Beachbody Challenge 2013 - Week 4

My own Beachbody Challenge has started on Feb 1, 2013.
In the following 20 weeks - until beginning of summer in Germany - I want to move up a gear and keep my eyes on low-carb clean eating in combination with 4-5 times training a week.

Here´s my diary of Week 4:

Friday, Feb 22

Friday is Bootcamp-Time. We do sport outdoor - in any wind and weather. It´s a high intensive mixture of cardio and strength training..like HIIT or Tabata...sometimes with elastics, but almost with our own body weight.

Saturday, Feb 23

- Rest -

Sunday, Feb 24

I did the Zumba Masterclass and rocked over 1136 kcal in two sweaty hours. Here and here you can read the summaries of my both last Masterclasses.

Monday, Feb 25

Every Monday evening I do Zumba. This is a routine since Summer last year. And it makes a lot of fun: Dancing and jumping to the beat - I think, it looks very funny!

Tuesday, Feb 26

- Rest -

Wednesday, Feb 27

I pushed my boyfriend to do some sports with me in the gym. 

And now he push me with weight training and cardio, too. That´s pure motivation.

Thursday, Feb 28

- Rest - 

 

Stay healthy and push youself to your own limit to reach the best shape of your life!

My BEACHBODY CHALLENGE 2013

As announced and promised in my last blog, I´m happy to present you my new baby....... my 20-weeks Beachbody Challenge 2013 - from Feb 1 to Jun 20.

I was incited to this project from some other beachbody challenges on the web, which started recently or will start soon. In exactly 20 weeks there is the official beginning of summer (calendrical) in Germany. As I feel very comfortable with my current program, I´ll want to focus on my training - my nutrition and hydration is almost perfect.

In January 2013 I lost 2,3 kg (5 lbs)... that´s really incredible. Well, to be perfectly honest, I have one cheat meal due to an invitation to a pasta party! But the day after I came back on track and continued my own clean eating low-carb plan.

But I´m a little bit annoyed about my slackness of training. I did only 2 times a week my training. And with this Beachbody Challenge I want to discipline myself and raise the frequency to 4-5 times.

In the following 20 weeks I want to make some little, but essential changes in my training plan to get the most amazing beachbody I ever have. Every 4 weeks I´ll change the exercises intensity of Cardio and Weight training. As you read in one of my last posts, I joined a trial class of bootcamp - which I want to include in my upcoming training plan.

My training plan is as follows:

• Monday: 60 min Zumba
• Tuesday: Cardio (to train for the first of my cornerstones this year: 10K on May 5th) and Weight training (2-split Upper body)
• Wednesday: - Rest -
• Thursday: Cardio (to train for the first of my cornerstones this year: 10K on May 5th) and Weight training (2-split Lower body)
• Friday: 60 min Bootcamp
• Saturday: - Rest -
• Sunday: - Rest - or 1 times a month: 120 min Zumba Masterclass

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In the next 20 weeks I´ll post regulary the results of my training and the progress of my weight loss.
So I hope I can share my motivation with you and it will push me additional to train harder.
Tomorrow will be the first day of this Beachbody Challenge... :o)

What are your plans for getting the ultimate beach body 2013?

Stay healthy and train consistently.

Tasting sweat! – Part II

This weekend was one of my most sporty weekend since blogging. 

As announced I attent the Zumba Masterclass Session on Saturday. We had so much fun during our 2 hours of dancing and jumping. Here you´ll see the result......(I´m very proud of myself !!):

1063 kcal burned!!

(c) by me

 Isn´t it amazing, is it?

On the top I just came from the gym, where I did my regular interval training on the treadmill.

I see also here some tiny improvements of my fitness level: As compared to my beginning (2 weeks before) I´m now faster than before (+ 0,5 km/h) with the same heart rate. :o)

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Looking for your comments....

Stay healthy!

Tasting sweat! – Part I

A few weeks ago I decided to try Zumba. Zumba is a fast and sweaty dance fitness program with some salsa, samba, merengue, bollywood and latin moves. The first hours was just testing these new kind of body moving – and it was quite funny although I didn´t know the choreography and the right moves very well.

But from time to time I improved myself and getting better.

So I did the choice of making Zumba to a routine. Every Monday evening I participate in.

Two days ago (on Monday)  I checked additionally my heart rate and the consumption of kcal with my heart rate monitor … and was really astonished: I burned 722 kcal in just one hour!! But I also have to tell you, that my average heart rate was 156!! But I felt great…. Also the day after!

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Did I mentioned yet, that I additionally took part in a Zumba Masterclass on Sunday?
The Zumba Masterclass is a advanced Zumba Class, which takes two hours with two different instructors. The first hour was with our regular zumba instructor. And the second one was with a male professional salsa-merengue-latin-dance instructor. I didn´t know where I have to take my breath (...and he his condition!)! That was so heavy – but I did it!! After that I was tired, but very very happy!

I signed in for the next Zumba Masterclass on December 8. I´m really excited, which instructor will take the second hour.