My Journey With Health And Fitness – Pushing It

Bootcamp this morning was brutal. The trainer had us doing drop downs which is where you start with a heavy weight for a particular exercise, you do it for 30 seconds with a 10 second rest then repeat with a medium weight then finally a light weight. You finish the set and then repeat 2 more times (there were 6 exercises in total) Trust me, by time you got to the 3rd set you were toast. However, she assured us there would be no cardio as part of this but then as a warm up made us do Thunderstrucks (google it, I’m fit and it is challenging for me). You know it has been a good workout when at the end you think the 2 1/2 minute plank you have to do was the easy part.

I noted in my last post that taking a bit of a break always brings me back even more energized. Last week definitely had that impact on me. I have been pushing myself this week but not in a way that that I feel is detrimental. Instead it is pushing myself to the limit of what I know I can endure. For example, yesterday I got in 41k steps which works out to 29 km. I burned nearly 3,300 calories. And how did I feel, quite frankly, awesome.

Today I have toned it down a bit, only 39k steps or 28 km and right now I am at 2,800 calories which will likely be 3,000+ by the end of the day. I did consider another walk to get me to 40k steps but realized ok, that is just pushing things too far.

I will also say I am running further and faster than I had been. I did a 2nd short run yesterday after my usual Wednesday coffee with friends and realized I ran at my fastest pace for the longest amount of time than I have ever done. And I noticed that each day this week my pace has been slightly higher than the previous day.

I only have one more day of super hard work this week before I scale back on Saturday and Sunday (Saturday is 10 km run and then bootcamp and Sunday is just a 10 km run). My goals for being where I want to be before heading to Mexico are so going to be achieved as I safely continue to push myself as much as I can.