Change #2<\/strong> – 4 Day Work(out) Weeks<\/p>\nI’ve always felt like I’d love 4 day work weeks.\u00a0 I figure I spend a lot of time getting up, getting dressed and ready, prepping my things, driving to work, walking to and from the parking lot, driving home, putting away the stuff I brought, and generally decompressing and getting settled in at home.\u00a0 It doesn’t sound like much, but in my quest to be as efficient with my responsible time as possible (meaning time not spent at home, on the couch, being a slacker), it puts a thorn in my side.\u00a0 I am up at 8am and do nothing but responsible until about 8pm, when I’m done with my shower after the gym. I work for 9 hours a day (with a lunch) and workout for about 1.5 max.\u00a0 That’s 1.5 hours disappearing into the ether!\u00a0 Such inefficiency offends me!<\/p>\n
I also spend some of that time collecting my workout items and clothes, packing them, putting them on, driving to and from the gym, showering, and changing into normal person clothes and generally de-sweatting myself.\u00a0 Since my employer will probably be the LAST company EVER to change over to 4 day work weeks, why not try 4 day workout weeks on my own?\u00a0 Maybe I can save myself a little time, which I can then spend enjoying myself?\u00a0 Besides results in terms of weight loss and progress there, I’m going to track if I feel like I have more time.<\/p>\n
The difference is that while working is easy to just incorporate the 2 extra hours per day in the workdays, the logistics are a little different with workouts.\u00a0 First, I can only physically do so much per day so it’s not as if I can do an interval run AND a long run in one day.\u00a0 Second, some things I do at home, some things I do at the gym, so while I think there is just going to have to be a day or 2 where I do both, I’m not sure how I feel about that.\u00a0 The last thing I want to do after a good gym workout is a DDR session.\u00a0 I’m already home, I should be done, dag nabit.\u00a0 So here is what I have to work with:<\/p>\n
-1 hour long run<\/p>\n
-2 x 30 minute interval sessions<\/p>\n
-2 full body strength sessions<\/p>\n
-2 x 20 minute yoga sessions<\/p>\n
-2 x 40 minute DDR sessions<\/p>\n
The rules are as normal – cannot work the same body part 2 consecutive days, cannot do 2 runs on the same day, every day must end with a stretch, either yoga or just a stretch session tacked on the end.\u00a0 I am going to add two provisions this time – that 20 minutes of DDR can be converted to Cybil the arc trainer, and everything must be done in 4 days.\u00a0 So in day by day plans, this is what it looks like:<\/p>\n
Day 1: 30 mins intervals, full body strength<\/p>\n
Day 2: 60 mins DDR, yoga<\/p>\n
Day 3: long run, yoga<\/p>\n
Day 4: 30 mins intervals, full body strength<\/p>\n
The only thing missing is either 20 mins DDR or 20 mins Cybil.\u00a0 So I will leave it up in the air and either plan 10 mins at the end of day 1 and 3, and get up one morning and do 20 mins of DDR before work.\u00a0 Knowing me, I will chose Cybil.\u00a0 I am going to attempt to do Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdays, but as usual, these are flexible as long as they happen.<\/p>\n
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Change #3<\/strong> – It is not ok not to lose weight this month!<\/p>\nOctober and November I gave myself a break after the trainwreck that was September.\u00a0 But I’ve been stalled now scale-wise for 3 months!\u00a0 I’ve refueled!\u00a0 I’ve stabilized!\u00a0 I’ve tried being nice to my body!\u00a0 It is now time to start chipping away again to get closer to my goal.\u00a0 1500 calories on weekdays, maximum, and try for closer to 1200.\u00a0 I would have liked to hope that I really and truly wasn’t eating enough to lose weight, but I just don’t think it’s the case outside of Quix’s magical fairlyland where sugar plums count as fruit. I’m much happier eating more, but happy doesn’t move the scale.\u00a0 I just have to remember that last month, I felt how it was to maintain, and it was good.\u00a0 Just a few short months of…ummm….less happiness and I can go back to that.\u00a0 While I don’t believe in extreme measures to lose weight, I can probably, after over a year of good habits, restrict calories a little more (but still safely, of course) to get there and be ok.<\/p>\n
I told myself last month it was ok to maintain, and it was.\u00a0 I’m very pleased with it.\u00a0 I don’t harbor any secret resentment towards myself.\u00a0 It was not the all-out frustration I had in September, and not the quiet sulking of October, it was actual contentment.\u00a0 But this month I’d like to take things back up a notch and continue down to 150-ville before I get too comfortable here in my size 10s.\u00a0 I look in the mirror and think HOT, generally, but I can certainly see a few things I’d like to have shrink more before I’m done, that I can’t see shrinking without the scale going down just a bit more.\u00a0 At this point, I don’t care how slow it goes, as long as it starts going again!\u00a0 My goal is to lose 3 lbs this month.\u00a0 I would like to end the year below 162.<\/p>\n
How will I fare? Well, yesterday I hit the gym and did 30 minute intervals, 10 mins on Cybil, and a full body strength session and while I felt like I was at the gym for a long time, I didn’t poop out in the middle of a workout and still felt like I had just about as much time as if I would have done a normal session.\u00a0 How will the rest of the month go?\u00a0 Stick around to find out!<\/p>\n
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Change #2<\/strong> – 4 Day Work(out) Weeks<\/p>\n