Went to spin…

  
Didn’t die! Yay me! First spin class in months and months done at Goodlife today on my lunch break. A success. Although my ankle injury didn’t allow me to get up out of the saddle, I kept my resistance the same as everyone, gave it my all and stayed seated. So for anyone who spins, there were lots of tall, growing rolling hills that I had to go up and conquer. But I did. It felt nice to have my foot strapped into that pedal and have it feel secure, not moving and it still feels great now a few hours after the workout. 

So I’ll have to add some spin into my life, good for the sweat, good for calorie burning and good to feed my need for cardio. 

I’m thinking about doing some other work at the gym I am usually to scared to do, like kettle bells, weights and other stationary things that are heavy 😂. This is my opportunity to try something new, my bum ankle is giving me that (if I want to put a positive spin on not being able to run). I have pinned a few workouts on my board on Pinterest (that out me over the 3,000 pin Mark 😬) that look interesting that I can print off and take to the gym with me. Anyone out here have anything they follow that would be ankle friendly for a gal like me trying to stay on track? All options welcomed! 

Anyways thinking about starting that tomorrow. I can’t go to my regular Thursday Jillian Michaels Shred class on my lunch so I’ll be launching into something new! I’ll let you know! 

PS Day 6 clean eating and myfitnesspal logging almost in the bag! Staying focused! 😎

Lis

Me to ankle:”I got a bit cocky”

  
This weekend was a success clean eating wise and a semi-fail workout wise. Saturday morning I blew this house popstand and went to the gym. First class in weeks and weeks, actually almost two months: Bodycombat. Ya that’s right. Bodycombat. 

I said to Matt that I was going to take it easy on my ankle, which I feel like I did. I needed this class. I wanted to sweat and struggle and cringe and curse (not out loud) at the instructor and be in the pain the next day cause I kicked so much ass. All of those things I did. The kicker was that about 25 minutes into the 60 minute class my ankle began to shout at me “remember me!”  A slight warning that maybe I was doing too much. If you have never done a combat class before I feel bad for you because it is so awesome, but also it is a mixed martial arts based workout. So lots of punching, pivoting, kicking and just all around ass-kicking. I was so conscious of the fact that I too was kicking ass that I didn’t realize how much my pivoting, as little as it may have been, was doing some damage to my still very injured ankle. By 40 minutes in, I was bowing out of an all legs track with the instructor giving me the evil eye. I thought if I gave it a short break that I could keep up. Which is what I did, and I paid for it all day: a mild swelling, aching on the inside of my left foot and pain pain pain 😢. Although it felt AMAZING  to be back at the gym, I knew I had pushed it too hard on my foot today. Disappointing but just makes me understand more that I need more time and I need to just switch to something less intense that my ankle can handle. No harm no foul. 

I ate like a (healthy) champ this weekend. 3 days clean eating (minus a few chips at a birthday party last night) but this whole “it’s a new year!” thing that happened over the last few days has really changed my mindset and pulled me out of the horrifying eating and not caring slump that I was in. I bought a new weigh scale (digital, fancy but cheap!), have tracked my food and fitness on myfitness pal 3 days in a row and made it to the gym:success all around! 

My plan is to log in under my set goals for  each day, get my ankle strong and stay ok with the idea that I may not be running again for a long time but doing this is better then doing nothing (which I have pretty much been doing since June). I posted is on my IG today, thought it was fitting: 

  
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So please read on with my progress if you want (my other goals are to keep up my awesome blog! Lol).  Knowing people are out there really keeps me motivated too 🙂

Lis 

Its not the….2016

Happy New Year,

Lis