Having Fun with Dance Lessons

At the risk of sending my dear Pa into convulsions of laughter or possibly shock I am going to put this right out there..

I'm taking Pole Dancing Lessons :)

Now that you've got back in your chair don't get the wrong idea, there is no stripping going on :p - This is Fitness Pole, I'm dressed in a t-shirt and leggings and working up a sweat. It is enormous fun, I might have two left feet and currently lacking anything that can be termed as grace let alone sexy I am slowly getting better. I'll be
heading off to lesson #5 in a few minutes and figured I'd let all 2 of my readers know what's going on.

From a fitness aspect it is already proving to be pretty awesome, I burn about 300 calories per hour's lesson according to my BMF and judging by how much pain I was in last week (first week) it is certainly hitting some muscles. I'll be bringing the kettlebells back into play once I can actually get through a full week of classes (Mon-Thurs) without crippling myself.

Eating is my let down at the moment but I stocked up on veggies on the last shopping trip and am going to get back to actually cooking instead of snacking on packaged food even if it is organic or 'healthy' products. Fasting is still the aim of the game although occasionally like today hubby will spring lunch on me. I kept mostly behaved at Logan's with some grilled tilapia and veggie skewers. I did have one of their rolls though.. and I celebrated a friends birthday this afternoon with a slice of chocolate cake. It was stunningly good enough to warrant every calorie so I have no regrets there, I will just keep supper fairly light.

Day 6

Day 6 - Saturday

W: 162.8 lbs 

Food:
Breakfast: Oatmeal, coffee w/cream
Lunch: Roasted red pepper and tomato soup, 3 mushrooms, mini bagel.
Dinner: jambalaya, jello sugar free mousse.

Oh yeah...:



That is some raking, power washing 3 sides of my house (the off body just after 12 was me trying to defrost in a very hot shower). Making jambalaya, some vacuming, and then sweeping out the shed and cleaning the windows in there. Right around 6pm was my workout. Short and sweet for that tonight thankfully. 

Workout:

• Warmup: 10 squats, 10 knee pushups, 8 squats, 8 knee pushups, 6 squats, 6 knee pushups.
• 30 seconds swings (20), 30 seconds rest
• 30 seconds knee pushups (18), 30 seconds rest
• 30 seconds swings (20), 30 seconds rest
• 30 seconds knee pushups (15), 30 seconds rest
• 30 seconds swings (20), 30 seconds rest

16KG for swings

Kind of surprised at the numbers. The swings were easy enough but I knocked the pushups out pretty decent. Especially after today, the power washing was mostly aimed all above my head as I was cleaning the eaves and porch/carport ceiling. 

BMF Daily Info:
Calories: 2619
Steps: 8781
Total Activity: 2 hrs 49m
Vigorous Activity: 0m
Sleep: 8:50 Lying Down, 6:38 asleep, 75% efficiency.

Sleep not so good last night. Calorie burn for today flipping awesome 

Day 5

Day 5 - Friday

W: 162.6 lbs 

Food:
Day: Black coffee, water
Dinner: Mixed Herb Salad, dried tomatoes, sunflower seed, pine nuts, balsamic/olive oil viniagrette. Mini Pizza's! with chicken franks. Latte.



Pizza worked out better than I hoped although I waited too long to eat them and they were cold. Still tasty though. Multigrain bread, tomato paste and string cheese grilled under the broiler. 

Slowly learning the correct proportions of milk to coffee for my aeropress. Other than loving the gizmo. So far 3 coffee shots to half cup of milk seems to be pretty good. 

Also might eat something else later as well as I'm still a bit hungry. Wanted to see how I felt if I spread it out a little. 

Workout:

• Warmup: 3 mins on treadmill, 10 squats, 10 knee pushups, 8 squats, 8 knee pushups, 6 squats, 6 pushups.
• 20 seconds swings, 10 seconds rest x 8 (13 swings per set = 104)
• 60 seconds knee pushups (24)
• 3 minute cool down on treadmill.

12KG for all sets.

Lunges have left me in some pain so I subbed some partial squats in tonight just to stretch my quads out a bit. 

BMF Workout Stats: 
N/A Bluetooth fail and me remembering what clock said fail.

BMF Daily Info:
Calories: 2223
Steps: 7463
Total Activity: 57m
Vigorous Activity: 0m
Sleep: 8:21 Lying Down, 6:58 asleep, 83% efficiency.

