Author: nitrice

Turn it up, yes let’s get do it together. What, how and what am I requesting you to turn up.

Our workouts of course. I’m always posting I gave it my 100 and sweat is pouring like crazy in my eyes, every orifice in my body, legs, abdomen and some of these areas are new for me. I now wonder as I’ve recently noted if I gave just a little more perhaps 110 or 150. I tried it and I lift heavier, squatted lower and increased my speed in airless jump ropes.

Now it was a push especially in the ropes, I did pause to catch my breath but only for a few seconds and how I felt afterwards was PRICELESS. I’m still working on building up to that 150 of the push of course eventually it will be my 100 and I’ll push again.

I know and you should too this push will increase our change. To new beginnings of ” Turning It Up”

I bet you’re wondering what does that mean, I’ll gladly explain, after a few words to let you know there are two stages and two methods of setting the stage.

Stage I, is for home workouts, just have your equipment available and set ip for the workout. If you’re lifting have a set of lighter weight than projected and a set of heavier weight than projected. Why, especially if you’re keeping a record; because our strength at least mine vary. There are days I am able to lift much heavier as well as days I have to go lighter to maintain form and get a specific number of reps in. Should there be additional equipment such as airless ropes, resistant bands, a towel. Okay the towel, I use for my air boxing workout the agility round(don’t knock it ’til you try it).

Doing a home workout and setting the stage, definently prevents those many times of interruption by the pause button, and slowing the burn of the workout until you resume.

Stage II a gym workout, know exactly which weights and what machine you’ll be using. For now I’m sure there is no wait time due to COVID, however in the future just do a rapid walk about so your energy stays high. I know for me and I’m not the only one that wait for use of a machine will make a big difference in the response to muscles as they have cooled down and now you have to slowly build them up again to tolerate the lift or quad muscles for the squat or for that treadmill run.

This week and every day of your workout “Set The Stage”

I was conversing with a friend as she teared up so many times and it was heartbreaking. I’m a good listener and I will not say “I know what you mean” even if I do. Why not, because I don’t want to hear it either when I share moments.

What was going on, well she made so many changes to her life to accomplish her fitness goals, and feels as if she wasn’t accomplishing anything so what happened?, she gave up. My only words were ” Don’t stop, it’s time to re-evaluate and tweak it (the goals).

I did this at one time, I was on a roll, eliminating so much from my diet, incorporating other things in, increasing my workouts because I thought, if I pushed harder than normal I’d make it to my goal much quicker.

What happened?, I put stress on my body with eliminating too much, working out like crazy without knowing how my body would respond and I was in a good way “ a ball of mess, an entangled mess”. I was failing all of a sudden and I gave up on me, for a minute. I cried, I was angry and I then begin to think with reason.

I did a slow elimination, and a slow increase in certain areas of my fitness. The slow but consistent change has allowed me to continue to progress and see change.

To you I say don’t make too many changes and most of all don’t give up on you.

This was me on Saturday, I was uncertain what workout I wanted to do as this past week did not follow any particular Beachbody program, but did random program workouts. Is this a bad thing no for most, but for me I need a program to follow otherwise I will ponder around, waste time thinking about which trainer I want to follow for the day. This is just me, I know some of you are on it, I applaud you.

Anyway Saturday I was wasting time, was pondering around and then I remembered. Beachbody has a section for meditation and relaxation. It was a HUGE help for me. I did two meditations and a hypnosis section.

Now I am not a good candidate for hypnosis, how do I know because I tried it and it did not go well so I was willing to try again, I could always pause or stop it RIGHT. Well it begin and I could not focus was not feeling it and was going to stop it, but decided I owed it to myself to stay with it for a few minutes longer. How surprised was I when I heard you can now open your eyes. What the heck happened? Not sure if it was genuine as of now but will update in a later blog in a couple of weeks because that’s giving myself time to respond. I’m laughing even as I write because I must’ve responded. I remember nothing after I decided to wait a little longer. I do know what the hypnosis is suppose to do.

I did workout later in the day, lifted weights and ran a couple miles on the treadmill. The temp here is too hot and humid for a midday run, 100 feeling like 114. Not for me but there are those that challenge their body in the heat.

Question, have you had a day of pondering what workout to do? or what to do ?