I was worried that this past week of workouts would be a really bad one for me. I knew my pain and nausea might kick in at some point, but it never really got that bad. It was affecting some of my workouts, but it wasn’t to the point where I felt like I wasn’t able to do the exercises or that I was going really easy. I know that this week will possibly be a bad one, but I’m not as worried about that as I normally am.
Right now, I normally do my workouts Monday-Thursday. That schedule has been working for me and even though I still hate waking up early, I know that’s the best time for me to work out with my current work schedule. If I worked only until 3pm, I might be doing afternoon workouts again, especially since the studio is so close to me now. But unless something drastic changes with my schedule, morning workouts 4 days in a row is the best option for me.
And for the most part, holidays don’t affect my workouts too much. The main thing is that if it’s a holiday and I have a day off of work, I can go in a little bit later. I’m grateful that my Orangetheory studio doesn’t close for holidays, they just usually do reduced hours. But the only holiday that the studio is closed is Christmas. Since Christmas this year is on a Monday, I’ll be missing Monday this week. And the day after Christmas is reduced hours at my studio, so there won’t be a class that I can attend with my schedule. So this week I’m only doing 2 workouts. I don’t love that, but it’s really the only option I have because I can’t do a Friday workout. And next week, I’m doing a slightly odd schedule since I’m working out on Sunday to get my New Year’s Eve workout in.
Since last week was the last full workout week of the year, I’m glad it was a good week for me. The workouts weren’t anything too crazy, but we did have a special workout on Wednesday that involved crew rows. I’m not a huge fan of crew rows because I know I row slowly. But it’s also a good challenge for me to try to get my rowing speed up and not stress too much about the power or wattage behind each row. I did start to feel a bit nauseous on the rower during those rows, so I did have to take a few little breaks during them. I was glad I wasn’t the leader for any of the rows so I didn’t have the extra stress of having others in class rely on me. But I did try to keep up and do my best since having every in sync is fun to see and also a bit motivating to keep going.
And I was glad that during all of my workouts, I felt a lot better while on the floor and lifting weights. I’m still dealing with some soreness from swollen lymph nodes, but they are much less painful than they were before so my workouts aren’t as affected by things. I did notice a little bit of weakness on the side that was swollen, but I was able to just go slowly and not have to use lighter weights. That was nice because I know this week I might have to go lighter with the weights if I’m feeling really horrible.
It will be interesting to see how this week of workouts goes considering I’m taking 2 extra days off of working out and I might be feeling pretty bad. I want to say that I’m going to end the year with my best workouts yet, but I’ll just have to see what happens those days and how I finish this year’s workouts!
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