My Typical Leg Workout

This video pretty much shows a typical leg workout for me right now, and provides some great fit traveling tips! I am supersetting, or doing one exercise right after the other for the same muscle group, to ramp up the intensity and to keep my heart rate up! I'm in week 9 of the Lee Labrada Trainer! Feels good to be almost done!

Getting Ready to Start Over

Well, I am getting ready to compete for the first time ever on August 20th, in the NPC Coastal USA in Atlanta, GA. I will be competing in the bikini division. On May 20th, I will be 12 weeks out, but I'm going to cut out dessert and alcohol after May 5th. Now I never consume alcohol and desserts in huge quantities in the first place, but after May 5th, it will be totally gone until after my competition.

Why May 5th you ask? Well I'm a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding. I am flying all the way from Augusta to LA for this. We are also going to Las Vegas for her bachlorette party on May 3rd. I'm not planning on drinking a lot, but well, I haven't seen her in like 2 years. It would be nice to let loose a little bit.

So after this wedding, I will come home, and go back to work. I'm in Army, and we have a big inspection coming up. Not to mention, I'm in charge of approximately 25 soldiers in my platoon, all of which have problems at any given time. Amidst all this stress, I will strive to maintain a competition diet and work out regimen. I will workout first thing in the morning at 0500. I did this last week, and I got in every one of my planned workouts for the week. It also helped me eat cleaner all day, every day.

Before, I was trying to fit in my workouts after work, but I could never really tell when that was going to be. So sometimes, because of meetings and work going on longer than I thought, I would have to miss a workout in order to get home to my husband. This would make me feel really terrible, but usually by then I was too tired to care until the next day. Now, before last week, I couldn't workout before the day really started, because I was the sergeant in charge of our PT formation at 0500 Monday through Friday. Now though I can finally get in my workouts!      

Training the Puppy

So this week has been interesting. We have had our new puppy for about a week now, and he is so smart! As the week has gone on, he has had fewer and fewer accidents. After the first night, he doesn't bark when we go to bed. He whimpers a little bit, but not too loud usually.

Our cat Bella gets along with him very well. They play together all the time :-) Our cat loves to tease him while he is in his crate, or on his leash. She will lounge just out of his reach!

We can give him a bath today, so I'm pretty happy about that. He got neutered just before we adopted him, and we had to wait a week so his inscision could heal.

I just took him for the longest walk we have gone on yet, 1.25 miles. He's getting better about being scared of everything. The cars still unnerve him a bit, but he no longer stops walking cowering from them as they go buy.