Workout Log #1

So I’ll be honest, my motivation for staying fit has fallen as low as the temperatures these days (for reference, that’s like -20℃). I know all excuses are bad excuses so I’m not going to write a blog post about justifying my laziness (Ok but I will say that I was sick for a bit, and it’s too cold to continue my swimming workouts, and winter bods are A-OK). But I will write about my workouts as an attempt to keep myself accountable and maybe even to motivate one of you! So without further ado, here was my Friday morning workout:

friday, november 23rd @ 7:30 aM(Perks of not going to stage rage)

RUN: 5 km @ 29:45 minutes

I've never been much of a runner and any one of my friends attest to this. When I was a competitive swimmer, I had every excuse under the sun to avoid running during dry-land cross-training workouts. But now that it’s too cold to motivate myself to jump into a freezing cold pool, running is a good way to keep up my cardio. My goal at the end of the summer / this fall was to run 5 km under 30 minutes consistently (which was something I could only do once in a blue moon) so this was pretty good for me. I did also completely embarrass myself by knocking my phone off the treadmill stand thing-y by accidentally pulling on my earphone cord and it flew off the treadmill track behind me. So I did have to stop for a hot second to retrieve my (thankfully not broken) phone, but man do I need to get some wireless headphones (@Santa are you listening?).

CIRCUIT: butt, abs, & a little bit of arms

So what I miss most about my peak swimmer’s body is having a tight waistline. Swimming activates your core so you don’t even have to think about doing abs to get them. They’re just there. until they’re not. So i always try to do a couple of ab exercises to try and make myself feel better. I’ve also never had a butt so it never hurts to do a few squats or lunges in my best attempt at getting a booty. And finally arms because I always feel bad about neglecting to work on them. Here’s what I did:

4 times through

20 hip bridges with a bosu ball (put your feet on it to engage your core)

15 side plank dips each side (lift as high as you can each side for that ~burn~)

20 curtsy lunges with squat (aka 10 each side, 20 squats total)

10 up and down plank with bosu ball (put your feet on them again for an extra challenge)

15 bicep curls each arm (use whatever weights work for you!)

That's it! It's pretty simple but at least it's something (that's what I tell myself anyways). It's pretty hard to motivate myself to workout when the weather starts to get colder so when I do it, it feels extra rewarding. Anyways, I'll see you in the next blog post. :)

Stay hungry,

Mariana