This week I have been hitting my workouts hard knowing that a vacation is looming ahead. Today was the fourth workout of the week, tomorrow will round out a full week.
I won’t lie, today I was tired, sore, and mentally drained from the week. In truth, I really wanted to curl up and take a nice long nap, but I didn’t. Instead I got dressed, got in the car and drove to my trainer’s studio. I walked in and went to work. It was hard to get motivated, but my trainer always has a demeanor that gets me fired up. Today, I was fired up to bench press and push sled (I did other exercises too, but that’s beside the point).
I am still working hard on my upper body strength which is the biggest deficit that I have. I finally got up to bench pressing 55lbs, which sounds light, but it is still a personal victory for me. My workout ended with pushing a weighted sled, which is one of my favorite things to do. Pushing a sled that weighs a lot more than you is one of those exercises that I refer to as “beast” exercises, because when you complete them, you feel like a beast. I got a good run at pushing 374lbs today.
I left my workout feeling tired, a little amped up as usual, but mostly satisfied that I did not let my mental wall derail my workout schedule. That reminded me of the saying, “The only bad workout is the one that you didn’t do”. Today, that was my mantra and I’m happy to put workout #4 this week in the books.
PS: The kettlebell riding on the sled was an inside joke, its normally not there. I was bummed that I only used kettlebells for one of my exercises today, so my trainer laughably said at the beginning that he could add one to my sled run…and he did.