Yes I am!!

I love making a plan to workout and getting into a routine but the minute I miss a day’s workout, that’s it. Routine done. This happened a couple of months ago. I got the flu, missed a day at the gym and haven’t had the motivation to go back since.

So, now that I’m at home job hunting I figured this would be the perfect time to get back into shape. I don’t want to lose a ton of weight- just tone up, lose the fat and improve my diet.

My brother and friend both got engaged at the weekend (to their respective partners, not each other!), so the up coming nuptials are definitively the motivation I need to get started. No dates have been set but a girl’s got to be ready, right?!

When it comes to working out, I prefer to find a routine and do it at home. With that in mind and ‘joie de vivre’ in hand, I took to my beloved Pinterest for some workout plans.

I came across some ’30 day challenges’ which piqued my interest and I decided to set myself up for these 30 day squat and plank challenges from 30dayfitnesschallenges.com:

Now…I realise the importance of cardio, especially when fat needs to be burned so I’ve used the challenges as a ‘base’ and included jumping jacks to make a sort of HIIT workout which follows this pattern:

50 Jumping Jacks
20 second plank
15 jumping jacks
10 squats
15 jumping jacks
10 squats
15 jumping jacks
10 squats
50 jumping jacks

This is what Day 1 looked like but hopefully you get the gist of what I’m doing. I’ll need to increase the reps in each set for the squats as the days go on but so far, I’m on Day 3 and ‘enjoying’ it. I’m also going for 30 minute to 1 hour walks during the day which helps me relax from the stress of job hunting.

On the healthy eating side of things I’m drinking a lot of shakes, upping my water intake and eating a lot of salads. I’ll dedicate a post to this soon.

If you have any hints and tips to help me they’ll be most welcome!

Oh! …I’m not using scales during the challenge but I will be monitoring my hip and waist measurements (and will maybe use picture updates-for myself 😉 )

Happy exercising xx