Less than one month away, training underway.

My second Triathalon is less than one month away and for the next three weeks, my workouts are going to get pretty intense. I sit here at 5:30 Am on a Saturday, preparing my workout routine so that i can get my workout in, and spend time with my family.
Today's workout starts with 30 minutes of stretching followed by a 3 mile run outside. Once I am done with myrun, I will be making one of my world famous smoothies.. I plan on riding shortly after for about 20 miles. This should take me an hour and a half which is the time it will take me to complete my Tri.
The workouts I will be doing may not be all the Tri disciplines, but what I am going to concentrate on is making sure I am working out for the same or more time the Tri is going to take me to complete.
Hopefully, if there is time after my ride, I will be going to the local HS and will be doing Tire Flips along with Tire Jumps. Tire Flips consist of picking up and flipping a 150Lb tire up a hill. Then, after you flip the tire, you jump over and into the tire and out of the tire and then jog back around.
After flipping tires, I will be then jumping on to the tire which is about 36 inches high. To perform this, you jump as high as you can and lift your legs so that you can add height to your jump.
This should make for a nice morning workout... Possibly, later today, I would love to get in some pool time.. Tomorrow, I wil follow up today's workout with pool and biking.
Onward.

Nothing but Heart!

First of all I want to express how proud of you I am.. I really did not think the workout would be as tough as it may have been for you. I knew it would be longer, but did not think it would be as challenging for you. With that said, I really saw a side of each and everyone of you I had not seen before. I saw tons of heart from you all. I was incredibly impressed.
As you know, next week we are bringing Camp to a close, and will have a final test next week. However, I would like to assign you all one homework assignment between now and Monday. I would like for you to do something you have normally done in the past and enjoy like running, biking, swimming etc. If you are a runner, please go out and run one mile and time yourself. I want you to see how much you have improved. I guarantee you that you will run your first PR (Personal Record)..
For those of you who missed the TEST on May 3rd, I am going to find a way to either pull past tests, or give you a time based on your abilities.
Please try and take a day off on Tuesday of next week or do a very easy workout, stretch, swim, etc.. Please do not go crazy working out on Tuesday. I want you all to be 100% so you can really see your improvement in the short 3 weeks of our workouts. Get as much stretching as you can, and on Monday I promise promise the workout will not be very tough or long. We will do a bit more stretching, light jogging and basic drills.
Again, you all Rock and cant wait to see some times get smashed next week.

**ON a final note, I start my TRI training (Hardcore) on Monday and will be updating my Blog with workouts, so feel free to use them once we are done and tailor them to your abilities and effort level.

Day 6 and final day of Workout A Ton!

POSE method Day 6 and an end to Workout a Ton

What a way to end the week than with Dr Mike's Pose method. Saturday was another fun class. Thank you to Dr Mike for coming out and helping us out with our running. We all can use better form and less time running.

I want to thank you all for your participation this year, next year we hope to make it a bigger and funner event. With your help we will have raised almost two Thousand dollars. All the money raised is going towards March of Dimes March for Babies. Because of you, more families who need help will be able to be helped.

Day 4&5 Workout-A-Ton!

Day four was Yoga at Yoga Groove and a big thanks to Cosmo and his gang for their support. The Yoga session was great and we had some first timers in my 6:30 session with Nicole (First time ever to attend any Yoga session) and Alicia and Denise who experienced Hot Yoga for the very first time. I believe Yvonne also enjoyed her first session along with Davis and Amy at the 5:30 class. A job well done to all.. All the girls in my class rocked it out, and did great.

On Day 5, the "fun" day, we went to Krav Maga, and the fun went out the window very quickly. For some reason Kerri decided to beat everyone up, but made the workout very fun and challenging. I personally have never attended a Krav Maga class, and so the kicking was new to me. I truly enjoyed the workout and currently I can not feel my hands. Hopefully, soon I can follow up and pick up some Krav.
Tomorrow is day 6 and the final day of the Workout-A-Ton, we wrap things up with POSE and Dr Mike. Pose has helped me personally with my running and hopefully will help me even more tomorrow.

A big thanks to everyone this week, with your generous contributions we will have raised over $1500.00 for March of Dimes, that combined with 7K at the Golf tournament, 10K will almost have been raised.

A big Thanks to everyone that has participated, generously donated and have contributed their time and efforts to come out and teach classes. Thank you to Justin Gerard, Corp Fit, Rich Stone at City Blends, Dr Joe Henry Rodriguez, Massage Envy and Jim, CrossFit Round Rock, Krav Maga and Kerri K, Dr Mike M, Yoga Groove and Gold's Gym.. You are all wonderful..

Looking forward to the final day, hope we have yet another great turnout like the past week.

Onward..

Crossfit Wed

Day 3: Crossfit Wednesday

Halfway done, today's workout was fantastic. A very special thanks to Brannon from Crossfit and Jim from Massage Envy for coming out and supporting March of Dimes. We had a wonderful workout again today, very short but very intense. Those eighteen minutes felt like two hours, but they were fun. It is always nice to wind down with a nice sports massage like we had today. Make sure to go see Brannon at Crossfit and take him up on his offer to try Crossfit out, they have some incredible workouts and great Diets..
Tomorrow for Day 4, we get to relax or sort of relax.. Tomorrow is Hot Yoga, and do expect to sweat, and feel very relaxed afterwards.

Look forward to seeing you all at Yoga Groove tomorrow.

Onward.

Day 2, Corp Fit Day!

Today was day two of the Workout-A-Ton and we had Corp Fit come out and do their thing. The workout was a fantastic stretching/Core workout. Thank you so much for Corp Fit for coming out and hope everyone enjoyed the 5 minute massages compliments of Massage Envy. A big thank you to Jim for coming out and relaxing people as they worked out hard today.

So, so far this week we had Justin's bootcamp which increased the blood and got the heart pumping, then topped it off with core/stretching followed by short intense intervals tomorrow when CrossFit comes out. Should be a fun exciting day tomorrow... After tomorrow, the YOGA is going to come in handy, it is going to be a good way to stretch out the muscles, relax the body and get ready for Krav..

We look forward to seeing everyone out tomorrow, going to be another fun day.

Onward.

Workout-A-Ton Day 1 underway!

2nd Annual Workout-A-Ton Day 1

Today was day one of the 2nd annual Spartan Workout-A-Ton and we had a great turnout. We had about 20 people show up today for Justin's bootcamp and Justin did not take it easy on anyone. The workout was about 40 minutes and was a bootcamp style workout, ending up with abs.
Tomorrow we continue with a double workout. We will have a core, stretching workout and then afterwards we will finish up with an optional 300 workout. The week has just started but there is much fun awaiting you.

As mentioned, we will have a raffle at the end of the week where I wlll pull names from a hat. You will get one entry per day you attend, and you can only win once. The names that are picked first in the event of double winnings, will be allowed to pick the prize they like. Should be a fun week of working out, see you at the battlefield.

Onward.