Happy New Year!!!!

I feel utterly awful that I haven't blogged in two months!!!  I have been thinking about posting, but I have just been so busy.

My New Years' Resolution for 2015..... continue to blog and inspire the masses!!!!!!

What's been happening with me?  Just keeping busy, making money to live and continue investing into my favorite person.....MYSELF!!!!!

I've continued to workout with Sarah twice a week and taking Pilates twice a week with Cassie.  One change is that my Tuesday night Pilates class was disbanded and I now attend the Wednesday 6 pm class.  I sure do miss my homies, Linda and Maureen, but I just wasn't getting the challenge I needed and that's not good for me.  Linda and Maureen are in a Monday evening class.  I do see Linda around at Lifetime so we do get to chat.  I haven't see Linda though.

As of yesterday, I have joined Title Boxing Club.  Some of you may remember that I had a Groupon that I used in the Spring.  You have read about my experiences here.  I need some big time cardio that I don't think I can get at Lifetime right now.  I do enjoy Spinning, but with the new year the classes are going to be packed and you'll have to claw and fight to get a bike.

I will still be doing everything else at Lifetime, but I wanted to add boxing into my regime at least twice a week.  I opted for the month-to-month membership in case I don't want to go for a full  year.

So, I've continued to lift heavy with Sarah and I have some goals for 2015.
I want to bench 100 pounds.  Right now I am at 85 pounds and I can do about 6 to 8 reps.  If I get to the end of 2015 doing 6 to 8 reps, I will be happy.

I want to RDL 150 pounds.  I think I'm at 135 right now.   I want to super squat 400.  I'm at 380 right now, I think.

I promise I'm going to blog more.  There are some big things that are going to happen in 2015, I can feel it!!!

This Week In Workouts

It's been an exciting week of workouts.  I think I'm over this adrenal fatigue thing and I am conscious about what I am doing and listening to my body.  The scale has started to go back down, which is great!

I worked three days this week.  Next week I am working all five days.  Holy crap that is a lot for me.  But I enjoy making money and being able to pay for all of my health-related stuff.

Sunday and Wednesday were training days and the detailed thread about those workouts is here.

Monday I was super excited to get out of work earlier because I went to Lifetime and took Tammy's Vinyasa Flow class.  It was a great class and I got a great workout.  I haven't taken one of Tammy's classes in a while and I love her classes.

Tuesday I did two classes.  I started using my very first Groupon that I purchased in December for two weeks of unlimited boxing classes at Title Boxing Club.  You can ready all about my first class here.    Then in the evening I went to my Pilates class.  You can read about that class here.   I was very careful to notice how I was feeling all day.  I really didn't want to overdo it and backslide back into adrenal fatigue.

I went to my second boxing class on Thursday evening.  I had a different instructor this time.  His name is Greg and we have some mutual friends in common, The Parutas.  I really enjoyed his class and actually liked it better than the first class I went to.  I was a little iffy about whether I wanted to continue after my Groupon expired, but now I definitely want to continue.  My arms were punching like crazy.  My bat wings were flapping.  It was both funny and gross.

Friday was a much deserved day off.

Saturday, I took another boxing class at Title.  The teacher was Mark.  It was another great class.  I think I am getting better at the fundamentals of boxing, at least in my opinion.  Who knows, I might look like a crazy person hitting the bag.

Have a great week and as always I leave you with a motivational meme.

My First Boxing Class

Today I used the first fitness Groupon I have ever purchased.  It was for two weeks of unlimited classes at TITLE Boxing Club.  TITLE is a chain in many states and they are growing fast in Michigan with new clubs coming to Novi, Livonia, and Canton in the near future.  I went to the location in Farmington Hills, which is just up on Haggerty a few miles from me.

I was a little nervous, but there were three other newbies there.  We all worked out close to each other so that the instructor could  help us more easily.  Everyone there was really friendly and helpful.  The club was very clean and I loved the set up.  There is no front or back section where the punching bags are.  Just plant yourself in front of a punching bag and class starts.  I was given wrist wraps and a pair of gloves.  The gloves were just for borrowing, but the wraps are mine.  I got rainbow striped which is great because I do love my gays.

The set up is like this picture I found on tumblr.com

The class consists of a 15 minute warm up, then 8 3-minute boxing rounds with a minute between rounds of active recovery, and then a 15 minute core workout to finish the class.  Big props to Sarah for getting me prepared to handle a workout like that and survive.  I handled it quite well and I was proud of myself.   (I did drink my Generation UCan before class).

I absolutely LOVED the boxing portion.  I didn't hurt my hands, they felt very protected.  My only issue was my footing.  You have to be light on your toes and not be on your heels.  I admit I was nervous with the moves, but I think I loosened up a bit and really got into it.

The Core workout at the end of class was a killer!!  Holy crap!  My lower abs were feeling it.  None of the exercises in the core section were impossible, just challenging and definitely made my abs burn.  And we did Russians, which I LOATH!!!!  I modified one of the exercises with some leg raises we've done in Pilates.

I just :LOVED this class.  I can't wait to go back.  I'm debating joining or not since I already do spend a lot at Lifetime with PT and Pilates.  TITLE isn't very expensive, but when you consider everything else I'm doing it is.  I so enjoyed myself and I wasn't on my deathbed leaving.  I was sweaty and challenged.  The only downside I would say is the smell of my hands from being in the boxing gloves.  It reminded me of driving my cousin home from football practice....all the sweat in those gross football pads.

LOVED, LOVED, LOVED TITLE Boxing Club.  I'm going back on Thursday.

This isn't me.....yet.  LOL