Work outs this week included a killer lower body and upper body work out with three 4-mile runs. I am getting to the part where I am seeing really good gains especially with upper body and nice definition in my arms and shoulders, and because of that, I've talked to Tony about helping me further define specific muscles. I love the Peleton strength plus app and how it generates work outs for me so I don't have to think and I will still be using it for ease of warm ups and overall work outs, but I am going to get Tony to start looking at my work out before I head out and switching out exercises that will benefit me more in what my goals are. I would also still love to work with someone to get back into a strength cycle because while I am stronger and fitter, I'm not seeing an increase in the plates I am putting on the bars. I realize these are two very different goals and I need to figure out what is most important to move forward but I'm just putting it all out there. I'm just excited to be so excited about a goal, any goal. I also mentioned last week, I want to move my "base mileage" back closer to five. My body isn't loving increasing my mileage. Since I am very prone to injury and I want to keep my running to three runs a week so I can continue to at least get two lifts a week, this is proving to be a little tricky and my body is not happy. To be continued.
I still haven't gone to the doctor about my hormones and moving forward with a plan. If you remember I had been doing the testosterone pellet implants and had completed two rounds of that. I was scheduled to get round 3 right before Christmas, however I didn't want to spend the money when I wasn't seeing any big results that truly were helping me. I need to go in and have a consult with her to see what my options are, but at this point, I am just taking the progesterone, gaining weight for no reason, and living my anxiety filled life helped along by an amazing therapist that just wants me to go back and get more information. This is another to be continued.
I've talked about obsession a lot lately and how I get totally stuck on things or obsess about things (ummm running and being a perfectionist). My son is doing the exact same thing, and I am exasperated with him lately, but also totally recognizing myself in him. I've had an issue at work that has taken me down lots of rabbit holes yet, we've almost got it fixed thanks to my obsession. I know this will serve him well at some point in his life as well, yet it's hard to deal with both of us at times. We've had some good laughs lately about our tendencies to obsess and how over the years what we obsess about changes. We were looking at pictures of his trains and his train obsession and having a great laugh. Right now it's playing the bass for him and also making custom lego designs that he finds plans for on the internet. This requires lots of orders from pick a brick as he doesn't always have the exact right pieces in the 5 million pieces in his bedroom, go figure.
I am glad that through Facebook we found lessons on the bass for Andrew. He is loving playing but struggling with certain songs and how to do his hands. We have our introductory lesson this week with a teacher in Manhattan and I'm excited for him. It's with the original music school he went to years ago when he was little but different owners and teachers. I am praying this works, and he can finally find a guitar/bass teacher he can jam with. She already has thought it was pretty cool he was playing Primus, Rush, and Red-Hot Chili Peppers. He did have a great guitar teacher in Wamego that just wanted him to play classical music and that was not his jam at all. If this works out, we may be able to switch it up to Zoom lessons moving forward so we don't have to drive as far.
Okay enough writing :) Have a great week!
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