Sleep was better than that, I was reading for about 30mins first.

Day 4

Day 4 - Thursday

W: 162.8 lbs 

Food:
Day: Black coffee, water
Dinner: Mini cinnamon raisin bagel with a smear of butter pre-workout. Mixed Herb Salad, dried tomatoes, sunflower seed, pine nuts, pecans, sesame ginger viniagrette. Black bean chili heavy on the chicken. Elfling inspired grilled cheese on multigrain toast. Small latte



Workout:

• Warmup: 10 lunges, 10 knee pushups, 8 lunges, 8 knee pushups, 6 lunges, 6 pushups.
• 30 seconds swings, 30 seconds rest x 15 (20 swings per set = 300)
• 6 minute cool down on treadmill.

14KG for 12 sets, 12KG for 3 set

Those lunges are evil.. 

BMF Workout Stats: 
Duration: 30 mins
Steps: 1649
Calories: 163
Moderate Activity: 29m
Vigorous Activity: 0m
Avg. Mets: 4.42


BMF Daily Info:
Calories: 2349
Steps: 8200
Total Activity: 68m
Vigorous Activity: 0m
Sleep: 8:03 Lying Down, 7:44 asleep, 96% efficiency.

Busy day, our T1 went down yesterday afternoon and I took the opportunity to put in my new Sonicwall firewall and the two remote site point to points. Then grocery shopping and finally the longer workout of the week. 

Day 3

Day 3 - Wednesday

W: 162.6 lbs 

Food:
Day: Black coffee, water
Dinner: 2 black bean veggie burgers, mini bagel, kraft single, hummus and cream cheese. String cheese, Pineapple cup. Roasted red pepper and tomato soup with half a small chicken. 



Workout:

• Warmup: 10 lunges, 10 knee pushups, 8 lunges, 8 knee pushups, 6 lunges, 6 pushups.
• 30 seconds swings, 30 seconds rest x 5 (20 swings per set = 100)
• 8 minute cool down on treadmill.

16KG for 4 sets, 14KG for 1 set

BMF Workout Stats: 
Duration: 20 mins
Steps: 1600ish
Calories: 97
Moderate Activity: 18m
Vigorous Activity: 0m
Avg. Mets: 3.93


BMF Daily Info:
Calories: 2110
Steps: 6003
Total Activity: 40m
Vigorous Activity: 0m
Sleep: 7:32 Lying Down, 6:46 asleep, 90% efficiency.

Day 2

Day 2 - Tuesday

W: 163.2 lbs (-2.2)

Food:
Day: Black coffee, water
Dinner: Jambalaya, seafood chowder, 2 x black bean veggie burgers, kraft single. Pineapple cup.

mmm, leftovers  Not enough of the jambalaya or chowder for a normal meal on their own but worked together. 

Workout:

12KG Bell

• 5 minute warm up walk on treadmill
• 20 seconds swings, 10 seconds rest x 8 (13 swings per set - 104)
• 60 seconds knee pushups. (23)
• 5 minute cool down on treadmill.

BMF Workout Stats: 
Duration: 20 mins
Steps: 1600ish
Calories: 101
Moderate Activity: 16m
Vigorous Activity: 3m
Avg. Mets: 4.09

Bluetooth fail on workout stats. Definitely not to great on the iPad yet. 

BMF Daily Info:
Calories: 2148
Steps: 6861
Total Activity: 46m
Vigorous Activity: 3m
Sleep: 7:44 Lying Down, 7:18 asleep, 94% efficiency.

Sleep last night was awesome, I didn't even hear the alarm clock this morning, I rolled over to hear hubby chinking his toothbrush on the sink which kinda sucks as I like to come to terms with conciousness while he is in the shower. 

Measurements:
Waist:30.75
Hips: 39
Thigh: 25.75
Calf: 16
Bicep: 11

bleugh, at least there is nothing above 40" any more though 

This made me go find my old PN log, these are from May 2007:
176.5lbs 37.5% bf (I think this am was 33% on the same tanita)
Waist: 38"
Hip: 42.5"
Thigh: 26"
Calf: 16
Arm: 11.75"

Funny how thighs and arms have barely changed much although I might be measuring my thigh a fraction higher come to think of it.