Adjusted Reality

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.” – Mark Twain

January Plan: Differently The Same…

So I had this whole, complicated plan where I was going to work out twice a day, three days a week to test the “cardio is better in the morning, weights are better at night theory” I stumbled upon on Charlotte’s blog last month.  Over lunch one day recently I was explaining my plan to Zliten, and he said, quite simply, “Aren’t you just eating up more time by having to go to the gym twice?”

Well, duh.  Why didn’t I think of that?  The reason I liked December’s plan so much was it felt like during the week, I had much more time overall.  Adding 15-20 extra minutes per workout was pretty insignificant while getting a whole day off was huge.  I would be essentially adding three sessions of getting dressed, driving to and from the gym, showering, and getting dressed again, when I worked so hard to eliminate ONE.  So not efficient.

After having that realization, I pondered what I was going to do for January.  My big huge plans to shake it up just didn’t make sense.  Then it hit me…my big change this month is…. wait for it, wait for it…

Do the exact same workouts I did in December.

Yeah, you heard me.  I am changing (almost) nothing.  Two days a week, intervals, cybil, and full body strength.  One day, a long run and yoga.  One day, a marathon DDR session and yoga.  The exact same stuff.  For me, this is actually pretty revolutionary.

Why change up my monthly changing it up?  Well, I think I finally found the perfect workout schedule and elements.  I’m doing 3 different workouts a week, challenging different muscles and levels of endurance.  I’m using fast twitch and slow twitch muscles.  I think I found the perfect balance of cardio and weights (2 hours weights, 3.5 hours cardio, and 40 mins yoga) per week for me right now.   I saw real, tangible results last month for the first time since August.  I am all about not messing with something working perfectly, and for right now, this is working perfectly.

Awww, who am I kidding.  I LOVE messing with a good thing.  I do have to throw in one curveball, and I picked a hell of a month to do it – but it must be done.  My poor, pampered tootsies are so used to the treadmill and they need to start getting some tough, street lovin’.  Sounds dirty – I know.  But if I’m ever going to finally run in my first 5k (which is my first fitness, non-scale related goal to tackle this year), I need to get used to pavement.

So the new/old plan is:

-Day 1 and 3: 30 mins interval run, 15 minutes on Cybil, full body strength.

-Day 2: 60 minute run, yoga session

-Day 4: 60 minute DDR session, yoga session

Looks familiar, right?

Food-wise, I am going to change it up a little bit.  Ya see, I’m ready to be done losing weight, like I said in my resolutions.  I am envisioning being done somewhere between 13-30 lbs from now, and I would really, really like to get back to losing 5 lbs a month like I did until September last year, when my body decided it hated my weight loss goals and was going to defy logic and not lose weight no matter what I did.  So I am back to tracking every calorie that goes in my mouth, back to analyzing my daily intake vs output, and back to being restrictive as I can, without being completely miserable.  I’m willing to go through a little bit of inconvenience if I can be done with this by the summer.  I’m not willing to be too drastic about it, but I definitely see room for improvement in my diet that is simply common sense (like, no mowing straight out of the evil christmas popcorn tin like last night, after having other sweets and some hot cocoa).

I think that’s about it for now, I’ll keep you posted on how things go!

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1 Comment

  1. Sounds like you have the right idea, sticking with the workouts that work, and then kicking things up a notch by tracking the food again. I predict that it will work like a charm! And I can’t wait to hear about how your 5K training goes.

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