Proud as Punch!!

Well what a week it has been!!
Smashing my sessions with Elise, going up on all my weights! Even surprising myself. Smashed a 4kg medicine ball so it would bounce to my height was pretty awesome. Even elise was impresssed, and i made her highlights for the week!
What else happened this week, hrmmmmm so i had an extra session with Elise to make up for some i have missed, and she surprised me with a WOW session. Now a WOW is a catoegorie in the Challenge called Fitter, Faster, Stronger. Where they give u a workout every week, pushing u beyond your limits, and the aim is to do it as fast as u can, but correctly.
I was so nervous! these are things i only dream i can do. So what was involved, 10 x 15kg Dumbell Ground to Overhead lifts, followed by 10 Crucifix burpies, done 3 times through. then 10 calories on the rower, then 10 x 15kg Dumbell Front squats repeated 3 times. Was a killer!!! The hardest point for me was the first round of the DB ground to overhead and the crucifix burpies. Once i realised i could do these i was off and running. I completed the whole thing in 11.17. Was absolutley floored with myself! But oh so proud! We then went on to do some leg press work, where i upped my weight to 250kg! was an amazing night!
Then on Saturday morning was time for Trusslers Transformers Lake Run. So the last two times i had done this run, i had beaten my past time, but with someones help beside me helping me along. This time i was on my own. Only myself to push, only myself to fight with. So off i started, working hard only stopping to walk to catch my breath, then off running again i go! No giving up as giving up is not an option. I completed the Lake in 19.30!!! 39secs less than last time, and i did it on my own!! Once again i was sooo proud of myself! My goal is to get that down into the 15min range, in 6 more weeks! I can do it if i train hard and work on it. so these next few weeks im going to give up some of my cardio stuff and do some running stuff, mix it up with treadmill, runnning the lake and the leg machine at gym. Building my legs up and working on my breathing will help me get this goal.
So by the weekend i was pretty impressed with myself, and feeling pretty amazing! I am back on track, eating right, training to the max!! Loving it all. And the positive comments have started to come back in. Which does help staying focused and encourages you to push it hard.
So tonight was a mid month weigh in as my last weigh in was a disaster. Once again i surprised myself!!! I lost 3.75kg in just two weeks. Not even being spot on perfect. Elise and i were both shocked and estatic at my result! So my new goal for next weigh in, is 5kgs in two weeks! This can be done!! If im extra careful, i will be able to achieve this. And i will then feel like this challenge hasn't been a huge waste of time.
Im so pumped now!! Back on track!! Ready to go for gold! Nothing can stop me now!!
Watch this space!!!

Another Week Down

So another week down, heading into week 6 half way through the 12 week challenge.
This challenge has been so much harder than the last one. So much going on, but since my melt down i have been back on track! Training hard and eating right! this next 7 weeks is going to make the most difference! I want to make a huge difference again. I want to see the differences happening. But i have to work hard to do this.
I am being positive about whete i am heading, and surrounding myself with people and things that will support me through this time. I have worke to hard and come so far to back away now.
Anything is achieveable and if everything was easy, we would never do it. It is hard, but it is well worth it in the end.
Here is the latest pic of me! Feel Fab and on track!

So feeling pretty great. Moving forward and staying positive! Goals and Dreams are there for me to take! I just have to reach out and i will be able to touch them.

Dark Week

So this blog is a lil late, which im sorry about, but i have had alot on my mind.
This week was weigh in week! Week 4 of the 12 week challenge! The week that dreams come true and you see your hard work really paying off. Well for most people that is!
I weighed in and found i had put on 1.2kgs!! I am embarassed, disappointed, angry, frustrated and feel like i have failed. Worried that i cant move forward. The 12 or so weeks before the challenge, i never ever put on, i did follow the eating plan, but still enjoyed life. All i wanted in those weeks was for this challenge to start. Now its started and i get results like this. I know my eating has not been perfect, but i thought at least what i was eating wont out way my exercise. I just dont know. I am gutted! and have no one to blame but myself.
Elise has given me 2 weeks to pick myself up and do another assessment. If i dont get good results! Im gonna quit!! I cant do this, so much stress, pressure and worry. Ive been doing it so well for the past 9ish months and i know that i have so much more to do. Which makes me worry that i will never ever get through this. I will never ever get to anywhere close to where i want to be. The Hardest thing im finding is that no one understands me, and why i feel this way. I feel like no one gets it. Its nothing, people say, you can lose that in a week. But its so much more than just a number for me.
Although i will give credit to my beautiful PT Elise, who has been so so so supportive and understanding and has been giving me alot of things to think about to help move through this hard time. I dont know what i would have done if Elise wasnt such an amazing person.
Where to from here?? I have two options, stay in this negetive head space and wollow in self pity, or pick myself up prove to myself i am worth it! Get rid of this negetive sabbotage talk and move the F forward!!!
Well im sure you will all be happy to know that since the weigh in i am back on track, eating right, exercising as Elise says(no extra, or less) and proving to myself i am worth this. I am worth the effort and heart ach! I just need some time to find this belief again.
I just hope that my weigh in, in two weeks has some good out of it! Otherwise, as i said earlier i dont know what i would do!
So positive thinking through this hard time, and trying to find my belief in myself again, is my mission this week. Day by day is how im going. Jumping all the obstacles as they come.
I just pray that i am strong enough to sustain this. Because right now, i feel like i cant do this!

Feeling Fab!

Well another week has past! Week 4 of the Challenge has begun.
So what happened this week. This week my eating was spot on, so i was feeling absolultey amazing! Smashed all my sessions with Elise. I am getting stronger and stonger as this journey continues.
We did our Time Trial at the Lake saturday morning, i was estatic with my results, last time i ran/walked the lake i did it in 27mins this time i did it in 22mins. I was sooo happy when i crossed the line. Smashed it by 5 mins. My girlfriend Chloe came for a run too, so she helped me along the way. Elise wasnt there but Kylie from our team came looking for me, to help me over the finish line. Trussler Transformers is our team name and Elise has organised more sessions of running the lake. I am sooo excited about it. I am having a plan every week i go and run the lake. One of my goals for the challenge is to run the whole lake without stopping by the end of the challenge, and get my time down to 15mins. This time i probably ran 50-60% of the lake, next time my aim is to run a quarter, catch my breath and go again. So only three stops around the whole lake. Setting goals like this will help me to achieve this goal.
After the lake run, i went to Fenix did Attack for the first time ages. This was a killer! my legs were already tierd, but i got through it all. Cant wait to do it again, when im fresh.
Sunday morning i wanted to have a relaxing bit of exercise to do. Was time to give back to my body and relax. So i attended a yoga and relaxation class at gym. This was very interesting. Im not sure if i like yoga, but i did love the relaxing part of it all. Really allows you time to give your boy time to relax, de stress and stretch a little bit more than normal.
So as i said feeling pretty amazing this week. So im sure only great things to come in the next few weeks. Weigh in, is in 1 and a half weeks. So need to stay on track and achieve the best results i can!
Goals are made to be Achieved so dream big people!!!