New Year's Resolutions

Many of you know that I like to set goals and I'm still working on my goals for 2009. One of my goals this year will be to continue to eat healthy, exercise and focus on my running with a goal of losing weight. I know many people have weight loss goals and it feels a little weird to be talking about it here, but I know a lot of people can relate. Also, I think it will help me if I know I have to be accountable to anyone who is reading my blog.

I have a particular number of pounds I would like to lose by June when we go to Disney and I work best with deadlines. I also hope to run another 5K (3.1 miles) in April and work toward running a 10K (6.2 miles) by the end of the year. My friend, Jennifer, the one who runs half marathons, is going back to school to be a personal trainer, and I am going to be her guinea pig. She's going to tell me what to do in my workouts all week and then work out with me on Saturday mornings. We'll see how it goes.

So today, she gave me my assignment for the week. I committed to working out five days a week and over the course of the week I will run 12 miles broken up over the five days in any way of my choosing and also do:

-50 tricep dips 2-3 days
-100 push-ups every other day (50 on the floor and 50 on an exercise ball)
-100 sit ups every day
-50 side-bends for the obliques 2-3 days
-30 bicep curls 2-3 days
-30 butterflies 2-3 days (to be done on the days I don't do push-ups)
-30 exercises on the hamstring machine at the gym 2-3 days
-30 quad exercises on the machine at the gym 2-3 days
-25 calf raises every day
-30 lunges on a step holding 6-pound weights 2-3 days
-30 "dead drops" holding a 15-pound bar 2-3 days

Most of these say 2-3 days because she said to break them up over the course of the week and I made myself a schedule and it works out to doing each thing two to three times a week.

Tomorrow will be the first day of the week (although I did go to the gym yesterday and today) and I mapped out that tomorrow I will run 2 miles and do the tricep dips, push-ups, sit-ups, obliques, hamstrings, quads and calf raises. My challenge tomorrow is that my gym doesn't open until 10 and I have to be in Wentzville by noon for a birthday party that Adam was invited to. So, my plan is to do the tricep dips, push-ups, sit-ups and calf raises at home before I go to the gym and then try to get everything else in at the gym and still get home in time to shower and take Adam to the party. Thank goodness for Seth getting the kids ready in the morning. And thank goodness for vacation so I have the time to get myself on track.

I'm not really following any diet - except I'm still doing protein shakes, lots of veggies, lean meats, and no white breads.

So that's it. We'll see how it goes. Wish me luck.