I think I am entering that phase where going to the gym is becoming a habit. I started checking my schedule compulsively today trying to figure out exactly when I was going to go and trying to plot my day around that schedule.
Getting to the gym in September may not be my hurdle - trying not to dictate my life around when I go to the gym, and acclimatizing to the fact that I will most likely have to go at night will be my big hurdle - especially with kids in extra-curricular activities 5 nights a week. So far I've been doing almost entirely morning classes, but even with a 9:30 or 10:30 am start time I am not accomplishing much until I get back from the gym - and even then it is debatable if I get much done. I am not going to be able to continue this attitude of "my day can't start until I go to the gym" because it's not feasible to do 6 am classes every day. Maybe on some days, but not all. I am going to try one tomorrow I think, we'll see.
My fitness goal for the summer is going great (in terms of attendance, maybe not "visible" results), the rest of my goals - not so much. I try to do a little bit of cleaning and/or organizing each day, but nowhere near what I had planned out to do. And the activities I wanted to get done are also falling by the wayside.
Having goals is great, but making sure those goals are realistic and attainable is also important. I was patting myself on the back yesterday because I stepped on the scale at 192 (yay! actual weight loss), but typical to my body type, the weight just bounces right back and today I was back at 198. It's kind of funny, because at the start of my fitness journey when I stepped on that scale to measure body fat I was worried I'd be trying to use it monthly to see where I'm at, but since I haven't lost any weight, I'm not really curious to see the results. I mean I suppose it's possible that I've kept the same weight and just built muscle while reducing fat, but with my Yoga-centric workouts I highly doubt it. Maybe once I get some solid results in terms of weight loss I might be more attracted to trying it out.
So I did another drumming class today, this time at 6:30 in the evening, and lucky for me it was my Saturday morning instructor covering for the regular instructor. I got the same great energy and loud booming voice and the same enthusiasm from the weekend. Sweet. It was a good class. I am a little disappointed in my fitness tracker - I know sometimes it's a little slow to sync, but today's results were weird. It registered that I'd done an aerobic workout right away, but wouldn't count it as a workout in terms of my fitness goals (7 days out of 7 days of activity). It said I burned something like 585 calories, and had all the right measurements of the workout and results. So I tried editing the start and end times to make it register. No deal. Then I tried deleting it and entering it in manually. I mean it worked, sort of. I registered it as a "day" in my goal, but then it deleted all of the info. It kept track of my heart rate, but suddenly I dropped from 585 calories burned to 262, and it lost the scatter graph of physical activity it records. Boooo. I shouldn't have deleted it, what difference does it really make if the app says I did six days of activity or 7? Instead I've lost the data that was synced from my workout.
My plan for tomorrow is to try a boot camp style class at 6 am, firstly to see how I like it, and secondly because I have so much I want to get done tomorrow that I think I need to get up early for my workout. It'll be good practice for when I have to start getting up at 5 am next week. It might be a little intense after drumming class tonight, and the plan is to do it on Saturday as well - a boot camp in the morning tomorrow as well will give me three back-to-back higher intensity workouts. And my knees haven't fully recovered from whatever I did to them during training on Tuesday night. They are more mobile, but there is still some tenderness and stiffness. Some movements I just do not want to do, and my knee caps are back to shifting around and grinding up against my leg bones if I'm not careful with my movements. I kind of want to go soak in a hot bath... maybe, but that's not horribly productive.
On the one hand I feel like I am finally taking some time for me by going to the gym, which I need for my mental health and my overall health, but on the other hand I am starting to feel kind of guilty. I am not getting my deep-cleaning around the house done. My 30-day declutter challenge has fallen by the way-side. The girls are always upset when I go to the gym (they claim they want more time with me, but they are always on various technology when I am home, so it's really just a "whining-it-out" excuse because they have other things "planned" and they don't want me to go at that moment). I start school in less than a week and while I have some planning done, it's not even close to all of it. I had a list of activities I wanted to do with the girls this summer, and there's a number of them still left untouched. Some of them are small things like going to feed chickadees at a local hiking trail, some of them are more complex like going to the massive water park just outside the city. I have also been reflecting on whether these are actually things they want to do, or just things I think they should want to do and am trying to impose on them? The biggest "to-do" for them is that they want to do an escape room, but for the price of those things it's just really not in the books [actually I guess it's not that bad, $80 for four people]. Bird seed for a the hiking trail cost me $2.00. Going to the Gatineau hot air balloon festival would be rather inexpensive as well. Another thing they aren't horribly interested in. It's a tough situation trying to balance quality family time together with things they are actually interested in. In this day and age in seems like they all want to suck their brains out through their use of technology. Who needs zombies? Just give them tablets and gaming consoles.
Maybe I'll just go get lost in the gym. Surprisingly I've only been in the steam room once this month, and the hot tub once yesterday (we got kicked out because the chlorine levels were too high). Maybe that can be a goal for tomorrow too...
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