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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
I've been working out again for the past few weeks and making sure I stay on it! It's something I've neglected and I don't know what happened but it was like a switch in my brain got switched and I'm like why the hell am I NOT doing this? So I alternate lifting and cardio days.
Cardio days so far have just been the indoor cycle, but I usually do 30 to 60min, leaning more towards 60 as I get used to 30. I vary position (sitting, standing, crouching) and intensity as I go through my workout playlist.
Lifting days I've been alternating between arms and legs, with fullbody workouts thrown in there. I have power blocks that I use and just do some general lifts, like curls, squats, shoulders, etc. with body weight exercises like lunges and planks/reverse planks. I'm just kind of feeling out what it is I want to do for my strength training while also making sure it's intense enough to get my muscles working.
I'd like to lose weight, but that's hard even with how I've adjusted my eating. I've been trying to focus on eating less, while making sure what I eat had better nutritional value. But I'm also not too pressed on it because overall I'm doing body recomposition, and I wanna see where that takes me before more seriously tucking into tracking my food.
I have a hard time emotionally with tracking calories and part of that is even when I was actively lifting in college, to loose weight I could only do 1300 calories a day 🥲 I'm short, I'm a woman, and I love food so if I do track calories again it'll be more to lose at a slower weight because that fucking sucked.
Overall, I've been focusing on my body, as my yearly resolution. I want to be the best me I can and i want to be healthy and buff and squat weights like no one's business. I'm just happy I'm finally more seriously working towards that goal.
That's awesome! I'm a big fan of the bike as well. Recently, Sugar Ray and Sheryl Crow have been carrying me through my sessions. Any favorites on your workout playlists?
I think this is a great tack to take. My partner has a tendency to focus on the scale while going through body recomposition but I'm a firm believer that composition matters much more than the numbers on the scale. Plus you're getting stroooong!!!!
Big kudos, it sounds like it's going great!
Thank you so much!! Non scale victories are an important part of the journey and matter just as much if not more in some cases.
From my Playlist Doses & Mimosas by cherub gets me through that last little bit of my workout lol! I like to sing along as I pedal, really helps me get in the groove. But Comme Des Garçons (Like The Boys) by Rina Sawayama gives me the jump start to my workout! It's a good pace setter.