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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?
Hi fitness pals! Been a minute, and it's been bad on my part lol. The hour change just... Fucked with me so much. I got used to running in the afternoon and now I don't want to run in the mornings since I don't like how rushed it feels for me. I've been putting off getting warmer clothing to run with because I have a hard time justifying it? Idk I'm just in a weird mindspace but I managed a run last week and did some good, heavy lifting this week and I'm trying to get back into it. I want to run a 5k on new years morning so I need to make sure I'm ready for that.
Idk, I felt like I had such a strong start going into the fall and I don't know if it's SAD or what but I'm just poorly motivated and feel bad haha. But I'm on the up swing and working on it!
Motivation waxes and wanes. Rebuilding and retaining momentum as what it's all about. Show yourself kindness, reduce your goal to what is manageable now. Maybe some other activity is more appealing for a while? The motivation will come back around.
Thank you!! I really appreciate that. I try not to be too hard on myself, but it's a bad habit that's in the works of being broken. And I think I will keep my goals to something more manageable for me, thank you. I was kicking myself for not running and lifting as much as I did in the summer, but that's unfair to me. Again, thank you for the words of wisdom (❁´◡`❁)
Recovering from a knee injury has been a slow and long process, but I ran 6x2 minutes without issues yesterday. Hopefully the problems with shins and calves won't return while I slowly build up the load.
Well I got sick and now have bronchitis so I haven't run in two weeks, which is not great given that I'm training for an ultramarathon. I'm going to try jogging really slowly today too see how close I feel to dying. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up the pace/distance in the coming weeks.
Edit: never mind, it was going to be a group run but it's raining too hard. Maybe I'll "run" on my own.
Phew, November was a challenge, was traveling or sick 3/4 of the month. Was proud to get training done during my last week of travel though I was load limited by equipment. But got the reps in which is what counts. No more travel for the foreseeable future so excited to get back into a rhythm.
Transitioned from 4x full body split to 6x upper lower split. I really like it as I'm mentally drained after a day of work and struggle to keep up the focus through two compound movements. The 6x split means I still go into the gym 3-4 days a week but do the other 2-3 days at home. Workouts are much shorter and I don't need to hold energy in reserve for another lift. Currently it looks like Squat 1, Bench 1, DL 1, Bench 2, Squat 2 and DL 2, Bench 3 and Bench 4.
Starting to see progress again, current goals:
Started adding running into my mix. I was hoping it wouldn't take away from lifting, but it really has.
I like the running piece and want to keep it, but I need to find the balance. My lifting program would have 1.5 hour nights, and I'm finding I really want to pare that down to maybe just 2 main lifts @ 1 hour total.