Carson - current weight - 235

Carson - Day 10 - Boot Camp Activities

Today was a machine day. We did the following:

1. Ran (in my case I walked most of the time) one mile on a treadmill at a 15% incline (trust me, it's tough).

2. Rowed 1500 meters on a rowing machine.

3. Climbed 50 flights of stairs on the stair master machine.

4. Rode 3 miles on a stationary bike.

Carson - Day 8 - Boot Camp Activities

Today after warming up we did the following:

1. Ran 1/2 mile
2. Played ultimate football
3. Did "chariot" activity where you have a strap around a partner and he pulls while you resist. Each person went back and forth across a tennis court 5 times
4. Ran another 1/2 mile
5. Did 40 reps each of the following with dumbells (except push ups of course) - Curls
6. Military press
7. Triceps
8. Rowing
9. Push ups
10. Ran another 1/2 mile!
11. Did 30 reps each of the following with dumbells (except push ups of course) - Curls
12. Military press
13. Triceps
14. Rowing
15. Push ups
16. Did 30 ab crunches
17. stretched

Carson - Day 7 - Boot Camp Activities

Today after warming up as usual we did the following:
1. Ran our usual 1/2 mile.
2. Played ultimate football
3. Worked out with dumbells - Curls
4. Worked out with dumbells - military press
5. Worked out with dumbells - triceps
6. Worked out with dumbells - Rowing
7. Did squats (for forever it felt like)
8. Did triceps on edge of chair
9. Worked out more with dumbells - Curls
10. Worked out more with dumbells - military press
11. Worked out more with dumbells - triceps
12. Worked out more with dumbells - Rowing
13. Did leg lifts on mat on side

Carson - today's weight - 238

Down 4 lbs! Whew hooooooo!

Carson - Day 6 - Boot Camp Activities

Today we started with our usual warm up of jogging around the exercise room different directions for about five minutes. We then did the following:

1. Ran for 20 minutes. This was on your own either on the track or on a treadmill. Our goal was 1.5 to 2 miles in 20 minutes. I opted for the treadmill and made it 1.25 miles. I learned 1/2 way through that my treadmill was on a 1% incline! Second half was much easier needless to say!
2. Went back to the exercise room and did lunges across the room and back 4 times.
3. put on 20 lb weight belt and went up and down the stairs 10 times.
4. Went back to the exercise room and did side step lunges across the room with the weight belts on. Did this twice
5. Did kick lunges across the room and back
6. Did another 10 sets of stairs and finally got to take off the weight belt!
7. Pulled people around the room on a blanket. two times each - two laps each - once forward - once backward.
8. Did two ab exercises on a mat

Carson - Day 5 - Boot Camp Activities

Day five was much better than yesterday - though still hard. It went as follows:

1. Ran 1/2 mile. First four laps regular, fith and sixth laps side stepping and last lap backwards.
2. Played ultimate football for about 10 minutes which was fun and exhausting!
3. Went back to the exercise room and put on boxing gloves then "stepped" over line of step
(about 10 or 12 of them). Went through the line about 5 times.
4. Went to the punching bag and threw punches for about minutes.
5. Went to mats and did push ups
6. back to the punching bags for more punching
7. back to the mats for bicycle ab work
8. back to the punching bags for more punching (and kicking this time)
9. back to the steps this time sideways through them 3 or 4 times through
10 back to the punching bags for more punching (with jumping jacks in between your turn)
11. back to the steps - jumping through them this time.
whew - I'm getting tired thinking about all that!