Home Stretch! Becoming an Athlete Part 2

5 weeks out!
Photo shoot Done!

Becoming An Athlete Part 2~

I am leading up to the home stretch now, with just 5 weeks to go! :) Minor changes for this week, I dropped 1-35min cardio session! Whooo hooo!! Thats spectacular for a girl who HATES doing cardio! I have also reset my training schedule to Monday-Saturday, with Sunday now being my rest day. This began today, and boy ohh boy am I tired! I work 10-7pm Mondays and Tuesdays, so that means I wake up at 6:30am to get my am fasting cardio in, then eat breakfast, and on too lifting by 9am. Everything is scheduled and timed out! I eat about every 2-3 hours too keep my metabolism burning! Then, I don't leave for my "lunch break"- I stay at work and get my Round 2 of cardio in! Today it was HIIT Training, which I am finally really beginning to enjoy!

HIIT Training stands for High Intensity Interval Training. It's meant to help get your heart rate up, increase endurance & stamina, and blast away that FAT! It works something fierce too!! When I first began, my first 2 wks of HIIT training, I was literally punching the treadmill, and may have shed a few tears....It isn't meant for the weak hearted, I pushed through it week by week, seeing spectacular results and ultimately beginning to LOVE it!

Our Photo shoot was a ton of fun! Nate looked great, and is actually a really good coach for photography! I cannot wait to see and share our photos with you! We have both been dieting and working really hard on our physiques for this! I hope to inspire others with what I am doing, and get more and more people active! In today's world its way to easy to sit on the couch and become sedentary, I want to get people moving any way possible! Before I got into Figure, I used to do a lot of at home workouts. I was hooked on Bodyrock.tv for awhile, and those workouts helped me train for my 1/2 marathon I completed in December 2010. Check out Bodyrock.tv if you need to get some at home advice/inspiration!