Random Thoughts in My Head

I spent all day looking at the exercises for tonight and stressing about the STRENGTH and METCON parts yet when I actually got started it took me 26 minutes to get through the warm up and that was without doing the squat with a plate mobility work. I feel like that was a pretty intense warm up and that wasn’t even the hardest part yesterday.

I did a total of 55 squats with a “weighted barbell” on my back. And then I did 90 kettle ball swings. There were sections of this workout that I feel I totally failed at, but those two things I am very proud of.

Today I am hating how many stairs there are in my house and how many of my chores incolve running up and down those dang stairs. My legs don’t want to work at all.

But really, I’m fine.

I don’t have any green workout gear to wear yet (come on Medusa print capris, arrive at my door already) and hate the idea of St Patrick chasing snakes since I keep snakes and adore all my slithery friends, but in keeping the the holiday spirit I shall enjoy a Guinness tonight.

TTSL Day 3.  I really hope the zombies we are training to outrun are the slow shambling ones from the original Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Cardio is so hard for me with my COPD.

My heartrate was through the roof trying to DO ALL THE HOPS in the warm up so I knew this would be hard.  I did better than I thought during the step up variation.  No rower at home so I had to “sprint” which is just slightly  faster speed walking than normal. 

But I did it. 😊

I made it through day 2 of my first TTSL daily cycle. Who knew I would despise inchworms so much? I despise them almost as much as the 40 situps I did in lieu of “toe to bar”.

Surprisingly I enjoyed the toe taps in lieu of single unders! I was breathing mighty hard after 3 reps of 75, but I did them. Not bad at all.

I just survived my first ever Thick Thighs Save Lives (TTSL) Daily workout. I thought I’d have trouble with the “running” which I knew would be walking on the treadmill but it was the damn burpee’s that’s just about did me in. I hate burpees.

Someone in one of my reptile groups posted about some super cool reptile print pants she got from the CVG website. That of course led me to some “window shopping” and when I found the Venom and Medusa prints, I knew I would absolutely need to buy a pair of each.

Then I join the “Fitness Programming by CVG” fb group for some inspiration. I’ve been meaning to get back to working out for some time now although my idea of working out has been yoga and the treadmill with some PT exercises; I’ve enjoyed the posts and thought it would be nice to get to the point of doing these workouts like those ladies are.

So I just signed up for something that is 6 weeks long and has running in it? WHAT WAS I THINKING??

I have no idea what I’m doing and I don’t understand what half of these words mean on the first day, but I’m tired of hurting and feeling weak and so I’m going to give this a try.

I’ve never considered myself an athlete. I taught ATS belly dance for over a decade and even got my 200hr YTT during that time, but I also have COPD which slows my ability to do heavy cardio. But I’m tenacious and I really got into hiking a couple years ago and was really getting my endurance up and then I had pretty intensive rotator cuff surgery including some “collarbone bone grinding” in Dec 2020 and I’m still dealing with after-effects.

But I’m tenacious. I spent last summer doing more local hikes and trying backpacking with a 40lb pack (bear canisters and so much gear are a necessity up here in the Interior of Alaska). But I kept having to ditch out since my shoulder wasn’t up for it. At least I could hike! Slow and steady I kept doing it, until last fall when somehow I managed to tear my gastroc on the right calf and I’ve been sitting and feeling worse for months now.

No more. I’m older than I used to be, in the worst shape of my life and heavier than I’ve ever been, but I’m not done playing outside and I need to be strong to do that so here I am.