Week Three! Saturday

Breakfast: Activia Yogurt
Lunch: Organic Oatmeal (meant to eat it for breakfast, but kept forgetting it in the microwave, so it got heated three times before I actually ate it at noon)
Dinner: I was bad. :( My friend turned 30 and her mom is from Spain and her mom made homemade Sangria. Me loves good sangria. So... I had a glass! At least there is fruit in it. I also ate two dark crackers (made sure to pick the dark ones) and had 4 cubes of hard spanish cheese (I love cheese). I ate two medium shrimp, a small salad, chicken in filo dough and cream sauce, half a meat in bread thingy, and some herbed rice. I passed on the incredible cakes they had and the ice cream. I gotta work EXTRA hard now cause 1st month pictures are next weekend! Sigh!

I was going to go to workout on the beach today, but my stomach was giving me some problems and I was concerned so, I decided to workout indoors today (sorry if that was too much information).

So, the cool thing is that I decided to challenge myself and create a warm-up based on what Rudy has taught us to far.

I jogged in place, did trunk twist, open/close, elephant trunks. Then I did 4 intervals of the following:

-10 inverted full pushups (I can't go all the way down, but think it will help to work me up to full pushups in class. I still do them on my knees)
-10 squat push, presses
-20 ab exercises

I felt really happy that it made me start to sweat like in class. I really feel like I am taking away something that I can do regularly whenever I just want to 'move' and work up a sweat.

I finished with my kung fu 'form exercise' (a series of offensive and defensive moves strung together as 1 exercise) and a few self defense techniques and a few of my kicks. My form exercise still really gets my heartrate up, easily. I hope in time I can get through it without too much trouble. I really need to practice my kicks and practice them with keeping my belly tight and the power coming from the ground and my core... after all this time, I still don't think I use my core as where my power comes from yet. I think once I master that, everything will get so much better for me, physically.

I think I will try to challenge myself by picking two kicks that I stink at the most and just do them a million times. Rudy mentioned he picked a couple things, one of them being kicks, that he wanted to get better at, and he just did them many, many times. That is part of what he teached us. "It isn't hard to get into shape. Take something simple and do it a lot."