Check out this picture. Among the color bars and numbers, one thing to decipher is I burned over 1,000 calories at the gym today! But how I did it may surprise you.
Month: June 2015
Beginning My First 5K Training
Ever since I signed up for the Bucktown 5k back in March, I made a game plan: continue to work out and focus on building as much strength/cardio as possible (and hopefully drop a ton more weight). Then, at some point in time I would have to get out of the gym and start running outside. With the race coming up in just under 3 months, that time is quickly approaching.
Then I messed up…. Continue reading “Beginning My First 5K Training”
Rest & Refocus
Thankfully, I don’t think this post won’t precede another “wagon bursting into flames” picture, but it got very close.
I feel like I’m in somewhat a holding pattern right now as far as motivation goes. Toward the beginning of this month, I decided that I was going to take a week off from working out. Aside from the nagging plantar fasciitis, I started to get more and more little tweaks. None too serious, it wouldn’t make me sit any days, but it would make me ease up during the work out.