week 6 and final challenge {done}

I made it through the full six weeks without giving up.  I will admit, my focus drifted the last two weeks but I pushed through and completed six weeks of bootcamp.

The final workout was a seven exercise challenge and included our final weigh in and measurements.

I was fairly happy with my results.  Considering I could have tightened up my nutrition a little and pushed myself a little harder in the gym the last two weeks I am happy with my final weight loss of 10 pounds and a loss of nearly 13 inches.

I am a little disappointed I wasn't able to complete all seven of the final exercises but I have to remind myself I am much stronger than when I started and I had never done two of the exercises during the bootcamp.

Here's what we were challenged to do and my results:


Suspension Tuck In - 30 {by the grace of God, I got 30 of these done!}
Suspension Pikes - 30 {I did 7 before falling}
Chaturanga Push Up - In the suspension cables, held an inch of the ground for 15 seconds {I fell flat on my face}
6 MPH treadmill run - 2 minutes {done!}
Barbell Chest Press - 30, bar only (35 pounds) {done, even if I struggled through the last 10!}
Leg Press  - 30, 120 pounds {done!}
Barbell Squat - 30, bar only (35 pounds) {done!}

Overall I was happy with the challenge, the trainers and the gym.  The only thing I didn't really agree with was the nutritional recommendations.  They gave every person the same nutritional recommendations, not taking into consideration age, sex, current weight, etc.  I did my own research online and ended up raising my numbers a little bit.  I loosely followed the IIFYM calculator, found here.  I would have starved on their recommendations but found a pretty healthy balance of weight loss and kept my sanity!

Now that the challenge is over I have to keep going on my own motivation.  I have to suck it up and use the weight area of my gym.  I'm planning on going tomorrow, early, so hopefully it's fairly empty!

I'm not stopping but I will be taking a little bit of a "break" this weekend while on vacation in beautiful Northern Michigan :)