Well this week was a downer for me. Getting up in the morning is not easy when you have a puppy that gets you up 2-4 times throughout the night. I only managed to get up in time to hit the morning workouts 3 times this week. She is getting better though, and the past couple of days I managed to ignore her a couple of times and get her to lay back down and sleep. I hope this will help her get use to staying quiet in the bedroom for the 6-8 hours I actually try and sleep!
We shall see.
Also conspiring against me meeting my fitness goals is the cold and dark. These two really lend in sapping any inspiration I have to run with Pants after work. However, the light is returning, so soon enough it won't be dark when I get home. That should help inspire me even with the cold. Cold and dark running on streets without sidewalks is not really my cup o' tea.
Neither are excuses for not running. Which I seem to have a ton of lately ... ugh.
I recognize that it is my responsibility to make the changes I want to make. To become familiar and customized with the habits I want to successfully add to my life. To choose health and wellness over depression and sickness. I have tasted the nectar of what feeling and being beautiful mean to me and I want to thrive on that honey again.
So starts week three of my version of the "Do Life" challenge.
This week I will push myself for greatness!!!
Here are this weeks motivational challenges:
1. Add one healthy thing to your overall health/diet/fitness that you never thought you would do and do it each day. Be that eat carrots, run intervals, lift weights, dance with your kids, meditate for 10 minutes, read a chapter from a book each day, etc...
2. Attempt to be able to perform one thing physically that I never though I could by the end of the week! Some examples could be: doing one full pull-up without assistance, walking/running a longer distance/time than ever before, doing more sit-ups/push-ups/mountain climbers/etc. in a minute at the end of the week than I could at the beginning, etc.
BONUS: Do the following workout video 2 times this week, plus work out for 20-40 minutes doing this video or something else you would prefer 2 more times this week, for a total of 4 days in which you workout for 20-40 minutes per day!
If you choose the video the substitutes for the high intensity level of each exercise is:
WARM-UP SECTION -
Side-Squats: Instead of the hop just step to the left, do your best squat, stand up and step the right, do your best squat. Repeat.
Jog in Place: Do this at the intensity level you can maintain. Jog on and off, or walk in place if you cannot jog the entire time.
Knee-Ups: Do these without the jump to lower the intensity if needed.
Up & Out Jacks: Do these without the jump to lower the intensity if needed. Instead of jumping do toe taps in and out. Tap your left toe out, bring it in, tap your right toe out, bring it in, repeat.
Slow Butt Kickers & Arm Swings: There should be no need to modify this, if there is though leave the arms out.
Butt Kickers: If you need to modify, continue doing these without the jog/jump switch-up, just step in place instead.
Lateral Jumps: Rather than jump just step side to side. Slow the motion down to your comfort level.
CARDIO INTERVAL -
Burpee w/Leg Raise: When you do the burpee go slow, bend forward, place your hands flat, step back into push-up position, hold for a second, then bring your feet forward, raise yourself up and lift your legs as high as is comfortable to each side.
Flutterkick Squats: Again, just slow this down. Step forward and back slowly, then squat.
Double Butt Kickers: Do the single butt kickers at a jog/run or, if that intensity is still to intense, just do the single butt kickers with a gently rocking side-to-side step motion instead.
That should do it! The rest is up to you to take on!
~TigressSky~
We shall see.
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| This is Pants! She is a born runner! |
Neither are excuses for not running. Which I seem to have a ton of lately ... ugh.
I recognize that it is my responsibility to make the changes I want to make. To become familiar and customized with the habits I want to successfully add to my life. To choose health and wellness over depression and sickness. I have tasted the nectar of what feeling and being beautiful mean to me and I want to thrive on that honey again.
So starts week three of my version of the "Do Life" challenge.
This week I will push myself for greatness!!!
Here are this weeks motivational challenges:
1. Add one healthy thing to your overall health/diet/fitness that you never thought you would do and do it each day. Be that eat carrots, run intervals, lift weights, dance with your kids, meditate for 10 minutes, read a chapter from a book each day, etc...
2. Attempt to be able to perform one thing physically that I never though I could by the end of the week! Some examples could be: doing one full pull-up without assistance, walking/running a longer distance/time than ever before, doing more sit-ups/push-ups/mountain climbers/etc. in a minute at the end of the week than I could at the beginning, etc.
BONUS: Do the following workout video 2 times this week, plus work out for 20-40 minutes doing this video or something else you would prefer 2 more times this week, for a total of 4 days in which you workout for 20-40 minutes per day!
If you choose the video the substitutes for the high intensity level of each exercise is:
WARM-UP SECTION -
Side-Squats: Instead of the hop just step to the left, do your best squat, stand up and step the right, do your best squat. Repeat.
Jog in Place: Do this at the intensity level you can maintain. Jog on and off, or walk in place if you cannot jog the entire time.
Knee-Ups: Do these without the jump to lower the intensity if needed.
Up & Out Jacks: Do these without the jump to lower the intensity if needed. Instead of jumping do toe taps in and out. Tap your left toe out, bring it in, tap your right toe out, bring it in, repeat.
Slow Butt Kickers & Arm Swings: There should be no need to modify this, if there is though leave the arms out.
Butt Kickers: If you need to modify, continue doing these without the jog/jump switch-up, just step in place instead.
Lateral Jumps: Rather than jump just step side to side. Slow the motion down to your comfort level.
CARDIO INTERVAL -
Burpee w/Leg Raise: When you do the burpee go slow, bend forward, place your hands flat, step back into push-up position, hold for a second, then bring your feet forward, raise yourself up and lift your legs as high as is comfortable to each side.
Flutterkick Squats: Again, just slow this down. Step forward and back slowly, then squat.
Double Butt Kickers: Do the single butt kickers at a jog/run or, if that intensity is still to intense, just do the single butt kickers with a gently rocking side-to-side step motion instead.
That should do it! The rest is up to you to take on!
~TigressSky~
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