Sunday, February 7, 2010

Push-up Heaven and a Big Ouch!

This weekend has been crazy to say the least. I had Friday off from work because the women's imaging department in the clinic where I work had construction crews working on a few projects. One of them was to make our doors wider for the larger wheel-chairs that many of our patients must have. I was happy to get a day off and used it to my advantage. I got a ton of things done including a five mile outside run and much needed core & ab work. .
I was going through some of our summer vacation pictures and wanted to add a few to my post. These are a few of my favorites:) This was one of the times where my kids actually just sat quietly. All three of them were completely mesmirized by nature and the lulling sound of the waves lapping onto the dock:) For me this is priceless!!

These next pictures are of me and my husband. If you were to ask him about these pictures he would tell you that I was being a total pain in the ass:) I was making my daughter take a few pictures of us and he was getting annoyed because I wanted to check every one. I was making sure that we were both smiling and not looking like total Homers! Clearly, after the tenth one I gave up...no such thing as perfection:)

My daughter Kay had a basketball tournament this weekend and they played in the championship game. Kay is a point guard and is the fastest girl on the team. She busts her butt every time she plays. She is very strong and is not a afraid of anything....I mean not afraid of guarding girls that are about forty pounds heavier and six inches taller than her!






I love this picture of her! Notice that she is yelling something and I am pretty sure they could hear her a couple courts down:)


Kay's knees are a mess from all of the times she has hit the floor going after the ball, going up for a layup and ect. We always make fun of her saying that she better not choose a career where she needs to wear dresses:)


Kay was the high scorer for her last game and made six out of six free throws in addition to her other baskets:) I am very proud of her and love watching her play ball!

Okay, so Saturday I did more of my push-ups and core work. My push-ups were looking a little scary. I started off and was able to do eight that were okay looking. Kay was watching me and started laughing at me:) She told me that my form sucked and that I didn't know how to do a push up. I said, "Alright smarty pants lets see you do it!" She then got down and proceeded to do fifty of them!! My mouth was hanging open because I figured she could do at least twenty but didn't expect her to bust out fifty. She then looked at me and said, "Mom, I can do one hundred...do you want to see?" Wow!!! I asked her to look at my form and tell me what I was doing wrong.


She noticed that my arms were to close together...I moved them a little farther apart.


So here is the good news....I did thirty in a row!! Let me repeat...I did thirty flipping push-ups in a row and without stopping!!


I was so thrilled that I danced a happy dance! The emotion that I felt was profound joy!!

So, I decided to take a little break and see if I could do it again. Guess what? I did!! I did twenty-five without pain but the last five left my arms shaking. I was still able to do the last five! Woo hoo! Thank you Kayla:) Who would of thought that my fourteen year old daughter could teach me the correct form and help me to achieve such improvement instantly!!



I think I am going to like doing push-ups from now on and if there is anyone who is having issues seperate your arms a little. Actually, in this picture my arms could of been seperated even a little farther apart. Saturday I also got outside and ran a five miler. This morning I went out again and was planning on a ten miler. My run did not go as planned. Usually what I will do is look at my garmin and when I hit five miles I will turn around and come back home. Well, at five miles I started making my way back home. When I hit mile eight I sort of tripped on some frozen slush and pulled something. Ouch! Ouch! I think I might of said a few swear words too. It was my hip...my bad right hip that I have been having issues with. I attempted to jog slowly but after a few feet it was obvious that running was not an option. I walked the two remaining miles home. I iced it for about an hour and am hoping for the best. I will continue to ice it today and try to stretch real good. Hopefully everything will be fine and I will still be able to run my scheduled half marathon for next Sunday.


This is our cat Lilly, she is so sweet and we love her dearly:) Adam tagged me and I am suppose to come up with a bucket list. I will save that for my next post. I hope that everyone had a great weekend:) I can't wait to read the race reports from this weekend's half marathons. Oh, and one more thing....Friday evening I went to Blockbuster Video to rent something to watch. I remember Lam had mentioned the TV show Glee in one of his posts. I saw that they had the entire first season. We watched the whole first season and I am addicted! If there is anyone who has not watched Glee, I urge you to rent it. It will not disappoint you:) It is such an awesome show with so many valuable lessons! I cried like a baby and also laughed my ass off. I am in love with the story line and characters. My favorite part of the show is the musical productions and singing!! It is filled with eightie's music and one of the productions featured one of my old boyfriends, Jon Bon Jovi's songs!! My husband even liked it and he is not easily impressed! Go rent it:)

35 comments:

  1. Your daughter is so cute and yet, so tough! Go girl!

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  2. Julie - way to go with the push-ups!!

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  3. Ouch..it's never fun to slip and pull something while out on a run. I hope it heals fine and you're able to do your race! Good luck!

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  4. I love the pics of your daughter's game!! She looks really intense and into it!! I am ashamed of how many pushups I can do, I need to work on it! It's so important to be strong in our core, so good for you! Hope the rest of the weekend was good too!

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  5. Your daughter is awesome! She will be a force to be reckoned with for sure! You are amazing too with those pushup numbers! I can only do 20 on a good day!
    Another Glee fan here! Can't wait for season 2 and they are supposed to have a Madonna episode with lots of her songs!
    Have a peaceful evening!

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  6. I need your daughter to come help me with pushups! I loved the picture of your three kids on the dock. It's a keeper.

