I can't believe June is almost over!
It literally feels like it just started but here we are, it's June 26th Monday afternoon and it's almost July. I'm not going to get ahead of myself just yet though - let's go back into time. To Saturday morning to be exact. *insert rewind sound here*
Woke up, got dressed and headed to boxing. IT WAS AMAZING. First I had a brief tour of the place and then we started the warm up. Until the teacher arrived, we are to jump rope. Once the instructor arrived our warm up was either doing the following exercises WITH the rope or without (I gladly did them without the rope): butt kicks, high knees, jumping jacks x2 - people with the rope did cross overs and I honestly can't remember. Now that it's Monday the rest of the exercises for the warm up seem like a blur.
After warm up our group was split up into 2 groups - one group with the bags and the other group was in the ring. Once I heard I was in the ring I wasn't happy - because I thought we would be fighting! However this was not the direction we went into. We wrapped our hands up and practiced our form - pivots and what not. Then we proceeded back upstairs to circuit training - planks, pull ups, push ups, battle ropes, and a few others. 30 seconds of each exercise before switching with your partner a total of 12 exercises and well worth the pain. No pain no gain right? FINALLY we were onto the punching bags - This was my favourite part. Couple combos and then the burn out.
The class is supposed to be an hour. When 12 o'clock came around I was like YAHOO! I can finally wipe the sweat from my face and neck and be done with it. But nope - that was not on the agenda not yet anyways. We headed back upstairs, grabbed our mats and did some core exercises. My body was not having it. My upper body is super weak - I think this week I'm going to focus on upper body .. well at least for a couple of days until my next boxing session - which I already booked for THIS THURSDAY! It was hard work but it went by fast and I had fun sweating it out.
By the time I got home, my body was shaking even while I showered! I've never worked out that hard for that to happen.
Saturday afternoon we went to a family BBQ and the steaks were amazing. Long story short it was a lot of socializing and had a few drinks - keep this in mind - a few drinks! We were on our way back to my parents when I realized the house number was calling and I had just missed the call as we pulled up into the drive way. I WALKED and somehow my flats caught with the stone step and down I went. Let me clarify - my knees fell on the TOP step so I fell up the stairs. My god it was painful. I didn't want Jack or my mom to notice so I hurried up the next step and headed inside to make sure my pops was okay (he would have been calling) - everything was fine though - he just wanted to make sure we didn't forget to come home. So now my right knee is scraped, a little cut and definitely bruised.
Calves and triceps/biceps are sore from boxing and my knees are hurting from my fall. Is this what it's like to be 30? I'm slowly falling apart. Yesterday I could walk a bit but not very much. I called it my rest day.
Flash forward back to today - here's my mid morning snack - lettuce with vegan and organic Greek vinaigrette. Lunch itself today was leftover chili from last week with greek yogurt and more lettuce on top! And considering right now it's pouring - I don't think I'll be going for a walk outside. Looks like I'll be meal prepping my santa fe chicken and doing weights in between prep work and the actual cooking. As my mom would say, this is perfect weather for the ducks!
It literally feels like it just started but here we are, it's June 26th Monday afternoon and it's almost July. I'm not going to get ahead of myself just yet though - let's go back into time. To Saturday morning to be exact. *insert rewind sound here*
Woke up, got dressed and headed to boxing. IT WAS AMAZING. First I had a brief tour of the place and then we started the warm up. Until the teacher arrived, we are to jump rope. Once the instructor arrived our warm up was either doing the following exercises WITH the rope or without (I gladly did them without the rope): butt kicks, high knees, jumping jacks x2 - people with the rope did cross overs and I honestly can't remember. Now that it's Monday the rest of the exercises for the warm up seem like a blur.
After warm up our group was split up into 2 groups - one group with the bags and the other group was in the ring. Once I heard I was in the ring I wasn't happy - because I thought we would be fighting! However this was not the direction we went into. We wrapped our hands up and practiced our form - pivots and what not. Then we proceeded back upstairs to circuit training - planks, pull ups, push ups, battle ropes, and a few others. 30 seconds of each exercise before switching with your partner a total of 12 exercises and well worth the pain. No pain no gain right? FINALLY we were onto the punching bags - This was my favourite part. Couple combos and then the burn out.
The class is supposed to be an hour. When 12 o'clock came around I was like YAHOO! I can finally wipe the sweat from my face and neck and be done with it. But nope - that was not on the agenda not yet anyways. We headed back upstairs, grabbed our mats and did some core exercises. My body was not having it. My upper body is super weak - I think this week I'm going to focus on upper body .. well at least for a couple of days until my next boxing session - which I already booked for THIS THURSDAY! It was hard work but it went by fast and I had fun sweating it out.
By the time I got home, my body was shaking even while I showered! I've never worked out that hard for that to happen.
Saturday afternoon we went to a family BBQ and the steaks were amazing. Long story short it was a lot of socializing and had a few drinks - keep this in mind - a few drinks! We were on our way back to my parents when I realized the house number was calling and I had just missed the call as we pulled up into the drive way. I WALKED and somehow my flats caught with the stone step and down I went. Let me clarify - my knees fell on the TOP step so I fell up the stairs. My god it was painful. I didn't want Jack or my mom to notice so I hurried up the next step and headed inside to make sure my pops was okay (he would have been calling) - everything was fine though - he just wanted to make sure we didn't forget to come home. So now my right knee is scraped, a little cut and definitely bruised.
Calves and triceps/biceps are sore from boxing and my knees are hurting from my fall. Is this what it's like to be 30? I'm slowly falling apart. Yesterday I could walk a bit but not very much. I called it my rest day.
Flash forward back to today - here's my mid morning snack - lettuce with vegan and organic Greek vinaigrette. Lunch itself today was leftover chili from last week with greek yogurt and more lettuce on top! And considering right now it's pouring - I don't think I'll be going for a walk outside. Looks like I'll be meal prepping my santa fe chicken and doing weights in between prep work and the actual cooking. As my mom would say, this is perfect weather for the ducks!
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