I had another really tough week this past week in my workouts. I was expecting this and I was mentally prepared for it. But no matter how mentally prepared I am, I always struggle when I’m in the workouts. I want to push myself to do better than I am, and I know that doing that can cause issues. But I still have a stubbornness that makes me want to always do better. And that feeling is even stronger when we have a challenge within the workout.
This past week, we had the mile benchmark. This has been a benchmark that I’ve really enjoyed challenging myself with and I’ve been able to surprise myself with how well I could do. But when we had the benchmark this past week, I knew it wasn’t going to be my best time. I honestly went into it thinking that I wasn’t going to try to push myself too hard because my pain and nausea were really bad that morning. I set the resistance level on the bike to be what I normally do the benchmark at and I had a goal to try to do it with as few breaks as possible. But I also knew that if I got to the point that I needed to leave class to be sick, then I would have to do that. Staying in the workout when I feel like that isn’t worth the risk. When I finished the benchmark, it wasn’t that close to my PR, which is what I expected. But I also didn’t do as badly as I expected, so that made me happy.
We are going to have the mile benchmark again in about 2 months because right now, Orangetheory is doing the Transformation Challenge. I’m not participating in the Transformation Challenge this year due to various health things I’ve been dealing with and I didn’t need to worry about what may or may not happen in my workouts. But I do like that we started the 8 weeks of the challenge with a benchmark and we will be doing it again at the end. I’m just hoping that when we have it again, I’ll be having a much better day.
The rest of my workout week this past week was a big struggle. I did my best, but I got very frustrated with what my best ended up being. I was lucky that my nausea wasn’t that bad for most of the week. I was worried it would be horrible for the entire week, but it really only affected me on Monday when we had the benchmark. And I think I didn’t have the added nausea from my medication, which was a win. But the pain and cramps I had throughout the week made things really difficult for me. I was worried about lifting heavy weights because if a cramp hit me, I wanted to be able to put the weights down quickly without worrying about hurting myself. I also had to take a lot of breaks in all sections of the room when the pain hit because sometimes it’s a very sharp pain. When I had to stop my workout on the floor, I tried to use that time to stretch a bit so I would still be moving. But I know stretching isn’t the same as weightlifting so I wasn’t getting exactly the same workout. But at least I was still moving a bit and that’s better than just sitting or standing still.
This week, I’m hoping it will be a better week. I had 2 really bad weeks back to back and this week shouldn’t be as horrible. But it also depends on how my medication affects me this week since that can make any week a bad week. But I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I finally get a bit of a break and I can fully enjoy my workouts again!
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