Tuesday

Second day of a new week - and feeling great with refreshed motivation and 'feel' in my workouts. This week marks a new dedication to cardio HIIT 4-5 days a week, immediately after my weight workouts, with my bike on a trainer stand indoors. I will be doing other cardio in the evenings/weekends (outdoor biking or swimming) as my body feels it. ;-)

I have also modified my diet to include green tea (with other flowers and herbs) 2-3 times a day. This takes away any desires for coffee with cream and sugar (used to be my downfall, and still a craving comes from time to time). So now, it's this great (organic) tea with a little bit of Stevia and I'm good to go.

Also realized that although I thought I was drinking enough water, it seems to me like my body has been speaking a different truth ;-) Actually, I think God has been pointing this out to me, since all of a sudden, I found myself confronted with numerous articles and videos on water all within 24-36 hours. Since I'm constantly praying about my success in how I am working to achieve, no... exceed, my dreams, I felt this was a critical bit of guidance.

I'm focusing on taking in water more regularly through the course of the full day (wake-up to just prior to bed) and am feeling more energetic and clear-minded. Water should be one of the 4 constituents of our food: Fats, carbs, protein, water. After all, it is life!


Training split for me over these next 7 weeks looks like this:

July 13 - August 30

Monday: Back / Traps / HIIT cardio

Tuesday: Chest / Core / HIIT

Wednesday: Biceps / Triceps /HIIT (OR rest if I feel I need to on a given week, then do Bi's/Tri's on Friday with Shoulders) - HIIT

Thursday: Legs (no cardio)

Friday: Shoulders / Core - HIIT

Saturday: OPEN

Sunday: REST


I am following intuition more these days and am feeling better for it. While I work to remain diligent in workouts, if I am feeling one body part over another on a particular day, I may go with that and adjust future days of that week to make sure full body is worked without overtraining.

I'm learning to take advantage of these opportunities where I'm stoked or focused on a bodypart, even if it will be an adjustment in my plan. What's the song: Don't know what you've got, til it's gone...

I feel that way about motivation: Take it when it comes and then exploit it to the greatest advantage that you can while it's there!

The mental aspect is so essential to our success - if I am feeling especially motivated about one body part, or even one particular exercise, I will be going along with that to keep myself feeling great about what I'm doing! It's those days, when we feel unstoppable with the work we are about to do, that we have the greatest opportunity to push ourselves past previously thought limits, and EXCEED ourselves.

Take every advantage to do just that.

Til next time, CONQUER your self-administered limitations & EXCEED even the highest dreams that you may have had before.

You are so much more than you realize!!