Last of Vacation & Bootcamp Phase 1

Aaaaaand, back to reality.

Spring break is over. Honestly, I needed the break, but it’s such a tease! I like doing whatever I want all day! Thank goodness for weekends…

My last couple days in Colorado Springs were wonderful! Haha okay, they were good, but they sure sound wonderful right now.

On Friday, I wanted to get a 6 mile tempo run. It was so gorgeous I knew I had to run outside, but I was also concerned about my knee hurting me on the hills (behind my knee on the inside feels sprained… no bueno). I did half the run indoors on the treadmill, and then took the last 3 outdoors.

The treadmill half was fine, but the outdoor part was rough! I had to stop several times to get my heart rate back down! I think the combination of the altitude and hills was a lot for me! But I finished!

And check out my views while stretching! I could not get over how nice it was outside! (and yes, that’s meant to be upside down. That’s what I saw stretching my calves!)

For lunch, I went to La Baguette, a bistro near our house that my parents are obsessed with! I’d never been, but my dad found out they offered their sandwiches on gluten free bread, so I wanted to try it out.

I ordered a corned beef sandwich with Gouda cheese and a side salad.

Unfortunately, the bread was really dry and crumbly, if fell apart upon touching it and tasted pretty bad as well. I ended up ditching the bread and just cutting up the sandwich parts and eating them with the salad. Luckily the dressing on the salad was amazing, so it ended up being alright. I won’t, however, be ordering a sandwich there again.

While I was in Colorado, I managed to keep up with my Best Body Bootcamp workouts really well! The bootcamp is split up into phases and the first two weeks are called Phase 1, which is focused on strength and stability. Tina sent us various circuit workouts to go through and also gave us a plan of a good way to do those workouts and fill in cardio blocks and intervals in between.

One thing I love about the plan, however, is that you don’t need to follow her weekly schedule to be counted towards winning prizes each week. If you’d rather swim than do cardio blocks, then that’s fine! If you need to switch around the schedule and do the circuits on different days, that’s fine too! The key is to make it work into your lifestyle! For example, I went on that hike with my dad, and counted it as my cardio of choice day, and pushed back my workouts one day so I did the last circuit on Saturday, rather than Friday as suggested.

I also work my half marathon training schedule around Tina’s schedule as well. Rather than doing 50 minutes of cardio blocks, I do my 6 mile tempo run.

I really enjoyed phase 1’s focus on stability, since it involved a lot of moves that are either new to me, or that I don’t do often. This one seriously tested my balance:

And this plank ended up being a lot harder than I imagined:

I’m really excited to start with Phase 2 today! It’s more about strength and the workouts are much more similar to what I’d been doing on my own, which was more machine work and supersets, rather than full out circuits.

Phase 2, here I come!

Do you prefer doing a circuit 3 times through for a workout, or supersets with weights?

Have you ever noticed altitude changes affecting your running/aerobic abilities?