Margit

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts.

Monday was BodyPump day with one of my favourite instructors: Maris Tamm. We didn’t do any tracks from no 87, everything was from no 83. A pretty good workout, less lunges and squats than normally though.

Tuesday: strip aerobics. Almost the same routine as last week. I enjoyed it.

On Wednesday I wanted to go to body conditioning but my school schedule messed those plans up. Went to Aeroburn Step instead. It was good but I’m so not the person to remember all those combinations and turns…

Thursday: BodyPump with Florian. This needs no further explanation, right? 😉

Friday was a really active day. I wanted to go swimming but the bus traffic is so messed up here back at home. So what does Margit do? She cycles. All in all about 1 hour of cycling and 45 minutes of swimming: 500 m breast stroke, 500 m front crawl, 500 m back stroke. In the evening went for walk with my pup. In total over 800 kcal burned. My legs felt kind of sore from Wednesday’s Aeroburn Step.

Saturday morning started bright and early with a 50 minute long run. I was fast for me at 7:02 min/km although my legs were tired and a little sore. Then I headed to my granny’s birthday party. My entire family was already there since morning, getting everything ready. I arrived around 1 PM. Then it was lunch time. Managed to stay on the low carb track and even brought my own low carb mugcake 😀 Ate waaaaaaay too much (ca 2500 kcal) but it was all low carb.

My chocolate gingerbread flax seed mug cake topped with sour cream
and wild strawberries

Sunday was swimming day. The same distances as on Thursday: 3×500 metres of breast stroke, front crawl and back stroke. Later on had a one hour walk with my dog. The storm hit us and the first 2 kilometres were a serious workout, battling against the wind, the next 2K were easy.

In total:

2 hours of BodyPump

1 hour 30 minutes of swimming

1 hour of aerobics

1 hour of dancing

1 hour of cycling

50 minutes of running

2 hours 30 minutes of walking

A wonderful week. No official rest days but I feel great. Swimming and dancing offers me enough relaxing both mentally and physically in between running and pumping. I love my workout routine now 🙂

The last race of the year next Saturday. Getting excited and nervous…

On Food Fridays I will tell you about everything I ate that day. No matter if it is a good day or not: you will see it all.

1st meal: 1 PM

I know the reaction of some people: that’s not normal to not eat anything before lunch. But I have a perfectly normal explanation: I had to cycle to the city to go swimming, so I didn’t want to eat right before working out because it will give me stomach cramps. So I got up at 8, was in the pool by 9.15, home by 11.30, then had to do some quick errands and cook and when I sat down to eat, it was 1 PM. But I wasn’t feeling “omg-I’m-so-hungry-i-could-eat-for-Africa” so all is good.

a mountain of cauliflower “rice” (about 300 grams of raw cauliflower fried with some oil, garlic and spices)
one portion of minced meat sauce (225 grams of minced turkey thighs, 100 grams of cream, seasonings)
about 15 grams of butter, a teaspoon of mayonnaise and sour cream,

5 grams of smoked pork (had a small snack before my meal was cooked)

2nd meal: 6.30 PM

3 eggs
10 grams of flax seeds
40 grams of cheese
10 grams of butter

After dinner we prepped some food for tomorrow since it’s going to be my other grandmom’s 80th birthday party (both of my grannies are born in 1933). So I snacked on some cheese, walnuts, mayo, sour cream and a very small pork chop.

In total about 1800 kcal. I’m also very pleased with my fat-to-protein ratio and net carbs should also be fine, I don’t worry too much about total carbs if they are below 40 grams (and it’s really hard for me to go over that limit).

Next Food Friday in a week!

Autor: Margit

Workout Week 11.–17.11.2013

Food Friday 15.11.2013

1st meal: 1 PM

2nd meal: 6.30 PM