By the time we got lunch and headed home, it was very close to 3:00. This is when it occurred to me that I had not planned my workout for the day. It also occurred to me that I had no clue as to when it would happen. I had to be at work tonight from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. again, so it was a must that I get in a nap. At 3:20, I put the kids in their room and told them I didn't care what they did, just don't come out of the room. That worked great, by the way.....other than those 5 times they did come out.
Anyway, my first thought (at 3:35) was to lay down for an hour, get up, workout, cook dinner, eat with the fam, shower & leave for work by 6:40. Yeah....... I am exhausted and stressed out just from typing all of that. How 'bout you?
So then I decided I would nap, cook, eat, shower, and go to work. Then, I would come home - at 3 a.m. - and workout before bed. My mind tells me I am nutz for this one, but I still haven't dropped the idea because I ended up napping for a constantly interrupted hour and a HALF - much more than I planned, right?? I will see how I feel when I get off work and then make a final decision.
My prediction is that Day 7 will have to be chalked up as a FAIL. I am trying to not kick myself too bad and tell myself that it really isn't a total fail. I am trying to keep in mind that I was able to work out SIX days in a row. I am not thinking of Day 7 as a failure. I am thinking of it more as a NON-Success.
Bottom line is that seven days ago, I thought it was impossible to run THREE days in a week and I just worked out for SIX days.....IN A ROW!! Even when I have felt "too tired" or didn't have enough time, I sucked it up and did the best that I could, no matter what.
No matter what happened with Day 7........
I am really, REALLY trying and that, to me, is SUCCESS in my book.
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.”
~Author Unknown
2 comments:
You completely should be proud of yourself!! Honestly- I don't know how you do it with your schedule- I don't know that I would have done two days in a row- much less SIX!! And it may be that your body needed that long nap more than it needed a workout!! Keep moving forward and hop back on the wagon ;)
YOU GO!!! You are an inspiration!
You've been challenging yourself the last 6 days despite your hard schedule with kids, work and school, 30 days fitness challenge is going to be hard on your body and sleep is probably going to be essential, so you needed that nap. For a day like today, I will have no problem counting 10 pushups with 1 min of jumping jack done 3-4 times my workout of the day. So you need the hard and easy days, but the day wasn't a failure since you moved around basically none stop, you just never had a formal workout, failing will be sitting on the couch eating cheese puffs thinking of working out.
Good Job, you are on a roll.
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