One topic at a time: Social life

Hey everyone! It's definetely been longer than i had planned to... Oh well, I'm a procastinator at its finest and now that it's school break, I have nothing forcing me stop :P. Speaking of procastination, I found something pretty cool.. It's a google chrome app, I use it on Mozilla Firefox cuz i prefer it as a browser but still it's helping me get some things done off my "to do list" : http://tomorrow.do/ Basically you create a to do list but are able to move things for tomorrow lol for procastinators like me i think it's pretty great. And when you see on your do (tomorrow) list a list of things you wanna blog about, well then it's time to get here and write it all down!

On the socializing department: July9 was a holiday here (our independence day) so that meant I worked monday, got tuesday off and then went back to work for the rest of the week. Monday was also the last day in B.A for one of my closest Californian friends.. so off we went to his farewell party.. I gotta say it's not like I haven't been out completely lately, I do go to my friend's bar for a drink or something like that like once a week but to be out on a HUGE pubcrawl with a bunch of friends (like 15) that I haven't seen in months and THEN hit a disco.. well that was something!! I really missed crazy nights like that, dance till you drop jaja find everything funny, hug your friends a million times. 

 That was the happy part of it, but then it came the sad part of the night, that was letting go of a really good friend. On tuesday he went back to Cali after living here for 3 years. The amount of sick crazy memories we have i can not even begin to explain LOL, so many things.. and just hugging him knowing we wont see each other in probably a really long time (if not ever again =/) That was really tough. To be honest, I've seen many friends come and go and sometimes go and never return, it's something that's bound to happen when your friends are not from the same place you are from. It happened to me to find just the best friend in the world, share everything but know she's only here for an internship and once that ends I'll never see her again. Happened many times, i thought i was sort of used to it and see this one going wouldn't affect me so much.. 

Well I was wrong, It was tough on me and I was pretty sad, you know just bummed out for a while. It passed, I'm gonna miss my friend but i came to terms with it and of course I wish him the best. I guess it's just one extra reason to keep attempting to save and go to the u.s for a long vacation (I keep telling myself this.. "just another reason to visit X place" I got so many reasons and list of places by now it's starting to get ubberly ridiculous). So that was day 1 of partying like a madwoman!

Day 2: We went ladies night style with a Colombian friend I haven't seen in like 3 months.. She's leaving for vacations to colombia soon so we did the crawling through bars and hit the hip hop club YES!!! It was great, we laughed a lot, we didn't drink sooo much, we had fun making fun of guys (specially me) jajaja It got us a pretty nice ego boost :) 

 And that was it for the socializing aspect of my life, I know I can't afford to go out hardcore like that as often as i used to and it's probably fine because going out like that throws me off on many other things (like diet and exercise jajajaja yeap) but it was fun :) and i do hope i get to do it a bit more often than i did in the past couple of months :)

That's it for this blog.. Trying to take it one topic at a time,so it's not tooooo long. Sometimes nothing feels better and more comforting than a good hug from a good friend. 

 

First semester = EPIC WIN!.

So this would be yesterday's post. Who would have thought a workout challenge would get me blogging daily huh?

Yesterday though, there was no Insanity workout since i was already Insane losing my mind about my final philosophy exam. I've been pretty great throught the whole course, I had a 9-8.5-10-8.5 grades on the papers and previous written exams. However, yesterday there was a mandatory "final exam" which was a speaking and determined the grade that would be definitive on my curricula. And I just came back to school this semester after a 6 years "Sabatical" a.k.a too busy working a.k.a drop-out. So, saying I was nervous was an understatement. I studied for 2 days in a row, read everything through and through because eventhough I suspected they would give me a good grade just based on how well i did on everything during the course.. I wasn't sure. And I freaked, and I'm a nerd and i'm insane in the brain :P

So, all in all, my mind for a second thought of not going to the exam because "I only know I know nothing" (Said Socrates) but i said to myself "NO. STOP SABOTAGING YOURSELF. GET YOUR ASS THERE". And I went, and I told my classmates I was insecure as all hell, and they laughed at me given i had the highest grades in the room. And I didn't want to go first or anything LOL.. So it was my turn, and the teacher goes "What the hell are you even doing here with your high grades" and I said "well it's a mandatory exam and i studied a lot" I attempted to do a good speaking though I mumbled like a dumbass but what i said was correct and so.. I GOT A 10!! That's the highest grade there is and the first 10 to go on record on my career (I don't have much of it done but still I think it's a huge achievement). I just couldn't believe it!! haha it was wonderful and I was so excited about it!! 

