Day 1 is DONE!

Hey All!  Greetings from Fitness Ridge Malibu!  Well day 1 is done and over with and I'm SPENT!  It has been a crazy long day!

Here's how the day was laid out:
6 am - Stretch Class
6:30 am - Know your gym intro
7 am - Breakfast
7:45 am - Hike Descriptions
8 - 11 am - HIKE!
11:15 am - Stretch Class
12:15 pm - lunch
1:15 pm - Class - Budgeting your calories
2:15 pm - Circuit Prep Class
2:30 pm - Core Training
3:30 pm - Water Intervals
4:30 pm - Circuit Training
5:30 pm - Dinner
6:15 pm - Class - Spending your calories

All I can say is I worked my butt off, but it was great.  The trainers are amazing.  They are constant sources of motivation.  When you think you're done and can't handle one more thing, they're miraculously there beside you, pushing you to your best.  I've really connected with a few of the trainers, so it's great.  Tanya ROCKS!  She shared with us her personal story and what things were like for her, so it was really cool to hear.

For those of you who have been curious about the menu - Here is what we see when we walk into the dinning hall in the morning.

Breakfast was great.  It's kinda like what we do for Weight Watchers - Turkey Bacon & Egg Sandwich with soy cheese and a side of mixed fruit.

When it was time for the hike, we all took the 12 almonds and a banana with us.  We were told that you need something halfway through a hike.

The hike was beautiful.  This was the assessment hike to figure out which group out of 6 you will be in.  I got my wish - I'm in the middle.  I got group 4!  Not the worst... but not the best.  Today's hike was on the property.  I did 15,000 steps for 5.3 miles in 2 1/2 hours.  It was crazy!

The funny part about the hike - There is a sort of farm on the property.  One of the animals there, a cow is famous.  It's the cow from the California Cows Commercial.  We thought that was kinda cool!






For lunch, the Tilapia Tacos and mixed salad were amazing.  But the big surprise of it all, was the Sunchoke Soup.  I had no idea what a Sunchoke was, but we were told it's like ginger root.  Our server even brought one out for us to see!

Here's the Sunchoke --->

The classes were great... granted, we were all exhausted... they really rocked it with the music.  They had those songs that just got us all going.  Tanya was HELL in the pool.  She truly beat us up!

The cool part is, seeing the numbers on the body bug.  Granted, the bug died halfway through one afternoon class - yeah... that whole charging thing... but despite that and the swim class, I hit 25,577 steps, without those two... for over 6,000 calories burned.  It's crazy!

Dinner was good too!  We honestly can't beat the food... and to think, it's only around 1,200 calories.  It fills us up and is soo good!

Well that's it for today.  I'm off to go and get my knee taped!  I'm soo psyched to learn how to do it using the K-Tape!  From there... it's all about BED!  Night all!