Ever since I've started waking up early, I've attempted to work out every morning.
Sometimes, it didn't happen.
When it did happen, I always opted for cardio.
Well, I have workout ADD. I always have to switch it up or I get bored so fast, I'm jumping off the healthy band wagon and never getting back on again for a month or two.
This past week, I lifted weights in the morning.
For now, I absolutely LOVE it. I haven't lifted weights in awhile- it's a love/hate thing.
I love how I feel during and after, I love muscles, I love the challenge. But I hate the counting...
I know, it's such a frivolous reason to hate.
There I am, breathing hard, huffin' and puffin', and all I'm thinking is, "Onnneee..... Twoooo......."
It's mindless...and boring....
It doesn't matter if I'm listening to some pumped up music or in silence or whatever, I hate counting.
Anyway, enough with the hate, because I'm loving it at the moment.
I've also decided to do some HIIT or tabata work outs during my cardio days.... if it happens at all..
I'm always doing one or the other- I'm either really good with keeping up with my weight training or I'm really good with staying on track with cardio.
For some reason, I am never able to do both.
But I'm going to try my hardest this week to switch up and keep them both consistent.
That means knowing what my options are since I can't seem to do the same things for more than 3-4 weeks.
Cardio:
toprocks
footwork
jump rope
HIIT
tabata
workout dvvds (Turbo Fire)
Weight Training:
Dumbbells
calisthenics
Hm... seems like my weight training options are a little short. I should look more into weight training options. I do have some resistant bands, but so far, all the workouts I've seen or tried haven't been appealing to me so they are just sitting in a box.
When I get bored of my regimen I always try and find a way to mix it up or spark my motivation again.
- I spend time on my pinterest looking up fun and interesting workouts
- I look up amazing dancers on youtube because the strength (among many other things like flexibility and balance) always puts me in awe and inspires/motivates me to keep going
- Heck, I look up workouts on youtube
- I look through my little notebook of previous HIIT workouts and see if I want to re-do any of them and improve my score (drawback: I don't always track my reps because... you guessed it! I hate counting!)
- If you are a member at a gym, try a group class! When I was a 24 hour fitness member, that's all I ever did and it was A LOT of fun! Plus, they have many different classes at different times so it was awesome! I miss it.... :(
- going back to the basics: This is a new one for me, I tried it yesterday just for fun and to see how I feel about it. I did the most basic, most simplest exercises in a HIIT format, maybe you'd like to try-
Three exercises:
1. knee push ups (yep, that basic)
2. crunches
3. reverse crunches
12 rounds. 30 sec work, 10 sec rest. A total of 4 rounds. You don't have to do what I did, you can put your own favorite exercises in place of mine.
I was dripping in sweat and I loved it! I will be trying this again, with different exercises of course (or the same).
What do you like to do to stay on track with your workouts? Do you get bored as easily as I do? Or are you pretty good about doing what you gotta do? :)
Share some of your favorite workout regimens!
