Fitness Update

So, here I am in the middle of the night, and I can't sleep. My brain is going over and over all the things that I need to do but haven't done. I'm really not feeling on top of things in my life right now. It's like I'm lost, and drifting. I have the strongest feeling that if I can just get clear on what I really want, it will come to me. I'm just not sure what I really want. Or I don't want to be sure because what if I get it and it turns out to be not really what I wanted (like my current job), and I won't be able to trade it in. I hate being in this frame of mind. I'm going to try not to post too much about this stuff - but I want to be honest, it is a little therapeutic to share it, even if I'm not sure exactly who or when anyone will see it. However, I know it's a little repetitive and not exactly cheery - just something I'm struggling with lately. I'm working through it though - it mostly only gets to me late at night, when my mind won't turn off, and I have to go back to my job after my days off. I really should just quit. (but how will I pay for things! my mind tells me. Is that why I feel stuck?)

Sorry. It's late and I'm rambling. Back to what I usually post about on Sundays.

This week was not too bad for fitness. I started out good. I took it easy on myself to let my wrist heal up a bit since I had a pole photo shoot today and I wanted to be able to do all my moves. I did, and it was awesome and fun, and I will post more on it when I get the pictures back in a couple weeks.

March 20th 2011
Waist - 39.5 (just a smidgen over)
Exercise - Pole 2/3, Conditioning 0/2, cardio 3/3, Pole Exercises 3/5
Food - did pretty good during the week, up until saturday when I fed us scones for breakfast, chips, and bagel sandwiches for lunch. And today I had a couple millet-crispy-squares (like rice crispy, but with puffed millet instead). All in all, not too bad. Looking forward to another week filled with yummy, low glycemic foods.



Hmmm. still wakeful and thinky. Maybe I'll write a little about my exercise stuff.

Pole is either pole class, practise dancing and moves at home, or today, a pole photoshoot.

Conditioning is a 30 minute pilates routine that I have on DVD

Cardio right now consists of going for a 25 minute walk on my lunch break at work. Hopefully this summer it will also be bike riding

My pole exercises will likely not make sense (unless you also pole, but even then maybe not) It's essentially a 20-30 minute routine of strengthening exercises using the pole and pole moves, and I'm using it to try to strengthen muscles specific to pole dance - bb grip tucks, shoulder mount practise, obliques, step ups, etc. I seem to be especially weak in my upper abdominals (there are a couple of moves that I can't do where these are the main muscles used) so I'll be adding in some moves for those.


Well, here's hoping I've distracted myself enough to be able to fall asleep now. Or at least long enough for my flower essence to start working. G'night!