Last week, I wrote about the most recent change to my workout plan. I decided to stop worrying as much about cardio and just focus on doing strength and weightlifting work. This was a huge change for me. I never have been great about strength work on my own. When I belonged to a regular gym, I rarely did more than cardio unless I was working with a personal trainer. And while I loved doing the strength work at Orangetheory, it always felt like a part of the reason I loved it was having someone coach me. I was always doing strength work in my home workouts, but it didn’t feel the same.
And I wasn’t expecting dropping cardio to focus on strength work to make a huge difference because I knew how I had been feeling before. But somehow, it did! I don’t know if it felt like there was less pressure on me or if I wasn’t feeling as overwhelmed or tired. All my focus was on doing my weightlifting work and I didn’t have to think about much else. It was a change that I clearly needed to feel better about my workouts again.
Since it worked so well for me the first week, I knew I was going to keep doing it again last week. I didn’t feel the need to try anything different or make changes. I just wanted to feel as good as I did the week before with my workouts.
I did do the exact same plan last week, and that might not have been the most ideal thing. I know the exercises might need to be switched up, but for now, I’m not worrying too much about it. The exercises are a full-body strength workout and that’s important. I don’t have to worry that I’m only focusing on upper body or lower body. Maybe in a week or two, I will work more on finding workouts that I can alternate so I have different muscles working on different days. But again, I’m not too concerned about it. I’m still in the mindset that doing something is better than doing nothing. And if I’m not doing the best workouts possible, that’s ok as long as I’m doing something.
I was still dealing with some nausea issues, which did affect my workout. Some of my nausea is still connected to medication, but I’m also getting my monthly nausea again (which will likely hit me full force by the end of this week). Very few of the exercises in the strength routine are ones that make me feel worse, and when I was getting more nauseous it was easy enough for me to either skip that exercise or do a modification to make it easier. Since I wasn’t following along to a video, I didn’t feel the need to stay at any particular pace. My breaks didn’t feel like lost workout time, but I still tried to keep breaks to a minimum. I feel like some of the pressure and stress I had been putting on myself wasn’t as bad in these new workouts, and that’s something I didn’t realize I needed.
So my plan for now is to keep doing what I’m doing. I might do some research on other strength workouts to try, but it depends on how I feel this week. I am prepared to have a tough workout week with pain and nausea, and I’m not going to put any unnecessary pressure on myself when I have something that is working right now. And like I’ve said several times before, who knows how long this workout plan will last. I change things up a lot, and I’m aware that next week I might have something totally different. But I’m enjoying this for now and I’m going to keep doing it!
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