Finally figured out that the physical issues I’ve been seeing the last couple of days were my body’s way of telling me I’ve been pushing it too hard too soon…
After walking on the treadmill 6 nights, doing a boot camp workout 7 nights, and the pushups program 3 nights last week, my poor old out-of-shape corpus decided to make it stop the only way it could – by having head- and body aches, sore throat, and digestive issues. I spent some time thinking on it before going to sleep last night, and decided to cut back on the plan for a while.
I’m going to put the boot camp and pushups on hold for the next while, and just focus on doing the treadmill each night. Each of these levels has 24 workouts; after I complete the first level, I’ll do another check-in with myself, to see if I want to add something new.
I have 19 more workouts in the first series, so that gives me just under three weeks to sort of ‘get the hang’ of this physical activity – actually, it’s going to work out to be a bit more, as I have a business trip next weekend, and need to visit my mom the weekend after that. Oh, don’t worry – I’ll definitely be getting out for some walks while I’m away! My business trip is to one of the most beautiful places on Earth – Yosemite National Park – so going out for a walk or short hike will be a joy. And my mom lives in a rural area of the northern Nevada desert, where there’s plenty of room to go for a stroll with the pup.
So yeah, I have a plan, and I’m still going to stay at it – I’m just going to go a bit slower than I initially thought I could. And do you know… After I made this decision last night, I slept better than I have for several nights, and woke up feeling 100% better!
