Its not secret, I'm an athlete. I've been an athlete my whole life. I've been the girls my friends looked at and said, "I wanna be fit like you". The odd thing is, I've never seen myself as the fit friend. I just thought, I love sports, I love to play them, I love to watch them, I just in general really enjoy every aspect of being physically active. I epically loved the fact that I could eat whatever I want and not seem to gain a pound.
That is until I hit my mid-20's. All of the sudden it didn't matter how many miles I ran, hours at the gym I spent or sports I played, keeping the "eat whatever I want" mentality finally started to catch up to me. Now, I've never been over weight, I'm also not a rail. I'm "athletic looking". I have a booty, thicker thighs (thanks softball) and what my husband calls a "sturdy" body. I'm almost 30 now (ewww even tying that was painful) and I feel like my once athletically toned self has turned soft and squishy. I can fool what other see, I'm great and fooling people as to what I actually look like. But I see what I look like under my clothing and I'm ready to make a change.
I'm forcing myself to blog about this in hopes that I will help keep me accountable. I'm changing things up! I will still enjoy my nightly runs with my husband (that's time we spend together that i really enjoy) but I am making an overhaul to the diet and adding some some training aspects that I've never done before. Listen, if there is a workout program out there, I've probably tried it. P90X, Insanity, blah blah.... although I find them to be extremely challenging and very effective, I bulk. Every time I do anything that involves a good amount of weight I bulk (again, thank you softball). I want that body I've never had, the lean athletic look. So I'm trying something new.
Tracy Anderson is know in the Hollywood circles as a "it" celebrity trainer. (along with Tony Horton and Gunner Peterson who also have fitness plans out there). So I studied her. The first thing that got my attention was, she doesn't use more than 3lb weights. For someone who used to leg press close to 300lbs in college, I was asking, "well what good is 3lbs going to do"? Her plan focuses on the small muscles, muscles that I have a feeling, in my 29 years of athletic life, I've never once focused on those.
So, the new plan arrived last night. I won't lie, I read through her meal plan thinking, "if I can actually stick to this, there is no way I wont loose weight! You basically go on a juice diet for your first week!" But seeing as how my husband wants to do a 30 day vegan challenge (this is a whole other blog topic) I figure I'll get a little head start. So starting Monday morning Sept 24th, I will start on my new adventure to make my attempt to truly be the Fit Friend.
My Goal:
That is until I hit my mid-20's. All of the sudden it didn't matter how many miles I ran, hours at the gym I spent or sports I played, keeping the "eat whatever I want" mentality finally started to catch up to me. Now, I've never been over weight, I'm also not a rail. I'm "athletic looking". I have a booty, thicker thighs (thanks softball) and what my husband calls a "sturdy" body. I'm almost 30 now (ewww even tying that was painful) and I feel like my once athletically toned self has turned soft and squishy. I can fool what other see, I'm great and fooling people as to what I actually look like. But I see what I look like under my clothing and I'm ready to make a change.
I'm forcing myself to blog about this in hopes that I will help keep me accountable. I'm changing things up! I will still enjoy my nightly runs with my husband (that's time we spend together that i really enjoy) but I am making an overhaul to the diet and adding some some training aspects that I've never done before. Listen, if there is a workout program out there, I've probably tried it. P90X, Insanity, blah blah.... although I find them to be extremely challenging and very effective, I bulk. Every time I do anything that involves a good amount of weight I bulk (again, thank you softball). I want that body I've never had, the lean athletic look. So I'm trying something new.
Tracy Anderson is know in the Hollywood circles as a "it" celebrity trainer. (along with Tony Horton and Gunner Peterson who also have fitness plans out there). So I studied her. The first thing that got my attention was, she doesn't use more than 3lb weights. For someone who used to leg press close to 300lbs in college, I was asking, "well what good is 3lbs going to do"? Her plan focuses on the small muscles, muscles that I have a feeling, in my 29 years of athletic life, I've never once focused on those.
My Goal:
- Start every morning (6 days) with Tracy
- Do everything in my power to stick as close to her meal plan as I can
- Blog about it
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