And here's my face, ready to sweat:
There is no safety net!
Okay, I promise I won't rhyme this whole post...
Although it's tempting, I bet....
I was wondering about all the resolutioners yesterday, but Monday morning was quiet to normal (Mondays are usually the quietest). Parking lot looked almost empty. I thought maybe 5 am didn't get the resolutioners like you hear about? or maybe it just isn't that bad anymore. I mean, do you make resolutions? Did you this year?
Was one of your resolutions about fitness? or health?
I don't resolute. Not just because it's the new year anyway.
I resolute all the time, make goals, strive for more, make myself promises...
but I don't make huge goals for 2016, just because the earth went around the sun again... that's just me. That's what works for me.
If I make a huge yearly "dream" then I set myself up to fail. I don't want any more excuses to quit than I already have!
I try to make small "step-goals" constantly.
"Step-goals" are where you reach a goal, or are approaching it, so you move it.
I may have made that up, but I doubt it. I know I didn't invent the concept!
It's like when you are long distance running. You start to feel tired, you pick a landmark (ie "when I reach that telephone pole I will walk for a bit") and then when you reach it, you don't walk, you extend the landmark a little further ("okay, I'm at the pole, now to the next intersection") and further and further until you build up your stamina etc.
So that's what I try to do all year long with everything, fitness and health included.
That's me. I don't judge you if you make resolutions in the beginning of the new year, it just isn't my style. So when I pulled up to the gym yesterday, I didn't know what to expect. It seemed to have the usual attendance level...
I did cardio yesterday. That is one of my fitness changes or "goals", is to do cardio 3 times a week and weights, abs etc twice a week. I do have a goal to lose some weight, or at least transform it. And this is what will work best for that goal.
Once that is achieved I will have to switch it up to maintain what I accomplished. But that could take a year or more, no idea.
Treadmill is still my fav. I treaded, I biked, and I finally figured out the Fish Game on the rowing machine!!! and it's a lot of fun!!
(Step 1. read the instructions on the machine - should be obvious, but I never thought of that last time... Step 2. you row hard your fish moves up, you row light he drops down. Step 3. Avoid big fish that eat you, eat fish smaller than you. Points are 30 for tiny fish 60 for medium fish I ended after the 5 minutes with 535 points (you lose points if you get eaten, not sure how many...)) That was way better than last time of 90 points!!!
So that was cardio day! Everyone's dreaded first day back, wasn't so bad!
The last time I gymed was Christmas Eve I think...
New Year, Gym Day 2:
This morning the parking lot was the busiest I have ever seen it... there were people everywhere! Resolutioners!!!! They skipped Monday apparently... but today.... EVERYWHERE!!!!
Okay you couldn't actually tell... except for the full-er parking lot...
The women's only room was normal. I recognized everyone in there. There were 3 new ones when I left after my hour... and yes, I do know all of them. We are secret friends. Secret in the fact that they are my friends, and I know everything about them. Except their names, and we have never spoken...
Anyway, you know what I did today?!?
Wait for it...............
Build up the tension..............................
and anticipation........................................................................
I WENT ON THE STAIR MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes. I did. 5 whole warm up minutes of climbing stairs! I put it on 10. No idea what that means, but it wasn't as hard as climbing the 2 flights at work! and I do that like 5 times a day! Very proud of myself :) <-- that happy face would be bigger if I could make it bigger....
there we go! look how happy I amI picked up some weights, and did some stuff.
I laid down on the mat - and thought about staying there a while... but I made myself sit up. Then lay down. Then sit up again.... like 10 times! arg.
I did some abs, then more on the floor cardio, to warm back up after my ab-nap.
Then I did more weights things, then I went to 5 leg machines, before walking for a few minutes to cool down.
Stretches............. and done. (sigh)
The parking lot was even fuller when I left! Woah! Good for you guys! Get in there, get a machine, work that body, make sure you don't hurt no body!
How was your workout today? Did it last night? How did that go? What did you do differently, or for the first time?
What will you try next time?
Do you already have a plan for tomorrow?
Tomorrow is cardio again for me.
And tonight I plan on buying some veggies! I am craving all kinds!
gonna try this recipe:
http://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-recipes/healthy-steamed-salmon-recipe-veggies
Looks good.
Maybe if I keep using that stair machine (I think it might be called a "stair master" ?? but I shall continue to call it a "stair machine" until I have mastered it) then I will be able to increase my goal to walking 5 flights every morning, from my car to my office?
Maybe.
Until next time!!! Keep fun, and have fit!
Check out the Space Jam vid below!!!
-Na
https://youtu.be/J9FImc2LOr8
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