Phase 2, Week 1: Back at it!

I’m a day late; I try to do these weekly recaps on Sunday, but I ended up working from 6-2, so my day got all kerfuffled. It was a great week though all in all.

The week’s biggest win? Consistency. I actually got all my workouts in. For me, consistency has always been my biggest issue, and for once I didn’t fuck it up halfway through the week. Three gym sessions down, plus the walks and mobility — it feels good to say I showed up every day I said I would.

Biggest frustrations? Two-fold:

1. The park where I walk the dogs did their annual pesticide maintenance, so I decided to keep them away from the park. Bane would have been good, but Ivy loves to eat the grass. Each day I did my walk I checked, but even Saturday the signs were still up, but hopefully Tuesday morning they’ll be gone and we can get our walk on.
2. The lower ab strain. The light bulb moment came when I was going over some notes, and realized that the lower ab strain kicked in a little after I started doing the GMB drills. A lot of them are very core centric, so I pulled back after Monday and swapped in other mobility work. The soreness dropped off almost immediately. Sometimes progress isn’t about adding — it’s about knowing what to remove. I’ll give it a couple of weeks, then start adding things back in.

On the upside, weight was down a couple of pounds, and my waist and body fat continue to go down.

Week 2’s focus: Start the running plan. My calves have been solid through the walking volume the last couple of weeks, and I’m ready to lace up and reintroduce running without pulling myself back into strain city. That’s the test for this week: keep the momentum, keep the joints happy, and get the dogs back out and walking again.

Still lifting. Still losing. Still showing up. Usually.