My guest today was good at keeping up with Rudy and was matched up with Sal for the sprints. My body was screaming for rest. I went to see Quantum of Solace for a little respite, it was good. I guess because I was expecting something horrible due to the reviews, it was better. I do agree that Casino Royale was better... I would buy the Blu-ray for Casino before Solace for sure.
But there was not too much rest for the weary because after the movie I had to get ready to help Angela celebrate her birthday! Those of us at breakfast showed up that night... the Mackles, Natalie, Ava and myself. It was great to see eveyone out of workout wear and even nicer to move in other ways than 'tough'. The girls really got their groove on in the club and it was amazing how we sweat almost even more than we do in the workoluts... Perhaps because our workouts are only 1 hour? Or perhaps the clothing we wore absorbs more sweat? Or maybe because most of us had our hair down, when we normally have it swept off of our faces? In any case it was a great, albeit sweaty, time.
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