The Helix

Today I was in collaboration meetings all day in my principal's office. It's a great time where we get to look at growth our students are making and put plans in place for those who need extra help. I love being able to collaborate with colleagues in this way. It was all of the candy and popcorn that caused the day to be a bit of a challenge. A couple of people even went to grab Sonic for lunch. I am working out with Kelly and want to make the most of the time I have with her so I am working really hard to follow all of the rules especially with the diet.

I went to the gym after work to do my strength training workout for the first time on my own. The sheet Kelly gave me that has everything on it with the amount of reps and weight??? Yep. Forgot that. I remembered it all though. As part of this workout there are one minute recovery sessions. I'm not sure why they are called recovery because I feel like I'm going to croak each time. A minute of mountain climbers or a minute of plyo jumps on the step. On my fourth day of cardio I'm supposed to be on the Helix for thirty minutes. The only way to describe this thing called the Helix is for you to imagine yourself pedaling a bicycle sideways. I tried it the other night and said there was no way I could do it for thirty minutes. Kelly assured me that was okay and told me when I had to take a break to run to the bike and do that for a minute and then go back to the Helix. I had the brainy idea tonight to do a minute on the Helix as one of my recovery sessions. I made it. For those of you who know how uncoordinated I am, I can't think about it. I have to get on and go. I did two one minute recovery sessions and then decided at the end of the workout I would do the Helix for as long as it took The Black Eyed Peas to sing "Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night". Kinda forgot I had a remix of the song on my playlist. Six minutes later the song was finally over. Sweat was pouring off of my face, but I survived!!! WOOT HOOT! Go Me!!!

My friend Zedena posted to me tonight about a sign she saw at her gym. I think it's so fitting and true...
"Sweat is your fat crying"
I smile as I type, but at the same time I think...I have a lot more sweating to do...
What about you? Are you getting your sweat on?