Kickboxing Chic’s BodyBlog

After a week of running solo as a parent and crappy sleep, I’ve reach a point of physical exhaustion. As much as I want to do my strength training workout today (delts… my favorite!), I need to have a day of rest. It frustrates me and pisses me off when I get to this state because I can’t execute my plan as I had planned it. I’m the type that MUST stick to my plan in order to feel successful. If I have unplanned deviations, I get frustrated and mad. But today is one of those days I need to be flexible and be OK with it. I know if I gave it a go, it would be a mediocre workout and I’d be even more frustrated and pissed off. Then I’d be in a bitchy mood all day, which is not good for my relationship with my kids or husband (who just got back after being gone for a week). This has happened many times before. So today I will focus on the other aspects of my fitness plan: rest/recovery, nutrition, and planning out a solid training plan for the week.

Since my 11 week old daughter was up at 5:15am and my 4 year old at 6:30am today, I at least had some time to think about my plan at a high level.

Training
Monday: Rest/Recovery and Planning/Prep Day; light activity (going for a walk or something)

Tuesday: Strength Training and HIIT Cardio

Wednesday: Metabolic Circuit Training

Thursday: Strength Training

Friday: Indoor Cycling Class

Saturday: Boot Camp/Semi-Rest Day

Sunday: Metabolic Circuit

I like to have a rest day planned in the middle somewhere. But since today is a full rest day, hopefully I’ll be better prepared physically to handle Tuesday – Thursday. I won’t go too crazy during indoor cycling and will focus more on the “instructing” part of boot camp instead of the “doing” part. Hopefully I can catch up on some sleep too… it has to!

Nutrition
After evaluating my new nutrition “rules” last week, I’ve made some tweaks. My body needs more starch carbs and less vegetables. I’m too bloated and hungry with only 2 starch carbs servings per day. I’ll add another half serving of starch carbs and less veggies and see how that goes this week. So I’ve really only changed rule #3 and clarified rule #2 with the types of protein.

My rules to follow 90% of the time:

Rule #1: Eat every 2.5-3 hours. This equals 3 meals and 2 snacks per day.

Rule #2: All meals need 20-25 grams of protein and fruit or veggies. I will have fruit with my snacks and veggies with my meals. Protein needs to come from lean meats, fish, and low fat dairy.

Rule #3: Starch carbs 2.5 times per day. One of which must be post-workout. Starch carbs are limited to oatmeal, yams, and brown rice.

Rule #4: Drink bodyweight in ounces of water. Right now that’s about 125 ounces/day. This includes a big mug of green or peppermint tea which I have on a daily basis.

Rule #5: Take a multi-vitamin and Omega-3 fish oil.

My planned deviations for the week (10%):

1. A Hispanic pastry during my Friday trip to the local grocery store. I will only have this if they have my favorite one.

2. Wine Friday and Saturday nights, 1-2 glasses each night. I’ve learned that if I have any more than 2 glasses, it screws up my sleep. So I will definitely be sticking to the limit here.

3. Easter dinner – Not sure what’s on the menu, but I’m sure it won’t be according to my rules. However, I’m going to stick with the healthier options as much as possible. Dinner is with my family so I know it won’t be too bad. Plus, I’ll be contributing to the menu and my contributions will be healthy options that are within my rules.

4. TBD – I’m having dinner out with a friend and her kids this week, so that may be my 4^th. Or maybe something if my husband and I go out today.

The one thing I’m going to really try not to do is have Easter candy. So far I’ve been successful with this. Especially since I love those damn marshmallow Peeps! Thankfully I can only tolerate 1-2 at a time.

Ok, I’m done with my Pitty Party about not being physically prepared to workout today. I know rest/recovery is the smarter move today. I learned that last Saturday, when I should have rested, and other times in the past when a rest day made all the different. I’ll check back in tomorrow or Wednesday.