![]() ![]() It gives me time to let my thoughts go and just forget about everything for a short time - I don't pressure myself to run a certain distance, I just do what I feel - sometimes that ends up with a long run and others just a leisurely walk. And I've taken my cardio outdoors for the most part. I love it! It is very relaxing and it requires me to mentally focus on nothing but my body for a whole hour, and I usually end up pretty sore from it. I've also started doing yoga once a week. ![]() My goals are aimed at maintaining right now, so I don't need to lift as much as I was - 3 days is plenty to maintain the muscle that I have. ![]() I dropped my lifting days from 5-6 days per week to 3. I was burned out on the same workouts and cardio equipment. Who really wants to go do something they don't like doing? That was where I had gotten. One thing that has really kept me going lately is that I've incorporated things into my training plan that I really enjoy. I don't have any lofty goals at the moment either, so it works out for my goals as well. It's very fluid, and that's what works for me right now. Now I don't have a rigid training plan like I used to. I sat down and wrote down what days/times I had available to work out, rewrote my goals, and made a plan that worked WITH my schedule. But I was used to having a training plan that required me to be in the gym 5 to 6 days per week, and missing one or two days would throw it off. I was letting that one or two days justify my whole week. I would take whole weeks off of training just because I didn't make it to the gym on Monday or Tuesday. I tend to be an all-or-nothing thinker - and this can be detrimental to training for anyone. I had let my training slip off of my priority list. This is where I always used to tell other people that "You have to make it a priority," and to "make every little bit count." And what I found for the first month or so of school, was that I wasn't taking my own advice. I'm attending full-time as a Biology major, training clients a couple days per week, and juggling the role of wife and mom on the homefront. As you probably know, I started back at college this past August. It has felt as though I've just been floating from one thing to another, without a plan or goals, and just sort of going through the motions. Over the last couple of months, I've struggled to stick with a solid training plan. ![]()
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