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  7. Nice job on all the push ups - that's awesome! The basketball pictures are great.

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  8. I love the intensity in Kay's face! Priceless! And I'm glad she helped you along with the pushups. In my experience, the 100 can be done but for me it took a looong time with minimal improvements. But you will get there!

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  9. Those are all amazing pictures. Your daughter looks so intense...I love those pictures of her...she's also very beautiful!
    Great job on the pushups...you win :)
    Hope your hip doesn't give you too much trouble...do take care.

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  10. Great job with the push ups! I will give the wider arm stance a try next time I am at the gym. That's incredible that your daughter can do so many! I hope your hip is fine and that you are back on the road again soon! Good luck next weekend!

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  11. Nice push-ups;-) and nice to see a candid pic of you and your DH. Thx for sharing!;-)

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  12. Love the pics! Your daughter looks so much like you! Congrats on the pushups! My hubby is anal about pushup form and would get on my back all the time until I got it right!! I actually love doing them now! Hope you just got a stinger and the ol' hip will be good as new tomorrow!

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  13. What a fun post with very cute pictures!
    Your daughter looks like a pro...congrats to her on her great game. I'm glad she's able to help you with your pushups. I find that teens often like to help older folks but don't know quite know how to sometimes.

    Ouch on your fall! I hope it heals fast and you can get back out there really soon!

    I'm so happy that you got to experience Glee! Isn't it such an awesome show? I find some many poignant lessons to be learned in every episode. And you're right, the songs and the music productions are not half-bad either! Can't wait fot the next season to start in a couple of months!

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  14. Great post! Love the family pics and the cat. Way to go with the push ups! 30 is really good!

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  15. you rock on those push ups, I have to do the lame modified ones, on my knees.

    love all the family photos, you and your husband are too cute!

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  16. Love all the neat pix! The one of the kids on the dock is awesome. Your daughter is beautiful-she looks like you! Great job on the push-ups. Keep up the hard work and great form! Lilly the Cat is so sweet looking - I sometimes miss not having a cat - I think they are fun and soothing. Hope the hip cooperates for next weekend - I bet it will.
    Kathleen

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  17. Great shots! Thanks for sharing! Trying to get caught up on everyones blog after a few days away from it all.

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  18. Great pictures! Push ups and me don't get along so well... Kudos for kicking it good!

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  19. Wha? You do more push ups then me? That's it. I'm hitting the gym hard today. OK. I was gonna hit it hard anyways but not I have motivation! LOL... Proper form actually makes the push ups harder. You rocked it!!

    Love the pictures of the fam and teh kitty. Something tells me that if your daughter isn't worried about her knees now, she won't be worried about them later.

    Hope the hip is feeling better today!

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  20. You are destined to be the Push-up Queen. Rock on!

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  21. Love the pictures! Great job on those pushups. I could only do 50 if I was doing them "girlie style". Oh and I love Glee too.

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  22. Nice job with the push-ups!! Very impressive!

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  23. Love the pics, and great job on the pushups!

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  24. Your daughter is awesome. And I love her knees. I used to be the same way growing up, lots of scars, some of which I still have and love:) Awesome job with the push-ups!

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  25. Queen of push-ups, you are! What great pictures, too! Your daughter is fierce and adorable all at the same time. You are obviously a proud mama:)

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  26. You are about as sweet as they come, thanks for thinking of me. I've watched so much HGTV my head's about to explode. I think I'm going to venture outside in this 10 degree weather and go to the gym and do some stretching an dmaybe run a mile or 4. :). I think it will be very good for me. I never get sick but I think the stress of life has caused my immune system to crack and wham, I got what I feared was coming. Oh well. Better it came now than the week before Boston...yikes!

    I was reading Jenn's blog about your little unlocked door experience and I was laughing uncontrollably. Too, TOO funny!! Thanks for that cuz that totally made my day. Hahaha.

    Thanks, Julie - you are so awesome!!!!

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  27. Haha- thanks for stopping by my blog; those stories are the best!

    Looks like you have one awesome kid!!!

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  28. You did 30 flipping push ups in a row? Regular ones? You rock girl! I can barely do 10.

    Your daughter is such a cutie. She looks a lot like her mom. :) Looks to be a great basketball player too.

    I hope your hip feels better soon. Maybe you should purchase some Yak Traks. I just bought some!

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  29. I love all of the pictures.

    Your daughter looks intense! I'd totally be one of those guys who would get bonked in the head if she threw the ball at me.

    AND, she did FIFTY push ups? Wowza.

    Can't wait to hear what you come up with on your bucket list! :)

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  30. Nice pictures, great looking family!

    Good job on the push ups, keep at it!!!

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  31. Thanks for sharing a little about your family. It's always nice to see balance in life.

    And there *no* resemblance betwen you and your daughter now is there? My goodness! You two are spitting images of each other!

    Congrats on the pushups. I don't think I can do five....

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  32. Great job on the push-ups; I will do my push-up test this evening. This will let me know if I can move on to week 5 of the push-up challenge or if I "get" to repeat week 4 (again). My son played high school basketball, I really miss it.

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  33. Do you think your daughter could come here and give me some pointers? Though...I really don't think my issue with push ups is my form...but more the weight of my ass! Great job Julie!

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  34. Love the pics of your daughter playing ball! I played basketball in high school. Lots of fun! Great job with the push ups! They're such a great workout!

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