Anything Is Possible... Even Bumbie Shrinking!

Well  you guys... today I am feeling motivated. Today starts (for me) a new week, and I am ready to rock it! For a while I was off sorts with my workouts, but the last 7 days I have really started to get back on track.  Thanks to my TLS coach, Ryan Grandon, I have started to really track my workouts. Every exercise I do I write down on a calender. Ryan was right when he said that it is really motivating to look at your calender and be able to write something down. This week I worked out 4 times.

Today I kicked butt, my butt. I have to say though, it didn't feel too grand. I'm still feeling it! Have you guys ever heard of jumping-jack-squats? I haven't until this last week in a workout class. I have heard of jumping-squats, but not jumping-jack-squats. I have found that I am really not that out of shape when it comes to power, but when it comes to cardio... can I say heart attack!?! So in this class I was pretty much dying from all of the cardio, but the workout that killed me the most were these wonderful jumping-jack-squats. I mean come on, aren't squats enough of a workout? Do they need to combine them with jumping? But to combine them with jumping jacks? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!  Needless to say, I decided to incorporate them into my "card workout" routine. For those of you that don't know what a card workout is check out my week 7 blog post: 6 Steps Forward 1 Step Back I did 84 of these suckers today! I about died. Any who, after the crazy card workout which incorporated 3 other workouts (88 push-ups, 164 bicycles/leg-out thingies and 88 lunges) I decided it was a great idea to do 100 sit-ups. I am beat people!

I am really out of shape. I was running on Saturday with Andrew (my hubby) and found that my lungs were completely uncooperative. My legs wanted to go, but my breathing said otherwise! That is so frustrating. So I am going to work on not gassing out this week by upping the cardio up and getting back my breathing pattern! Yikes. I hate running. But it seems to be the only thing that really shrinks my, as the Lowen family would call them, bumbies. And my bumbies must shrink!!! Don't get me wrong, I love having a big butt, but this is getting down right ridiculous! Yes, 'tis time to get pumped again.

I was really un-motivated, but I have been praying like crazy that God would really put a passion in my heart for working out, and I have found that prayer really helps me here! I know that I really cannot do anything without Jesus.  Getting back in shape seems impossible. What is cool is that ANYTHING is possible through Christ who gives me strength (Philippians 5:13). Any who, I am excited. After just one week of working hard I feel so much better. I have to admit though, my eating habits definitely need improving! I haven't been completely evil, but I have had my naughty moments! I will do better for sure this week, because if there is one thing I have learned, its that you cannot out-exercise a bad diet!!!!

Here is a video of the evil exercise that did me in today.

And here is a picture of my week this week...