Gym Time!
Ouch…
I have decided that this 6 months will be a time to improve myself and with that comes getting myself in shape…obviously that means working out. I started out well went the first couple of weeks going everyday but about mid way through the second week I started having issues. I was slowing down on the treadmill (a lot, it was really sad) and couldn’t make very good distance, my knees started to hurt like crazy and where my calf muscle meets my shin was in pretty large amounts of pain. I think I have discovered that this is due to overpronation so I have gotten some cheap inserts as a temporary measure while I wait for the nicer ones to show up in the mail. In the mean time the cheap ones have improved things a bit but I still haven’t managed to go running again. Yesterday I got my butt beat by a Jillian Michaels DVD. I like her, I think she gets results and she makes me laugh but I still don’t usually use DVD’s. This one was a nice break though and I was falling out part way through and I knew I would be hurting but I had no idea how bad! I could barely walk today my legs were hurting so bad! So, needless to say that mixed with some time issues means I didn’t run or even hit the gym today. I am not too stressed about it because normally I would take off the whole weekend and I ended up working out o Sunday so I guess today kind of makes up for it, I am just hoping I’m not as sore tomorrow and the inserts help me actually get some running. My goals are to drop some weight, tone and most importantly just be set to do well on my PT tests…I think I can hit my minimum push ups but it is still a bit of a struggle so I need to work on those more. I also need to obviously get the run down and then do some ab work. I have been kind of up and down on my diet but mostly not bad enough that I would be over my daily burn so at the very least I wouldn’t gain any weight…now I just have to try to get to the gym tomorrow and see if I lost any.
If anyone has any tips and tricks for the gym I would love to hear!
