This week's Music Monday is "Superstar II" by Saliva.
Lately I have been really struggling with this whole "not running" thing. I finally went to the doctor in March and was diagnosed with tendinitis. The doctor told me I could do whatever I want....as long as it doesn't inflame the knee. In other words: no running. For two months.
I thought it wouldn't be that hard. I could still lift weights as long as I wasn't using my knee. This was actually a bonus because I HATE doing walking lunges. (If you've ever seen my do walking lunges, then drop and do four push ups, it is one push up for each letter of the four letter word I want to scream out loud.) I also had found pool running as a way to "run".
I knew what I could and couldn't do, now it was time to do those things that were allowed. I came up with a plan and thought it was a good one. Not quite.
The plan:
MWF - Pool running. 1+ hour in the pool running and swimming.
TuThSa - Lift weights. Just go balls-to-the-wall-meat head.
With this plan I would be getting 1-2 hours in the pool 3 days a week and a lot of heavy lifting 3 days. This plan clearly wasn't fool proof.
The problems:
It's baseball/softball season and both of my older kids are playing and Staci and I are coaching.
The weather has been nice. Making being stuck inside very depressing.
There tends to be more chafing in the pool than I realized.
Kids get sick.
Other things are more important.
The biggest problem is that I LOVE to eat. When I go "meat head" with the weights I eat even more. When I run every day it's not a huge issue. When I miss a whole week of running and don't watch what I eat.....not good.
I've learned that other things are more important than hitting the gym. However, it doesn't help my body. I have the word "discipline" tattooed on my wrist, but I don't really practice it.
When people ask me how I lost weight before I tell them and I encourage them. But now I have gotten to the point at which I really need to practice all of these things I preach to everyone. I know how to do it. My problem is that I need to get back to that discipline and commitment that worked before. Right now I can't get all of the workouts in that I want but I can be efficient with them and definitely work on my eating habits.
So instead of picking a song that tells me how awesome I can be and motivates me, I picked one that reminds me how awesome I already am! This was a song that was one of my theme songs when I was losing weight before. It's been coming on during my workouts a lot lately so it's the perfect song to kick start my new attitude. And if you read these posts regularly then you know that all my songs come to me in a divine sort of way so this is my song!
****Warning - This song has a lot of bad language and is balls-out-attitude. THIS is who I really am.
SUPERSTAR BABY!
Enjoy!
Lately I have been really struggling with this whole "not running" thing. I finally went to the doctor in March and was diagnosed with tendinitis. The doctor told me I could do whatever I want....as long as it doesn't inflame the knee. In other words: no running. For two months.
I thought it wouldn't be that hard. I could still lift weights as long as I wasn't using my knee. This was actually a bonus because I HATE doing walking lunges. (If you've ever seen my do walking lunges, then drop and do four push ups, it is one push up for each letter of the four letter word I want to scream out loud.) I also had found pool running as a way to "run".
I knew what I could and couldn't do, now it was time to do those things that were allowed. I came up with a plan and thought it was a good one. Not quite.
The plan:
MWF - Pool running. 1+ hour in the pool running and swimming.
TuThSa - Lift weights. Just go balls-to-the-wall-meat head.
With this plan I would be getting 1-2 hours in the pool 3 days a week and a lot of heavy lifting 3 days. This plan clearly wasn't fool proof.
The problems:
It's baseball/softball season and both of my older kids are playing and Staci and I are coaching.
The weather has been nice. Making being stuck inside very depressing.
There tends to be more chafing in the pool than I realized.
Kids get sick.
Other things are more important.
The biggest problem is that I LOVE to eat. When I go "meat head" with the weights I eat even more. When I run every day it's not a huge issue. When I miss a whole week of running and don't watch what I eat.....not good.
I've learned that other things are more important than hitting the gym. However, it doesn't help my body. I have the word "discipline" tattooed on my wrist, but I don't really practice it.
When people ask me how I lost weight before I tell them and I encourage them. But now I have gotten to the point at which I really need to practice all of these things I preach to everyone. I know how to do it. My problem is that I need to get back to that discipline and commitment that worked before. Right now I can't get all of the workouts in that I want but I can be efficient with them and definitely work on my eating habits.
So instead of picking a song that tells me how awesome I can be and motivates me, I picked one that reminds me how awesome I already am! This was a song that was one of my theme songs when I was losing weight before. It's been coming on during my workouts a lot lately so it's the perfect song to kick start my new attitude. And if you read these posts regularly then you know that all my songs come to me in a divine sort of way so this is my song!
****Warning - This song has a lot of bad language and is balls-out-attitude. THIS is who I really am.
SUPERSTAR BABY!
Enjoy!
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