Remember my Fight Like a Girl post from back in March? Well, my grandma fought hard but Monday her time came. Both of my parents left work to be with the other siblings at my grandma's home while I continued working and then went to my fitness for life class.
Tuesday everyone went on with their days as normal - my mom and dad went to work, I stayed home and did nothing productive, and my brother was either at work or out with friends.
Wednesday my mom rode with me to work so she could work a half day and I would pick her up after I completed my workout for fitness for life. Visitation was from 6 to 8 with a prayer type thing afterwards for the family. It was a long night of people I didn't really know other than by name talking to me. After things at the funeral home were finished most of the siblings and some of their families headed to Wausau Mine Co. for some food. Thankfully, I wasn't too hungry (until we got there and my brain told my stomach it was time to eat) thanks to a small twist cone I had prior to arriving at the funeral home.
Soft-serve ice-cream was not a random treat. My grandma always told the grandchildren that we could stop for ice-cream so she wouldn't get osteoporosis. It is the most vivid memory I have of my grandma - we had walked from her house to the library to borrow books and on our way back we stopped for ice-cream. Of course if you know my dad (which I'm sure most of you don't haha!) it didn't take much for me to get him to make the stop for the ice-cream - it's very rare that he doesn't have some for dessert.
Thursday was going to be a long day so as soon as I got home I hit the hay.
Thursday morning there was more viewing time before the church service. There were still a lot of people who showed up to pay their respects to my grandma and offer their sympathies to her children (or whoever they knew in the family) but there were less people there who were interested in talking to me - which was really fine by me. The final viewing was followed by an hour long church service and then a lunch of scalloped potatoes and ham, fruit salad, chips, and desserts.
It was a chilly windy day so everyone was bundled up when we went to the cemetery for the burial. Once our group was gathered around the tent it really wasn't too bad.
Afterwards I was dropped off at my car which I had left at the church so I could go to class to take my fourth and final test. Had I done better on the previous test I wouldn't have had to take the fourth one but it's ok, it all worked out in the end. I ended the class with a B - solid and good enough for me.
If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen me tweeting about the cherry on top of those two days being that I was sick. Yup, I was lucky enough to be blessed with a cold and those two days (Wednesday & Thursday) were the worst, even with medication.
But this last week is in the past now - my cold seems to be pretty much cleared up and my grandma is in a better place so it is time to move on and tackle a new class and push forward with my other three classes.
No questions for you today. Hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend and is well rested and ready to tackle Monday tomorrow!
Showing posts with label Fitness for Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fitness for Life. Show all posts
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
This Ain't No Thinkin' Thing
Can anyone name the artist that sings that song? Read this post to find out if you were right!
Fitness for life is a two credit gym class I am taking this semester that requires me to hit the cardio for a minimum of 20 minutes on Wednesday and Friday every week. This week I decided I wasn't feeling the treadmill so I jumped on the stationary bike.
Wednesday I had a dead iPod so I just pedaled away while trying really hard to not stare at the timer on the bike. Let's just say that it was the longest and toughest 30 minutes of my life. I was always varying the resistance and slowing down and speeding up.
If I had my iPod it would have helped some but I've noticed even with running on the treadmill music just doesn't cut it when it comes to getting me to forget about the timer.
Today I still had a dead iPod but I happened to see my Kindle as I was getting things packed up at work before heading to the gym. I decided since I'm not taking as much time to read now that school has started why not use my gym time as reading time?
I had a scare when I got set up on the bike after turning my Kindle on - it said my battery is low plug me in! No, it didn't really say that exactly but close enough.
I rolled with the punches though and just decided to use it until it died on me.
My Kindle returned all of the love I give it by surviving 31 minutes and only reminding me one more time that it wanted to be connected to some juice.
If you follow me on Daily Mile at all you already know that I was 20 minutes into my workout before I checked the time. Even better is it felt like I had just gotten on the bike a minute ago. Even better still is I "went" farther than I did on Wednesday and kept the resistance the same at 10 for the entire workout.
On my drive home I realized working out ain't no thinkin' thing!
When my head is involved in my workout I don't preform as well as I know I could. Wednesday is a prime example - varying the resistance and speed because my legs were "tired/sore" or whatever and the time was going by super slow. Same thing happens with running. I stop running long before my body truly says it can't take me any farther at the pace I'm going.
