Good morning!
Tuesday definitely turned things around for me. I can’t stress enough how happy I am that Wes has finished his test. I forgot what it is like to actually get so spend quality time with him!
He did start a new rotation today so was gone for most of the morning and afternoon.
I left the house because I knew I had to get out and get some work done.
I am trying to get ahead of the game a bit in case we find out when we are able to leave for Christmas. I actually got a lot accomplished and plan on doing this again tomorrow to keep ahead of things.
I want to be able to spend as much time with the family as possible when we do go home.
Once Wes was done seeing his second set of patients we headed to the gym.
I’ll admit I am so used to getting my workouts done in the morning that I started my workout with very low energy.
I was happy though that my workout started on the treadmill.
Day 1 of running for the week.
My workout looked something like this:
You could easily use this as a non-stress fracture recovery workout and just up the intervals. Use the “on” intervals as sprints instead of easy running.
Overall it went really well and there was no pain. I really can tell my body is happy to slow down and take the progression back to running a bit slower. I 100% believe adding spinning into my workouts almost daily has also helped me!
After I finished my 40 minute run I got off the treadmill, changed clothes, and went to spin.
I had already planned out both my running and my spinning workouts ahead of time.
I was doing a shortened version of the workout I did last Wednesday.
As I was getting ready to get started I realized a spin class was about to start in 20 minutes. I started with my warm up until the class begun.
I wasn’t able to do most of the class because there was a lot of standing, but I was able to incorporate some of the sprints. I ended up doing a hodgepodge of my workout and the spin class.
I totaled 70 minutes on the spin bike and it was a great workout!
I have learned over the past couple weeks I am an extreme over thinker. I can sit there and think about my workout for longer than it takes to actually do it. That is how spinning started for me. I’ve never been able to get into it the past, so when I have spinning workouts planned the entire ride to the gym I dread it. I start thinking about how boring it’s going to be and how hard it will be to get through.
Guess what? The moment I start the workout I love it. There is something about sweating that turns my whole day around. I consider it my natural anti-deppresant and I find that I am a completely different person afterwards. If I have learned one thing it is stop thinking about it and just do it.
We so often over think our workouts. Stop! Walk into the gym (or step outside) and GO! Don’t think about it just do it. There has never been a time I’ve regretted a workout!
Do you over think your workouts?
What did your workout look like?
Thank you so much for this post today! I was having one of those mornings. How am I going to do, how many calories am I going to burn. I have been so ruled by numbers. Today is day 1 of no numbers for me–no scale, no measuring, no tracking. And now, I just left my HR watch in my car. I am going to workout today because it makes me feel good. Not to negate food. Thank you soooo much!
I am right there with you Ashley! I always focus on the calories, or time, or miles – sometimes it is just “go to the gym and start” – then see what your body feels like doing! DO it because your body feels great!
I hope you have a great workout! Glad it helped 🙂
Hey there! I am happy to say that I just discovered your blog! I definitely overthink my workouts too much. Like you, whenever I just do it I feel so much better afterwards!
Great to hear that I am not the only one! I think we all do it from time to time! Sometimes the best thing to do is just start!
I do all the time. Yesterday was one of those days, I wanted to do some hills, so first I just started doing it manually changing stuff but then I thought I should use the ‘hill’ setting on the treadmill, the ‘mill kept on doing strange stuff with the speed I was going (like going a ridiculous 2 mph when I felt comfortable doing much faster) and so after about 10 minutes of changing the speed every single minute, I then went back to manual but because of all the go-around with the hill setting it really put me in a sour mood so I couldn’t finish the rest of it! And then of course you feel bad that you couldn’t do what you set out to do, but that’s alright, guess it was a semi-rest day yesterday.
Also, being a Canadian it is always so interesting now to see Tim Horton’s south of the border! I know they have expanded but still!
Love Tim Horton’s! Yeah I don’t think they are too far down here because I never heard of them until I moved here!
Sometimes workouts just aren’t in our cards. We have to change it up in order to get it in! Great job pushing through and getting your workout done! Sounds like you still had a great one!
I definitely overthink my workouts. Especially when my schedule/body is not allowing me to do what I “think” I should be doing. Calm the crazy, brain!
Sometimes our brain gets the best of us 🙂
I actually do the same thing so today I went back to a workout I did long before I got all up in my own head over running…steady run with speedy pickups wherever it just “felt” good, back to steady until I “felt” like speeding up again. It was oddly fantastic to run without thinking and just do what feels good in that moment.
I had the same kind of workout today – I had a plan but then I decided at the last minute to just spin and not think! It turned out SO much better.
It all gets back to the ‘mental game’ – and it is amazing that despite being aware of it, we totally fall into the same trap again and again!
For me, I have finally really ‘clicked’ with cold weather running. Yesterday was 4F with ~0F wind chill and it was a great run – just went out and did it. Today was 15 F an felt warm! Glad to get ahead of THAT mental game early in the season. Though … I need to work up a couple of different routes – in the extreme cold I do very little on-the-fly decision making, so I have been doing the same 6.75mi route for most of the past 2 weeks!
Very smart getting ahead of things while you can!
I don’t know how you do it with running in those temperatures but more power to you! I have been inside because I can’t risk slipping and falling on the snow/ice.
I had another mental game to play with myself today, but again turned out great!
I spend a lot of time over-thinking my workouts when I am trying to plan my running schedule for the week. It can take me almost the whole weekend to plan the next week of training, but once its all down on paper I just do what I planned and don’t worry about it!
The only exercise that I over-think while actually doing it is swimming – what else is there to do when you’re in the pool besides think! ahhhhh!
This is REALLY true! I think that is how I am with swimming too now that I think about it, though I haven’t swam as much as I would like to recently!
I definitely overthink my workouts, sometimes I have to step back and just realize that the longer I think the less I get done.
Exactly! Sometimes I just have to tell myself to stop thinking and just GO!
I had an overthink moment today. I went to a class at the gym and decided to run outside afterwards, got to cold, and went back to the gym. Then I sat in the parking lot for 20 minutes trying to think of something to do other than go inside and run on the treadmill because I hate it so bad. I came up with nothing, so I went inside and ended up having an awesome treadmill run.
Glad you were able to talk yourself into going back inside! I have fallen into the “car trap” one too many times! I remember getting off work and just sitting there trying to talk myself into going in!
I overthink most things, but I really try not to overthink my workouts! I like to have a plan, don’t get me wrong, but I try not to get crazy about it because, like you said, you can take more time thinking about it than the workout itself would actually take!
All things aside you got in a nice, long workout today! Awesome 🙂