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Week 3

This weeks workouts can be found here.

I’m also doing yoga for life three times this week.

My Inspiration for this week:

1) NANOWRIMO IS OVER AND I DID IT I WROTE 50 000 WORDS. Honestly the adrenaline high is going to get me through this week. I am not going to look at it again for at least 3 months though let me tell you.

2) My grandma is coming to visit and I am keen but it also means that I am going to be entertaining her constantly and I am an introvert okay I need time to recharge. Exercise is going to be my excuse free recharge time.

3) I watched The Accountant. Listen I loved it. So much. I got my url from the movie. I went and watched it again twice. Be careful watching it thought there’s a lot of triggering stuff and flashing lights and loud noises. The main character is autistic and gets ‘conditioned’ by his father which was really upsetting to watch because it’s not addressed as fucked up in the movie. But it was still exciting for me to see an autistic main character.

The song that’s waking me up in the morning”

LA Devotee by Panic! at the Disco

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I was considering making dear diary posts for the weekend as well but I think I am just going to put any weekend news on these posts. Did yoga on the Sunday evening. It’s hard man, like whoever recommended yoga for people with no energy frickin LIED.

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Day 12

2 kilometre run today. I measure 1 kilometre away from my house and then just ran there and back.

It went really well. I’m pleased. Two weeks of running down!

I think the yoga really helped, so I’m doing another session this weekend.

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Day 11

Okay I’m still here.  I think that I was hoping for progress too fast. Plus I jumped straight into a pretty intense (intense that is, for someone whose idea of exercising was walking to the fridge) 3 days a week workout and then didn’t plan any other exercise. I’m now going to be doing Yoga as well. The plan is to work my way up to 5 Yoga workouts a week on top of my running. I record classes from the tv and then play them when I can. They’re the Yoga for Life episodes.

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Okay picture quality is down a crap ton because I’m using my old phone and I’ll only get a new one next year some time (I am poor and I have to save for it) so this is the new normal I think. The only thing that I did this weekend to help my workout routine is wake up and get up at 6. I was housesitting and the dogs there have to be let out at that time anyway so it worked out (heh.) I eat pretty much the same thing every day because it’s easier for me to actually stick to it.

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Day 10

I don’t know if I can do this. 

Like. It’s only my fourth workout and I nearly threw up. I know the short intervals workouts are the hardest but still. 

Today’s workout was a 400m run at a fast pace, rest for 2 minutes and then repeat 5 times for a total of 2km. I warmed up for 5 minutes beforehand.

I struggled. The first one was so hard. The second was way better, but three and four I definitely could not go any faster than a jog and even that was tough. The last one I went as hard as I could and I got so close to throwing up. I was actually gasping for air the whole time. 

I did them though. And I didn’t walk once. I’m clinging to that small (very small they were supposed to be at a good solid pace) victory.

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Day 9

It was my sisters 18th birthday yesterday so I didn’t eat as healthily as I wanted to, because of the champagne and the cake and the going out for dinner. 

I didn’t drink too much though because drunk me is a flirty me and when you’re in the closet flirting does not go well. However I’m going to pretend it was in and effort to minimise the unhealthiness of the night.

My thigh still stings, but hopefully it have gone down by tomorrow because UGH it’s sprinting.

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Day 8

Guess who has a rash on their thighs because they were a moron and wore the wrong shorts? That’s right, it’s me.

Today’s workout out was a 5 minute cycle of walking for 4 minutes and then jogging for 1 minute repeated 8 times for a total of 40 minutes.

I did a loop today instead of going one way for 20 minutes and then turning around. I ran into FIVE other people TWICE because they were doing a loop in the opposite direction. Two of them had dogs so that was cool.

No soreness other than the rash. Please let this trend continue. (of no muscle pain. Not the rashes. Please not the rashes.)

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Week 2

This week’s workouts can be found here 

I’ll also be doing one session of yoga. When I decide which day to do it I’ll post where you can find it.

My Inspiration for the week:

1) That webcomic I was reading? Turns out that a lot of the second chapter is posted on Patreon, and you only have to be a $1 pledge to get it??? Like, that’s amazing. AND IT GETS SO GOOD. So I upped my pledge to $5 because it’s honestly the only thing I am genuinely excited about. So it’s an incentive to keep running, because if I quit I have to stop being a patron and I do not want that at all. 

