Ok, so, that plan that I had back in December...that didn't work out so well for me.
Honestly, I think that was mostly because, in January, I suddenly went down to 174 pounds for...basically no reason. It killed my motivation. While I just chalked it up to hormone fluctuations at the time, I think it was actually likely due to the exercise that I did all last summer...weight loss has always been super slow in coming, when I work out, and doesn't generally happen until I haven't been working out for a while. So, I'm thinking that that might have been the cause.
I have also been travelling like every other week. I thought things were going to slow down in 2013...but we've had a wedding in south Florida, our honeymoon cruise (finally!), a trip to Seattle (where I ate myself silly), several trips to Tallahassee, and a few weekends for which we had house guests. So, this year has already been super busy.
Whatever the reason, I have pretty much managed to keep that weight off. I was 175.4 when I weighed myself this morning, so yay. But, I still hunger for a change.
I am doing my first 5k tomorrow, yay! It's the Color Run, so it'll be a lot of fun. The website says that walkers are welcome, and that's what I'll need to do...I haven't done much of anything since August, for all of my lofty Couch-to-5k plans and everything.
I am going to make this 5k the start of my spring-summer weight loss program. The yoga and pilates classes, as fun as those would have been, were just too far away to really make that feasible twice a week...maybe once a week, but I need to be able to go to the gym on my own schedule, and not someone else's.
Really, the biggest thing is just that I get moving. The very best thing for me is cardio. And I definitely think that the varied approach is the best...triathlon training really did help me stay interested and motivated. I think I'd like to once again plan to do a triathlon at the end of the summer.
For now, I'm planning to start after the 5k this weekend. While this new house isn't so great for swimming due to its distance from the pool, it is a LOT better for biking. We are pretty close to Stone Mountain, which has a lot of great bike paths around the park, so I'd like to work myself up to biking over there (about 5 miles to the entrance of the park, along the bike trail). If I do end up doing a triathlon at the end of the summer, that would be PERFECT - 12 miles from here to the park and back, which is the same distance as the biking portion of the sprint triathlon.
As for swimming, I'll need to limit that to just a couple of days per week, and I need to figure out a way to do that at times when nobody will be there. Maybe I can catch a bus over there? I'll need to look into that. I can't park for free until 4pm, so that limits when I can go.
I have another 5k scheduled at the end of April...heehee, it's sponsored by Petco, and it's with my doggie! Yay! I plan to schedule them pretty regularly through the summer...that way, I'll have a continual motivation to improve, since I want to get faster with each one.
I really am psyching myself up for this, yay! Ok, here's my weekly plan for the foreseeable future:
Sunday: biking. Start with just biking to the bike trail and back, and increase each week.
Monday: walking. Start with 3 miles of walking, and increase each week.
Tuesday: swimming. This is a good day for swimming, since I have to go over near the pool anyway for knit night. As long as I go around 4, then I can be knitting by 6.
Wednesday: biking. Probably want to schedule this for a time when traffic isn't terrible, like lunch time or late afternoon. As it gets hotter, late afternoon will probably be the regular time.
Thursday: walking.
Friday: Day off.
Saturday: swimming. I'll try to go around 10am, since it should be relatively quiet then.
This doesn't include any gym workouts...even when I was in the gym, I was usually either biking or walking/jogging, so this should be fine. On days when I walk and bike, I will also do stretches, crunches, push-ups, squats, etc. That should help with strength training.
Ok, that's a plan! It's pretty similar to last summer's plan, if not almost identical...and that's good, that was a plan that I liked and was able to stick with for a little while. I need to keep the variety there...that keeps my muscles doing different things, which I know is good. If I could find a pool in the immediate vicinity, that would be even better.
Alright, I've been sitting on this entry for long enough. Onward!
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