Sunday Stats – Week 8

Ki’s Progress – Week 8

Goal #1 – 20,000 Step 7-Day Average – This week was a tough week.  I did not meet my goals this week.  Long story short, I had a power issue that caused me to have to move my work computers to the living room at the beginning of the week which led to horrible posture for 9 hours a day.  After a few days of horrible pain in my back, I moved everything to the kitchen table which led to horrible pain in my hips instead.  So I didn’t get in anywhere near as many steps as I wanted.

At the beginning of the week, I checked the August Fitness Challenge that Beck and I are doing and found that she was destroying me.  I was almost 85,000 steps behind Team Sloth at the beginning of the week.  It became painfully obvious that I have lost this challenge.  I hope I look cute in pig tails.

Despite the loss, I will continue trying to get my daily steps in because challenge or no challenge, I’m becoming more active to improve my own health.

 

Goal #2 – Diet Log – My diet goal for this week was to continue counting my calories and make sure I got at least 1,000 calories in each day as well as reduce my soda intake back down to no more than 2 per day.

I did so well with this goal this week….until Saturday.  Unfortunately, I failed this goal only because I didn’t meet my calorie goal on Saturday…the last day of the week!

However, I was able to put down the Dew.  Today was my first full day without any caffeine.  So I’m not going to count this goal as a total failure.  Quitting caffeine is hard.  But I got this.

Goal #3 – 30 Min. Cardio + Bodyweight Routine – My exercise goal this week was to get at least 30 minutes of cardio at least 5 days this week and to complete my bodyweight exercises 4 days this week.

I didn’t even attempt this goal this week.  I was able to do my exercises 1 day.  But when my back flares up, I baby it and try to let it heal.  So I did not do my regular exercising this week so that my back had a chance to calm down.  I’m counting this goal as a write off, not a failure.

Bodyweight Exercises

• Goal is 2 Sets of Each:
  • 20 Negative Pushups
  • 10 Diamond Sit Ups
  • 10 Superman
  • 10 Hollow Rocks
• Monday:
  • Set 1 –
    • 9 Negative Pushups
    • 9 Diamond Sit Ups
    • 10 Superman
    • 10 Hollow Rocks
  • Set 2 –
    • 8 Negative Pushups
    • 4 Diamond Sit Ups
    • 7 Superman
    • 10 Hollow Rocks

Cardio

• Monday – Rockin’ Body – Booty Time – 30 min. Cardio

Goal #4 – 4 bottles of water per day – I’m still struggling with the water goal.  I got 4 bottles of water in on 4 days this week.  This is an improvement from last week.  I think this will be a super easy goal now that I’m not drinking soda.

Goal #5 – 7 hours of sleep per night – I did much better this week on my sleep goal on average.  However, I did have one night that I got sick which caused insomnia for the rest of the night.  That was Tuesday night.  I slept for 30 minutes and was up the rest of the night but I did get a nap in later that day.

My tracker didn’t record my sleep for Friday, I’m not sure why that happened but I did sleep Friday night for right around 7 hours.  I did better, but I need to make 7 hours and every night thing.

What’s Next?

I’m not changing my goals too much this week as I didn’t really meet them.

Goal #1 – My step goal is staying at a 7-day average of 20,000 steps.

Goal #2 – I will focus on my calorie counts this week to make sure I do not have another high calorie deficit.  While some deficit is good, I need to eat enough to maintain my activity level.  I will also try to stick to no caffeine.

Goal #3 – My exercise goal for this week is to complete at least 30 consecutive minutes of cardio at least 5 times this week and to complete the bodyweight exercises 4 times this week continuing to improve my repetitions, the same as last week.

Goal #4 – Again, I will continue trying to get 4 bottles of water in per day.

Goal #5 – I will also continue trying to get at least 7 hours of sleep per night.  This is a really hard goal for me to accomplish but I will get there.  This week I will aim to be in bed before midnight each night.

How was your week? Did you meet your goals this week? What are you currently trying?  Let us know in the comments below!

Remember, forget skinny…train to be a fit badass!

~Ki

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