Wii Active

I decided to try the 30 Day Challenge on Wii Active today. It's supposed to be a 5 workouts a week thing, but I think you can add in when you do a different activity as well. This works out for me because I would like to continue to workout with Val on the treadmill or elliptical once a week, plus do Wii Your Shape once a week as well. I find Wii Active to be a lot of strength training, which is so amazing for toning up, but I'm going to keep up the other workouts as well because they are more cardio focused. I completed workout 1 of the 30 Day Challenge in just under 25 minutes on level Medium. I think I should've chosen the Hard option because I found it a little bit easy. It could also be that it was a shorter workout. There was parts that were still pretty intense for me, but all in all I didn't break a huge sweat. Here is a breakdown of the workout I did this evening:

- Walking
- Running
- Side Squats
- Bicep Curls
- Tricep Curls
- Shoulder Press
- Kickboxing Punches, Kicks and Knee Ups (my favorite part of the workout!)
- Inline Skating (Basically holding a squat for a really long time.... and then lifting your left leg, then right leg when there were obstacles to skate over. This was the hardest part of the workout)

I'm excited for the next workout though as it should be more intense! I also noticed that there is an hour long workout (not part of the challenge) that I may try a night where I have a lot of time. I feel like working out for a full 60 minutes would allow me to really push myself to the limit. It says I burned about 145 calories this evening, which seemed pretty accurate. I'm taking tomorrow off to rest and then will pick it back up again on Saturday morning!

I'm not going to lie, I really wanted to eat junk food tonight. But I haven't! What's with me and craving junk food on Thursdays anyways?

Meals for today:

Breakfast- 1 cup of Kashi Go Lean Crunch cereal, 1 cup of skim milk

Snack- Apple, 2 caltrate calcium chews, Starbucks grande skinny caramel latte (130 calories)

Lunch- 1 plain rice cake, 1 tbsp. peanut butter, 1 banana

Snack- Praeventia cranberry & pommegranite granola bar

Dinner- Turkey sausage, 2 servings of grilled veggies (mushrooms, peppers, onion, seasoned potato wedges and green beans - 100 calories, 6 g. fibre) cooked in 1 tsp. of extra virgin olive oil, Diet coke

Snack- 100 calorie bag of lays chips, 1 fun size chocolate bar (80 calories)

Workout - 25 minutes of Wii Active, 5 minutes of stretching