Project Update...

Wow, has it ever been a crazy week! Tomorrow is my kids' first PD day; seems odd that it's this close to the beginning of the school year...but our whole family seems ready for a long weekend so it suits me just fine!

Tomorrow marks the end of week one of my 7 Weeks to Fitness project! I'm still feeling pretty enthusiastic about this because it's totally different than the way I usually train, but I'm interested to see how my body responds to it over the long term. Whether I can squat 135lbs 200 times by the time this project is up (or do 100 pushups - or 50 pull ups! Ha ha!) is beside the point, because I don't see how I can NOT get stronger and better on this program.

So in a word, how does my body feel so far?

SORE.

And I just have to say, it feels freakin' GREAT to be sore! Two weeks of dragging my limp carcass through cardio workouts will do that, I guess. You know what else is crazy? These workouts only take about 40 minutes. So far. I know they will get longer, but for now they're a really short little efficient, ass-kicking workout! Such fun.

Basically the workouts look like this: it's 5 sets of each exercise (with a prescribed number of reps for each with the last set going to total failure) and exactly 60 seconds of recovery time in between each one. I am alternating which exercise goes first. Hey, do you want to know what my stats were at the beginning? Maybe I should do a test every 2 weeks or so so we can see what the changes look like...

Stats from Sunday September 16th:
Push Up Test: 20 reps
Pull Up Test: 1 rep
Squat Test (135lbs): 16 reps

Also, and I know I've said this already but I am still enjoying the novelty of it, I love having my energy back and feeling like me again. Food is delicious and nutritious and good for eating on a regular basis! It should also be noted here that I have gained back all the weight I lost and then some (I think; I haven't checked but can certainly feel it). I'm not that concerned about it but I think it's interesting to watch the after-effects that the 7-day diet has had on my metabolism. My digestion hasn't recovered all the way and I still haven't regained all of my strength. We're getting there.

Don't be fooled by all this healthy food - cheesecake armageddon is coming tomorrow so there will be eye candy this weekend! Stay tuned...