7:00 am Breakfast
8:00 am Last Chance Workout
11:30 am Lunch
12:30 pm Graduation
1:30 pm Double Dip
5:15 pm Dinner
Today's schedule was a half day with a half day recovery. For those of us who are not leaving today, we got to sleep in! Breakfast was at 7am and we had nothing before breakfast. If people were leaving today, they had to weigh in. Before I tell you more details, I just have to share this picture of wall art that is hanging in the hotel lobby. It bothers me considerably that at the seam, it does not match up correctly from one panel to the next. The seam is vertical, at the left side top corner of the red pillow.
7:00 am Breakfast
Breakfast was my usual ezekial toast, peanut butter, and half banana. We had watermelon today. it was sweet!
8:00 am Last Chance Workout
Last Chance Workout - we went to the beach! It was a lovely day. Not too cold and not hot anymore. I dressed in layers and brought my music. The warmup was to walk all the way down to the picnic shelter, and then all the way down to the beach. Then walk back up to the picnic shelter and back up to the vans to help carry stuff. I got to carry a big roll of mats. They were kinda heavy but I played it tough and carried it the whole way down to the picnic shelter.
They divided us into 2 groups. My group, led by Sue, got to do a combination of slam balls (throwing large foam balls at the ground repeatedly), squats, and walking up and down a large incline. yowza that hurt! I think the slam balls and squats were easier than the inclines. But the music in my headphones helped it all!
My group then went down to the beach where Lindsay led us in several exercises involving the weighted bars like lunges, squat and press, and fire axe. I am much better at a fire axe move on my right side than my left side. I get confused on my left side.
Then we did some core exercises - my favorite was the swimmers. I lay down on the ledge and pretended like I was swimming. There weren't enough mats for everyone so I did most of mine standing. But the swimming one, I tried the ledge. I didn't even get wet!
11:30 am Lunch
Artichoke and Potato Soup - this was tasty. I like artichokes so I enjoyed the soup.
Risotto with mushrooms and barley - I actually had quinoa. I guess the risotto had onions in it. I liked both options - i tried someone else's risotto.
Chicken - basic baked or grilled chicken. nothing too special
asparagus - it was asparagus. I liked it. but nothing special.
12:30 pm Graduation
weep fest!!!!
we all got a chance to talk about our experience or what we had learned. Several of the people had been here multiple weeks. Patrick was here 11 weeks and Sarah was here between 8 and 10 weeks. They had a special video for Patrick and he even made a video himself of his time. There was also a video of our week. I was in it a few times! I'll try and upload it here later. A few people were leaving right after graduation so the goodbyes have started.
1:30 pm Double Dip
This was the last workout for our group. It was optional. Kathy, Lisa, Stephanie and I did the workout. Andra, one of the trainers did the workout too. And Altamino led the workout. It was boxing, but not kickboxing. I enjoyed it. It's a good way to get stress out!
Several of us went to "The Cave" - a bar in the middle of the lobby, for a celebratory drink. I hung out for awhile.
5:15 pm Dinner
tbd.... I'm writing this before dinner. I'll update more tomorrow morning after the weigh-out and breakfast.
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