August 18, 2014

Weekly Workouts IV

August 18, 2014/ sherri d'alessandro

Last week, I didn't mix it up too much, I thought I'd really be able to get after it but, my neck started hurting again so I had to tone it down towards the end of the week. Ugh, my neck! It's so annoying. I'm on vacation this week so I'm thinking I'll make an appointment with my acupuncturist who I haven't gone to in 2 years. In my experience, I ALWAYS feel better after getting acupuncture. I've had some upper back/neck issues throughout the years that it really helps relieve. Anyone know an acupuncturist in the Boston area or south shore? Mine is amazing, but, she's in Middleton and I'm NEVER up there anymore. Would love any recommendations!

Anyway - here's how it went:

Monday: Fighter Conditioning at PWG (Brian's Class)

Tuesday: Fighter Conditioning at PWG (Chris' Class)

Wednesday: Rest

Thursday: Fighter Conditioning at PWG (Tom's Class)
So, we started class with a ton of jump roping. Most classes start with 3-4 mins of jump roping, but, Tom has us complete a round of jump roping and adds in sprints and double-unders. So I'm pretty pumped that I can DO a nice consistent amount of double unders now but, MAN they tire me out so much for the rest of class. I think I need to focus on not jumping so HARD when I do them. Any advice?? Just lighten up a bit? My arms were lead for the rest of class.

Friday: 3 mi run and cleaned for 5 hours - does that count? haha

Saturday: Hmmm I did 60 squats and about 40 mountain climbers. That's it.

Sunday: Rest

Interested to hear what you guys have to say about acupuncturists in the Boston area and perfecting my double-unders. Have a great week! xo

August 07, 2014

Weekly Workouts III

August 07, 2014/ sherri d'alessandro

Last week, I got back to Yoga for the first time since the North End Yoga Class I took for #LaceUp365. I've been wanting to go for a while because there is an excellent studio right inside Legacy Place (across from JP Licks). It just makes sense for me to walk over after a day in the office before I go home. It was a great class and, Betty, who owns the studio taught it. Whenever I take Yoga, I tell myself I need to keep going because it's such a great complement to my normal workout routine. Also, it's fun to work on my back bridges and headstands... it brings me back to my gymnastics days! My goal is to try and go once a week.

Monday: Fighter Conditioning at Peter Welch's Gym (Brian's Class)

Tuesday: Vinyasa Flow Yoga at Stil Studio at Legacy Place (Betty's Class)

Wednesday: Fighter Conditioning at Peter Welch's Gym (James' Class)

Thursday: Rest

Friday: Fighter Conditioning at Peter Welch's Gym (Derek's Class)

Saturday: Rest

Sunday: 3.83 run

Taking a poll: What is your favorite type of Yoga class?

Happy Thursday! xo

July 23, 2014

NBGNO (New Balance Girls Night Out)

July 23, 2014/ sherri d'alessandro

I've always thought it would be a good idea to try to make more girls' nights active rather than a wine/food fest. (not that I have any problem with my wine/food fests). But, you know, it would be smart to do things like spin or box and THEN get a bev! Anyway, last night was exactly that!

New Balance has been throwing these Girls Night Out bashes a few times this summer. Last night, I went to my first one and brought Kim and Rebecca along with me.

The goal of these events is to get active, social women together to achieve their fitness goals and have a lot of fun together. Last night's theme was "Self Expression". Fellow fitness blogger Rachel from "Healthy Chicks" lead the event and talked about what "Self Expression" in fitness means to her. She talked through how much her workouts have changed since college (hours on the elliptical then vs. diverse training now) and I have a feeling that a lot of the women in the room could relate. Working out to just burn calories and be skinny is not the best form of self-expression. Working out to be HEALTHY and FIT, is a much better way to express yourself with fitness.

I think a lot of women struggle with this in their early 20's and even later in life. Do you feel like you are truly expressing your truest self with how you currently take care of yourself? Something that I learned in my 20's is that the more I focused on HEALTH as the goal of my fitness, the happier and more confident I became with myself. When you stop focusing on being 'skinny' and start paying attention to how your body feels when you lift a weight, strike a (yoga) pose, finish a race, hit a punching bag... you'll realize that feeling strong and confident outweighs all that heavy-on-the-mind 'skinny' stuff. And guess what? All of a sudden you'll start to look the way you feel. Honest!

Moving on... I love these events because I get to catch up with the local bloggers that I respect and follow! Athena from Fitness and Feta, is pictured to the left of me - we have matching New Balance 'anue collection' shirts on. Her blog is really great - I highly reccomend it! As Kim said "oh two things I love - workouts and cheese" lol

After we all caught up for a bit - we headed to our workouts. Kim, Becca and I headed over to the Equinox Roof Deck for a METCON3 class, Athena did FlyWheel outside, and Rachel did the fun run.

When we got to Equinox, I saw this cool obstacle course and I was JONESIN' to play on it. Instead, we did the class and it was great!! (I still wanted to hit the monkey bars though - next time)