So tonight is a meal prep night since I'm all out of dinners and lunches for the next week. I'm just waiting on my brown rice to finish cooking and I'm all set. Meal prepping ensures that you are eating enough through the day, and staying on track with your diet. You are less likely to go out/ through a fast food joint if you know that there is a meal, already made for you at home, and all you have to do it pop it in the microwave for 3 minutes. If you can wait 3 minutes in a drive through, you can wait 3 minutes in your kitchen.
The other day, I had a bit of a melt down; we're all entitled to one every once and a while. I have come to a plateau with my body and workouts . This has been going on for about a month; and nothing sucks more than going to the gym day after day and coming to a screeching halt. Like I mentioned early on, you will come to a point where you feel discouraged because you aren't seeing the change where you want and when you want. I hit that feeling this week and I'm coming up on my 6 month mark. (Most consider this time a pretty good mile stone for fitness improvements) After talking with a few friends, Ryan, a personal trainer and looking back on my past 6 months, I know I have had improvement in my strength and my physique, I just expected more.( Sometimes it's hard to see when you look at yourself everyday in the mirror). It is obvious that my body has become comfortable with those workouts, that amount of food and that amount of cardio. The next step I have to take is to change my workout plan and my diet even more. I am aware that I eat healthy, but I also am aware that don't eat enough. I'm still learning how to meet my necessary caloric intake- in the healthiest way possible. I have come to the realization I'm roughly 500 calories short from where I should be eating (According to the PT).
With that being said, I have done some research in the past few days and talked with a few people who have had this same issue. I'm hoping their advice helps me! I am starting a new workout regimen as of today and I'm concentrating more on my diet. I know it's going to be hard increasing my food consumption and I know that it will take a little while to get to where I need to be. The last thing I would want or would advise anyone to do is add 500 missing calories to your diet in one day. I'm pretty sure nothing good will come of that, you'll only feel like you have 2 food babies and want to make yourself sick to provide relief. And I'm not one to binge and purge.
Anyways, here's the workout from today.
*Be advised the cardio is increasing a large amount as of today *
Time to complete: 30 minutes
Warm up: Walk 5 minutes 3.5 mph
Stretch
4.0mph- 60 seconds
6.0 mph- 30 seconds
9.0mph- 60 seconds.
Repeat 10 times
DO NOT STOP. 4.0mph is your recover time!
Completed 2.43 miles in 23:30 Max HR: 172
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