Snail Style Rules

Weigh-in

I get the result of 80.5 kilograms in the weigh-in this morning. This means that I managed again to lose a kilo in two weeks and I'm still half a kilo ahead of the schedule. I'm very happy with the result because I have had difficulties to focus on correct eating and I haven't been able to exercise as planned.

Fitness Test

My throat feels a bit stuffy still but I had to try exercising that I don't go mad. I did the fitness test and finalised my training program doing the last muscle training for this four weeks period. I was a bit concerned that how fitness test results will look like because I haven't done so many hard exercises lately but concentrated mainly on slow running. But obviously snail style of running rules. I felt that my endurance is so much better when I did the running with high knees. And I could better the score of the strength from 34 to 51 because I did record of the one leg squats and I could do three acceptable men's push ups. So now it is official that I'm able to do men's push ups that counts! Details of the different sections of the test is shown below (and earlier results in the brackets from newest to oldest). The fitness score is now 51, which means 31 units improvement from the beginning and 7 units in four weeks. The athleticism score is now 34, which is 1 unit better than four weeks ago and it has improved 8 units since I started. 

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Endurance 53 (earlier 52, 42, 01)

Flexibility 55 (earlier 55, 55, 27)

Strength 51 (earlier 34, 21, 09)

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Balance 50 (earlier 45, 36, 58)

Power 54 (earlier 53, 24, 01)

Speed/Reaction/Agility 9 (earlier 10, 37, 12)

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Have a nice weekend!!

Sportterfly

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Rain is coming

Rain will help?

I haven't exercised now for five days but it feels like forever. Baby swimming is the hardest exercise I have done lately. Luckily the weather forecast showed rainy days coming and hopefully it cleans up a bit the dusty air. There is pollen and traffic dust a lot in the air because it haven't rain for weeks now and I have so try throat that I keep coughing after spending time outdoors. I didn't know that dust has so bad affect on me nowadays. Anyway, I'll try running again on Saturday and home training carefully tomorrow before it is time to do the fitness test again.

Diet

It is also time for weigh-in tomorrow and I hope the scale shows some nice numbers because I mend my diet after the one shocking day I had. I have remembered to eat my five handfuls now and I have drunk lot of water and I feel lighter again.

Training program plans

I have been thinking now the continuation of the training program and next four weeks I'll add running training but only a bit. Now I have run every three days but next four weeks I'm planning to run three times a week, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. All the running training is done as slowly as before but Saturday is going to be the long run day and there I'm going to increase running part ten minutes every week from 30 to 60 minutes. Training sessions with Nike+ Kinect Training continue as before on Mondays and Thursdays.

Sportterfly

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A Break in Training

Time to rest again

I have waken up now couple of days without my voice. Even if I don't have any other symptoms of common cold and I have got my voice back quickly by drinking water I'm going to skip again the exercises I was planned to do in the beginning of this week. Basically it means that my double training day is cancelled and I'll try it again later. I still have spent a lot of time outside walking slowly with the kids so I'm not totally inactive even if I can't exercise.

Project

Already week 12 have started and on Friday it is time for weigh-in #7 and fitness test #4. I have to check my condition and then plan how to exercise before the fitness test. I'm sure I'm fine then because there is no more than my throat problems. This week I have to plan also how I continue my trainings in next four weeks period.

Diet

Yesterday was the worst day of my Five Handfuls a Day project. I realised in the evening that I haven't eaten any correct handfuls. I have choose to eat lot of bread, pancakes and candy. Now I should do something about it. I have still three days to affect the result of the weigh-in so now I really need to eat lot of vegetables and drink more water. It is always awful to have flu in the middle of the hard exercising. It makes me to drool over unhealthy food if I don't exercise for couple of days.

Sportterfly

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Something Else Than Breastfeeding

Today I'm going to theatre to see one musical and tomorrow I'm going to theatre too. This evening I'll go with the friends and tomorrow together with husband. Tomorrow is the first time when someone else puts our baby to sleep than me or my husband. Grandparents are going to look after all of the three. These two theatre evenings are coincidentally at the same weekend because we planned to go this musical at first in mid-March but then there wasn't enough adjacent seats so we planned to go this Friday. And I had already bought tickets to tomorrow's act in December.

I think I have to make changes to my training plans because I have all the kids at home, husband is at work and I don't have time to do both muscle and running training when he returns and before I have to leave to the downtown. Maybe I do the running training tomorrow. In that case I'll try double training another time next week.

Anyway, it is nice that there is something else going on this weekend than my trainings and breastfeeding.

Have a sunny weekend all of you!

Sportterfly

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Saying Goodbye to Maternity Clothes?

Today I took box from the storage where is all my regular clothes. I have still used maternity clothes because I have thought that no any normal clothes fits to me yet. But today I planned to try them on and decided that if I have any trousers I can wear, I will sell all my maternity trousers away. This is already traditional clothes fitting day I have had on all of my three maternity leaves and it is very good motivator to lose weight because if I don't have many clothes that I can wear, I have to lose weight quickly to get more clothes to my wardrobe.

