I am a “Bodyrocker” and one of the big reasons I created this blog was to create a place to connect and share with other moms, record results and experiences for our daily workouts.
Here is the Bodyrock link. Once you get to the site click on “Home workouts”, and then go into “All Workouts” and click on the post that is 3 days behind. I workout 3 days behind the Bodyrock posts so I don’t have to worry about when they are going to updated it for each day. Each morning I will post my results for the workout of that day and I hope the rest of you will join me. If you would like to have that extra push and accountability, click the link to follow the Memom Body-n-mind blog and each week the daily posting will be reviewed. If there is anyone who needs some extra motivation an email with some words of encouragement can be sent. Speaking from experience this is best coming from a third party person…a husband offering the…and I quote “don’t you need to be working out”, in a very supportive way, doesn’t always have the same affect…trust me, or you can ask my husband. If you check out the site and think, that you would rather go for a run or hike or some other kind of physical activity, please still log your daily workout, and get connected…us moms need to feel connected.

So get your journal book to record your times and numbers…because you’ll want to refer back and see how much you’ve improved over time and then you can set out to beat YOUR personal best.

Here is a link for a free online interval timer that you can use for the workouts.
Remember to always do a warm-up and stretch and a cool-down and stretch for each workout…the Bodyrock site has an example of those posted as well.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Rest Day

No workout for me tonight, just some serious stretching and 3 sets of push-ups.  I'm still trying to get my body to stand upright when I walk...so I'm giving myself a little breather until tomorrow's 550 rep fun.
I have a coffee date with a girlfriend which will be fun, now if only it didn't kill when I try to cross my legs, I guess that will promote good sitting posture. cheers

Monday, March 7, 2011

Halo Of Sweat Workout

This morning I had another date with Lilly at the barn, and man were my legs already hurting half way through the ride, which is bad sign on what's to come.  So since I was already sweaty and really smelly I figured I might as well do the workout before hitting the shower. Now I have had tightness in my hip flexors before, but never a cramp, and HOLY #^&%, does that hurt.  It attacked during the those darn reptiles and I'm still trying to stretch it out. The results were ok for this one...I did make sure I did the full arm form for the push-ups which felt so great with my already sore chest, and now I have the matching legs and abs to go with it...Perfect...I'll be walking pretty tomorrow, here are my reps:
Sumo Jumps w/knee ups: 14, 15, 15
Sumo Pulse Calve raise: 23, 23, 21
Reptile on the run: 40, 30, 19
Reptile Push-ups, 2, 2, 2
Knee Hugs: 16, 11, 9
Ab burn out: 39, 37, 42

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Counter Strike Fat Workout

I can not lie, when I saw this workout the first thought that popped into my head was, "this is going to suck".  My chest and shoulders are still sore from all the climbing and workout the day before, so a whole 12 minutes of push-ups was not on the top of my fun to do list.  Considering that, I'm really happy with my score on this workout.  I did not do one chicken peck...and I have a very sore throbbing chest and shoulders to prove it...I completed 31 reps...I haven't looked at tomorrow's workout but I'm hoping that it has to do with legs...I can't believe I just said that ;)

Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Trainer Who Loved Me Workout

I remember this workout, and those star lifts.  By the time I got to the monkey business my legs where shaking on the way up and back down from the jumps.  I had no strength left in my arms for the full set of push-ups for this.  I went bouldering again this morning for 1.5 hrs which was awesome, but used up a lot of my upper body strength for the day, so I manage to do 45 plain old push-ups with the break dance move and then the rest from my knees. My time was 32:08.

Friday, March 4, 2011

You Push Me Workout

Well I have a funny story why I didn't manage a workout yesterday and it has to do with a little or maybe big pot of Holy Basil Tea that was seeping over night.  You see, I often like to sip on cold tea instead of drinking plain old water, so I poured myself several glasses of this tea in the afternoon and sipped away happily.  Lots of you know that I've been trying new and adventurous healthy food items lately and this tea is one of them.  I guess I should have read the bag more closely, which states "a key rejuvenating tonics in Ayurveda.  For centuries, the herb was used before meditation in order to calm the mind and encourage a blissful state", well that explains alot. Before I passed out at 8:00 I was floating around in a blissful state alright, so walking a straight line was out of the question never mind a workout :)  Just keeping it fresh...haha...Did the workout tonight...left out Cargo because my quads really don't need any help getting bigger, so I'm just trying to increase the reps. Also did the extra push-ups to work towards that 30 goal.  Here are my scores,
Kick over and Knee raise : 16, 15, 13.5
Side jump lunge : 50, 49, 45
Reptile push-up alternating : 19, 15, 10
Squat ; 19, 18, 18
High Knees : 110, 100, 115

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

On the Floor - Abs Challenge

I'm still walking funny today, as one of you pointed out :) Due to the horseback riding.  It's funny but it sort of assures me that I'm doing it right.  As for this workout...at first I thought it looked really easy and I would be whipping through the reps and posting some really impressive sets...not so much.
The mountain climbers were great, but those straight leg lifts with the arms over the head at me sweating. I managed to get 5 sets of 20 completed in 10 minutes plus  I worked on my push-ups and did 3 sets of 6 full slow push-ups and in between I did some chin-ups for fun.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Survivor Workout

My inner thighs were killing me before doing this workout but they're right when they say that working out will help make your sore muscles feel better...until tomorrow morning :(...For this workout I found the break dance push-ups really hard to coordinate because my arms were too close to my body after finishing the kicks so I spent most of my time shifting around my feet.  As for the one-legged squat...I'm still working on building strength in the 2 legs so that's what I did...used both for that exercise.

I think I'm going to revise my push-up challenge to a number that will be a little more attainable for me..30..and who knows with the training maybe I'll surprise myself...but for now that's the goal.
Backwards lunge w/kick-up left: 22, 19
Backwards lunge w/kick-up right: 22, 20
One arm Press-up: 10, 10
2 Kick-up, w/break dance push-up: 7, 4
Pike Jump and Squat Jump: 8, 8

Squats with jump tuck, 50 reps in 5 minutes.