Crazy busy morning at
work and haven’t had a chance to write anything. Therefore this probably going to be a very
short and sweet kind of one. Mainly because I am not really sure why I even
bother writing this crap out most of the time and then I do often go back
myself and read crap from a year or two years ago and I am glad I have the
diary of what I was thinking and where I was at. So I suppose the answer to the question is, I
do it for myself which is really the only reason to do any of it anyway. No one else is ever going to care nearly as
much as you do. And it really should be
that way. Self-love. I keep trying to advocate this concept that
at the end of the day you just have to love yourself first before anyone
including the universe is going to understand, reward, or change you.
Last night, I mean, after my crazy running morning I did go
to the gym and I did kick ass. Yup. I
said it. Self-love right? So I did do a
warm up mile on the treadmill, which makes 7.5 miles total for yesterday. I sprinted actually. Okay, my sprints are not that fast, but I ran
faster than I would run doing a 3 mile run and especially a 6 mile run. So I ran faster is my point. Then I took the 30 minute ab/core class. Basically what I expected. A bunch of crappy
exercises that perhaps I didn’t really want to do but sometimes being forced to
do them is nice. But as they were not
high intensity it doesn’t result in any real calorie burn. It happens.
And then I did bring out the good old hand written upper body workout
that I prepared for myself. It’s been
forever since I wrote out one of these lists and I was reminded why they are
good last night. I certainly would have
quit far sooner than this list allowed me to.
I have a thing about accomplishing the things I say I am going to and for
the same reason that I will run every single run on my training plan, I will do
every single exercise I write down on a list.
Crazy.
So I did my little list, I did every single exercise, every
single rep as written and by the time I was done, I was REALLY done. This work out on top of my early wake up to
run was like crazy enough for the day.
So I felt satisfied when my heart rate monitor clicked over and showed
365 calories burned. In hindsight if I
had been thinking clearly I would have forced out another 15 calorie burn
because in the AM I burned 620 calories and this made my combined total
985. You see why I wanted 15 more,
right? Anyway, here is the workout pic.
And just for good measure, a close up of the actual workout
I did.
I got home and I honestly don’t even exactly remember what I
did, not much though before Chris was home and we were eating dinner and watching
some TV and going to bed. It seems when
you wake up at 5:30 AM, you find yourself tired at 10 PM. Makes sense.
Nothing too fancy about my evening.
More of the same really.
Today I am tired.
Right now, given how crazy busy my morning was I am feeling highly
unmotivated to do exercise tonight but you know I will. I have a 3 mile run planned and then a 45 minute
strength training class with Amanda and that is it. That is all she wrote for
the night and that is going to be more than good enough. Especially given this is day 5 in a row of
exercise. By the time tomorrow hits
things are going to get lazy but I have set myself up to not be lazy tomorrow
though. I will take a class and then I
have my last personal training session that I have paid for. And then for now I don’t plan on buying any
more sessions because while they are torturous and lovely they also are torturous
and expensive and probably not that necessary in my life. The only reason I had them was because they
came with the gym package I purchased when I joined the new gym. It was cheaper and made more sense to get
that package which included 4 sessions.
Anyway, that’s the plan really. And of course because my life seems to be
playing out quite a bit these days on Instagram, here are the Instagram posts
from yesterday and one from this morning.
Sorry I’ve become a picture selfie whore. But I keep discovering new apps on my phone
that allow me to design and make pretty collages and I LOVE it so much. It’s like totally fun for me to put together
these little things and design and right now I’m just having a blast with that. So there. It’s my page, and as I’ve already
expressed pretty certain that its mostly all for me anyway so I don’t
care. Maybe someday the picture parade
will fade, but not anytime soon.
Be back at you all tomorrow. When hopefully I’m not so busy
and feeling a little more Zen like.
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