Week in Review - 5/21

I can hardly believe that I just finished Week 4 of the Bikini Series! Halfway done!! It's going by so fast. Must be my hard work and commitment that's making it fly by. ;-)

The workouts have been TOUGH, but I find myself looking forward to them each morning. I like how there's a mix of videos, live workouts (I've only done 2, but they have 2 each week), and Daily Moves.

I meant to take some halfway done pics, but my day got away from me.
Maybe at the end of Week 5.

Goal Check-In:
NO Fast Food ✔
Starbucks 1x per week ✔
72 oz of water a day ✔
Stick to the workout plan ✔
Sub 10:00 min/mile - Current avg pace: 10:29
Lose 10 lbs - ↓ 5.6 lbs (yes, I gained a little last week, but it's OK.)

May 15-21
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Bikini Series Week 4 Schedule

	On The Schedule	What I Did
Mon:	Cardio + Abs	5 DMs  (3 sets of 15 each side) + 3 mile run Standing Knee to Elbow Crunches + Triangles + Rock the Boats + Tilts + V-Sit Crunches
Tue:	Booty	Booty Burn + 5 DMs  (3 sets of 15 each side) Kettle Braced Squats + Kettlebell Swings + Kettlebell Sumo Squats + Curtsy Lunges + Bridge Dips
Wed:	HIIT	Sandy Sweat + 5 DMs  (3 sets of 15 each side) Bridge March + Single Leg Deadlift + Burpee&Shoulder Press + Pushup + Mountain Climbers
Thu:	Yoga + Active Recovery	Healthy Body Yoga + 15-Minute Power Yoga Flow
Fri:	Arms	TIU Flex Friday video + 30 min run
Sat:	Total Body	1.5 mile walk + Sunshine Sculpt
Sun:	Sunday Runday + Booty	5k run + InstaLive workout with Karena & Bobby

DMs = Daily Moves

Highlights of the Week:

My replacement phone arrived!
If you read my update last week, then you know that my phone randomly died on May 10. I did surprisingly well coping with life without a phone, but I was very glad to get the replacement and resume normal life. 😂

Jeff, Sallie, and I discovered a new park/trail
We are 100% committed to moving to a new apartment complex at the end of our lease (early next year), so we are spending the next several months organizing, purging, and most importantly, scoping out places to live. It's way too early to actually start talking to leasing offices, but we do want to start driving through areas/complexes that pique our interest. Yesterday, we checked out one that we think would be good, and then we headed to the big park less than a mile away. It wasn't a true trail per se, but we walked about 1.5 miles from the one park to the other. It was beautiful and would be fun to live to close to a great park.

If you look close, you can see that there is trail along the base of the Lone Mountain, which would be lots of fun to run regularly (I assume). You can also climb to the top of the mountain, if you want more of a workout. We didn't do any of that yesterday, though.

Sallie got pretty warm (it was mid-80s) and kinda flopped into this shady area, so we sat at the covered picnic table for awhile to let her cool down and stop the panting a bit.

SundayRunday 5k
I ran my normal route this morning, but tried to keep it a semi-tempo run. I still did walk breaks every half mile, but my speed is coming back! Overall, today's pace was about 10:05 min/mile. I was really starting to feel tired by 2.5 miles, though. I couldn't really push it the final half mile, but I didn't do any extra walking and feel pretty good about the run.

Skinny jeans
Even though I gained a little bit on the scale last week, I also slipped into an old pair of jeans I haven't been able to wear comfortably for a few years. I could zip and button them and even sit down OK, but still have a bit to go before being able to wear them all day at work. Still, it was pretty exciting for me. :)


How were your workouts last week? 
What was a highlight of your week?
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