Goals of the Week: September 28

This is going to be a short one. I just finished doing food prep and even after having a mid-day nap, I'm still exhausted.

Weekly Goals:

• PRACTICE PROPER FORM AND EXECUTION SO YOU DON'T INJURE YOURSELF. After doing box jumps last Monday I hurt my knee, and that put me off for the entire week. I've done back and arms for 3 days in a row. My form is always really good, but I tend to use one side (the stronger side) of my body more than the other, hence why I injured my good leg. Whenever I would land, that leg would take most of the impact. 
• Eat actual meals. Too often I come home and eat cereal and a banana for dinner instead of what I actually prepared. -_- 
• Find a good spaghetti squash and zucchini muffin recipe! 
• Work on grip strength. I can deadlift over 100lbs if my hands weren't so weak and I could actually grip the bar for more than 3 reps. 

Now that September is coming to an end, I'll have to make goals for October. One of my goals for September was to hit 5 or 6 risers while doing box jumps, and I did that last Monday!! 

When the Group Ex room is empty at the gym, I like to do circuits. This one consisted of deadlifts, box jumps, pistol squats, weighted punches and ab work. 

Now it's movie time and bed. 

Goals of the Week: September 14th

At the end of each week, my personal trainer and I discuss what accomplishments I'm proud of and what I need to work on during the following week. I set monthly goals and write them down on a white board in my room, but I like setting mini goals to work towards during the week.

I took last week off from the gym as I strained my lower back and wanted to give it a rest. I had a nice week off and spent the one night re-doing my living area.

 It still needs work but I'm happy with what I've done so far.


So for this week, I was planning on doing my meal prep, portioning everything out and starting to count calories again. I don't like counting calories but I feel way more in control of what I'm putting into my body when I do. I talked to my trainer about this and she suggested instead of counting calories, to just meal prep and start eating slower. I know I should take the time to chew my food but I've always been a really fast eater, which isn't good, because you can inhale more food than you need before your brain tells you that you're full.

So the goals for this week are:

• meal prep
• eat slowly and drink more water with meals
• work on that 10 minute squat