Day 1 - The First Step

Okay, so we all realize this is about more than just 30 minutes of walking this week, yes? This is the first step in a long line of steps, building towards the goal of 30 minutes, continuous running. It's something I'd been able to do previously, but this time I intend to make it stick. We are done having kids and I am out of excuses. Enough babbling, here is how day 1 went...

Really, this adventure starts Sunday night when I had skate practice. It was a crazy 2 hours of an intense bootcamp style workout, first 30 minutes off skates, the next hour and half on skates. By Monday, I was feeling it and with the baby teething, not getting as much rest as I probably needed.

Tuesday evening I had another skate practice. I didn't go hard like I did on Sunday and took the opportunity to work on more detailed training with intense intervals thrown in. I finished with wall sits and ended up getting home rather late. I did not get much sleep.

Now on to today.... Wednesday and Day 1:

I spent the morning tired, but focused. I had a healthful breakfast of fresh fruit (banana and apricots) and cottage cheese. Throughout the morning, I sipped on green tea (Numi Jasmine Green tea, one of my favorites!) and tried to plan WHEN to do a simple 30 minute walk. I had to wait until my husband could watch the kids and I went down and hit the treadmill for 30 minutes while watching part of a movie. I had been thinking to myself all day that 30 minutes of walking is too easy and why NOT run for a minute here and there. But I chose to follow the plan to the letter and I'm very very glad I did. Something that seems so simple, was extremely beneficial after the intensity of the 2 skate workouts. I felt the kinks work out, some of the stress melt away and per the book, I kept the pace brisk, but not panicked.

I have eaten super cleanly today, under my caloric goal.

This whole plan seems to be working out brilliantly. And I'm really looking forward to the coming weeks. I think this slower "ramping up" will be more effective when paired with cross-training, so as to avoid injury and give myself time to adjust to adding in a new sport.

My plan for the rest of the week:

Walk Thursday, Friday and Saturday to give me 4 days of 30 minutes of walking. I may do an open skate this Saturday for a few hours, but we shall see.

Next week the plans are as follows:

Sunday - 2 hr skating practice

Monday - Week 2 RYBO program (Walk 4, Run 1 - 30 minutes)

Tuesday - 2 hr skating practice

Wednesday - RYBO!

Thursday - RYBO! PLUS Hip Hop Abs

Friday - RYBO!

Saturday - 2 - 5 hours AM skating

Yours in fitness,

Grace