It is nice that when all the regular clothes has been in the storage about a year now they feel like new ones. There is always lot of clothes in the box that I don't remember that I have. Now I made three heaps where I shared not-yet, soon and fitting clothes. The major of the clothes had to put to not-yet heap but I found one pair of black trousers and few shirts I can already wear. And then I found few trousers I bought to office after previous maternity leave when I wasn't yet lost all my pregnancy kilos. They didn't fit yet but I could put them to soon heap. Then I found trousers and T-shirt that I have bought after the first half-marathon from Helsinki. And I didn't venture to try them on because they looked so small that I would only have broken them.

There is one pair of white trousers I don't ever want to throw away. I wore them in that summer when we got married and I wore my wedding dress where I have decided to fit at the end of this project. They felt a bit uncomfortable then but after one or two kilos they would have been perfect. Now I took them to my wardrobe that I can try them on every now and then. I'm sure they will fit me when (not if) this project succeed. Maybe I add some photos of me in my target clothes here in my blog as well on the way. With this 30 kilograms yo-yo-weight I have had due to the pregnancies I need a lot of space into my storage. There is always those regular, not-yet and soon clothes and then there is maternity clothes in between. Now I'm so happy that I don't want to get pregnant anymore and now I really can but all the too big clothes away, forever!

Btw, It's a bit strange to exercise only two days this week. Luckily I can go to the baby swimming today to have at least a bit activity.

Sportterfly

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Thanks to You My Lovely Son

Thanks to my very lovely son that this project is possible. If this was a maternity leave either of my daughters this project wouldn't be possible. If some mum of a newborn is now reading my blog and has guilty conscience that you haven't exercise or you don't have time to do any own projects, I totally understand. Stop feeling guilty now. My first baby was hard one, the colic baby, and the whole maternity leave was almost like a nightmare. I used all my time to survive each day and the running route was my place to escape the chaos we had at home. For long time afterwards I was so tired that I was thinking that I won't have more babies ever. I wouldn't have power to do it. The whole maternity leave I used for searching why my baby cries so much. And three weeks before the maternity leave ended we got diagnosis of milk protein allergy. If she wasn't the first baby I would have tried to have help earlier but we just didn't know how much crying is normal.

But man happen to forget bad things soon and after a while we planned to have another one. First two or three months were easy with the second daughter. I felt that I have really earned to have the easy baby after we had experienced the colic. But then we had a flu and baby started to have ear infections. I think that it is much easier to cope with the baby that has stomach problems. At least you can carry her/him around and there might be silence, even if you don't sleep. But if your baby has pain in the ears no any home knacks help. For example, there is no any position that necessarily helps to the crying. You can give pain killers to baby and only hope that they help even for a moment. Four months we fight against the infections, I woke up every night at least every hour to hear the crying. It was a bad nightmare. And it took one more month after the infections by waking every hour because it had become a habit. The crying wasn't because of the pain anymore.

Now I have so lovely son and yes, he keeps me awake night time. He haven't slept nighttime more than four hours periods during his five and a half months life but he is amazing daytime. I totally forget the bad nights because the days with him are so easy. And I have learned to tolerate with less sleep. I'm surprised how rarely I need naps. Daytime he sleep long naps. 5.5 hours is a record. And even in the evenings when he is tired and cannot concentrate anymore on anything he lays in the sitter in bathroom and let me go to shower. Bathroom is his favourite, usually if he is upset he calms down when he can go to bathroom to look around. So this kind of lifestyle change project can be possible with the baby if the baby behaves. And I really wish that we don't get any big problems on the way and mummy can concentrate to this project till the end. Now I feel that after all I have experienced with the babies I have earned to have time to my project this time.

Sportterfly

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Or Is It Triathlon Training?

If you do muscle training, then go to run and push pram at the same time is it triathlon instead of double training? Anyway, this morning I tried it. Average heart rate of my muscle training session was 152 and maximum heart rate 186. I don't usually keep my heart rate monitor on when I do home training but today I already put it on for running so I planned to check my heart rate levels with muscle training too.

Then I went to run, and did the same route as first time when I had pram with and my average heart rate was 138 (earlier pram run 138) and maximum 170 (in earlier pram run 186). Heart rate increased very easily even in walking, maybe because the machine was already warmed up, but at the end it was easy to run with low heart rate. Maybe at first my body tried to return to the same tempo I had while home running. I have done one or two spurts even in my slow tempo runnings just to wake up the body little bit which increase the average and maximum heart rates.

Hard to wait until Friday to have next training sessions. Today I have felt energetic again and survived without naps. And still I dream of junk food all the time but I have tried to drink glass of water every time I think candy or chocolate. and it have helped.

Sportterfly

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