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Happy Monday, friends!

For those who have followed for a while, you will recall that I joined a fitness thing called “Island Regimen” … an outdoor, boot-camp style fitness program.  I started in May of last year, got myself into better shape, and lost nearly 30 pounds.  I waned off in December due to a number of things, including injury, work, travel, and just plain ole’ laziness.

Because I still struggle maintaining a healthy lifestyle, especially in what I eat, I gained most of that weight right back.  Shame.

I’ve been easing back into the program and now there are classes 5 days per week … outdoor and indoor.

This morning was the official return of “Outdoor Regimen”.  It was great.  We met down on East Beach at the Coast Guard Station on St. Simons Island.  The routine wasn’t quite as hard because we took a 10-minute pause from 6:20-6:30 to enjoy the beauty of the Space Shuttle Launch.  Nevertheless, for this ole’, out-of-shape boy, it was still tough.

Opening Dynamic Warmups:
Typical, bunny hops, Russian walks, high knee pulls, step drills, sprints

We did this one cardio drill where we all got in a big circle and side-shuffled around, and kept changing directions.  My heart was racing.

Let’s Go Watch the Space Shuttle:

Our trainers were gracious enough to let us jog down to the beach to watch the launch.  But of course it was no Sunday stroll … we jogged and passed along big sand bags along the way!

Back to Work:

After the launch we raced back to the Coast Guard Station parking lot where we did about 10-15 minutes of a cardio drill that consisted of:

1.  Plyo/forward jumps to a hurdle.
2.  10 lateral jumps (side-to-side) over the hurdle.
3.  Sprint from hurdle to far end of parking lot and sprint all the way back.

We did this 5 times.

From the embedded data from my Garmin Forerunner 50 watch, you can see that I’m still WAY out of shape.  Since I’ve not done any jogging or cardio since December, my heart rate went crazy.  I believe it max’d at 193.  The dip in activity was between 6:20 – 6:30 AM when we caught our breath, watching the shuttle blast through the sky. (click the “view details” link for more data if you’re interested)

So how about you? Any health or fitness goals for 2010? Are you on track?