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You can have a silver star Shawn.... you’re still missing an “e” in the middle.
R2 D3 - another rest day (ahh 2 in a row) - even skipped out on physio today - have it rescheduled for tomorrow. I sooo don’t like this, but I said I had to allow myself to focus on my course. Another assignment completed tonight… 3 more by next Thursday.
This is the crazy week at work because Wednesday is the Athletic Banquet. Many last minute details to take care of!! No time to sneak off and do a workout today. I really hope tomorrow I can squeeze it in.
Congrats on reaching your 100 day mark! It’s tough when the schedule doesn’t allow us to get in our usual routine, isn’t it? I think that’s a good sign, that we miss it. I guess I’m going to bench myself for another day or two till I feel 100% better. We’ll both get back in the groove again!
Shawn - you can have a gold star now!! Thank-you. Just don’t call me Cathy ... hate that. I had two principals take that liberty with my name recently. Usually I immediately correct people, but I let it slide with them. Didn’t want to create any waves with people I may need to impress in interviews later.
Anne- hopefully next week I will be able to get back at it full swing. .. so long as I stay ahead of the game in my course. I’m taking a First Aid Course for two days next week - (really a re-cert, but WSIB makes you take the full course over every other time you re-cert now… hate this newly enforced rule)
R2 D4 - Managed to sneak my workout in at the end of the day - Cardio Circuit training session - (after running around getting several details taken care of for tomorrow. 2 trips to the trophy store and a drop off at the Banquet Hall with a car load of decorations.) Also had a visit to the physio therapist and that is another workout in itself. I wore my HR monitor while I was riding the bike and it averaged 157bpm for the 15 minutes. He keeps the resistance quite high on that machine (old school belted flywheel type machine!!) Then 15 minutes of leg raises focusing on strengthening the vastus medialis (inner part of the quad) and 15 minutes of squats (with rest periods of course!) with the electrodes on my knees and leg (quad) respectively. Then attempting to balance on one foot while on an air filled pad… getting better at it, but I still touch down several times a minute.
Jeepers, 15 minutes of squats! And my friend Jim was impressed with MY tale of doing squats! Yeah, sounds like you “sneaked in” a “little” workout, my friend.
LOL Anne - that’s why I said I had rest breaks. Really it was a 15 second squat with 20 seconds of rest between so in 15 minutes I only got about 26 squats total. I failed to mention they were ball squats so I had some support while doing them too. The electrodes on my legs help the muscle contract, but by the end I was getting tired and started feeling it in my back. If I wasn’t almost done I think I would have told the therapist I’d had enough.
I’ll have to look that one up Shawn - I know you can do some impressive lifting. My butt is a bit sore today. I can really feel it when I walk up the stairs and I’ve done many flights today running back and forth at the Banquet Hall.
Just home now to change clothes and do my hair (etc.) then off for dinner with 250 high school students. I am giving out the awards to my Swim team. I have trophies for my two MVP’s and the 2 MIP’s are getting yellow rubber duckies!!
(Really not my favourite event - listening to all the awards presented then a dance. I really dislike supervising the dance - loud obnoxious music and kids dancing in ways they wouldn’t want their parents knowing about!!)
No formal workout yesterday but a lot of moving - I was on my feet all day.
Today I would have liked to go a do a good cardio session, but time did not permit. I could have used it this afternoon too. I did have another PT session which included 15 min on the bike so I did get a bit in and the rest of the exercises. I am there for a good hour working on strengthening specific muscles for my knees, and it does get me sweating, but it is not the same as a gym workout. I bought some knee straps to try while working out. I want to try the elliptical with them on and see how my knees feel about it then.
The last 24 hours have been very emotionally draining. The Banquet was terrific. There were few problems (a few kids trying to sneak in alcohol and a couple party crashers) but all in all a good night. Bev, (the same woman who started me off in my weight loss journey), gave a speech about me as a leaving coach that had me in tears. Many kids came up to me after to express their sadness that I am going and to get pictures and give hugs. I am very torn about leaving a job where there are people that so influential in my life. But it is time to move on.
