I completed the first week of the Couch to 5K program. I’m proud of that tiny accomplishment because I have been fighting a bit of a head cold all week, and I still went to the gym three times, despite feeling crummy. One of the days I walked to the gym in the pouring rain. Normally both a slight illness and a downpour would have kept me home. Not only did going to the gym not make the cold worse, but also I actually felt a little better after the exercise.
I earned these two meaningless badges from the app:
I’m not too worried about my distance jogged, as each week I am jogging for longer periods of time. For me, for now, I walk at 3.5, brisk walk at 3.7, and jog at 4.4.
I met up with my trainer friend yesterday, but we skipped the gym because I had a complicated situation at the comic book shop I checked out before I saw her (it’s not worth going into, and is just as nerdy as it sounds) which pushed our meeting time back, which barely gave me enough time to get to my chiropractor appointment after B & I had lunch.
But over lunch, I did pick her brain a bit and have come up with a weight routine. B encouraged me to think of my jogging days as my recovery days from weights. I hadn’t thought of it like that before, because I’m fat and at this point I need recovery time from getting off the couch too quickly. But I see what she means.
So tomorrow I will do the initial day of 100 pushups, 50 pull-ups, 300 sit-ups, 300 squats, 150 dips, and a 30 day burpee challenge. It works out perfectly that tomorrow is Saturday because each of these exercise sites suggest two days of rest after the initial test. So I can do my body weight exercises Tu-Th-Sat and my jogging M-W-F. Sunday will be my rest day. I’ll likely just do some stretching to keep things loose.
Because I didn’t work out yesterday, and ate some garbage, my weight went up:
But it remained under 190, so that pleases me. Oh, and I’ve not really mentioned it, but the intermittent fasting I’ve been doing is pretty automatic at this point. No eating before 1:30 pm and no eating after 10:30 pm. I’m not sure how/if it’s helping, but I also think it’s too early to tell, so I’ll keep at it.
XOE