Today proves the point that half - or more of - the battle is mental. Because my mind was occupied with what I was reading I didn't have the ability to worry about the time and my legs being "tired/sore". Sorry brain guess what? My legs felt the exact same way as they did Wednesday and I didn't need to slow down or make it easier!
I am not sure that I could run while reading my Kindle so for now I am going to stick to the stationary bike but maybe sometime I'll give reading a shot while I'm running. Stationary bike, you and I plus third wheel Kindle have a date next Wednesday at 11:45am - see you then!
If you guessed Trace Adkins as the artist who sings the song I used for my post title you were correct!
I just have to add another song to my "currently listening to" for the day! Brown Chicken Brown Cow - Have you seen the music video for this?? If not watch it now!!
Fitness for life is a two credit gym class I am taking this semester that requires me to hit the cardio for a minimum of 20 minutes on Wednesday and Friday every week. This week I decided I wasn't feeling the treadmill so I jumped on the stationary bike.
Wednesday I had a dead iPod so I just pedaled away while trying really hard to not stare at the timer on the bike. Let's just say that it was the longest and toughest 30 minutes of my life. I was always varying the resistance and slowing down and speeding up.
If I had my iPod it would have helped some but I've noticed even with running on the treadmill music just doesn't cut it when it comes to getting me to forget about the timer.
Today I still had a dead iPod but I happened to see my Kindle as I was getting things packed up at work before heading to the gym. I decided since I'm not taking as much time to read now that school has started why not use my gym time as reading time?
I had a scare when I got set up on the bike after turning my Kindle on - it said my battery is low plug me in! No, it didn't really say that exactly but close enough.
I rolled with the punches though and just decided to use it until it died on me.
My Kindle returned all of the love I give it by surviving 31 minutes and only reminding me one more time that it wanted to be connected to some juice.
If you follow me on Daily Mile at all you already know that I was 20 minutes into my workout before I checked the time. Even better is it felt like I had just gotten on the bike a minute ago. Even better still is I "went" farther than I did on Wednesday and kept the resistance the same at 10 for the entire workout.
On my drive home I realized working out ain't no thinkin' thing!
When my head is involved in my workout I don't preform as well as I know I could. Wednesday is a prime example - varying the resistance and speed because my legs were "tired/sore" or whatever and the time was going by super slow. Same thing happens with running. I stop running long before my body truly says it can't take me any farther at the pace I'm going.
Today proves the point that half - or more of - the battle is mental. Because my mind was occupied with what I was reading I didn't have the ability to worry about the time and my legs being "tired/sore". Sorry brain guess what? My legs felt the exact same way as they did Wednesday and I didn't need to slow down or make it easier!
I am not sure that I could run while reading my Kindle so for now I am going to stick to the stationary bike but maybe sometime I'll give reading a shot while I'm running. Stationary bike, you and I plus third wheel Kindle have a date next Wednesday at 11:45am - see you then!
Questions for you...
How do you overcome the mental battle in your workouts?
Do you read while running/biking on gym equipment? (Please don't try reading while running/biking out in the "real" world!)
Currently listening to...
Ala-Freakin-Bama - Trace Adkins - album: Cowboy's Back in Town (see some pictures I took of Mr. Adkins at Country Fest in June here
If you guessed Trace Adkins as the artist who sings the song I used for my post title you were correct!
I just have to add another song to my "currently listening to" for the day! Brown Chicken Brown Cow - Have you seen the music video for this?? If not watch it now!!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Wednesday we are not friends
Before I get into my pile of homework I brought to school with me today I wanted to give my readers yet another post! I seem to be on a roll with keeping up on the blog so why stop now right?!
Anyways... This past Friday I posted about getting enough sleep and my poor habits that lead to me feeling less than 100% - you can read it here. Thanks to all of your lovely comments about how you figured out when was the best time for you to hit the hay and how many hours of sleep you need I decided I would try my hand at getting to bed by 10:00pm to wake up at 5:45-6:00am.
Sunday night I managed to get myself to bed by 10:30pm - not bad, still 7.5 hours of sleep. Monday night was horrible, I didn't go to bed until after 12am. Why? Because I decided since I was sitting around at home all day Tuesday I didn't really need to worry about getting to bed at a decent time. I still got 8 hours of sleep but I still felt pretty tired throughout the day. One of those weird things where even though I got "enough sleep" it was at the wrong time of night I guess. And now last night I got to bed at 10:30pm - not the time I was shooting for but again not bad.
