By the way there will be a big party on Saturday morning at my Weight Watchers meeting that the wonderful Stacy will be throwing for me and all are invited!!! I wish my inspiring blogger friends could be there with me too! I am sooooo super excited for it. You know if it was not for Stacy and Weight Watchers there would probably not be a 100 pounds lost party so I am so grateful for them!!!
Anyway so what did I buy myself last weekend? This present comes really from my first inspiring person I met Drea. She is my Canadian twin, my other half and she always encouraged the obese person I was to go out and get fit. She really gave me the motivation to begin my journey. She never once told me I was too big to do something, or let me give up. I remember her voice in my head when the workouts get tough and think about what she always says: you can do it Coll don't give up.
She has been encouraging me to go out and get a weight vest. I want to increase my running speed and fitness level over all and she uses one and loves it. I knew she had to be right since she always is when it comes to matters of fitness lol so I worked up the strength and went out and got one!
I found it at Dick's Sporting goods. It weighs 20 pounds and is interchangable you can remove weights. I thought about buying the 12 pounder because the woman was pictured on the front of the box. A man was pictured on the front of this box which left me thinking hmmmm what are they trying to say? ;)
Anyways I ran with it on Saturday and it felt like a ton of bricks was attached to me! I kept checking my Polar HRM and it was showing I was burning more calories and my heart was pumping harder. This is exactly what I wanted so I pushed through to finish the run.
I used it again on Monday while on the elliptical machine:
I love it!!! I love Drea's always awesome fitness advice and like I said this vest helps me bring my fitness to a new level. My speed running on Wednesday was much easier without this and I hope this helps me get faster. I wore it yesterday for the longest time yet a 20 minute 2 mile run and a 3 mile 28 minute elliptical routine and I was working hard. I loved every minute of it!
Do you reward yourself when you hit targets in your fitness or weight loss? What do you do?
2 comments:
I hadn't heard of a weight vest before, but I think it's a great idea. It's something I'll have to look into when I'm closer to my goal. Congrats for losing 100 pounds! Enjoy your party.
I like the idea of a weight vest, may have to check that out! Especially when it gets to the points where the weight loss plateaus.
When I reached the half-way to health target, I got a painting of horses running. The first activity that got me moving was horseback riding, so the painting reminds me about the joy that can be found in being active. I've got the painting front and center in my living room.
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