New Challenges…Physical and Mental September 16, 2009

Hello to all my readers,

As you can see from the title of this blog…I am feeling a wee bit challenged right now.  It seemed to have started after my personal trainer session.  I got really down and got knocked off my workout routine.  I was so looking forward to having someone knowledgable to workout with.  Anyway, feeling sorry for myself wasn’t getting me healthy; so, I decided to look else where for knowledgable strength training.  I found “The Firm: Total Body TransFIRMation System featuring The Firm CardioWeights.”  It is awesome.  It helped me workout the soreness from The Forum Atheletic Club fitness class last Saturday.  BTW, the class and instructor were both very motivating, which is why I was very sore. 

Then, just when I get my cardio/strength balance going, I hit a weight plateau (spelling).  It doesn’t seem to matter what I do, I cannot lose.  I have even gained weight since my last meeting with Julie.  She advised me to continue with my weight training and also gave me a tip sheet on snacks.  She also told me that as long as my cardio workout didn’t use weights (except body weight) I could do that every day and then use weights to strength train every other day.

In the mist of all of this, my daughter got sick.  I almost missed Saturday’s class because of it.  Fortunately, my Dad postponed his trip to stay home with her for me.  (Thanks, Daddy!)  I took her to the doctor who believed it was the ‘stomach’ bug going around.  After being advised to give her soup and ginger ale and Imodium AD, I took her home and put her in bed.  Yesterday, she went to school and I went to my meeting with Julie.  Today, I went to meet Brandi for an interview and while I was on my way, the school called because my daughter was sick.  My Daddy once again came to my rescue and picked her up.  I have an appointment at the doctor’s office tomorrow at 11:30 am.  If this is a stomach bug…it sure is a tough one.

Well, I must get to bed as it is very late and I still have to get my son up and ready for school tomorrow.  Thanks for listening to me…I feel better.

Good night and get moving tomorrow : )