I hate burpees

It has begun!

Monday

I went to the gym ready to roll.....

First I had to do the x-trainer & bike (easy as I can read my kindle on those so I am distracted) and then I had to try running…. Let the suffering begin.

I did feel good though pounding the treadmill (I'm a very noisy runner!)

My body had a very slight recollection of running three marathons, I didn't have endurance, it hurt but it felt good to be back. Think how gorgeous my legs will look!

Speaking of legs, my dream is to have my thighs NOT touching (you know my running trousers actually have a whole in them now from wear and tear - not a good look trying to do sumo squats with a massive hole in your inner thigh seam!)

So after the gym equipment I went outside to do the rest of the training…. Step ups, crunches, squat jumps and burpees … OMG how much do I HATE burpees they are evil, evil things (mine look nothing like this dude <click here to see a ridiculous enthusiastic guy do burpees>).

What’s worse is where I was excercising is overlooked by a school!

I’m sure the day dreaming students who were staring out the window got great entertainment watching me cheat my way through 30 burpees.

By the end of the hour I was puffing, red faced, sweaty beast... and this is day one!

On the food front I did well. I am not really following Mentor Ms program as I can’t get a lot of the food she recommends, but I have been good and counting the calories. I clocked 1119 (of my 1200 allowance).

Tuesday

Today was a tonning day (still had bloody burpees though).

I was doing the weights and my inner Rocky was truly celebrating (I swear I could hear 'Gonna Fly Now' playing in the background... mm maybe that was my iPod??). I felt soooo cool 'look at me doing these weights', I felt like a real tough chick doing the bicep curls (I curled the whole 3 whole killograms – please don’t laugh and disrupt my inner Rocky doing his ‘top of the stairs dance' )

So after pounding the raw meat, I had to go outside do crunches, squats and burpees (in the rain mind you!)

So a couple of things I learnt about myself

1. I count out loud… how embarrassing, I only realized when the ipod did a song change.

2. I hate burpees

3. Don’t wear a necklace… it smacks your teeth every squat jump/burpee/pushup!

4. I HATE burpees

5. I can count 60 seconds real fast when holding a plank (naughty… yes Mentor M I now use the timer and don’t cheat)
6. I really really hate burpees

Wednesday

It has only been three days but it is 'weigh in day' (every Wednesday)… I’ve lost 800g.

But I think that is all the water from sweating like a pscyo in the Singapore weather while doing bloody burpees (I HATE burpees!). The problem with Singapore is I can handle it being 32 degrees but 79% humidity is a killer.....

........ So I finish, have a shower and keep sweating for the next 40mins. Which is not good when I am trying to dress for work and the chances of putting makeup is nill to fudge-all! It drips off……. My face is literally melting!!