Hello all,
I am sitting down to write this, that might seem normal to most but right now it's out of necessity. My ass is tired, lit-er-ly. Coach Candice and I worked legs today to judge where I'm at and to teach me a few things. We did several variations of squats, lunges, leg extensions and leg curls all while engaging the glute muscle throughout every movement. Now this might sound like a simple task but let me tell you, when your muscles start getting tired your body will resort to a survival mode and you start to loose focus with the movement and just start worrying about reps. I caught myself several times losing the connection between muscle and mind which would then break my form. I had to bring myself back into focus several times, but I'm just starting out on learning how to maintain a connection. During each exercise I was focusing on engaging the glute muscle, it's a large muscle and will take some time to form that's why each exercise has to engage it. I worked out for 50 minutes with Coach Candice and I only had a few moments when I was looking at the clock wondering how long I had been working out because it felt like forever. Within those 50 minutes my legs were exhausted, I was sweating and I had a new appreciation for my glutes and no appreciation for stairs (seriously why do we need them? They are just torture!) Usually I can do cardio and crossfit in one day, but today I'm not sure I will be able to do more than my workout......Today was not the quantity of workout but def the quality. I've never worked out like this before and that to me can only mean I'm on the right path.
Now about my Coach. She is pretty awesome. She makes sure that if I don't get something right away that I don't get too worried about it. We're building something and with each piece it will start to make sense. She calls me "Mama" or "Mami" a lot which is cute and keeps it light and on a personal level. It's interesting the questions she asks me that seem personal for anyone else to ask but when someone is training your body those are the things they need to know. She gave me some assignments to do. First I have to write down a food journal for three days. The last thing is that on my own I need to incorporate ab and core workouts three days a week. I will update the blog with the info of my journal that I will send to my Coach. I'll continue cardio as normal until she decides that it needs to be changed to something different.
Well I'm ready for a nap, I had a large coffee last night about 8:00pm and I rarely drink caffeine SO it was NOT a smart decision. I couldn't fall asleep until late last night and I knew today would be a little rough since I was waking up at 6:30am. I was a little scared I would over sleep my alarm and plus the caffeine, it just wasn't a good combo at all. So I'm off to make some eggs and pico de gallo and then have some nap time and hopefully I won't be to sore to move when I wake up :)
Cheers,
Ash
No comments:
Post a Comment