2) NaNoWriMo is nearly over and I am actually on track this year. I’ve found that thinking about it during my runs has been super helpful for plot points and I’ll take inspiration anywhere I can get it even if that means fucking EXERCISE.

3) I accidentally messaged the wrong person and it was crazy embarrassing so I’m going to bury my mortification with sweat.

The song that’s waking me up in the morning:

Pirates of the Caribbean theme song 

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Day 5

1 kilometre run today. It went well, I mapped out a course 500 metres from my house and then just jogged there and back. It was a bit of a struggle to jog the whole way, but I managed it. I’m not going to be doing anything this weekend so I’m officially calling week one over.

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Day 4

My legs are sore. Like. Not terribly sore, but enough that I struggled to get out of bed this morning. I mean I usually struggle to get out bed anyway, but at least this time I had an excuse. Didn’t shower today, but honestly other than that I did pretty well I think.

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Day 3

Holy FUCK I hate sprinting.

Today’s workout was a 200m sprint followed by 2 minutes rest, rinse and repeat 6 times for a total of 1.2km. 

It did not take that long, only like 20 minutes but it SUCKED. 

My feet got all wet because my running shoes are the type with the weird ass netting on the top and I was running on a field after a night of rain. 

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Yes I am planning my meals and when to eat them. Routines make me calm.

The checklists on the card are for the different workouts.There are 3 different types. Long Intervals, Short Intervals and just plain old running. I’ll add the last checklist the day before I do the running.

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Day 2

Oh my god pretty much all I did was walk yesterday and yet I am slightly stiff. I forgot that I never do anything ever and so even 40 minutes of light exercise is an effort. My pinky and the lower half of my hand and arm is numb. I’m choosing to blame it on the exercise.

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Day 1

So being a person who doesn’t do anything halfway (which is to say 97% of the time I just don’t do anything) I decided to do the ridiculous thing of overhauling my entire day just so I could get up early in the mornings to go running. (You would think that this was for some great reason like waking up earlier is better for you or some shit but I literally just do not want anyone to see my attempts at running). Which means I am getting up at 6 everyday, even the days I don’t go running because again, if I don’t do it every day I won’t do it at all. 

Turns out there are quite a few people who get up to go running at this dreadful time, which I, a person who barely ever got up earlier than 8am and usually 10am, did not know. But they too avoid eye contact as much as possible so it’s bearable.

Today’s run is not actually a run it’s a walk. You walk for 4 1/2 minutes and then you jog for 1/2 a minute to make one set that takes 5 minutes. You do this 8 times and you’ve officially been exercising for 40 minutes.

I’m planning my meals every day as well because while I am not focusing on weight it would be great to go down a size. I’m not eating fantastically well, but if I plan my meals then I will at least eat 3 times a day. Because I usually only eat a meal like once a day and then just binge on snacks if I remember or can be bothered to eat. Yay to harnessing the inner power of bitterness to force yourself into better eating habits.

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Week 1

This week’s workouts can be found here

My Inspiration for this week

1) Trump is the FUCKING president elect of the United States so in the event of an apocalypse it would be beneficial to me to be able to run faster than radioactive rabbits. Forget apocalypse though, day to day life would also improve if I was fitter because self defense is easier to do if you have muscles. 

2) My mom is overly invested in my life and has promised to buy me a decent pair of jeans if I make it to 5km.

3) I started a new webcomic before checking how much of it was out like a FOOL and there’s only one chapter of it and now I need a way to healthily disperse of my rage at the fact that I DIDN’T CHECK even though I Know that I Cannot Handle Suspense.

The song that’s waking me up in the mornings

Emergency by Icona Pop

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There is a wedding that I am going to in February of next year and I am going to see some people that I don’t want to see so out of PURE BITTERNESS AND PETTINESS I am getting my life together. Starting with getting back into running with the Body and Soul 9K9W running program. (find it here if you too want to be able to run 9 kilometres after 9 weeks out of pure spite)