kareina

It is now 2.3 months since my surgery, and I feel completely recovered and ready to resume working out again. As a result, I stayed up way too late last night, playing with Trello, filling in cards on my new workout board. I am loving Trello as a way to organise and track workouts. Why did it take so long for me to think of that use for the app after my sister Beth told me about it? As of last night I have created a workout board, with lists for the first four months worth of workouts my trainer designed for me back in 2016, with cards for each day's workout, and checklists for the things to be done each workout, plus due dates for each workout for the next few months (remembering to leave days off here and there, and to make certain that none of the workouts are scheduled for days I will be at an SCA event, folk dance weekend, or short course).

So far I have done the first two of the workouts. How much easier it is t keep track of them this way than when I did them in 2016: Do round 1, ticking off the boxes as I go, then add a comment with notes (e.g. "managed the handstand for 36 seconds against the wall", or "had to the push ups as 'negative push ups') for that round, then un-tick the boxes as I go through round two, enter more comments, and repeat till done with the workout. If my future self cares, she can look back at the workout comments to see how long each section took, based on the time stamp of the comments...

Now I have a few months before I have to finish adding more workouts to the board...

I think I am doing the workouts better this time. I think I kinda ignored the part about "five minutes of indoor walking or other activity that raises your heart rate" as the first step of the warm-up portion back when I first started working out with my trainer, but this time I am setting a timer, putting some folk music into my hearing aids (still loving the new bluetooth adapter for my new hearing aids--it is now so easy to listen to stuff from my phone--just press play and it goes straight to my ears, with no extra button pushing!) Boy can I tell that I haven't done anything in the pull up family in ages though. Doing the "five jumping negative pull ups" (jump up grabbing onto the chin-up bar, palms facing you, pause for a moment at the top, arms bent, then slowly lower yourself back to the floor by gradually straightening your arms) was hard, and required resting between each rep. But then, this is exactly why I am starting over from the beginning.

I have set the workouts onto the calendar so that the amount of time that elapsed between him giving me one and the next is the same as it was back in 2016, but I am aware that there might be times I decide to push everything further into the future to make room for extra times doing the same set of workouts, because I can't quite manage everything in it. Or there might be times where I jump to the next set of workouts after fewer days repeating a set because I find them too easy. But having the old plan as a starting point feels like a good thing.