Friday, December 4, 2009

Damnit Scottie, we need more power!

This morning it felt like everythin was going in slow motion. Yesterday we woke up on time and did our workout but I didn't have to be in the office and it was difficult to remain energetic (aka not want to fall asleep) without a lengthy to-do list looming over my head. The HR Manager at my office is up at the same early hour every day and goes to bed at 10pm and says she survives with an afternoon or evening nap. I tried it out (30 minutes from 11 - 11:30 am) but it seems to have messed me up. Despite having no caffeine in my system I found myself still awake and trying to get myself asleep at 10:30 pm despite retiring to my room at 9pm.

The bed felt extra cosy and hard to leave. Once up it wasn't too bad but like I said- slow motion. Valerie was also pretty sluggish and we ended up leaving the house later (5:45 AM) and I did just a 1 hour cardio workout. We couldn't do a leg workout as that was yesterday and I couldn't do an upper body workout as my shoulder is still buggerred (turns out it's not the trapezius, but the rotary cuff. The 'Super' Something and Something 'Minor.') The first 20 minutes of cardio were also sluggish... pedaling through the motion without any pep. Got a burst of energy from 20 minutes to 45 minutes on the bike but that died and I wrapped up on the treadmill on an incline.

But hey, we were still up early, we still got to the gym, and we still worked out, RIGHT? Right!

PS - Curiosity got the better of me and I stepped on the body comp scale. I'm down 1.6 pounds and my body fat went from 31 to 28.8% in under a week. Woot! I'm sure there is more there as well- such as how much of that 127.2 lbs. is now Fat-Mass and how much is Fat-Free-Mass. Surely the ratio, as well as the DIMS, have improved as well. I am excited to do stats on Sunday!

1 comment:

  1. I actually read in Womens Health mag (oct issue)that Red Bull is ok once in awhile to boost a workout as it only has 80mg of caffeine-if only drinking 1 glass a day. Am sure the naps will get better (and the night-time sleeping!) if you keep at it

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