Hubby's training plan!

I have now finished breastfeeding P I have picked back up weight training. I used to weight train 2 - 3 times per week and was making progress. I almost got up to squatting my body weight and then I dropped the weigh training to concentrate on my half marathon training.

Now as most of you know my hubby is a avid body builder and I said that I wanted to pick back up the weights again and he offered to train me and whoop my butt into shape. We've tried to work out before together but we have completely different ways of working out. He's a shouty motivational type where I like to keep my head down and get on with it and not speak. I agreed as I thought it would be great to spend some time together and also have his knowledge and experience and help me shift this baby weight.

We have 2 days a week where he is not at the gym which is Tues and Fri so these were our new days of him training me. Tues consists of Legs and Shoulders and Fri is Chest, Back and Arms. Triceps will be worked on both days as he's determined to banish my bingo wings!

First day was legs, oh boy I forgot how hard they can be! My workout consisted of:

Lunges with dumbells, dumbell squats, squats using the gym ball, straight legged deadlifts.

We then moved onto Shoulders and triceps which was: Shoulder press, side lateral raises, front lateral raises, tricep dips and then kickbacks. My legs, shoulders and arms were on fire by the time we had finished. Bearing in mind this was the first time I had lifted weights for almost 2 years you would have thought he had gone easy on me but no! I started off doing light warm up set, then heavy and then to failure. Many a time I could have picked up a dumbell and whacked him around the head when he was shouting come on give me two more and I'm begging like someone being tortured to let me stop LOL!

Friday was back, chest and arms which consisted of double arm bent over rows, single arm rows, chest press (using the gym ball), chest flies, dumbell pull overs (using the gym ball), tricep dips and bicep curls . Again using his method of warm up, heavy and then to failure. My arms were hanging off by the time we finished. Then to finish he got the ab wheel out and I did 3 sets (2 of 15 and then the last one to failure).

I have a love/hate relationship for lifting weights, I absolutely hate it when I'm doing it, I secretly like the doms but I love the results. So watch this space for training updates and progress pics :D

Latest Progress Pics

After yesterday's post of my weight loss achievements over the last three months here are my latest progress pics and measurements taken today (excuse the mess of my room lol!):

03.02.12

Weight: 11st 10.4lbs, Waist: 33 (-0.75), Hips: 40.5 (-0.25), Thighs: 21.25 (-0.5), Calf: 15 (0), Upper Arm: 12.75 (0), Full Bust: 38 (-0.5), Under Bust 32 (-0.5)

5.6lbs weight loss since last weigh in on 02.01.12 and a total of 2.5 inches.

Side by side pic: left Jan - right today



Seeing them side by side you can see a slight difference you can also see where the fat has started to breakdown and I'm become more wobbly epsecially on the tummy. Also I'm much more pleased about my back photo as well as some of the rolls of flab is starting to go.

I've now started weight training with hubby so I'm hoping that I will be able to build some muscle whilst losing the fat. A new post will follow soon with updating you all on the beasting he has been giving me!

I'm back!

Well its been a while blog land but I'm back!

So since my last post of news that we were planning on trying for our second baby, we've had her! Phoebe was born on 14 September 2011. Here was me at 41 weeks 1 day

During pregnancy I put on a whopping 3st 11lbs going from 10st 7lbs to 14st 4lbs :( Far more than the recommended 1lb a week. P weighed 8lbs 9oz and the day I came out of hopsital I weighed 13st 7lbs so lost 11lbs and stayed this weight for the 2 weeks post birth. So much for the miracle of losing lots of weight in the first few weeks. I'm obviously one of those women that like to hang on to every ounce!

So 2 weeks post birth I started to calorie count and taking things slowly and eating for 1lb loss as I was still breastfeeding my daughter. Six weeks post birth I started to exercise but this was just running and cycling as hubby put a ban on me weight training whilst feeding. This is when I started to track my measurements and take photos. Now I can't believe I'm going to post these but here goes nothing! Here are the last three month pics which hopefully show both weight and inch loss.

03.11.11


Weight: 12st 10lbs, Waist: 35.5, Hips: 42.75, Thighs: 22, Calf: 15, Arm: 13, Full Bust: 40, Under bust: 33

01.12.11

Weight: 12 st 4.4lbs Waist: 34 (-1), Hips: 41.5 (-1.25), Calf: 15 (0), Arm: 12.75 (-0.25), Full Bust: 39 (-1), Under Bust: 32.75 (-0.25)

Total weight loss for the month of November 5.6lbs and a loss of 5.5 inches.

02.01.12


Weight: 12st 1.8lb, Waist: 33.75 (-0.25), Hips: 40.75 (-0.75), Calf: 15 (0), Arm: 12.75 0), Full Bust: 38.5 (-0.5), Under Bust: 32.5 (-0.25)

Total weight loss for the month of December 2.6lbs and a loss of 1.5 inches. Not much of a difference in both weight and measurements but I was really pleased considering this was over Christmas and New Year.

I can see a difference in the all the pics but I'm not really liking the back shots as I'm looking more flabby :(

I am replused by these pictures and can't believe how big I've become. I remember posting pics back almost 2 years ago on there moaning about my size 10 body and now I wish I had that body again. In fact there is no wishing I WILL have that body again!

I'll be back later to post about my new training regine and also tomorrow is new pics day. AHHHHH!