Thanks to the lovely Caitlin @ Going 26.2 I know that it takes 2 week to form a new sleep habit so I need to be patient to see if this 10-10:30pm bed time is working out for me or not.
Even though I'm still feeling tired in the morning and throughout the day I am noticing that I am getting out of bed in a more timely manner than I was before so that's improvement!
Besides talking about my sleep habits I also just wanted to throw it out there that I'm really starting to dislike Wednesdays.
As mentioned last week in my Mission Accomplished! post I have gym Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - Monday being in the classroom and Wednesday and Friday being activity days. Because I also have class from 5:30-8pm on Wednesdays I have to workout and then stay at school until class is over that night.
It sucks!
I do my best to freshen myself up by using dry shampoo, body spray, facial cleansing wipes (which I also use on my body), and of course a change of clothes but it still doesn't make me feel the greatest for staying in public.
Yes, there is a locker room but I'll be honest, I've never been in it and I'm not comfortable taking a shower - if there is one - at school.
It's times like these that I wished I lived in town! I would then be able to go home after gym to shower, eat, and do homework until it was time for class at 5:30. Could this also be a bad thing as I would then be distracted by the TV and doing other things? Definitely, but look at me now - I'm blogging instead of working on homework!
There! I feel as though I've told you all about the important things going on in my head right now. Oh wait! There is more but I'll save that for another post because this one has already gone a little long. And let's face it, I need to get down tobusiness homework.
Do you have a least favorite day of the week with your current schedule?
Currently listening to...
Redneck Side - Justin Moore - album: Outlaws Like Me (Can you tell I like Justin Moore yet?)
Anyways... This past Friday I posted about getting enough sleep and my poor habits that lead to me feeling less than 100% - you can read it here. Thanks to all of your lovely comments about how you figured out when was the best time for you to hit the hay and how many hours of sleep you need I decided I would try my hand at getting to bed by 10:00pm to wake up at 5:45-6:00am.
Sunday night I managed to get myself to bed by 10:30pm - not bad, still 7.5 hours of sleep. Monday night was horrible, I didn't go to bed until after 12am. Why? Because I decided since I was sitting around at home all day Tuesday I didn't really need to worry about getting to bed at a decent time. I still got 8 hours of sleep but I still felt pretty tired throughout the day. One of those weird things where even though I got "enough sleep" it was at the wrong time of night I guess. And now last night I got to bed at 10:30pm - not the time I was shooting for but again not bad.
Thanks to the lovely Caitlin @ Going 26.2 I know that it takes 2 week to form a new sleep habit so I need to be patient to see if this 10-10:30pm bed time is working out for me or not.
Even though I'm still feeling tired in the morning and throughout the day I am noticing that I am getting out of bed in a more timely manner than I was before so that's improvement!
Besides talking about my sleep habits I also just wanted to throw it out there that I'm really starting to dislike Wednesdays.
As mentioned last week in my Mission Accomplished! post I have gym Monday, Wednesday, and Friday - Monday being in the classroom and Wednesday and Friday being activity days. Because I also have class from 5:30-8pm on Wednesdays I have to workout and then stay at school until class is over that night.
It sucks!
I do my best to freshen myself up by using dry shampoo, body spray, facial cleansing wipes (which I also use on my body), and of course a change of clothes but it still doesn't make me feel the greatest for staying in public.
Yes, there is a locker room but I'll be honest, I've never been in it and I'm not comfortable taking a shower - if there is one - at school.
It's times like these that I wished I lived in town! I would then be able to go home after gym to shower, eat, and do homework until it was time for class at 5:30. Could this also be a bad thing as I would then be distracted by the TV and doing other things? Definitely, but look at me now - I'm blogging instead of working on homework!
There! I feel as though I've told you all about the important things going on in my head right now. Oh wait! There is more but I'll save that for another post because this one has already gone a little long. And let's face it, I need to get down to
Questions for you...
Currently listening to...
Redneck Side - Justin Moore - album: Outlaws Like Me (Can you tell I like Justin Moore yet?)
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Mission Accomplished!
Wow it's about a week and a half since my last post! Since that post I've started the fall semester at school so I am sure you fellow college students can understand how that could have gotten in the way of blogging.
