I'm still here!

I don't post as much to Facebook as I used to, primarily because my library career means more to me right now than my fitness business, but I got a kick in the head this morning that maybe, just maybe, some people were following me to get the motivation to workout themselves. I'm still not planning on putting my all into the fitness business, but I will try to put up more photos, keep up with this thing, and do better at being a good example. I may stumble, though, as we are coming up on the holidays, so I'm trying to get shopping done, projects at home and work wrapped up, and we're shifting traditions a bit this year since Grandma is having a knee replacement 10 days before Christmas. This puts more of the prep work on my mom, aunt, and myself, as we will be holding Christmas at mom's instead of Grandma's, so we now get to menu plan. I'm looking forward to the challenge, and it gives me even more gratitude toward the president of the university for giving us a full 2 weeks off, paid, from the campus. I'll definitely be using them! 

As far as my workouts go - I don't have any new photos to put up yet, Lauren has introduced me to the wonderful world of lifting. My dad has always been into weights, and worked out, but he got into a slump. I proposed an idea to him - I'd get him back into working out, in exchange for using his home gym, and we'd keep each other accountable. Awesome idea, he said, let's do it! So, every Monday we do upper body, every Thursday is lower body. If we had something else going on, instead of skipping the day entirely, we moved it, and I'm proud to say we haven't missed a Monday yet. We started at the end of September, so here are my stats for a month so far:

Before

And my stats as of last night:

3 weeks later

My numbers have gone up in some areas, an I actually started out with 50 pounds for deadlifts, I just had to do the last set with 25 (so I didn't mark it right - I need to change that). The 124 for calf raises was using just my body weight. 

What I need to get into more is the second part of the program. I had decided that on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, I would do PiYo for lower body, upper body, and core/buns respectively, with Saturday changing between core and buns. I've only done one night of it a few weeks ago, and then I fell back into doing nothing as soon as I got home. What I really need to do is get my butt out of bed and do it before I even go to work in the morning. This is tough, however, when you get up to pitch blackness. Maybe I can set it up to be up by 5 on Thursday. I did so well in summer, working out before work, and I slowly fell away from it as the days got shorter, chillier, and we put the fleece blankets on the bed. And more projects hit at work. All excuses, yes, but at least daddy is helping keep me accountable! Then there's my awesome husband, who pushes me into it whether I want to or not:

Get a support team. Find a workout you love. Remember that 80% of your results come out of the kitchen. Go kill the workout. I'm right behind you all the way!