The journey continues

The first part of my health and fitness journey has nearly finished.

What I have achieved:

• A new and greater level of fitness than ever before. I have pushed hard each Blitz session and studio training session. I took 9mins off my Nail Can Hill time and for the first time in my life ran 10km under 70mins.
• I have more arm definition than ever before. 
• I can fit into size 12 pants without a muffin top. Yes I have not achieved my size 10 pants just yet but I will reach that goal soon.
• MP has become a way of life for me. I do not crave any junk food, I can tolerate the children and hubby having hot chips in the house without wanting to eat them. They eat ice-cream and chocolate and it no longer bothers me.
• Getting out and going for a run by myself does not seem pointless or stupid.
• I ran 6.5km without walking for the first time ever.

I have to say I have had wonderful support and encouragement from the Blitz gang especially Clare, Tina, Vicki, Simon, and Tim. I am so grateful to you all for your support and giving me that push when I needed it. Thanks for being there through the good times and the bad.

I also want to say a big thank you to my trainer Josh Dickinson for working with me, encouraging me, setting me straight and for giving me a push when I needed it. Your guidance is what got me to this point and I think you would have to agree that I look pretty damn good compared to almost 12 weeks ago. Yes MP does work on so many levels!

Thanks also go to my family and friend Pam for putting up with me over the past almost 12 weeks. I know it has been hard that I have needed to eat at different times and train at certain times but you had better get used to it because I love what it does for me mentally and physically. This is the new me and I don't plan on changing back to the old Treena who didn't push herself or commit herself 100%.

Well my journey continues and I will continue to blog. leaner
Treena

Fun Run and Bench Press

What a week! I have had some fantastic results. I am doing things at 42yrs that I have never done in my life. I  have run a 10km fun run in under 70mins and I have bench pressed 38kgs. 

I always considered my upper body as being weak. During my time training with Josh I have gone from the light bar with weights to the heavy bar and now the heavy bar with weights.  In my dreams I never imagined I would also be lifting dumbbells. Today I used the 17.5kg dumbbells, I have never ever lifted them before and today I was able to do a few reps. To then lift 70kgs on the lat pulldown machine just topped my workout. I am just so happy with my results.


On Sunday there were a group of Blitzers all lined up to do the 10km Rutherglen Muscat Run. When asking people's goals I was asked mine. I flippantly said 75mins, not really thinking I would achieve that goal. Then all of a sudden the gun fired and we were off, no warning, just the gun. Initially Lauren(daughter) and I were the back of the pack with the SES van right behind us. Gradually we worked ourselves up to fifth last. Hills, long slow hills, not my favourite running terrain. Well with each hill I really thought my time was shot and with no water stations in sight I was feeling not the best. Anyway we plodded on and then thought we had become delirious when we spotted a water station at the 6.5km mark. No it wasn't a mirage, it was real! We both enjoyed a drink before continuing on to the next lot of hills.  The funniest moment was the 3 old guys at the top of the last hill who said 'only 600metres to go' and 'those last hills are real killers aren't they'. We were too breathless to reply. Seeing Vicki, Glenda, Donna near the finish spurred Lauren and I on the last bit. I was surprised when everyone said our time was in the low 70mins range. Today I was blown away to see that we had run just under 70mins at 69min 21secs. I knew my fitness level had been improving but this was just an acknowledgment of how far I have come in the past 10weeks. I thank all the Blitz gang whom I consider friends for their support and encouragement over the last 10 weeks.

leaner
Treena

A bit further along in my journey to health and fitness

I have to admit that this week I did not dread the change room at Big W as much as I did last time. I took a few deep breaths and tried on a pair of size 12 cargo pants. The fitted with no muffin top! I showed my mum who was with me and lifted my top to prove no muffin top. For the first time my mum actually commented on how good I was looking and that all the training is paying off. This is a first as up until that point she could never see why I finished work at 10pm and got up at 5am to go training. Maybe this might be a turning point in family support or lack there of as the case has been.

I have a very good week nutritionally. Sticking to the plan is actually quite easy once you get yourself prepared. In training I had legs that did not want to lunge or leg press but were very eager to leg curl and calf raise. Being up with my son who had croup in the middle of the night may have had something to do with it. Any way next week is a new week and I will push on.

Metabolic Blitz training in the mornings is a fantastic start to the day. Everywhere you look you can see the changes in other people's physique and that just spurs you on knowing that this works! I still have a painful lower leg so I am not jump squatting or skipping as I want it to heal. This time last year if you had told me I would be jumping out of bed on many mornings to go to early fitness training I would have thought you were crazy and needed a mental health review. Yet now if I can't make it I really miss it. Those first few weeks of my new program where I had to cut back on my cardio training were hard as I was just so used to getting up and working out hard.

The past couple of weeks have been quite hard emotionally for me due to family stresses and due to this I started to have doubts about lots of things including about my current program. Usually under these circumstances I have been well known to go and find my favourite comfort food and sit at home and eat. Not this time as I had this feeling that whilst other things were going bad my training and nutrition was still on track. I didn't want those poor quality foods to hinder my progress. I could not say that I was hungry and needed food. Eating every 2-3hours really curbs your hunger and cuts out cravings. So up until this point I can honestly say I have not deviated from the plan organised for me by Josh.

Today I start holidays and I see this as a way to reduce my stresses, focus on my training and nutrition and finish some compulsory stuff that I have been procrastinating on. It will be great to be able to collect the children from school and spend a bit more time with them and my darling hubby.

Leaner
Treena