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| How I felt after finishing Spinning AND strength training last night! |
Last week during my Monday night Spinning class, my instructor mentioned how she teaches Power Strength right after Spinning. Perhaps dizzy from endorphins and light-headed from Spinning, I foolishly decided it would be a good idea to sign up for both classes this week.
Great idea, right? Except the Spinning class’ theme was rolling hills, and my legs were shot by the time I climbed off that bike in a pool of sweat. My instructor was excited I signed up for both classes, so I couldn’t sneak out without her knowing I wussed out. Damn. Off I went to strength training class…which is up two flights of stairs, I must add!
I survived, but barely. I am glad I finished both classes, but it’s not something I would do again any time soon. It was a lot, and I felt shaky during strength training because I was already fatigued. But when class was over and I had completed not one, but two, classes, I felt like quite a beast. Rooooarrr!
Here comes my dilemma: next week the kids are with us for a week, and my boyfriend wants to go away for a few days to visit his family a few hours away. What’s the problem? Well, I suck at staying on track while I’m traveling. Not all of my readers know this, but I got down to 148 pounds last summer, only 18 pounds away from my goal weight, and then I went out of town. It’s like the interruption from my daily routine breaks the connection, warps the signal, throws me off the wagon, but I ended up coming home completely out of whack. I’ll get back on track on Monday…or maybe next Monday…how about next month? Before I knew it, I was over 200 pounds again.
I do NOT want to do that to myself again. I am starting nowhere near 148 pounds, but I finally got myself into some consistency and have lost 10 pounds. I don’t want to gain those 10 pounds back and feel like crap.
It’s all within my control, but that’s the thing. I feel so out of control when I am traveling. I am eating out, eating at relatives’ homes, trying to fit in workouts when I’d rather sleep in. I will talk to my boyfriend about making a hotel reservation at a place with a gym. It’s not even realistic to think I’ll get up and travel to a local gym in an area I don’t know very well. I need to plan for this so I stay on track and enjoy the trip and come home proud of myself, not disgusted and disappointed. Just because I have failed in the past doesn’t mean I can’t make this work!
Sweat & Sparkle 