So I went back to the gym on Tuesday. I have gotten so off track since I was sick earlier this month. It was time for an ass kicking intervention.
I’ve been telling myself that I really needed to get back to lifting weights not just doing cardio. My plan is to go back to what I used to do when I did the Body for Life 9 years ago (wow! 9 years? really?).
I work on arms one day, do cardio the next, then legs/abs, back to cardio, arms, cardio, rest, repeat. The weeks get switched up – one week with 2 days of arms / 1 day of legs/abs and then the next week flips with 2 days of legs/abs and 1 day of arms.
It was really good to get back to lifting weights… but wow I get sore like crazy the first week back. Usually after the first week, I’m good but that first week is SORE. The delayed onset muscle soreness (yes it actually has a name) started to be REALLY noticeable when I turned 34-35.
I think my body is telling me that the real answer is to NOT STOP EXERCISING.
“For the past 5 years I keep hurting you more each time you return to working out after being away (even if it’s only a few months of being away). Are you really that stupid here? You don’t seem to be getting my message. Let me spell it out for you. If you would just KEEP EXERCISING and stop falling off the wagon then this crazy soreness won’t happen. Hello?!? Is this thing on?”
So I’m back to the gym. Does that mean I’m stopping running? No. I really do want to get better at running. So I’ve decided to keep trying to run a mile every day after I do my workout at the gym. Hopefully that will change to more than one mile but right now running the one mile is back to being hard for me so I’m sticking with one mile.
I did stay true to what I said I was going to do in January. Each day I ran I snapped a quick photo. (The photos with my bare feet were taken after I took a shower. I forgot to take the before photo.)
I wish I could say Feb looks like this on my phone… but it doesn’t. Feb only has two photos from this week.
Hopefully there will be 5 more before the month ends!