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Week 2 of Insanity!

Today I completed my week 2 workout!  Tomorrow is my day off and I'm excited and scared at the same time. Excited because I get to rest and enjoy an evening with friends, scared, because Saturday is another dreaded fit test!  Ugh!!  I know I'll be better than at the beginning, but its so intense!!  I must say I can tell a difference already and I'm only two weeks in!  Does this mean I can be done sooner?  Absolutely not!  I'm going to push through and go the entire 60 days so that I can have an honest testimony (no pun intended) on how wonderful and hardcore this workout is!  I must say besides the body changes, I've noticed I'm able to push harder through the workouts and I'm not as physically exhausted.  Now dont get me wrong my headband is soaked with sweat every time, but I'm getting conditioned and I'm getting conditioned quickly!  Either way I'm loving the challenge and I'm greatly enjoying being a Beach Body Coach.  If you've considered doing something you love, getting in shape and helping others, plus making money at the same time, there is no better feeling than helping people achieve their goals as well!  Hope you've had time to check out my page at http://beachbodycoach.com/actrain, if you haven't, DO IT!  Even if you just purchase your vitamins or workout routines without becoming a coach, you can always enter your workout into WOWY where you have a chance to win daily cash prizes!  Well worth your time!  Love you all!  

Week 2 on the way!!

I must say I was really concerned with starting week 2 where my muscles have not all gotten loosened up from all the intense workouts.  However,  today is the first day I haven't been unbearably soar, and doing cardio recovery today,,, I wanted to get moving but you just don't on cardio recovery days,  and I must admit it was a very pleasant surprise as I also moved some rocks, weeded the front garden (planting marigolds in it) and mowed the front yard... man I swear I just work to dang hard!  If the work was only 4 days a week and I received 3 off every week I'd be so stinking happy!!  Or if Tom would just get two or 3 other jobs that could work... Maybe if I train the dogs to do wild tricks i could get some money.  Anyway, it feels really good to not be sore in the legs for the first time in a week!

Insanity day 1

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Week 1 of Insanity!

Well I'm happy to say I've made it through my first week of the Insanity work out program.  The name says it all its totally Insane!  However, I really must say I've enjoyed pushing myself!  Normally I'm not the type of person that sweats a lot, however this workout has changed that for me substantially, so much that when I do the floor work I have to dry the floor because of all the sweat I've lost (I know kind of gross but I love it!).  I was looking forward to the recovery day, and to not let you down it still worked me out like no other! I can tell my flexibility is getting much greater as the stretches are phenomenal on this work out!  I was feeling so weak while doing this workout as I was unable to keep going the entire time during each of the sections, but as I was resting I noticed all of the people working out with Shawn T were taking breaks and even taking some of the exercises easy for parts of it, so I must say I wasn't doing as bad as I thought.  Tomorrow starts day 1 of week 2!  Wish me luck! 

Hip Hop Abs Review and on to the next!

Ok so the long awaited review of “Hip Hop Abs” in paper form.  So beginning this workout, I wasn’t sure how it would go, as workout video’s in the past have bored me to tears and I give up on doing them when I find the workouts to be tedious and with little to no results.  However, I am pleasantly surprised with results and the entertainment factor of Hip Hop Abs.  

  

At first I was a little concerned with the program, as in the first video (Fat Burning  Cardio) Shawn T talked quite a bit.  However in the other video’s included in this workout I found Shawn T to be very motivational and quite pleasant to listen to.  Luckily in all the video’s if you are not interested or needed the extra push from Shawn, you can choose louder music.  As you can see the results are not major but this was only 30 days!  30 days and I feel better, I notice my abs more, and I feel like everything has tightened up substantially.  I am sad that the 30 days is up and that I’m moving on to Shawn T’s Insanity workout (available at http://teambeachbody.com/actrain click on shop and you can get Hip Hop Abs or any other program plus the delicious Shakeology drinks) but I am looking forward to my new challenge!  I must say the first day of Insanity kicked my can!  I was sweating worse than two squirrels screwing in a wool sock behind the dryer!  I could not do the drills on the skill test for the complete minute, I kept taking breaks, as did the people in the video.  This is by far the most intense workout I’ve ever done!  The next two days were pretty much the same!  So much sweat was pouring out of me that I probably could have filled my swamp cooler 10 times in the time span of less than 60 minutes!  Today (day 4) was the recovery day, and for a recovery day I still sweat like no other!  I of course will blog about this new workout continually throughout the 60 days and if your interested in working out with me, visit my  site as referenced above.  

