Week 1: Setting and Making Mini Goals

I’ve shared my main goal in this journey, which is to lose 48 lbs and gain a healthy lifestyle. However, where I am right now and where I want to be; 48 lbs seems like a far and unachievable goal.  I know I can do it but I find it to be more successful when I set smaller goals for myself.  For instance, I lost 3 lbs this week, Woop Woop!! and I was so excited because I know I put in the weerrk this week. I know what I did and I saw the outcome on the scale this week.  BOOM!

So I had an ah-ha moment and thought that I need to start setting smaller goals for myself and if I make a goal every week to achieve something, it will be more attainable.  So this weeks goal will be to lose another 3 lbs and up my repetitions to 20 from 15.  If I do this, than that will just mean that before I know it, I will be lifting heavier and dropping more lbs and 48 lbs will be attained.

So here are the stats for this week.

I worked out 5 days this week.

• Mon: Lower Body/Treadmill Intervals
• Tues: Upper Body/Treadmill Intervals & Elliptical
• Thurs: Lower Body/Treadmill Intervals
• Fri: Upper Body/Bike Ride 25 minutes interval
• Sun: Cardio/Abs Treadmill: 20 mins & Elliptical 50 mins

I normally don’t do many 5 day weeks but I was feeling extremely motivated since I started posting about it last week.   No lie, I literally burned 560 calories on Sunday.  I hit the weight-loss button on the treadmill and that sucker had me going on inclines at 5.0 miles an hour in intervals.  I burned 200 calories in 20 minutes which felt so good.

I then got on the elliptical and did the same thing, I added resistance to 15 and went to work.  I burned 367 calories in 30 minutes.

One of my favorite workouts for the week were dropsets that I did with my husband on leg day.  We did a couple of leg and glute exercises that were each in this combination and depending on the machine we would add more and take some off depending on what I was able to do.  You can find the true definition of a dropset here. 

Drop Set Squats

• 20 reps of 15 lbs weights
• 15 reps w/ 20 lbs weights
• 12 reps w/ 30 lbs weights

This is just a few exercises I did during this combination of leg moves.

I did something they called dropsets. I loved them so much these were just 2 out 6 six exercises that we did to get in those glutes and legs. I do high intensity Wright training to keep the heart rate up and calories burning. Hit the link in bio to see how it was for me. #fitness #weightloss #weightlossjourney #motivation #fitnesschallenge #girlpower #weghttransformation #healthygoals #prixfit #prixhealth #dropsets #fitlife

A video posted by Charlene Tanwing (@prixlife) on Jul 27, 2016 at 1:52pm PDT

Mini Goals:

• Drink at least 3 liters of water daily
• Up my reps from 15 to 20
• Lose 3 lbs

 

All in all,  I’m still pushing and I haven’t ran out of energy or motivation so I’m still going in and aiming for another 3 lbs this week.

What did your week look like?