Fit Lizzio Fitness

These Kabbalah e-mails are rockin lately! Here is today’s:

Sometimes people get impatient because they are not “changing” fast enough. Now, while it’s important to strive to be different, we need to own the place we are starting from. And give it a little love. Owning your journey and “place” in this world is a prerequisite to progress and the positive shift you are looking for.Today, decide that it is a brand new starting point. Use what you got and learn from what has worked for you – but most importantly – don’t see yourself through a version of you that is not there “yet.” Instead, see yourself now – in the moment – and embrace the world with the knowledge of your real power.

I find these to be so motivating and they all seem to hit home with me. I am a very spiritual person and that is why I feel that I relate to Kabbalah so well.

Anyways, peak week has officially begun!! I am actually REALLY excited. Got my carbs in yesterday….plenty of them..lots of them..and now I won’t see them until next Sunday lol. I ran/incline walked 7 miles this morning and plan on running 2 more outside tonight when it cools off.

If you’ve never failed, you’ve never ventured out of your comfort zone.

If you’ve failed many times, that means you’ve tried many times, which means you are willing to step outside of your comfort zone.

Failure translates to ATTEMPT, TRY, PUSH, WORK, STRENGTH.

Failure is actually a sign of good.

Failure only becomes a bad thing if you don’t pick yourself up and try again.

When we risk, we often feel good – more fulfilled than when we don’t.

One thing most people agree on is the more we give ourselves fully to an experience, the greater our pleasure in life.We have to let go of a lot of things to do that. We have to let go of being liked, and let go of expecting others to do it too. We have to take responsibility for our own experience. We have to risk moments of standing alone.

Take a leap into the unknown today. You may just find yourself.

Got this in my daily Kabbalah e-mail. I like it.

“The closer you get to succeeding, the stronger your doubt gets.

It’s the self-survival mechanism of your inner opponent. Because once you have all the doubt removed and eradicated from your brain, then whatever you will think, you will achieve. The job of your inner opponent is to challenge you and prevent you from creating fulfillment.

Today, forget the rationale your mind generates non-stop for why you shouldn’t follow through on something. Doubts be damned — just jump in and go for it, no matter what. “

Okay, so after yesterdays awesome WIFL, I pretty much did nothing the rest of the day. Didn’t have to work, and ran a few errands, but that was it. Until it was time for conditioning……

The conditioning class is 1 hour long. We go by the bell, which goes off every 2 minutes, with 30 seconds in between each “set” We did a circuit yesterday. We went through the entire thing, not once, TWICE. NO REST. And if you think the 30 seconds in between is a rest, it’s not because you take that 30 seconds to jog over to the next station and the bell goes off signaling the start before you can even make it there. These were the stations all for 2 minutes straight each:

1. Line Jumps (just jumping side to side over a line, as high as you can go)
2. Bench Dips
3. Twisting Hindu Squats(Jump squat 180 degrees, and back, and forth, and back, and forth, and you get the point.)
4. Planks and Side Planks
5. Pushups across the basketball court
6. Jumping Lunges
7. Mitts (hitting the mitts for 2 minutes straight with all your energy is literally like sucking the life out of someone)
8. SPRINTS
9. Skaters (hard to describe but it works your glutes well!)
10. Wall Balls (Squat and thrust upwards and throw the 12 lb med ball as high as you can on the wall, catch and repeat)

I was seriously sweating like CRAZY. This was so hard, but I left the gym feeling mightttyyy accomplished. Love this class!

This morning I was planning on a run, but my running buddy dipped out, so I decided to hit the arc trainer hard. I really pushed it and did it at Level 10 and I can honestly say i pushed as hard as i could throughout the entire hour. I then met my trainer for…MORE LEGS. Just quads(ha, right “just”) He had me doing hack squats(5 seconds down explode up, then squat down quick and 5 seconds up), leg extensions(toes straight, in, out), more jumping lunges and squats(because i obviously didn’t do enough of them last night), and something else i can’t remember.

All in all, i have gotten in some great workouts the past few days. I start my peak week on Sunday, so i am enjoying my oats and savoring every single bite. The only difference in next week compared to my last peak week is NO ALMOND BUTTER. I have gotten a little to friendly with that stuff and I don’t know if I trust myself anymore. It’s funny how that happens. For a while I was totally fine and would just have a little bit at a time, but now it’s like my treat and 2 TBSP turns into 4 sometimes and it’s getting out of hand.

Off to work, then some errands, then to the casino and out tonight!! 🙂 Going to try for a run tomorrow, depending on how my legs feel, otherwise it will be chest and abs only.

No not that kind of quickie. Get your mind out of the gutter 😉 Or maybe I should get mine out of their first. ANYWHO.

