Bonnie's Journey to Fitness
It might be hard, but I'm proving it can be done at any age.
One of the advantages of living on the lakefront is this wonderful playground.
I’ve been training for the Susan G. Komen, 3-day, 60 mile walk. Having such mild weather gave me the perfect opportunity to get in some major walking. It’s 8 miles from my home to my office. So walk I did. Just walking to and from work, I logged in 48 miles by Friday. But that wasn’t enough. My biggest challenge came on Saturday … 20 miles. It took me 5 hours and 5 minutes. Sure, I got my first blister and my legs felt a little like jello. But what a great feeling of accomplishment. It’s amazing how much more energy I have.
But walking isn’t enough. I find I really need to compliment my walks with strong interval training like I get at TWR. I was able to fit in two days of training. Monday I worked with Matt. He found ways (as always) to hit every muscle in my body. This was the first day in quite awhile I was able to run the stairs. TWR is on the 3rd floor. After each specific move (and those were 50 each of curls, one-arm row, chest press, squats), the cardio would be running up and down those stairs twice, and than running the straightaway four times. To end the workout … crunches were in order. And not just 20 … try 100!
Friday morning I got to do one of my favorite 30 on 30 off workouts with Ron. Everything we did was for 30 seconds on and 30 seconds off. We had 4 different moves (shoulder pulls, shoulder press, leg press, and push-ups off a bar). There were 3 of us, so we each got a specific move. We would do 30 seconds on, 30 off - 5 times. At the end, we would run the straightaway for 30 seconds, and rest for 30 seconds. Again, we did this 5 times. Than we would switch moves. We than had 3 different squat moves - 5 each doing the 30 seconds on 30 off. To end the workout, Ron gave me a 25 lb weight (the other 2 used a 15 lb weight). We had to hold the weight up with one arm above our head and walk the length of the straightaway 4 times. We would than switch arms. The last move would be do a shoulder lift (with the same 25 lb weight) as we walked up and down the straightaway 4 times. Ron said I “owned” that 25 lb weight!
For the week I worked out a total of 18 hours, burning an incredible 5904 calories!!!
The journey continues …