The exam was pretty late so I got home at dinner time and ended up skipping insanity and going to a pretty american pub in Buenos Aires to celebrate my freedom from school, my grades and well tiny little detail... 4th of july! LOL I'm not from U.S I don't know what the hell I get so excited about 4th of July. I just like people being patriotic, regardless of what country it is, I love it when we get patriotic aswell, it just doesn't happen often enough.. Plus hey! Cute boys with pretty accents, fried foods and beer. I'M SOLD. haha 

So that was my insane day without Insanity Workout. Getting back at it today though!! I'm a day behind and I don't know if just use their scheduled Rest day to catch up or just have 2 rest days this week. In anyway after my last insanity workout I was so sore I walked just like Robocop.. I spent like i dunno how many hours sitting studying and when I stood up to go to the kitchen I thought to myself "DAAAMN I'M ROBOCOP" and did the robot move jajajaja- I cracked myself up. I think i need a Robocop helmet now!

That's all for rightnow's rant :) The nerd says peace out.

Insanity day 3 - Yes I plan to do this everyday. Deal with it!

So here we are ufff... I just finished the 2nd workout and 3rd day on this crazy ride that's called insanity. I'm alive!!! I've created a sweat pool in my room, I almost break the curtain on my window doing the power jacks LOL My room is pretty small, I have to move a drawer, put aside the laundry bin and the computer chair to be able to have a square free to work out.. but, some how it's working. Hopefully by the end of this journey no furniture will be harmed in the process.

I'm thinking though this shit.. Is not only physically but mentally challenging.. I caught myself both yesterday and today thinking several times "you can do it, no you can't, you're out of your mind, omg everything hurts, wtf are you doing!!! ahhh keep going" that train of thought happens during that part of the workout where it's never ending cardio (well, seems never ending) then each time I HAVE to stop while they keep going I feel bad and something inside of me tells me "fuck it! Get back at it and try to do just one more rep" And.. That's how I'm currently getting through it, battling my own thoughts on what I can and can't do. Man I'm so gonna whine here.. sorry. 

What hurts from yesterday: 

1- Lovehandles: They were killing me yesterday during the day.. the pain has slowly decreased but I still "feel" the sides of my stomach

2- Calves: Between yesterday and today I feel they're on the verge of cramping. I can't stretch them enough, hopefully pain will decrease by tonight's dance class, else I'm screwed there.

3- Butt: Not like wow i can't sit but I can feel the muscles being a bit sore there.

What hurts from today:

1- Arms. More specifically TRICEPS. They're killing me. But considering we did all sort of push ups, i think it was expected.

2- Back: In general. Again, because of the push ups

3- Abs: They hurt when I cough LOL

4- Calves: They hate me rightnow

After workout "snack" BAM! - 4 whole wheat bread toasts with cream cheese and strawberry jelly & berries protein shake.

And.... that's what I'm eating, I'm not following the Insanity meal plan or calories recommended or whatever stuff like that because I'm also dancing and I love eating. So I still keep it around 2000 and figure something WILL change in my physique just because of the workouts. I do eat pretty healthy until it's dinner time. That's the only meal my roommates and I have together and they don't always want to go for the healthiest option, and that's fine, I think I rather eat whatever we eat and not bring up the subject of "healthy" or say the word "calorie" or anything like that so no one flips. LOL It could lead to one of them suggesting to do the "apple diet" and me suggesting to punch her in the face :P . Besides, I think it'll be good to prove them that you don't need to lose crazy amount of weight to look better.

Anyways, I have a shitload of studying to do.. I better get on it, exam is tomorrow so I'm sure I wont sleep tonight at all.

Holy shitness shit Insanity and Shaun T!!!! - Day 2 - Or 1...

Just... I couldn't have word it any better than this:

 

That's It! Today was my first workout of Insanity (I guess yesterday doesn't count cuz it was "only a test" eventhough I sweat my ass off - literally) OMG. 

