I’ve successfully hit my workout goal of 5 workouts a week for the last 2 weeks. I started Lift More on BODi last Monday and it reminded me what I love about lifting the short term pain for long term gain. It’s too early in the 8 week program to see results but I’m feeling stronger despite needing to decrease weights at times but that’s par for the course with this program format. One week every other workout is quad sets workouts (usually 2 from 1 muscle group and 2 from another) x2, the others are super sets where you focus on 1 muscle group for the block. The pace is a quick pace too so your really getting the volume training in and your heart rate is up because rest time is short. The super set workouts have HIIT workouts and the quad sets have burn outs that are killer after you just fatigued your muscles with weight training. I enjoy the programs, its a great workouts and the trainers one liners are the right amount of motivation to get me through the workout. Often times I give up when it gets too hard but right at that moment the trainer says something and its enough to keep me going. I’ve been lifting for years and I still have to take a one second break in some exercises and I’ve learned to tell myself that it’s ok, just keep moving.
Sleep is still an ongoing issue for me so I haven’t been getting my runs in as planned but I did go out Saturday last week and run/walk 4K and went for a nice evening walk on Tuesday with my kids, which resulted in a better night sleep that night. I hit the gym for 5:50 the first 3 days of the week and I’m exhausted. I’m still catching up on poor sleep from our ice storm and loss of power and I’m looking forward to getting sleep this weekend with no where to be early with hockey over and not needing to get up to prepare a feast. With the running part of my plan, I want to restart that plan this week, I have a 5K run I’m participating in for race weekend in May and my goal is to be able to run the entire 5K and finish within 35 minutes. I received a free running training plan for signing up for the race so I’m going to start that Saturday and my hope is to get 3 days a week of running in. Spring feels like it’s finally here so its time to get outside and enjoy the fresh air. Between these runs I want to get out and walk for a minimum of 30 minutes a day. I had the best success last year when I incorporated walking daily into my routine.
I am also working on increasing my water intake. For me, water needs to be ice cold for me to drink and I seem to have the best success in drinking more when I drink out of a cup with a straw. I bought some colour changing cups for use at the office and have left one in the car to take back and forth. If I have water while in the car on the way into and from the office, and just driving around. It dawned on me I could get an additional 24oz of water intake on my ride home while stuck in traffic. This has got to help me increase my water intake and hopefully it doesn’t backfire with me having to pee while stuck in traffic lol. I’m also trying to choose water with meals instead of soda, even if its diet soda, especially when out. We went out for dinner last night and I chose water to drink instead of soda.
