You can break routine and just be “active” if the week won’t allow your regular programming. If anything, it’s a mental win of staying on top.
Just open YouTube, AppleTV or whatever and find a quick, at home aerobics class or something.
Or bring your mobility back with your morning coffee and be prepped to come back full swing next week.
Keep your head on top either way.
Oh, I have stuff already that I use, and I do do that on rest days as well as for warmups. I think mostly it’s a busy time of year (suicide season at work, fall in New England at home) along with the unaccustomed 5/wk lifting sessions. So I’ll dial back a bit, since I have no choice, and then pick up where I left off in a couple of days.
I did get a lot of benefit from the mobility work, so you’re right, I need to find that 20 minutes at least a couple of times a week.
I should also be doing McGill’s Big 3 for my back.
Or maybe seeing a chiropractor.
But I’m planning to keep my head in the game.
Stay in the moment. Its great to have plans, but now is when you can do something.
It occurred to me in the car this morning that I worked out day before yesterday. Perhaps life hasn’t spun completely out of control yet, lol.
@Njord i found time for speed yoga/big 3 and foam rolling this morning. Which also makes for a cheery start to the day.
I don’t even know if it matters what I do, just that I do something.
On another note, it’s hot af at this conference and people are wearing heavy clothes. Another benefit of time spent outside playing and getting blood flowing. Except now I’m hot.
Here is Buttons on Friday. We wound up staying overnight, though came home for Saturday because it went down into the 20’s. Other pic is Saturday morning.
. If it helps you to feel better and is beneficial in some way, whats the harm?
I don’t know how much of this is to feel better mood wise vs. physical goals for you, but sometimes even just some itb stretching or foam rolling can satisfy both to some extent.
It’s both.
Disrupted schedules are always difficult for me, which I think is the greatest issue when I have to delay planned workouts. I have to work through the piece of my psyche that’s all Rain-Man-freaking-out, in addition to whatever legitimate disappointment I feel over possible setbacks.
I totally get this but what WE have to remember is that we’re not going to let ourselves get so out of control that our small (tiny) setbacks are easily recoverable from AND our bodies do better when we give them a break sometimes. I’m saying this as much to you as I am to myself right now. We’re gonna be alright and this working out and food stuff isn’t worth our sanity!! 
Thats easy. You just need access to a TV at 4:30. Judge Wapner. 4:30…
Monday, November 18
Weight 156.2
Average steps 6688
Average calories unknown
Day 13/30 Iron - posterior chain - 7 minutes warmup (pressed for time, going for a Buttons-speed hike later).
Felt good! I was anguished about what to do because I’ve been feeling my lower back and butt/hips, though they’re better than they were before the break, but it all went fine.
So I’m back on track. I’ll see how it goes - I may decide against doing five days a week and slow it down to three or four. Either way is fine, if I do less lifting I’ll have more time for sprints and mobility and such.
This is the way. Might help with the lower back and hips too. My sciatica gets angry with too much lifting but is dead silent with running. Could be helpful to get the blood flowing that way?
Tuesday, November 19
2 mile treadmill walk/run - just playing around, some EMOM sprints, some longer, total time was 26:38. @unicornsandrainbows I went up a bit in speed for a couple of the sprints, and OMG that “stretching out” thing felt good.
Haha, we’ll find out! I’m also very much aware that your recomp has really gone crazy since you added and then upped the running. Which was my experience of it as well when I was at 15+ miles a week. (And up to 25…much over 20 miles per week for any length of time would eventually injure me.)
@Njord I ran through the Agile 8 after the treadmill and was surprised at how well it went. Whether because I’m just better all around or because of the vigorous warmup, I don’t know. But that felt great, too.
Yesterday’s hike was also 2 miles. But at Buttons’ pace, so like 51 minute miles, lol.
You know, I hadn’t actually made that connection… but I bet that has been a huge portion of it. Hopefully you can get the same effect again!
But stay injury free.
Well, plus you’re practically starving to death.
Which is my plan for the T-transformation. 
Want my meal plan? Guaranteed to drop at least one pant size! 
Wednesday, November 20
Weight 156.1
Average steps 7072
Average calories unknown
Day 14/20 Iron - full body - 6 minute warmup. There would have been more cardio and higher steps, but I got sucked into an OT thread.
I’ve got a cold. At least, I hope it’s just a cold.
Thursday, November 21
Weight 154.9
Week’s average calories (some guessing in here) 1541
Week’s average steps 7100
I’m out of work sick today, so no idea whether or not I’ll work out (rest day for Iron), but the scale was my friend this morning, so.
What’s funny/sad is that I was up in the night with low grade temp and upper respiratory yuck, and was super thirsty - and I actually spent some time thinking that drinking water was going to screw up what I knew would be a good weigh-in because I’ve been in the 1200 kcal range for a couple of days. Oy. @QuadQueen and @unicornsandrainbows, we need to have that fix-all-the-problems phone call.
I hope you start feeling better soon.
Rough night! Get well soon.
That call will happen, we need sustainability!
I second what @unicornsandrainbows said. Feel better soon! And I’m ready for that call anytime. You guys just say when.
Friday, November 22
Day 15/30 Iron - shoulders - with a 15 minute cardio warmup. Halfway through now! It would be nice to finish by Christmas.
I weighed this morning, but don’t remember what it was. I ran out of creatine (about a week before needing to deload, interestingly) and am back on it now, so there may be some scale repercussions. Hopefully not, as I would prefer not to think I’ve been replacing the stored water with fat.
Still feel crappy, but don’t have work until Tuesday and husband is away until tomorrow, so I’m just laying low and pampering myself. I may shower and see if I feel like running into town for supplies.
