Interval training.. ugghhh

Since we're doing a P.E module at the moment in Health, it calls for outdoor activity obviously, and I couldn't be happier! There's nothing I enjoy more than getting outside and being active,  but MAN, today we did a fitness/cardio activity, and far out, it was HARD! I'm trained as a long distance runner, which means when I run I start out slow and gradually build up to a fast, steady pace. So when we do sprints, after about two, I burn out.
I hate sprints.
Something I did notice though, is that by the 8th round, I was still able to sprint as hard as I had during the first, whereas the rest of my group had slowed significantly.
I'm fitter than I thought :) So even though I was lagging behind for the first few rounds, it paid off in the end.
I really should do more interval training, it's so good for fitness, It would be highly beneficial for me.
Usually I do half an hour of interval training, I make a 30 minute playlist for my ipod and for each song I do a different action. So for example, for one song I would jog, the next song I would skip (with a jump rope), the next song I would walk and the next song I would sprint.
But I rarely do it because it's so tiring. I think I'll change things up though, I'll go to the park instead and sprint/run fast around a lap of the field, then walk one the sprint one etc.
I prefer to be in open spaces, I usually do interval training on my tennis court.
Mum lent me a book called "Deliciously Natural", and it's a bit of a family heirloom, my Grandma bought it for mum for her 24th birthday when they were both hard out marathon runners, Mum said that that book helped her IMMENSELY, and when she followed the guidelines she said she had so much energy, she was able to knock several minutes off her running times!
So I've been reading up to help me learn new ways of eating and staying healthy. So a new and improved diet, combined with some serious, regular interval training should help me reach my goal of 5k in 25 minutes or less :]

Makes me excited just thinking about it!!


Something I truly HATE with a passion, is being hungry. Argh it's such an awful, frustrating sensation! Usually, I pack a really decent lunch for school, have a huge breakfast and balance my food out well so I'm full most of the time and don't get hungry, but today was awful.
I completely underestimated the amount of food I would need to re-fuel after P.E and I got SO hungry, I was really upset and grumpy for the afternoon.
Being hungry sucks because you can't concentrate, it's hard to function properly without adequate energy, and it especially sucks at high school because you can't do anything about it! Since you're responsible for packing your own lunch, if you don't bring enough, tough shit!
I also hate that they don't allow us to snack during class. By "snack", I don't mean eating a sandwich, cup o soup and various fruits, I mean little things like bags of nuts, crackers and muesli bars to help us re-fuel when we start to lag.
I hate skipping meals too because it's so bad for your body and makes your body GAIN weight during short periods of time, and I like my body to have a healthy, balanced metabolism and meals! So today I was seriously pissed off.


I'm a little irritated because I pulled a few muscles today from sprints because the teacher never offered us the chance to stretch afterwards -_-
Frustrating.
I plan to do 15minutes or so of yoga tonight though because it's my "rest" day, so hopefully that'll ease some discomfort.


Anyway!
I have a super busy night filled with meal-planning and studying, so I'm outties.
xoxo

Laryngitis and 5 minute chocolate cake.

Well I'm home sick again :( Just as i recover from the bloody flu, I come down with Laryngitis! grrrr, It's a really inconvenient time of year for me to be getting sick. We have 7 weeks left altogether of school before NCEA externals.
The work load has increased and the seriousness of it has increased, so for me to be getting sick and needing to stay home, it's not very good.
However, this has given me all new inspiration to bake! Something which I've always been afraid to do coz i've never really been very good at it and because sugary foods scare me... :S
I don't know why, but whenever i am in ill health i'm always more likely to eat unhealthy :/ i wonder why that is.
This afternoon i made a 5 Minute Chocolate Cake, using a recipe i found on Rigel Suicides Flickr account and it actually tasted really really good!

The recipe is: 
4 tbsp flour
4 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp cocoa
3 tbsp milk
3 tbsp oil or butter/margarine
1 egg
splash of vanilla extract
splash of almond extract
handful of chocolate chips

mix dry ingredients in a large 18oz mug or bowl. add wet ingredients one at a time, mixing each thoroughly. add chocolate chips last. microwave 2-3 minutes, sprinkle with powdered sugar and enjoy!




I plan to make my mum's famous mars bar muffins tonight, so i'll keep you posted!
xoxo

Hot Pools, Nintendo WII + Hed PE.

I just got home from Karla's house, we had the mintest night! It started with Kelsi, Karla, Leonie and I going to the hot pools. That was really cool, it was just us four chicks and it was great to chill and just chat and gossip :) Also the hot water was HEAVEN on my poor sore muscles :( They're really bad today, but the hot water helped. Also, i have a nasty ass cold at the moment so that makes life ten times more difficult. But nevertheless, i had a really awesome time ^-^ We got some SWEEEET photos too! And a video :) Leonie's camera has this righteous case which goes underwater, so we have some photos which will have you trippin' balls!
Anyway, so the pools close at 9.30pm so we had to get out. We had some sweet chat in the changing rooms, but there was this pain in the ass little kid who kept butting in to our conversation, must of been like 3 or 4 hahaha.
We parted ways with Leonie at the gate and Kelsi, Karla and I continued onwards to home. I wasn't going to stay over at Karla's because I'm really sick with a bad cold and I thought I should have an early night (god knows i needed it, i was feeling dizzy and falling asleep at like 10!), but instead i decided to stay :) We got to Karla's and spent about an hour sitting at her breakfast bar with our various beverages- sparkling lemonade, hot ribena with honey, coffee, water and cordial, just chatting about anything and everything. Eventually after relocating to the floor in front of the fire and chatting for a few more hours, we hit the hay. Three of us in one queen size bed haha, it was surprisingly comfy! And i went to bed first so i was freezing and really happy to have two people to assist in warming it up. Snacks were salada crackers with Edam cheese. We woke up around 10.20 and after chatting about yummy food for 15 minutes or so, all decided we were hungry and wanted eats so we went and got brekky :) Breakfast for me consisted of  THEN.... THEN we busted out the Nintendo WII!!! Boxing yeeeee! :D MAN that is one hell of a work out! It was great, i just had to think of someone who highly fucks me off and i was good to go haha. My arms are so sore now, if you did that for 30 minutes you'd have your high intensity cardio DOWN! Best thing was, when the Karla's parents went out, we put on music really really loud and it was mostly Hed PE, so the style of the music fit perfectly with the nature of the activity we were doing. We spent some of the day sitting outside on the deck enjoying the sun which was nice :)
Kelsi went home around 1.30pm and Karla and I watched Jumper and she cooked lunch. Lunch consisted of two chicken burger patties and two scoops or so of chips. not overly healthy, but it's not something i eat often, so what the hell.
We then watched Kill Bill 2 which was gnarly as fuck and after we played a good ol' game of Tennis on the WII and golf, baseball and once again, BOXING!
I left at around 6.15pm, came home, had a shower, and here i am :)
I had such an awesome time!!
Can't wait to do it again ^.^


Love you all.
xoxo

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