Monday Morning Jam
Do NOT miss Monday workouts. Something about starting your week by kicking your own ass is a great way to keep your motivation up on the rest of the week. Messed up all weekend? Who cares? (Well, you do.) But get back in that game on Monday, dammit.
Did you miss Monday morning and now feel guilty reading this? Don’t. Just do your workout some time today. And if you can’t do your SCHEDULED workout, at least do SOMETHING that shows you’re still fighting. Right?
This morning:
Warmup lap around the track.
1 minute jump rope
Pushups (30, 10 with two medicine balls under my hands– aieee).
Chinups 3 (still shoulder pain)
1 minute jump rope
Bench Dips 15 (ditto shoulder pain)
Squats 30 (bodyweight)
1 minute jump rope
Lunges 20 each leg (ow!)
1 minute jump rope
Reverse rows
1 minute jump rope
Crunches, reverse crunches, flutterkicks
1 minute jump rope
10 minutes bicycling with resistance
10 minutes sprint drills
The really neat part of this was the last bit. Doing that cycling and then jumping onto the treadmill for sprint drills was neat, because my legs really wanted to turn over fast for the treadmill. I think that’s because they’d just gone round and round so much on the cycle. Whatever the case, I hit the sprints hard. I did it like this.
1 minute warmup.
30 seconds 9 MPH
30 seconds 4.5 MPH (walking fast)
30 seconds 9
30 seconds 4.5
1 minute 9
1 minute 4.5
30 seconds 9
1 minute 4.5 (getting tired)
30 seconds 9
1 minute 4.5
1 minute 9
1 minute 4.5
And by then, I was a sweating fool. I sweat 2 pounds of weight off me this morning. Yep. What a spookshow. It’d be nice if it sticks, but we’ll see.
In nutrition, I’m on day 3 of no sugar. I won’t tell you all the tricky ways that’s been challenged over the last few days (*cough*cough*kat*cough), but just the same, I’m doing well. I also got back into the “no moster” groove last night. We’ll see if I can even hit onen week of that.
Remember, little goals lead to bigger goals, lead to success. Big goals make you feel all bummed out and overwhelmed. Works for me.
My plan for the week: attack my calories at both ends. Cut my portion sizes a bit, and also burn lots more cardio work into the week. Five days, in fact.
What’s your plan for the week?
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