A change is always as good as a holiday or so they say. It is good mentally to not have thousands of skips looming before me with an unknown quantity on time. My time is so precious.
So having interval skipping now is great as I know I have 14 minutes as minimum time that I need and so as long as I don't linger between sets I can have them done and dusted within 20 minutes or so.
I still trip lots but it is easy to just get back into it ASAP knowing that the clock is running down. I keep the counter going just out of interest to see how many I am doing.
Yesterday I got through them with a few stops to retie shoe-laces (how much does untied shoe laces hurt while skipping!!) and my counter said 1382. So less than the 1500 I did two days ago.
This morning I got up before everybody else including the baby with the words JFD going through my head and I only did 1273. Lots and lots of trips. It is much harder to skip on an empty stomach right after I wake up. I am so not a morning person.
So less number of actual skips but I am feeling like I am working more. Perhaps I was taking too much time before I got skipping again. So now just have to work on less tripping.
Yesterdays workout was brilliant. My helper looked after No.1 son so I was able to really put maximum effort into every rep and set. Lots of burn and sweat pouring off me. I really felt "in the zone". The air-con was off and I just had all the windows open as there was a lovely cross breeze. Some Kylie on the stereo and I kicked it!! YAY me.
Great going Tracey.
ReplyDeleteYou motivate me a lot. Keep the great work on. Yesterday i could not do my workout, coz reached home late..But diets were wid me..Felt very guilty that i missed...:(
Keep the great work on and keep motiviating us.. :)
You guys (Tracey and Conny) are so supportive toward all of us on this program. It's a hard program and my problem is that it's a daily thing. I decided not to skip this morning as it's pitch black and freezing in the mornings when I need to skip. I jumped on the treadmill for 30 minutes of real running while I timed Georgie to skip. I will try and skip when I get home and then do the rest of the program after.
ReplyDeleteWe all have good and bad days but we are on day 44 now and tomorrow is halfway. You've both done so well and look at how you both look now. Amazing, so you must be curious as to what the pictures will look like in 45 days time.
Keep up the good work and we will all finish this together.
Bruce
You asked about my rest periods between skipping and it all depends. When I was doing 200, I would try and rest 10 to 15 seconds then skip some more. Towards the end it would be more like 20 to 25 second rest.
ReplyDeleteNow with just skipping for 2 minutes (which is about 30 seconds too long for me) I hate it unless I can see time. I also still count and get between 220 to 250 skips per 2 minute slot (tripping anywhere between 0 to 6 times). I need to count or see the time count down so I know when I'm halfway or nearly finished. I'm finding the skipping hard and it needs loads of motivation to keep me mentally motivated to do the skips.
Loads of people have said just remember how rubbish we were on day one and that too helps with the motivation as we are so much better now.
Skipping is a huge part of this program so we just have to push on through.
Just keep going!
B