Hey-hey, my fitness gang! How are you this wonderful Monday? Ready to face the week?
I feel ready and excited! Why? Because it is a new start. New beginning of everything – it is your chance to start the week off right by eating healthier, exercising more and being happier 🙂
So, let’s look at my last week from the exercise standpoint. Here’s what I did:
Monday: Spin Class –Â 12.5 sweaty miles!
It was freezing cold outside that night and I left the sensor for my heart rate monitor in the car. I realized that after I got changed for my class and decided to ride “naked” rather than go back to the car in my capris and cycling shoes. So, “naked” ride it was! I have to say, it felt a little weird not to be able to see your heart rate, but it was definitely liberating not seeing the calories burnt. I think subconsciously as I approach my goal number of calories burnt during the class I stop working as hard as I should. So, I definitely enjoyed my “low-tech” ride on Monday!
Tuesday: Weight Lifting and Strength Training with Jim at the Gym
I feel like I am still burning calories from that one. It even hurts to type, leave alone steer…
I have noticed that I got a little too comfortable with my routine with the weights… Those personal trainers, they can read minds, you know? Just as I thought that I wouldn’t mind increasing the weight/number of reps, he did just that!
Oh. My. God.
That step forward is always killing me the first time I take it. I just hope that next time will be better and I will enjoy it a little more, and maybe suffer a little less afterwards… 🙂
Wednesday: Always Yoga Day, I mean ALWAYS.
After my killer workout on Tuesday it was a very much welcome practice. Looooove that stretching.
Thursday: a day of relaxation and not knowing what to do with myself
Is it just me or is there anyone else who feels like he/she is getting fatter by the minute on a rest day? 🙂
I do!
Anyway, it was nice to spend the evening “couch-potating” with hubby and catch up on the new Big Bang Theory.
Friday: Rest Day
Was originally supposed to be a yoga day, but I just wasn’t feeling it. So I listened to my lazy mind body and made it a rest day. 🙂
Saturday: Spinning+Yoga
Totally paid for my two rest days by making it a “Saturday Double”:
Sunday: Yoga
Was initially supposed to be a “pump day”, but I got caught up in the 49-ers game and only made it to yoga. Hey, it was totally worth it!
And that is what I did last week!
Tell me: what was your best workout of the past week?
I really need a yoga day of my own. I had a great 8 mile run on a “warm” Sunday morning!
Yoga works miracles on runners’ and bikers’ legs, doesn’t it?