I wasn't aware that the "Warm up" was so intense, I thought that was the workout.. I almost died and thanked the gods for the stretching that came right in time .. without knowing that SHIT WAS ABOUT TO GET REAL as the proper workout was about to start.. I was like WTF SHAUN T ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! lol but.. I managed not to die or maybe I died and came back a couple of times LOL. I definitely wasn't able to do the exercises for the entire time I was supposed to. It was nice that Shaun T was reminding everybody to "breathe" cuz I think I forgot a couple of times :P Dude this shit was insane for real!! I'm sure I watched the video before and thought it was intense.. but there's nothing like trying it first hand.

So... With ups and downs, having to stop more often than wanted and praying for water, I finished the workout. My face was all red very similarly to when I was taking the taebo classes, hair and body dripping sweat LOL I completely forgot it was winter that's for sure.. One shower and protein shake later and I'm feeling much better and even though I realized I'm waaaay out of shape when it comes to cardio/keeping a somewhat high heart rate.. I pushed through it so i feel like i conquered.. 

Waiting for the soreness to appear, I'll see how i do tomorrow. 

:)

Insanity - Because I'm truly insane

Hi!

So on my quest to get fit and have more muscle definition, on may 21st I downloaded both Insanity with Shaun T and the 30-day Shred of Jillian Michaels. I thought I would give them a go since everybody is talking so many great things of them, and considering I stopped going to the gym on April I thought I would use 30 day shred as an induction to not want to die so badly doing Insanity after. Then I thought it through and realised I'm back to university, which means 2 ballet classes a week, 2 lyrical jazz dance classes a week and a street jazz dance class too. A total of 5 classes being: 1 on tuesday, 3 on wednesday and 1 on friday. If I were to add any of this almost "no rest" workouts to my routine, I would die LOL (or so I thought back then). So I put them dvds (or files on my computer :P ) away and decided to try them later.

Eventually a couple of classes got cancelled so I decided to try the Jillian Michaels thing, Level 1 was great but i didn't find it hard and I didn't know it required weights, so i tried to manage with some bottle waters I had around, very uncomfortable to follow without the weights =/. Life happened and I guess I wasn't motivated enough so that was the end of it. 

A friend of mine today mentioned something about starting Insanity and I was like ohhhhhhhhh I want to do that too!!. Now school is almost over (until August) so that means I get a month OFF. I'll still be taking my 2 lyrical jazz dance classes a week but I don't know if i'll dance much more than that. Perfect timing to do anything crazy like this since once I start classes again I wont stop until december and by then we'll also have the "end of the year" dance performances so.. 

So today I went to work; from work to study for a little bit; to my lyrical jazz dance class of awesome. Dinner and usual stuff and then I made up my mind and took the fitness test of Insanity :O. I know I'm not too out of shape, and i know I could just keep dancing BUT I want to change my body this year. And I know I won't be over training if I start insanity today. First month will be only that and lyrical jazz. Month 2 would overlap with month 1 of school... But i'll see when the time comes if i can do both things or if i'll have to be content with doing just half insanity. 

Why insanity and not something lighter?? Cuz I'm insane and wanted to try the hardest, most challenging thing I could find.. Hopefully I can keep up. 

My numbers on this fit test are pretty lame and to be honest, by the end of it I don't know if it's that i still have a bit of mocus from winter shitness or cuz it was hard but I felt a tiny little bit like puking.. 

So without any further talk.. here are the stats ( I was gonna post pics but I don't like them :P , I'll post them later when i have something better to compare them to)

Fit test 1: (Counts how many you can do in a minute)

1)Switch kicks: 40 (each leg)

2)Power jacks: 39

3)Power knees: 66 (30 seconds each leg)

4)Power jumps: 24 (form went to shit a couple of times)

5)Globe jumps: 12

6)Suicide jumps (burpees?) : 12 ¬¬ (I wanted to give up LOL)

7)Push up jacks: 20

8)Low plank oblique: 50

More stats:

Height: 1.59cm // 5'2''

Weight: 60kgs // 132lbs (average)

BMI: 24 (http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/bmi-calculator.html)

BF: 26.15%

Biceps:26cm//10''

Waist: 74cm//29''

Hips feet together - maximum girth : 101cm//39.7''

Hips: 86cm//33.8''

Thigh: 55cm //21.6''

Calf: 36cm //14''

I took these measurements like a month ago but i doubt they've changed much and I'm too lazy to do it all over again so this is how it stays. I have NO cardio resistence lol and it holds me back on jumps combinations at ballet ¬¬. I'm sure I'll want to die doing these workout but hey! It's all about challenging yourself right? So I say let the insane people do insane things :P Here we go ! wish me luck!! :)