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 21

So, I don't think I hit any of my goals from last week. I did a great food prep on Sunday and stayed away from everything potato but that was about it. I blame it on my stomach. I was getting bad, shooting pains from Sunday-Wednesday, which I found out was the result of the fibre supplement I was taking. While that was happening, I couldn't really eat much. I could hardly ate any of the food that I prepared, which sucked, but my Dad got a few good meals out of it. I cut out the inulin supplement and that seemed to help. I've also been getting full extremely fast and my appetite has been almost non-existent which is really strange because I can usually eat so much. I didn't work out once last week due to everything that was going on. Between my stomach hurting and not being able to eat much, I've been tired and lacking energy. I'm positive this week will be better. I got in a small workout at home tonight and I signed up for some Crossfit classes which I'm super pumped about. My stomach is starting to feel better since I've cut out the potatoes and the cravings are subsiding. I'm probably going to take it easy the next few days until I see my doctor and see if there's anything I can do to boost my energy.

I don't have any set goals for this week. This is my personal week, I'll do what I want.

Sweaty from my workout earlier. My cats make my at home workouts difficult. 

Made myself a treat today because why not.

Now I'm going to listen to the wind howl and go to bed. These cool September nights are perfect for sleeping.

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