1.Do you feel different this week… more energy, better sleep, better mood, or increased self-confidence?
This week I do feel much more energized! I am more goal orientated as well as having a better mood. I also have noticed that when I do my activities, when I go to bed I have a goods night sleep compared to when I don’t do a workout, I have a tougher time sleeping. This goes to show that exercising makes a huge impact on our sleeping habits. I also feel more motivated to keep on exercising!
2. What effect is the activity plan having on you?
The effect that I have noticed by doing this activity plan is like I said previously sleep. I am getting much better sleep. I have also noticed that my legs become sore faster than usual especially when I worked out the night before. Another effect that I have noticed is that I am always thirsty. I don’t know if this has anything to do with my activity plan or working out in general but I’m always looking for a glass of water!
3. What have been some major barriers so far in your activity plan?
Major barriers so far in my activity plan is that when my muscles get sore or I feel tired I automatically want to stop doing the exercise that I was doing. I guess this ties in with being lazy or not actually wanting to work out. I feel like I have progressed since the beginning of this workout journey but I am still improving and by feeling motivated to getting all the reps done makes it more challenging. But I still push myself to do the very best!
4. How have you adapted your plan to overcome these barriers?
What I have done is put exercises that I liked and that I feel comfortable with. This helps me because I feel less bored and I feel discouraged when I don’t get the exercise done properly. By doing these things it help me want to continue to do these workouts and push myself to try new workouts that are similar but different then the ones I am doing.
5. What solutions have you found?
The solutions that I have found are new workout routines. These new workout routines involve burpes (even though its not a new exercise I never really used it ), mountain climbers, shoulder touches, glute kickbacks and legged dog. Hopefully some of these workouts will work out for me.
6. How long should you rest after completing a muscular strength or endurance workout? Why?
You should rest at least 24-48 hours (1-2 days). It is very important to rest after a workout. You need to take this break because your muscles reach the peak of their inflammation and begin to taper off. Your muscles need time to recover and rebuild.
7. What happens if you don’t?
If you don’t give your body that time to rest, workouts tear you down and your body has to build itself back up. Workouts are damaging to your body. When you lift weights, your muscles suffer extremely small tears that you need to recover from. So when you don’t give yourself time to rest and repair your only hurting your body rather than making it better.
12AmandaE 