As for Tom, he is still in the P90X workout video’s, and as you can see the results are phenomenal and he’s still got more than 30 days to go!  How much better can he get?  But, he’s up against me, the Legendary 6-Pack Cole Train and my Insanity workout!  But regardless in the end we are both winners!  Duh!!  (also if you would like some of the tasty and very slimming new shakes I'm drinking to continue my weight loss visit http://shakeology.com/actrain)

Hip Hop Abs Review

Diet Review Part 2

Ok so where did I leave off on the diet train?  Oh yes thats right I had just finished the popcorn oil movement, AKA the Ali diet, and after week after week of loosing a pound gaining a pound it was time to try something much much more drastic.  My sister in law Shannon had ben doing the HCG diet and when I saw her I couldn’t believe how much she had lost, and never thought of her as over weight to begin with!  The change was phenomenal and to be honest I never ever would have considered this diet before in my life as I only knew of the shots they gave for it and there is no way I would ever be able to give myself a shot!  Well it turned out that things have changed for the HCG diet as now you can actually take drops under the tongue 3 times daily instead of taking a daily shot, to me, drops would be doable!  I must say I was skeptical about any diet that only allows you 500 calories a day, as I’m pretty sure that any diet where you ate only 500 calories would cause you to loose weight, but I wanted severe changes and I was going to do what it takes to get there!  

We shopped for the diet drops online, I had found some that were 40 dollars a bottle and the ones that Tom wanted me to get were the ones his sister ordered and they were 75 bucks a bottle.  Tom was convinced that the other drops would not work as good and we had seen that the ones she had worked.  So I bought us both a bottle for 75 bucks each.  This was also the weekend that we were going to Wyoming to hang curtain rods for my moms house and spend the weekend chilling with my mom and visiting family.  We went to visit my Aunt Melanie just after doing lunch with mom and Aunt D Ann, and came to found out she had been on the HCG diet and has lost alot of weight on it as well!  She informed me that the store down the street sells the HCG drops and they are only 20 dollars per bottle!  I was flabbergasted, and when I saw the bottle she had they were triple the size of the expensive bottles that we ordered online, and eventually more things did better on the larger cheaper bottle than the small expensive bottle.  

To start off on the HCG diet you have to start taking drops 3 times a day before you eat, and then you are supposed to pile in the greasiest fattening foods that you can find!  It was more food than I’ve ever eaten in a two day period I swear!  I made sure to eat at the training table for a big burger and cheese fries, followed by a oreo shake from Arctic Circle.  There were also stops at all the little fast food places for multiple $1 burgers shops for adding the bulk food in!  This went on for two days, the final night was our cheese tasting and wine paring class we took at Capotoes in Salt Lake.  I must say that this was a fine way to mark the last days you have until you get to eat NOTHING!  

For the morning half of the day it would consist of Coffee with 2 tablespoons of creamer, and 2 splendas.  The mornings were basically a liquid diet where all I could drink was Coffee, tea, water, or crystal light.  The only other people I can think of that do liquid diets are alcoholics.  

With lunch time round the corner!  Time to look forward to my lovely packed lunch!  Let see what were the regular menu items:

3 ounces of chicken (chicken spices make it bearable)

1 Roma Tomato  (balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper)

1 Apple Snack

Oh wow, that makes you so full just thinking about it, I’m sure, but next comes dinner!!

De-shelled shrimp just warmed up in the microwave no oils allowed

3 ounce salad of spinach, tomatoes and onions.

1 Apple Snack

2 melba (nasty burnt croutons) as a snack you could choose when you took them, I took them at night.  

Pretty thrilling right?  You can do a lean cut of red meat as well, same weight 3 1/2 ounces, or halibut, and cod, all the same weight.  

While eating like this I honestly had no energy what so ever! The one and only time I wet to the gym eating like this I nearly fainted after ever rep on any machine.  The energy was just zapped out of me!  I’d basically just head home from work, and where i’d be done with food for the day.  With the option of food being out of the question, I’d take a sleeping pill and go to bed because just sitting there I would need something to take my mind off food, and of course, sleeping really helps.  

The longer the diet went on the more I felt like I could stay on it longer.  When the weight-loss dropped to be less than 2 pounds a day, it got a little frustrating but I was so glad to still be loosing the weight that I wouldn't consider going off until the time was up.  

