Super Saturday Continued

Continuing on from my previous post:
Medicine balls was on the patch (I will post photos at some stage of the surrounds). Basically it is a 20m x 30m lawn area where we do our outside training sessions. The session went for an hour and we each had a medicine ball and had to do 20 slams (Lift the ball over your head and slam it to the ground, catch it and rinse and repeat) then run to the next corner, do 20 push ups (I do them against a bench), run to the next corner do 20 crunches then the next corner and 20 chest lifts (medicine ball over head and back down to chest). Then 19 around the stations, 18 and you get the idea.  As it was 41 yesterday in Melbourne I am sure you can imagine how much fun this was.

Then shake, 2 small scoops. I have to say you are never hungry here and sometimes it is hard to eat so constantly.

Then we did a boxing session for 50 mins or so. I wont go into detail as this is getting lengthy as is. Basically though there was a lot of sweat, lots of punching, a little swearing and a 1000 calories burnt.

Then lunch, I made a bolognese was lovely but it lacked the pasta. There is this pasta alternate that is allowed here that I am hoping to try next week, called SlendierSlim.   It has 10 calories per 100grams, which is a lot of bang for your buck and feedback from the other guests say it is a decent alternate. Made of an Asian vegetable called Konjac.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjac 

I was smart at lunch and made enough for dinner as well which meant in and out once we got let free from the training sessions. Getting the hang of it in here!

After lunch we went and did 2 mile hill, which is what it sounds like, a very long hill. So long in fact I didn't quite make the top, according to the rest of the team I was about 10 minutes away when they picked me up. To explain we all pile into a van driven by Josh, who is one of our trainers. We head to the bottom of this road where he drops us off and tells us to climb the hill for an hour, if you reach the top climb back down again. After an hour he comes and picks you up wherever you are on the hill.

Some people are at a stage they can run up some of it, some are starting out, for me who didn't think I could walk the driveway a week ago but seem to be able to do the 1000 steps it is still daunting but I set off with my two water bottles (41 degree heat remember) and kept going. I start and stop as needed, trying to make sure my heart rate gets above 170 before stopping and try to keep moving again before my heart rate hits 120-130. I admit, once only, I found a rock which I sat down on for a good 2 minutes before getting moving again. Something has definitely changed. I'll find out from Josh how close I was to the top tomorrow, 2 miles is 3.22 Kms and considering 2 years ago I pulled out half way through the Santa fun run of 4km it astounds me that I can suddenly do longer and UPHILL! 

I find myself doing stuff that I thought it would take years to do and only once the weight came off. This week has blown me away with how much our body is capable of. Our minds just need to be so bloody exhausted they turn off and just do it. Or maybe when I started on this adventure I decided that I just keep going and that is what has changed. Either way as soon as I have that daunting/scared/want to cry feeling I ignore it. I feel safe here that the support team will have my back and so there is no reason not to give it 100%.

Quick photo break of me flipping tires on day two, not a very flattering one but it was very heavy! This was prior to my super brain kicking in and now everything is a cake (well not really but it is mentally easier).

After the hill we went straight to the local pools, which was crowded! It is a 25m pool as well and so not much room. Damn it felt good though to get off my feet and just stretch my body out. We were at this stage supposed to do 25 laps and then we could relax for 30 minutes. I spent most of my time stretching and doing aqua type exercises like bicep curls because I just couldn't move and was cramping a bit.

After the pools back to base, then protein shake and a breath in before the last session of the day.

Last session we did we split into two teams and the aim of the game was to get the most points.

25m row = 1 point

100m bike = 1 point

2 x crunches = 1 point

2 x push ups = 1 point

1 x Burpee = 1 point

1 x Thrust = 1 point

I rowed 3.1kms in this session and did a 2km bike ride and threw in 40 push ups at the end.

Our team didn't win, but that wasn't the point I guess, though it would have been nice to! Everyone in the team pushed themselves to the extreme which is the point and in 30 mins we burnt a massive amount of calories, I think mine was about 600.

So that finishes summing up 6 hours of exercise.

I think for the day I was around 6300 calories burnt which includes the down period measuring from 6am to 6pm. I may update this as I am about to go check the numbers and put them up on the board.

I may post again tonight with a few thoughts about the day today as I had some fairly significant ones. Will see after dinner!

For now though, adios from the Dandenongs.

Kat