Fitness ~ Plans

I go through different phases when it comes to fitness and it's most of the time from one extreme to another. I was a die hard Beachbody fan and I still enjoy the workouts but I live in a tiny house now and don't have the room to set up a gym so it's doesn't really work to do the workouts that I enjoy that require a bunch of equipment.

I like to run long distances. I have completed 2 marathons and 5 half marathons and running for over a year now has been a really big part of my life. My weekends were dominated by long runs and my loving husband always held down the fort on the weekends.



I am now in a new season of life where work and the logistics of picking up our kids has been taking up most of our days so I have done a lot of running and let go of the strength training aspect of my life because of my schedule and the lack of room at home. I am now injured and I thought to take some time off of the running to properly heal my ankle and I find myself with wondering what I am going to do.

Last week, I frequented the gym and started weight lifting again and let me tell you I was SUPER sore and pretty much lost all my strength. I bicep curl 10 pounds and even that feels like too much HA HA. I pretty much played around with different workouts and have come to the conclusion that I have to basically go beginner style to a degree to gain some strength again.

I am going to do Body Beast at the gym everyday for the next 12 weeks. I am pretty familiar with the program as a whole so I am going to start there and see what happens. I am going to run in Jan because I should be better and I also have to because of my job. After I finish the beast I think I will be able to handle some harder workouts :)

Since I have gone through both extremes and running brings me a ton of joy I am going to get back to doing both workouts starting next year just to have more balance. Now, if I could just get the eating in check I will be good ha ha ha.