I knew that I was going to be doing a lot of mix and match workouts this past week and I had said I wanted to try to make some sort of plan with what I would do each day. But when I said I would make a plan, I was thinking about having lower body days and upper body days. I didn’t think much beyond that.
And that’s what I tried to do this past week but I wasn’t very successful at it. I felt like I was jumping around trying to figure out what workouts to do. And I didn’t necessarily plan what day would be what type of workout. I ended up spending time each day trying to see what I wanted to do and checking out what different videos online had to offer. And that took up a lot of time.
Before last month, taking time to set up my workout for the day wasn’t a big deal because I had all the time I wanted to do my workout. I rarely had anything I had to do in the mornings so if I wasted 30 minutes getting things set up it was fine. But now, I have a pretty tight schedule in the morning. I know I could switch my workout to be after work, but I am really trying to keep my workouts in the morning. But in order for me to work out, shower, and be logged in to all the websites I need to use for work before my shift starts; I don’t have a lot of extra time. I really need to be able to get to my workouts quickly and not have to plan that morning.
Since I didn’t plan well and didn’t have time to waste, I ended up not having a lot of variety in what I did throughout the week. That’s fine, but not what my goal is with my workouts. One of the things I love about Orangetheory is the variety in the workouts and how each day is different. And another thing I love about the workouts at Orangetheory is how I don’t have to think about what I’m doing. I know that isn’t how everyone does their workouts at other places, but not having to plan out my workouts is a luxury that I’ve gotten used to. But now, I have to build the skills to plan out some workouts each week.
I’m struggling a bit with how to do this because this isn’t something I’ve really done before. Even when I belonged to regular gyms, I wasn’t good at planning workouts. At one gym I belonged to, I worked with a personal trainer twice a week and the other days I would just do cardio. At another gym I belonged to, I rarely did anything other than cardio. And if I had cardio machines available for me to use, planning cardio is pretty easy (I am on a waitlist for renting a WaterRower but I won’t know for a while if I get one). But planning the strength part of my workout is something I’ve never really tried to do.
And I know, I don’t really have to plan everything with the strength part of my workout. I can still do the videos online from Orangetheory or other sources. But I do need to plan which videos I want to do or if I find a workout somewhere else that I want to follow. And I’m in the trial and error stage of figuring out how to accomplish this. Right now, I’m trying to look at the videos over the weekend to see what the exercises are and make a list of what I want to try to do for the week. I don’t know if this will work or if I’ll be able to keep it up, but I have to try.
Hopefully, planning my workouts this week will be a bit easier than the past week. And it continues to get easier for me. I’m still excited for when I can start back at Orangetheory (whether that will be for the outdoor workouts or the regular in-studio ones), but I need to find a way to make things work for me right now.
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