This morning I did a WIFL. It’s kind of like a MILF, except not at all. It stands for Whatever I Feel Like. I woke up this morning to screaming hamstrings. They are STILL extremely sore even after 3 days, lots of glutamine, and 11 hours of sleep last night. So instead of doing chest today, which I didn’t feel like doing, I did a WILF. I did some bicep curls with 20 lbers, lots of abs, some more biceps, and some Complex 1’s. This is something I used to do at my old gym. You take the barbell(45 lbs) and do: 8 straight leg dead lifts, 8 bent over rows, 8 power cleans(instead of starting from the floor, it is just the “catch” portion, so starting at the hips and rotating over), 8 push presses, 8 squats, and 8 good mornings. Did about 3 sets of those. It was honestly a REALLY fun workout. I love weight lifting and going in there and just doing WIFL!

I challenge you all to do a WIFL! Let me know how it goes 🙂 It is good to have a plan, but sometimes it is good to just lift your heart out 🙂 I’m a dork, I know this. 🙂

I did have something else to say, but I totally can’t remember now. I hate when that happens! Anyways, i definitely fell asleep at 7:30pm last night…woke up briefly to the LOUD thunder and wind(love me some monsoons!) at around 3am, but fell right back asleep and woke up at 6:30am. My body wanted SLEEP.

Oh I remember what I wanted to say. My new mantra. I think it was Michelle, but i’m not sure who posted it on their blog (sorry) But now, whenever I am struggling mentally(which has been happening lately) I repeat this in my head. “Two choices: give up, or don’t give up.” I always choose the latter. This makes it very easy because i don’t have any other factors involved. It’s either DO IT or DON’T. I am choosing to NOT GIVE UP 🙂

Have a good day kiddos!

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Sorry about the MIA-ness guys!! I have no excuse other than, I’ve just been too lazy to write. I have been reading though and will get to commenting soon enough!

After my fun weekend, yesterday was pretty mundane. I worked out in the morning (3.15 mile run on the treadmill, 31 sets of glutes/hams, and 45 minutes of incline walking) and then ran errands and the day really flew by. Before I knew it, it was time for some boxing at Club SAR. This class was an instructional class and I learned many new things about my form, etc. I also learned this: Shadow Boxing is Hilarious. I don’t know that I will ever do it without feeling a little bit crazy, or ever watch someone do it without thinking that they are a little bit crazy, but ya gotta do it! 🙂

Yesterday’s calories were a bit high, but it’s all good. I probably still had somewhat of a deficit, or at least broke even, so I’m not worried too much about it. I have 11 days until competition I believe!! Down to the nitty gritty. I am kind of freaking out because I need to work on my posing more, figure out which bottoms I will be wearing, and get the rest of my costume for my themed sportswear. Ahh! I had a nightmare about not being ready for the competition last night, but money has been tight and so has time, so it’s been hard to piece it all together! I have posing with the girls tomorrow, so my goal is to have everything ready by Friday, and then just pose, pose pose until I am all posed out. Getting excited though!

Today I had my normal boxing class at the gym, then hit the weights for Shoulders/Biceps..good workout, not the best, but those days happen, and then did 45 minutes of treadmill..mixed it up with running, incline walking, backwards incline walking, etc. I am going to work in a little bit and doing another boxing conditioning class tonight at 6pm. I finally got my own gloves too!! Look at these beauties!! :):) Have a great day!

I don’t have too much time, but I have lots of pictures to share!!! Last night I went out with my friend Maggie, my sister, her boyfriend Corey, and one of his friends. We also met up with my old trainer Bret, who is still a really close friend of mine. We went to this bar Gilligin’s in Oldtown Scottsdale. It is such a fun bar, I highly reccomend it if you are ever in the area! i will let the pics do the talking. I was sober, and had more fun than I have had in a while! 🙂

Jesse, Corey(sister’s bf of 5 years), Maggie, Me, Bret

Bret and me slow-dancing. The bar tender called us out over the loud speaker saying “Hey look someone didn’t get to dance at their prom so they are making it up now!!” Hilarious.

Me, my sister Rachel, Maggie, Corey

This is Chewy. He is a bartender at Gilligin’s and he’s my bud. I let him smack my ass and he gives my friends free drinks haha

Honestly a great night. I’m super tired today because I only got about 5 hours of sleep.(Can’t sleep in no matter HOw tired i am ughh.) I took a rest day yesterday, and am taking another one today. My body needs it and I KNOW THIS. Not to mention, this week of workouts is intense. I like to plan my workouts on Sunday’s, and I’ve got quite the agenda for the week. Only 2 more weeks!! 🙂 Eating has been great this weekend as well!