Bit off more than I could handle, readjusting

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

Made yet another error with my body weight exercises. I thought I could handle a double day, turns out I was wrong. So time to adjust, no problem.

I did my first workout on Thursday, no problem, did a better job of handling the timing and reps. So didn't have the soreness from that one. Then Saturday I charged into my planned double down day: ran then came home and did my body weight work out. Turns out that was a mistake.

I was sore for 2 days. I was able to run on Monday, but slowly. And I didn't even try to do the body weight workout on Sunday or today, putting myself back behind schedule again. But I should be able to run again tomorrow, and keep the running schedule going.

Clearly I erred in thinking I was ready for a double day. But not a problem, I can adjust things. It means I lose Friday as a rest day, in order to get in my 4 body weight workouts per week, and my 3 running days. And if I complete a week with that schedule and feel that I need a rest day I will adjust again.

Because I can be flexible with this, so long as I am getting the exercises I want, and sticking to some programs. The hardest part right now is accepting that I cannot perform the long running routes I was doing last year, I see places I was running and think to myself how I want to run there again. But I know I can get there, I just need to be patient, stick to the program. And the body weight exercises will help me get there once I get into the flow with them.

Mind straight, Health good, time to get back to it!

Dear James, Daniel and Emily

After a couple of months of therapy I think I am ins a better head space to get back to taking care of my body. And with my foot healed, and last weeks cold gone I could finally get up and start on a new 'regime'.

I already have a running program (although I do need to adjust my schedule to account for taking some days off to get healthy.) And that is working so far. And more importantly the new shoes are doing what I expected as far as being able to handle the running.

Today I embarked on the Beginner program for the 'You Are your Own Gym' workout. I received a copy of the book a while back, and it really does seem to be a sensible approach, and I like the idea of just doing body weight exercises using what I have around the house. That goes along with my running as far as keeping as minimalist as possible (except the shoes, gotta buy good shoes.) It was a good workout, and I hope to be able to keep that up and stick to the regime.

And once I get settled into that I may start getting back to the calorie counting, but that is something on the horizon, because to be honest it is not the best thing for me to do as it does not get along with my OCD. Tracking calories when you are OCD is asking for a negative feedback loop ('I didn't hit my calories again?! Well screw it') It is better to just keep aware of my general eating, try to stick to keeping well rounded, and not over eating.

All this means that I feel that I can get back onto my Fitwinning lifestyle again.