Here's My Plan

On my never-ending quest to improve my fitness and overall health, I've set a new goal and this blog is my accountability. To make sure I get my workouts in and that I make them count, I've set my workout calendar for the next month. We're going to the beach at the beginning of July, and a brand new bathing suit is calling my name. 


As per usual with all my new goals, I approach it with a Herculean zeal that fools me into thinking I'll be on the cover of Fitness magazine at the end of the week. Shocker alert! This doesn't happen. Then I get discouraged and fall back into my regular routines of working out and if nothing changes, well, nothing changes. 


So I have set my calendar with some specific goals

• I want to get better at the exercise I already do. Example: I've been running hills... I want to run them faster, I want to run more of them. I've been doing circuits and they have been TOUGH I want them to be easy. So there are 3 standing workouts to aid this goal: My Tone it Up workouts & cardio, my hill runs, and my long interval runs. Then everything else is shifted around to have similar workouts on other days to make me better at what I already do
• Try new workouts. I always have the intention of trying something new, but then chicken out and do a boring old workout. I have incorporated one new workout each week, giving birth to a new blog segment: New Workout Wednesday. Keep me accountable, people!
• Have a goal. While this calendar may seem easy, thats the goal. I sometimes disappoint myself when I set unrealistic goals and don't reach them. This is manageable and I'm hoping it will be fun. At the end of the month, I will be happy to not have skipped workouts for no reason and hopefully will see a change in what I am doing.

Extra workouts will be bonus points... because sometimes its just foolish to think I can workout 2x a day every day. I do try to have a life. So this is my plan, and this blog will help my progress.

Here's the calendar for this week:

• Monday: Tone it Up, 40 min cardio
• Tuesday: Hill run X4 (50s recover)
• Wednesday: New workout wednesday
• Thursday: Long run (interval)
• Friday: off
• Saturday: 60 min circuit
• Sunday:off

Monday challenge: What do you want to accomplish in June? You can set a goal for the day, week, month, whatever.. let me know what it is and we can work on it together!