This past week (4/8-4/14) I did ok for the first part of the week and then didn't do very good over the weekend. I didn't stick with my routine and was having a hard time having the motivation to do the workouts. I most of the time have no problem with the cardio, but I have been skipping my strength and circuit training workouts. In the end, I still lost 2 lbs for this week! I wanted more, but with my overall end to the weekend, I will take 2 lbs.
This week I wanted to blog about setting yourself up for success. I think that is one of the things that I haven't been very good at in the past. This time I am determined to do everything in my power to reach my goals. So here is how I have set myself up for success:
My goals are written out and posted in an area I go to every single day. I got a huge bright green poster board and wrote out my goals for each week. Since I am going to be losing 100 lbs, I am giving myself a goal of losing 2 lbs per week for around a year. If I did lose 2 lbs per week for 52 weeks, I would lose about 102. That works for me!
Anyways, I wrote this all out on the poster board and it is posted on the wall behind my weight bench and is the first thing I see when I walk in the door of my workout room.
The thing with my workout room is that it is actually supposed to be the master bedroom. We decided when we got the weight bench that we needed more space for it then the bed so we moved our bedroom into one of the smaller rooms in our house.
This works perfectly for me though! I have all the space I need and have got it to the point where I can pretty much do any strength training workout known to man in there. As far as cardio, we will be getting an elliptical soon, but for now I am mainly using the wii to do Zumba. I will also be doing other wii workouts as well as workout DVDs as well.
So since the room is huge, it gives me lots of walls to put up motivational saying, goals, calendars, etc. Here are a few pictures that are an overview of the workout room:
So what I have put up on the wall makes it really easy to see what my goals are and also to keep track of my progress during my workout. Here is my Set/Reps/Weight tracker that I used during my strength training workouts. Then I take a picture of it filled out with my phone so I can easily look up my previous stats to make sure I am pushing myself!
Here is my calendar that I have filled out with my work and workout schedule. I have a rotation where I workout four days and then have one day off. Those four days consist of three days of cardio and one day of strength or circuit training. I was doing a different rotation that included more strength and circuit training, but at this time in my journey I am going to be doing more cardio because I am having an easier time being able to stick to it then I am more strength training. When I start to get closer to my goal weight I will be getting in more strength training to make sure I am toning up as I am losing.
Here is where I keep track of which strength workout I am doing. I have currently came up with my own program that is a combination of the workout programs from The New Rules of Lifting for Women and The Female Body Breakthrough. How it works is I rotate each section of both books with each other so I am keeping my body guessing, but I also have the ability to increase upon my reps, weight, etc. as I go.
Here are some of the things I have in my workout room for motivation. My favorite thing is a digital picture frame that I have above the TV that continually goes through a bunch of motivational quotes I have to remind me during my workouts why I am doing what I am doing and that I can do it!
Here is my poster that reminds me of my weight loss goals. My goal is 2 lbs per week, but I will be filling in my goal each week based on how I did the previous week. I will also be circling my weekly progress of how many pounds I have lost so I can focus on that instead of how far I still have to go! Because I am trying to lose so much weight, sometimes it overwhelms me and can affect my progress. I think doing it this way where each week is filled in as I go instead of seeing that by Week 52 I need to have lost 102 lbs will help me focus and go at it one week at a time!
This is the only piece of motivation that I do not have in my workout room. This is sitting right beside my fridge in the kitchen. It shows how much I have lost and then how much I still have to go. I use this to show myself that I have made progress, but it is not worth it to snack or eat junk because there is still progress to be made!
So this blog post is pretty much me playing catch up since I am already a few days into week 3. I am trying my best to stay on top of it and I will hopefully be soon! I am planning on starting to blog more often than 2 days per week and I am also wanting to blog about things that will help others instead of just talking about myself and holding myself accountable! I am even thinking about adding some video blogs as well so stay tuned!
Jess
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