Fitness: Get Toned Challenge – Week 2

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This post will be updated for days 8 – 14 of this challenge.

Welp. It’s Tuesday evening. The past couple of days have just been… slightly insane. I was supposed to upload this post yesterday and be updating it daily, but yesterday was an entire ordeal. Everything kind of went wrong after I woke up super late. I just had no energy to wake up during my usual scheduled time and ended up oversleeping by 2hrs.

By the time I finally got a chance to exercise, it was already early afternoon, after which I just needed to eat and then became slammed with work. Today was marginally better but I still woke up an hour later than planned. To be fair, when my alarm went off at 8:30am, I was in pain from a headache. Having that extra hour to sleep it off was crucial.

All this is to say, the first two entires of this post are written today because I just didn’t have time to do it yesterday. And yes, despite being super busy I have not neglected my workouts! It really is amazing how motivating the new teams feature is. I definitely would have just skipped the workouts yesterday if it hadn’t been for teams. 100% recommend trying that out if you are someone who struggles with motivation.

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Fitness: Get Toned Challenge – Week 1

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This post will be updated for days 1 – 7 of this challenge.

Woohoo! The new challenge has begun! I am very excited. Well, typically I don’t like starting a challenge without having a good look at the schedule first, and I probably wouldn’t have started this challenge if I’d known ahead of time that some days had 45min worth of workouts, but I already committed.

The new teams feature is surprisingly motivating. I mean, I figured it would be, but I’m surprised by just how motivated I am to get up and work out and do this challenge. No joke – if I hadn’t already agreed to complete this challenge as part of my team, I probably wouldn’t have bothered, or at least would have skipped today.

I didn’t sleep well last night, so I’m attributing 100% of my progress today to the new team challenge feature. I don’t want to let my team down!

You may notice that the title of this post still says “Week 1” instead of “Day 1”. I did consider adding a new post for every day I exercise, but I feel like that would be more appropriate for periods where I’m not exercising regularly. Since I’m doing this as a team, I’m optimistic that I’ll stick to my daily workouts, so adding a new post every week will still be best for now.

As before, I’ll be aiming to do 5 days on, 2 days off (exercising during the week and resting at the weekend). Jacky and I are both celebrating our birthdays soon so there’s a chance my workout schedule will be thrown off a little, but I’ll do my best. We shall see.

Let’s go!

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Fitness: Caroline Girvan’s Beginner Epic – Round 2

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Welp. It’s Wednesday, half way through the week and this post just came up… because I didn’t exercise on Monday or yesterday. It’s been a week, guys. I try not to go too heavy in my posts online but I’ve slowly become obsessed with Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Originally it was checking a little per day, but as Russia has ramped up the war crimes I’ve just found myself getting increasingly upset, depressed and distressed. I applaud all the international heroes who have signed up to fight for Ukraine, I am so impressed with Zelenskyy, and above all I am amazed by the Ukrainian spirit and fortitude throughout all of this.

All that is to say, I’d gotten myself to a place where mentally I had become so absorbed in a conflict thousands of miles away that I had checked out from life.

If ever I was wondering if I still had an addictive personality, this proves that I do. My husband warned me last night to not make it an idol after witnessing me basically pass multiple days having done nothing but refresh news about it for the entire day.

I think that was the warning I needed. As with all addictions, it may be best for my mental health to just quit cold turkey and stop following updates until Russia gets the heck out of Ukraine. I failed that this morning, but at least today I’ve made some progress by getting a workout done.

Mentally, I’m not in the best place right now. But after a pandemic, increased costs of living and now a war, who is?

I’m not going to be finishing off round two this week. The start date of Chloe’s next challenge has been pushed back by a week, so I’ll still have time to finish off this round next week. My body needs the extra rest days anyway, I’ve been working out quite intensely the past few weeks after all.

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Fitness: Caroline Girvan’s Beginner Epic – Round 1

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*GASP* what’s this? Could it be? A non-Chloe workout?

Now before we all freak out, let it be known that I am still a massive Chloe fan. BUT after reviewing all of her programs, I just can’t see a suitable new one to do in these two short weeks before her new program launches.

I was debating between the 2021 WLC or the 2021 2WS (or any of the 2 Week Shreds) but honestly both looked a bit too long/intense for me. An average of 35-45min/day is just a taaad too much, and the older 2 Week Shreds sometimes go up to 60min in one day excluding warm up/cooldown and have 6 days’ of workout in the final week.

Not to mention I’ll never finish the 2021 WLC in time, and the website doesn’t exactly allow you to pause, do another challenge in between, then return to where you started. So I decided to try something different during these two weeks.

I’ve had my eye on Caroline’s Beginner EPIC series for a while and they never seemed to be a good fit for me. I wanted a longer program than 5 days, and they also seemed too difficult for me. But now that I’ve been back into fitness for a bit I figured I could give it a try. Plus, being only 5 days is perfect for what I’m looking for right now.

My schedule is 5 days on, 2 days off – working out daily during the week and resting at the weekends. I can do two rounds of this before the new challenge starts, and it should help to prepare me for the new weighted program. So, this post will be my first round attempt at Caroline Girvan’s Beginner EPIC. Let’s go!

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Fitness: Chloe Ting’s 2022 Weight Loss Challenge – Week 4

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This post will be updated for days 22 – 28 of this challenge.
Click here for week three’s updates of this challenge.

We are finally in Week 4! I started this challenge on 3rd January and, a month and a half later, I’m finally starting Day 22 haha. I really did take almost a full month’s break from working out, but now that I’m back into it, I’m feeling great.

As with last week, it’s still early days yet with my workout routine, but it’s working for me and that’s the important thing. It’s a routine, and I love that I (kind of) have one. Now if only this routine carried through to being productive the rest of the day heh heh.

I haven’t figured out what I’ll do after this challenge, but there are at least a few challenges I’m interested in trying out. I’m also considering doing a thing where I subscribe to a few fitness YouTubers, and on any given day I’ll just do whatever new workout is uploaded for the day.

That might really backfire on me though because I don’t really want to do intense full body workouts plus intense workouts targeting every body part on the same day sooo we will see. I haven’t really thought it through properly yet, can you tell?

Anyways, I’ll decide that next weekend! With that, let’s get into the final week.

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