Alrighty then, it is my intention (and since I've had so many intentions before and reserved my place in hell with a private parking spot, adding more intentions certainly can't hurt) to start blogging about fitness next week. I have to get through this weekend and time for the last couple of days seems to slipping right through my fingers plus the doctor has added a writing assignment for me, which has taken more time that I thought it would. It's a pain log and I feel that as I'm starting out, I need to be very clear about things and go into good detail but as time goes on, it should be easier to update.
I want to add two other disclaimers here before I head off to watch The Wild Things with Trey.
First, I am under doctor's orders to go with light weights and high reps so that's what my plan looks like. I'm doing lots of reps with very little weight (5 and 10 pound dumbbells). For those of you that are following along at home though, you can alter things by adding weight and lowering the reps. Almost everything that I'm doing this month is designed to make me sweat. I promised my class that I would make them sweat for the next couple of months so there are lots of combined movements. When we are working shoulders, we are working quads too so that the whole body involved. When we are working the back, we are working the hamstrings at the same time so the entire back of the body is getting a workout. The whole cardio aspect of the workouts has been bumped up a notch. A couple of the workouts leave us completely breathless. We take 90 to 120 seconds to catch our breath and then we do another circuit. If you do it the way we are doing it (ahem, Lena), it's much more of a toning workout than a muscle building workout.
Second, I'll post my food journal again for those that are interested but be warned that I really don't care what I eat right now. I've lost about 12 pounds since I hurt my neck because I don't eat enough and I have taken that as free rein to eat anything I want.
For instance, have you ever heard of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food? Now, I'm not an ice cream person, probably indulging a couple of times a year if we are doing something fun like vacation or a baseball game. However, this is a yummy bit of gooeyness and over the last couple of months, I've eaten a couple of these little phishy, caramely, marshmallowy, goodness.
That said, I have been trying to eat better because I have come to the conclusion that if I'm not going to eat very much, what I do eat should probably be somewhat nutritious. The exact opposite of my original "free rein" thinking. Surviving on Phish Food and Kettle Chips probably isn't the most healthy thing to do. It's not all about weight. In fact, as this blog has gone on, it has nothing to do with weight. It's about health and the weight will follow.
Now, flip back one more time as I tell you that it is a challenge. The pain or the meds or both have changed my cravings, desires, and portions over the last couple of months and every day brings with it a new challenge to fuel my body in a productive way. There is a good chance that this food log is not going to be pretty and I'm not going to spruce it up or leave things out to make it look better for this blog. Yeah, I try to teach people to eat right and exercise but I'm not going to fudge my blog to make me look better (even if the fudge comes in litte fish shapes).
So, there you have it. That's what's coming next week and I'll also start making my videos. You get to see just how light the weights are but it will show you the exercises and you can modify the weight and reps to suit your purposes.
Now, I'm off with a change of plans. It turns out that Trey has chosen board games for our family time. Time for me to go kick everyone's ass at Sorry!
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