… is paved with good intentions, so they say. Well, with all the good intentions in the world to make the most of my holiday, the training plan this week has utterly gone to pot.
I started well with Body Pump on Monday and Virtual Spin on Tuesday. By Wednesday I was feeling good and strong, but my willpower had other ideas and when a few cocktails were suggested to celebrate finishing work for 6 days, I gave up the gym in favour of that option. On Thursday I went to my Mum’s to stay and to visit my Nan in hospital so didn’t have chance to do anything and Friday was filled with getting home and going shopping and relaxing. A bit of a disapointment really.
I find that without the routine of the gym near work and knowing there are classes to attend I haven’t yet got a set of things I can do when I’m not there. On Saturday I tried the Virtual Spin class at the local leiscure centre and on Monday went for a bracing windy walk locally, but I need to get my arse in gear to find ‘non-London’ things to do, either indoors or out. Trouble is, the revolting weather this weekend didn’t help with any motivation to leave the house. There was definitely more cooking and eating than training done!
Madge has ordered some resistance bands, which arrived, so I’m going to trawl YouTube to find ideas of how to use them.
So, 2 sessions in 6 days is not good. But I’m not giving up. While I might not get every day of the 90 ticked off, I’m still doing more than I was before (which was nothing) and was really starting to love how I was feeling last week, so I shall try extra hard with the exercise and eating from tomorrow. Thankfully all the chocolate has gone!
And my Mum has booked me a ticket to join her and Dad on holiday for 6 days in Antigua in June, so now I’ve got an extra reason to train hard.