Personal Training NYC -Client H

I woke up this morning and decided I’m taking the week off (from working out).  I’m burned out and bored and just don’t want to do it.

This afternoon I was searching the web looking for a christmas gift to send to a family friend, and I discovered a protein bakery (www.proteinbakery.com). I found it on Oprah’s Favorites Foods list. That means it’s gotta be good. :) Also.. in case any of Terri’s local’s are reading this, they are located in NYC.

This site is great! Each cookie has up to 6g whey protein. That’s about the same as an egg… right??? So I could eat cookies for breakfast and still get my protein! yippeeeee… of course, I haven’t tasted the cookies yet.

UPDATE: Why am I always the last to know?? The protein bakery site actually has a link to Terry’s training site. Gee.. and I thought I’d made a great discovery.

I think the difference between burnout and bored is with burnout, you lack the energy or desire to continue something. When you are bored, you lack the interest. Based on my definitions, I’m bored.

This morning I got up.. ate my eggs and started my workout. But I just couldn’t get into the workout. I totally didn’t want to be doing it. I found myself walking on the treadmill instead of bouncing like a bunny.. and the speed was set the same as always. I cut my lunges to one set.. and almost fell asleep during my reverse hyper leg extensions. I even skipped the Abs all together.. and I LIKE abs!

I’m not really lacking motivation.. I don’t think. I mean, I really didn’t mind waking up early to workout. But once I started the workout.. bam! It hit me.. this negative rebellious force.

Now don’t get me wrong.  My body has made some amazing changes in the last few months.  I have great defined shoulders and back, I’ve got six pack abs (well, maybe a soft small six pack) and my tricep swing is smaller and thicker.  Now you would think the visual changes would be motivation enough.  But I’ve actually caught myself thinking, “ok, you’re looking pretty good, why are you even working out?”.  Of course I don’t let the thought linger, but for a split second it’s there.

I didn’t workout this morning. Last week, I overslept on Monday and had to move my weekly workout schedule down a day, but I was able to get four workouts in without any problem. Perhaps the ease of making it work last week effected me this morning. In any event, I turned off the alarm and made an unplanned decision to follow last weeks workout schedule.. Tuesday through Friday.

While this really isn’t that bad, I have this teeny tiny worry that I might start pushing it back even more. Like next week, I’d workout Wednesday through Saturday, etc. I don’t want to start doing that. So, Next week (it’s already too late to start this week :), I’ll push myself a little bit harder to get up Monday and workout.

My other big issue right now is that I mixed up the date of our company Christmas party. This year, we are just having an afternoon “bring your favorite dessert” gathering. There will be a prize for the best dessert. Sooo… I spent all day Saturday making my favorite cookies…. LOTS of my favorite cookies. This morning I learned I had written down the wrong date. The party is actually next week! Now I’ve got over 7 dozen Chocolate Florentine Cookies on my kitchen table. There is no way they will last until next week.. it’s been hard enough keeping them through the weekend. Heck, the are my favorites!

I want to take a survey!!! Leave a comment telling me what you ate for breakfast today?

I had three scrambled eggs, cooked with a little bit of onion and cheese, and one slice of wheat toast w/butter and grape jelly. I also had a glass of orange juice.

Soooooo… what did you eat for breakfast???

Over the Thanksgiving holidays my husband was looking through a book on dumbbell exercises. He found interested in the “wall squat” or “wall sit”. To do this exercise, you position back against a flat wall and slide down until you look like you are sitting in a straight back chair. The object is stay there for a couple of minutes.

My husband decided we would have a little contest to see who would last the longest. While the book mentioned holding dumbells during the exercise, we decided to keep it simple and stick with body weight. We were outside in the drive way to our house where there is a nice brick wall, perfect for this. My husband went first. He is in pretty good shape (runs, bicycles 20+ miles, weights, etc.).He was feeling pretty confident he could out sit me. After sitting 10 seconds, he started laughing.. the kind of laugh you make when you realize you misjudged something. 15 seconds and his legs were quivering.. 20 seconds he was breaking a sweat and at 25 seconds he was finished.

So now it was my turn to sit. I got in position and we started the timer. I was a bit surprised that I didn’t feel the immediate discomfort my husband had experienced. 15 seconds and I’m still comfortable.. 20 seconds no problems. Then at 25 seconds, my little Westie looked at me and decided to seize the opportunity before him.. “LAP!!” By the time I reached 30 seconds my little doggie was sitting comfortably in my lap enjoying the night! I didn’t let this stop me. It was almost 2 minutes and my legs were beginning to shake. I wanted to let my husband think that I could last a lot longer, so I casually said “This is boring, I don’t want to do it anymore.” And I started to stand up.. but now my Westie isn’t ready to de-lap! My legs are quivering and I’m trying to gracefully stand-up.. but he won’t budge!! It was hillarious. I was about to fall flat on the ground when my doggie decided it may not be safe to stay where he was. He hopped down and I was able to save face… and I lasted 2 minutes with the added 18 pounds!!

This morning was the first time since I’ve been working out that I actually overslept.  Honest!  As a matter of fact, when I woke up one hour late (too late to fix breakfast and workout), instead of rolling over and going back to sleep I decided to go to the office an hour early.  This way I could try to come home an hour early and workout this evening.  Unfortunately, I’m willing to bet that doesn’t happen. If there is one thing I hate more than waking up in the mornings it is working out in the evenings.  I workout at home and in the evenings there are too many interuptions.. plus I’m exhausted after work.  I just don’t have the energy to do my best.

The good thing of course is that all is not lost.  I normally workout 4 days a week, Monday through Thursday. This gives me three days off.  Thie schedule works well when I have to miss a day because I can move everything down one day. I can still get all the workouts in and take two rest days before my next week.  I’ll most likely do that.

I’ve been eating pretty good the last few days.  Yesterday I had a really big breakfast with pancakes, turkey bacon and scrambled eggs. Um.. I skipped breakfast this morning, but ate 2 chicken tacos for lunch.  I’ve come to realize I have a much more difficult time eating breakfast on days I don’t workout.

I have a link on my blog to a page at bodybuilders.com. They select a weekly body builder award for people over the age of 40. I was just looking at them and there is one man I really need to point out. His name is Ed Cook and he only started working out 4 years ago.  Also, he has a bodyspace (blogging type site) page with his before pictures.

The reason I find this so motivating is because I have discovered the majority of “in-shape” people over 40 have been working out most of their life. For people like me (who started 4 years ago at age 44) this doesn’t help my motivation factor.