I’ve been able to use my new weights for my workouts for several workouts now, and it’s really hitting me hard with how different my strength is right now. It was so easy to trick myself when I wasn’t able to use real weights that things weren’t that different. But now, it’s very clear what I’m able to do and not do.
A lot of the workouts have parts of it that I’m very used to doing when I had workouts in the studios. I like those familiar exercises because I know how to have good form when I’m doing them and if they are things I need to modify I know those too. It also does make me happy to have something that feels so familiar and like I’m doing the workouts that I’m so used to.
But at the same time, I’m very familiar with the weights that I could use for those exercises before and it’s shocking when I can’t even come close to that. There were some things I was using 25-pound weights before and now it’s a struggle to use 15-pound weights. And it’s so hard to not feel down when I realize how far down I have slipped. I’m trying to see it from a different perspective and look at it as a challenge to get back to where I was. I also am motivated by knowing I can get there again because I was there before.
Just like all the other weeks since I started doing Zoom workouts, the Zoom workout was the hardest one of the week. It also ended up being the workout where I was the most nauseous, which added another level of it being difficult. I tried to work through the nausea as much as I could, but it got very overwhelming at times. I also think I took my anti-nausea meds a bit too late that morning so they didn’t really kick in until after the workout. That’s a problem I’m used to having when I was doing in-studio workouts because of the limited time between waking up and working out, but I hadn’t had that issue since doing the home workouts. But it was a good reminder to be a bit better about timing medications.
I really wanted to get back to using my jump rope this past week, but I didn’t think about it as the week that I would have issues with being nauseous. So that plan didn’t go how I wanted it to and now it will be another week or so before I can try using it. But I hope that I will be able to get back to it then and that I won’t struggle too much when I use it again.
This week of workouts will likely be a tough one for me. I’m getting myself mentally prepared for the struggle and to know that it’s ok if I have to go easy on myself. I think I will always have a hard time being easy on myself, but I guess it’s good that I’m forced to do that by things that happen in my life.
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