Half way through week 7 now - only 3 weeks left. This week has been REALLY HARD WORK!! Melissa has really increased the intensity of the personal training sessions this week. I had my 2 sessions with less than 24 hours between them, both of which included my most hated exercise, the burpie!!! If you don,t know what these are, take a look at this video on You Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgJVPNT7B5o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I have done about 40 of these in the last 2 days. Yesterday I had a circuit session up in the studio of the gym, which felt like an Army Boot Camp. I had to carry weights (about 100kg) from one end of the room to the other, jump up the gaps in a rope ladder on the floor, do push ups, crunchies, squats with punches, burpies and punch Melissa with boxing gloves on. I had to do all of these (and more) over and over again for about 40 mins. At several points I really thought I was going to either throw up or die! This was the hardest exercise session I have ever done, and I was as red as a beetroot for about an hour after the session finished. All this when I was still stiff and tired from Monday's session!! 7 weeks ago I was an overweight 45 year old who did NO exercise. I have lost a bit of weight and am definately fitter, but this session was way beyond anything I ever thought I'd be able to achieve.
Today I have spent the day at my son's school camp at Forest Lakes, and have endured the mud slide and water slide (into a freezing lake) - these seemed so easy compared to yesterday's session.
The week before the New You competition, I started a slimming competition with a group of friends. We have our final weigh in for that this coming Sunday. I am currently in the lead with a 6.5kg weight loss, but I missed the last weigh in. According to my home scales, I am at least 8kg lighter than when we started - I am hoping this is enough to win me the "Fat Pig" trophy :-)
Next week I have my make up session at Urban Sanctuary, which I am so looking forward to. I hardly ever wear make up so this will be a real treat. Not sure what surprises Melissa will have for me -I'll let you know!!!
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