Body 30 Mar 2006 07:39 pm
what I do in a week
I’ve finally gotten my schedule worked out for the next several weeks, balancing my workouts with rest days as best I can:
Sunday: weight training
Monday: rest
Tuesday: yoga
Wednesday: weight training
Thursday: rest
Friday: Pilates and (usually) myofascial release massage
Saturday: rest
I’m pushing my edge these days to the best of my ability. As I told Cithra, “It’s like college, but for the body.” Some of those rest days are perhaps a little more active than they should be, but I usually try not to be stupid. (Hacking apart the dug-up sword ferns with a splitting maul may have been stupid, okay.)
And it all started with my first Gimp Yoga class a couple of years ago, and some good advice from an ND who knew what she was talking about. I really am flabbergasted at how far I’ve come. A couple of years ago I couldn’t even make the short bus trip to Lake City and back without becoming wholly exhausted and staying that way for a day and a half. Now I can take the bus, work out at the gym, and come back; while I may sleep for several hours afterwards, and have some grogginess, I’m pretty much fine eight hours later. Rock on.
My organizing mental concept for the last few months has turned out to be the positive feedback cycle. Here’s to getting the positive feedback cycle moving in the right direction — having the energy to do the things that give me more energy, at least to a point.
on 01 Apr 2006 at 2:57 am 1.Lisa said …
That is really good! That’s better than my exercise schedule! Yea! See look, I aspire to work out that much!!!
Don’t worry about those guys working out at the gym. They don’t mind you, in fact, they may like you because you’re paying gym membership which goes to help get them more equipment, but your not using the same equipment they do, you’re not competing for resources. And you’re a girl.
They like girls in gyms.
And they stare. They always are going to stare. But then after a while they get used to you and stop staring.
on 01 Apr 2006 at 6:15 pm 2.Cam Sculpin said …
Thanks, Lisa!
The thing about this schedule is this: this is it. This is basically all I get to do now. I’m putting myself into the process and finding out what happens. But, man, that’s it. I don’t just mean no more working out, I mean no more nuthin’.