I did this hellacious diet for 45 days and I lost 50 pounds total.  Since then I’ve taken my measurements before the Cruise to Cabo, and since getting back from Cabo, I am just about completed with the Hip Hop Abs 4 week program and trust me I will do a review on this one!  I end the workout on Friday so if i can get the before and after shots done I may have it completed for next week as well as the YouTube videos you can find from them by going to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz_wLWOE2Pg That should link you over to my first video blog.  This week I will be video blogging over either this diet, or the Hip Hop Abs program or both.  So stay tuned, the Video blog isnever the same as the writing blog.  And you get to see me live!  So for now, this is your Rated R Super Star Cole, and I’ll be back with more fun for you to enjoy!  (please note I had taken my ambien and tried to edit any messed up words or sentences,,, if there are any my apolagies had better dam well be accepted! 

Diet Review blog postponed for 1 week,,,,

So originally I planned to continue the diet reviews today for my blog, I started out with all the intentions of doing so, thinking of things to say, things to discuss, triumphs, setbacks, etc. but then the day started to take a turn, a turn that turns me, The Total Package, into the Incredible Hulk.  

It all started when a friend got upset over a video we had made and I posted on youtube.  Now, if any of you have ever had friends tell you “why did you post that pic of me?  I look so awful in it,” or “I look fat in that take it down.”  Now for those of you who have experienced this you know my frustration to some point, now picture this as a video.  When people see a video camera they run, they tell you turn it off they complain, but in the end, they enjoy to see the video, either secretly or sentimentally they enjoy the video in the long run.  Maybe its because my friends growing up (Dusty, Emily, Kelli, Serena, Brian, Dodi, Kami, Tara, etc.) enjoyed making video’s so much that it didn’t phase me.  After removing the video it is now going to be a rule, and if you don't like it, I really don't care any more!  The rule is as follows:  If I am having a get together or a a party at my house and the video camera comes out, if you do not want me to video you, or if you don't want anybody to see something you do, then leave or don't do it!  I would never post anything that would harm anybody or something that I myself wouldn’t want any one to see of me.  If your not comfortable with yourself and your situation in life then don't expect me to edit mine for you!  I have never once posted a video from someone else's party unless asked to.  I enjoy video taping and its very upsetting when people act like suck pricks when they see the camera by hiding or telling you to turn it off.  I never once say to anybody, “stop drinking so much you’ve spilled have your drink on me,” or “stop dry humping the neighbor Joe.”   If you don't like it then don't come to my parties!  Nuff said!  

The second thing that made my day such a lovely one is the Drivers license department.  It used to be to renew you would just mail in the application with the appropriate fee’s.  Well, not the case any more in Utah.  You now have to go into the office to do this.  If you’ve ever been there its a freaking joke! The lines and the wait they make us all sit through each and every single day!  I went in with my current drivers license which expires in June (trying to get the jump start on things) my passport, and my completed renewal application.  I then waited inline for about 30 minutes, when I finally got to the lady who gives you a number to wait in yet another line, she tells me they cant help me because, even though I have my drivers license, my completed application, and my U.S passport, they cannot help me because I don't have my social security card with me.  Now where I was only renewing my license and it was not yet expired, they could not do anything.  Apparently if my license was 2 weeks or more expired, they would be able to take care of me with out my social security card as its more important, but since June is a few weeks away I could always come back with a card.  Absolutely absurd!  You try to do something fast and ahead of time and instead your punished!  So, I of course ran home, got my card and drove back, waited again in the line to get a number to wait in the other line.  It wouldn’t have been so bad where they have 11 plus counters to help people, however only one rep was helping people!  The other 10 were busy talking about Angelina Jolie.  I tell ya, if tomorrow isn’t much better I don't know what I’ll do!

However there was a positive, well wonderful thing that happened today!  Tom and I purchased our first trailer!  Yes its official!  We are part time Trailer Park Trash now!  TPT baby! And yes I know that I capitalized Trailer Park Trash!  Its a name/term and I will grow to respect it (even though I’m not from Kentucky like Rick)!  Anyway, hope to see a lot of you out in the woods this Summer freezing in your tents while I have the heater going!  

Its not easy being the king!  Love all you silly people! (Rebecca, the worlds greatest english teacher, any errors in my writing tonight can be blamed on Ambien and not you!)

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