My Journey With Health And Fitness – Taking A Day

I have been working hard trying to master certain things that I have struggled with in my fitness classes. One of them has been doing reverse lunges. I don’t know why but these have been challenging for me and I always seem to lose my balance and never get my back knee bent enough. Well today I think I have finally conquered these lunges. How do I know? Because I got my knee bent enough that it was doing the snap, crackle, pop thing as the scar tissue got moved around. On to the next challenge.

This morning I did something that is unheard of, I slept in. Ok, really what that means is I slept through my alarm so didn’t get up at 5:00am but rather 5:30am. I get that doesn’t seem like a big deal to those of you reading this but for me it is huge. Don’t get me wrong, my sleep score for the night still sucks (as it has for 2 months now) so it wasn’t like I I was getting good recovery sleep, apparently I just got some sleep time between 3:00 and 5:30am (3:00am being the last time I obsessively looked at my watch).

When I got up I was now seriously off my morning schedule. Usually it is up before 5:00am, hit the road for a 2 hour walk at 6:00am, rest for 1/2 hour then online fitness class at 8:30am. Now I have mentioned that I don’t do well with schedules changing, something that no matter how hard I work on is always going to be a challenge. However, this morning I realized my body is sending me a message, I need to take a day.

If you are shocked by the thought that I took a day off, relax because I just scaled back a bit. I have been very diligent while I have been at the condo, 6 days a week doing 3 hours of workouts while Sundays I take a bit of a break and only do 2 hours. On top of that there is often extra walks and bike riding but I don’t necessarily record them as they tend to be fun time. Today I decided to only do 1 hour of walking and of course still did the fitness class.

I admit that is really not taking a day, it was just me giving my body a little bit of a rest. But, I had to write about it because my brain is screaming at me that I have slacked off. Logically I know I haven’t, I have worked hard the past 4 weeks that I have been here and I also know that losing 1 hour of walking will not have any significant impact on my journey, but still the crazy voices are there telling me something different. You know what, tequila will likely quiet them.

I’m just taking a day.