First, A Plan

 

I've been thinking about my accountability post yesterday and I started to realize that you can't be held accountable if you don't know what you're trying to achieve. I need a plan. A goal. A focus. Otherwise, how can I be held accountable?

I'm going to start small, and take it a week at a time for now because, honestly, I'm not sure what I truly want in the long term. I mean, ideally, I'd like to be stronger, faster, better then I am today, but what does that look like exactly; I'm not sure. So, for this week I have a few things:

    1. Be more active. Eventually I want to run again, but for now, for today, I need to focus on moving more. To accomplish this I'm going to go for morning walks. No set time or distance. I just want to be more active. Ideally I'd like 10,000 steps a day, but again, for this week the focus is getting those walks accomplished.

    2. Strength train 4 times a week. I love strength training. I like the way it makes me feel and the way it makes me look. I'm doing the Beachbody program Body Beast, and I absolutely love Sagi Kalev. He is my kind of trainer! After completing three of his workouts and having DOMS every. single. day. I decided that I need to change the program some. I'm not changing the goal of completing Body Beast, but I'm adjusting his schedule. I'm changing it from 5 strength days a week to 4, doing the 1 cardio day, and adding 2 rest and recovery days that are yoga and foam rolling. In a few weeks I hope to be strong enough to do his calendar as it's laid out, but for now, I desperately need those recovery days.

    3. Food logs. I had a Nutritionist ask me once, "How can you achieve your goals if you don't know what you're putting in your body?" It's stuck with me all these years. I do best when I log my food, so my goal this week is to get it done. No whining, no complaining, no halfing it. Just getting it done. I completed it yesterday, and will continue to complete it all this week. I'm not changing eating habits yet, just focusing on tracking what I'm currently eating.

That's it. Three goals for this week. Move more. Strength train. Track my food. Sounds simple enough, but it's been a struggle. I've said, to myself, for weeks now that I'm going to do these things. So for now they've just been words. No more. Action starts today. Right now.

1. Move more ✅ Morning walk is done for the day!

2. Strength Train ✅ Beast Shoulders is done!

3. Food log. Started! Breakfast has been logged.

It's time to stop thinking about it, and start doing it. Let's get after those goals!! 💪