Hi guys! How are you this fine Monday morning?
I feel like I didn’t sleep at all last night…still not awake! I blame the weather…
Anyway, I wanted to share my weekly exercise recap with you – with ups and downs of the last week. Here we go!
{{MONDAY}} Spinning
As always on Mondays, I took a spin class with Jim last week – 12.5 sweaty miles and pure joy of great music and company.
{{TUESDAY}} Weights and Strength Training
Usual weekly meeting with Jim at the gym 🙂 Awesome as always! I am starting to feel more confident in the weights room on my own. I think I can have the sessions with Jim once in 2 weeks now instead of weekly, and keep going by the usual schedule (twice a week) on my own.
{{WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY}} – Unplanned Rest Days
I don’t know what happened. I had a crazy week at work and a couple of commitments in the evenings, but generally – I was just not feeling it. I could not motivate myself to workout. I was sleepy all the time, very sluggish and lazy – all those 3 days. Felt terribly guilty for not working out, but still could not bring myself off the couch in the evenings.
{{SATURDAY}} Walk and Weights
On Saturday morning I finally started feeling guilty enough and feeling like I owe myself a workout 🙂 So I got up bright and early and headed over to the YMCA.
Normally I do my Saturday double – spinning+yoga, but this time I felt like changing things around and bringing some variety to my workouts.
So I walked a mile on a treadmill:
And then did some weights!
All that made me feel just GREAT, which immediately resulted in this happy “selfie” in the car 🙂
After the awesome workout and all the “selfies” were done, I headed home and made myself a super energizing power smoothie.
1/2 cup (firmly packed) kale, 1 frozen banana, 2/3 cup unsweetened almond milk, 1 tbsp. Vega protein powder, 6-8 whole roasted almonds
{{SUNDAY}} Yoga Practice and Home
A while ago I got a free gift from Yoga Journal – a DVD (first in a series) with home yoga practice. I didn’t subscribe for the rest of the series since I rarely get a chance to workout at home, but got to keep the first DVD they had sent me. Yesterday, while hubby was taking a nap, I decided to give it a try! I have to say – I regretted not subscribing to the series! It was a great flow with just enough challenges for my home practice.
I absolutely loved practicing yoga at home – I dimmed the lights, turned on my candle warmer, fought off the kitty who was extremely interested in my yoga matt, and just spent an hour doing something for myself. Who doesn’t love that? I should definitely do it more often!
And that concludes my weekly exercise recap!
What was your favorite workout last week?
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