Here I am for my monthly check-in. My goals for February were to keep up with my daily yoga routine, get back into strength training after doing Bodyweight 2 in January and build back up to a 5-day/week schedule. I’m happy to report that I’ve been successful in all those areas. :D In the beginning of the month, my back was really not liking weighted squats but it improved over time, though I haven’t used particularly heavy weights for those yet (still building up to it). I completed mostly workouts I had never done before, which was really fun. The first two weeks were self-scheduled and the last two were the FB Plus Old School Challenge, though I swapped out all the upper body workouts for other ones, cause I had already done the ones in the program.
I also wanted to incorporate more movement throughout the day. I’ve actually managed to go for a short walk during my lunch break nearly every day, which was really nice. I haven’t done a lot of short warm-up videos during the day like I intended, but I did them occasionally. Overall, I’m really happy with what I’ve done.
On the nutrition front, my plan was to stop having snacks in between breakfast and lunch and to control my portions better at dinner. I’ve actually been pretty consistent with this and it hasn’t felt difficult at all. And… it worked. I’ve started to loose the weight I had gained during my break from working out, and that at a pretty steady pace (about 0,6-0,7 kg/week). I’m actually thinking that I could eat a little more and go at an even slower pace, but I have changed so little in my eating habits, that I’m afraid I’ll go back to maintenance without even realizing it, so for now I’ll keep doing what I’m doing.
The last week has been a bit weird, I’ve been out of work for over a week (my boss had no choice cause not enough work was coming in), and we had to see day to day if I would have work the next day or not. It was a bit tiring, but I’m not complaining, at least I had (well, still have, the suspense is not over…) a little break. It just completely disturbed my rhythm and I have been sleeping rather badly the last 3 or 4 nights. Hopefully things will go back to normal soon. However, all that time off coincided with very nice sunny weather and I was able to go on longer really enjoyable walks, and that was great. And I had time to try a bunch of FB recipes, which I enjoyed a lot.
Now onto March, I’m beginning this month with a few days of rest, I’ll only be doing yoga with Adriene in the morning and yin yoga in the evening until maybe next weekend. I really want to avoid the nearly burned-out state I was in last June. When I finally decided to take a nice long overdue week-long break, I almost completely fell off the workout wagon till late October, oops. Don’t want that to ever happen again if I can avoid it! So I plan on taking one long break every 3-4 months at least. I’ve scheduled the Short and Sweet Challenge for after this break, which I plan to combine with some of the training videos from Yoga with Adriene. She has some videos about finding connection in the core, spine and hip mobility, spine and shoulder mobility, shoulder health and protecting the knee in lunges. They all seem really interesting so I thought I would schedule them over the course of a week.
Ok, I’ll stop my novel here :D How are you doing? How are you beginning this new month?
February Complete and March Started
Hi guys,
Here I am for my monthly check-in. My goals for February were to keep up with my daily yoga routine, get back into strength training after doing Bodyweight 2 in January and build back up to a 5-day/week schedule. I’m happy to report that I’ve been successful in all those areas. :D In the beginning of the month, my back was really not liking weighted squats but it improved over time, though I haven’t used particularly heavy weights for those yet (still building up to it). I completed mostly workouts I had never done before, which was really fun. The first two weeks were self-scheduled and the last two were the FB Plus Old School Challenge, though I swapped out all the upper body workouts for other ones, cause I had already done the ones in the program.
I also wanted to incorporate more movement throughout the day. I’ve actually managed to go for a short walk during my lunch break nearly every day, which was really nice. I haven’t done a lot of short warm-up videos during the day like I intended, but I did them occasionally. Overall, I’m really happy with what I’ve done.
On the nutrition front, my plan was to stop having snacks in between breakfast and lunch and to control my portions better at dinner. I’ve actually been pretty consistent with this and it hasn’t felt difficult at all. And… it worked. I’ve started to loose the weight I had gained during my break from working out, and that at a pretty steady pace (about 0,6-0,7 kg/week). I’m actually thinking that I could eat a little more and go at an even slower pace, but I have changed so little in my eating habits, that I’m afraid I’ll go back to maintenance without even realizing it, so for now I’ll keep doing what I’m doing.
The last week has been a bit weird, I’ve been out of work for over a week (my boss had no choice cause not enough work was coming in), and we had to see day to day if I would have work the next day or not. It was a bit tiring, but I’m not complaining, at least I had (well, still have, the suspense is not over…) a little break. It just completely disturbed my rhythm and I have been sleeping rather badly the last 3 or 4 nights. Hopefully things will go back to normal soon. However, all that time off coincided with very nice sunny weather and I was able to go on longer really enjoyable walks, and that was great. And I had time to try a bunch of FB recipes, which I enjoyed a lot.
Now onto March, I’m beginning this month with a few days of rest, I’ll only be doing yoga with Adriene in the morning and yin yoga in the evening until maybe next weekend. I really want to avoid the nearly burned-out state I was in last June. When I finally decided to take a nice long overdue week-long break, I almost completely fell off the workout wagon till late October, oops. Don’t want that to ever happen again if I can avoid it! So I plan on taking one long break every 3-4 months at least. I’ve scheduled the Short and Sweet Challenge for after this break, which I plan to combine with some of the training videos from Yoga with Adriene. She has some videos about finding connection in the core, spine and hip mobility, spine and shoulder mobility, shoulder health and protecting the knee in lunges. They all seem really interesting so I thought I would schedule them over the course of a week.
Ok, I’ll stop my novel here :D How are you doing? How are you beginning this new month?
Have a nice day/evening 😊