This semester I am taking a total of 15 credits. My schedule looks like this...
Mondays - Work 7:30-11:30, Fitness for Life 12-12:50
Tuesdays - No work and no class = homework day at home or day to make appointments
Wednesdays - Work 7:30-11:30, Fitness for Life 12-12:50, Personnel/Human Resource Management 5:30-8:00
Thursdays - Work 8-4:30, Principles of Finance 5:30-8:00
Fridays - Work 7:30-11:30, Fitness for Life 12-12:50
Then half way through the semester I will replace Principles of Finance with Ethics in Business. Because they are only 8 week courses the material is covered very quickly and you have tests very quickly, sometimes back to back weeks.
Despite having a full course load and lots of work for each of those classes, except for Fitness for Life, I can make time to blog. I will be working on that from now on because I find it useful to blog about what's going on my life because this wonderful blogging community always offers their advice and support. I can't thank you enough for the past advice and support you've left in the comments of my previous posts.
Anyways, moving on to what the title of this post is all about. Fitness for Life is a 2 credit gym class I am taking this semester and as an evaluation of where we are at currently we had to run a timed 1.3 miles (approximately) through the park. The professor told everyone to shoot for less than 20 minutes. I pulled it off in 19:07! I was really happy with this time because honestly I really haven't worked out since last October. You can read more about my run over at Daily Mile (see the widget to the left?).
Weather permitting we will be running that same route again at the end of the semester to see how we have progressed in our fitness level. Since it will be December in Wisconsin I am not counting on having to run it again but we'll see.
The rest of the semester every Wednesday and Friday we are required to do at least 20 minutes of cardio in some form. We can do more than 20 minutes if we want but if we only do 20 minutes we need to fill the rest of the class time with something else fitness related, like strength training. I am going to take this opportunity to get on the strength training bandwagon because I know it's important and I've been slacking in this area fora while my entire life.
Now that I've written this I suppose I should hit the books. Hopefully I don't get distracted by the internet!
Currently listening to: Hell On Heels - Pistol Annies
Questions for you...
Are you required to take any type of gym in order to graduate?
Do you strength train? If so, how did you get started?
Should I continue to post what I am currently listening to?
This semester I am taking a total of 15 credits. My schedule looks like this...
Mondays - Work 7:30-11:30, Fitness for Life 12-12:50
Tuesdays - No work and no class = homework day at home or day to make appointments
Wednesdays - Work 7:30-11:30, Fitness for Life 12-12:50, Personnel/Human Resource Management 5:30-8:00
Thursdays - Work 8-4:30, Principles of Finance 5:30-8:00
Fridays - Work 7:30-11:30, Fitness for Life 12-12:50
Then half way through the semester I will replace Principles of Finance with Ethics in Business. Because they are only 8 week courses the material is covered very quickly and you have tests very quickly, sometimes back to back weeks.
Despite having a full course load and lots of work for each of those classes, except for Fitness for Life, I can make time to blog. I will be working on that from now on because I find it useful to blog about what's going on my life because this wonderful blogging community always offers their advice and support. I can't thank you enough for the past advice and support you've left in the comments of my previous posts.
Anyways, moving on to what the title of this post is all about. Fitness for Life is a 2 credit gym class I am taking this semester and as an evaluation of where we are at currently we had to run a timed 1.3 miles (approximately) through the park. The professor told everyone to shoot for less than 20 minutes. I pulled it off in 19:07! I was really happy with this time because honestly I really haven't worked out since last October. You can read more about my run over at Daily Mile (see the widget to the left?).
Weather permitting we will be running that same route again at the end of the semester to see how we have progressed in our fitness level. Since it will be December in Wisconsin I am not counting on having to run it again but we'll see.
The rest of the semester every Wednesday and Friday we are required to do at least 20 minutes of cardio in some form. We can do more than 20 minutes if we want but if we only do 20 minutes we need to fill the rest of the class time with something else fitness related, like strength training. I am going to take this opportunity to get on the strength training bandwagon because I know it's important and I've been slacking in this area for
Now that I've written this I suppose I should hit the books. Hopefully I don't get distracted by the internet!
Currently listening to: Hell On Heels - Pistol Annies
Questions for you...
Are you required to take any type of gym in order to graduate?
Do you strength train? If so, how did you get started?
Should I continue to post what I am currently listening to?
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