Today was tough because it was time to start wrapping things up and finalizing stuff. Clearing the way for the person who will be taking over my job. Cleaning out my desk and taking things home. I had a hard time keeping it together and there were more tears. It is an end.
But it is also a beginning. It is just nerve racking, because I don’t have clear picture of how things are going to play out. I have the summer to apply for teaching jobs and hopefully I will have some prospects for September. If I get onto the supply list I know my current school will call me back, but I am really an elementary teacher, not high school. (I am qualified for Grades 4-10).
Hopefully I can keep it together tomorrow… but I doubt it.
Catherine, leaving on such a high note is an emotional time, but it’s also a blessing. Imagine leaving the same job so unhappy or burnt-out that you can’t stand it anymore and you’ll know what I mean. If it’s meant to be, maybe you’ll be led back there in some new capacity, but I think you have new horizons to conquer first. Take all the advice from teachers that you can about applying for jobs. I don’t know how different it is there from here, but I have a friend who went into teaching about five years ago, and she was lucky enough to have some good direction on navigating the “system” from some teachers, and that helped a lot.
Ok - after an evening of feeling sorry for myself I got back to it today.
Yesterday I skipped out on my workout and went home and hibernated for the evening. I had intentions to go to the gym but I never made it out the door. Instead I just watched TV, then listened to podcasts and played computer games. I listened to Scott’s Goal Setting Experience series. He said a few things I needed to hear. Basically - take the steps necessary to get the goal you want. Once you start working towards it, things will start to fall into place and then “just keep moving”.
Today - R2 D8 - went to the gym and did my final Cardio Circuit Training session (program 4). I shouldn’t have felt so tired doing it today because I have had so many rest days recently, but I still really struggled to get through it. Usually I can get through it in under an hour, today it took about an hour and 20 minutes. It may be the heat, even though the gym has A/C I was still dripping after every set. I wore the knee straps for the first time today during a workout and I think they really make a difference. I warmed up on the elliptical and the knees felt pretty good and I did another 20+ minutes after my weight session with almost no pain - one little twinge in the left knee at one point. They just feel like they were worked now, a little stiff, but not sore. I should ice them now just to keep encouraging healing process.
Tomorrow I have a session with my trainer and he should be giving me a new program (#5). I think it is still going to be high reps, but focus on different body parts on different days, instead of full body every workout. Now that I am out of work I should be able to attack this head on, (but I already have next week fairly booked up. Friday is my only free day so far and I may go and volunteer in a friend’s Gr. 3 classroom.) I want to get to my next mini goal before my birthday in August. That will put me under 200 and half way to my goal weight of 150. I haven’t seen the scale change too much in the last month, I was down about 3 more lbs since my last report, but this morning I was back up there… Ah ... showed I really needed to get my butt into the gym!!
R2 D9 - Session with my trainer - starting new program - today Back and Legs (hams) focus. He kinda forgot that I was starting a new program and still needs to email it to me. I did dead lifts for the first time today. My back lower back is stronger than it was when I started back in January, but he still kept the weight light. 12lb dumbbells in each hand. Driving home I could feel that I had worked new muscles lower and to the sides of my back today that I think I will be feeling later today or tomorrow.
After I had a short visit with my parents, and brothers family. I needed to ice my knees after my workout and it was fun trying to keep the ice packs on my knees and not let my nephew steal them from me. Once I was done he sat in my lap and wanted me to hold them on his tummy. He is so cute.
I just posted these on Marks thread.... couldn’t resist sharing. Aren’t they cute. The first two are of my mischievous one - Misha. The second one is of her in full yawn, but doesn’t she look fierce? She is really a sweaty. She jumps into my arms from the floor. I have to be ready to catch her. The other, Nika, is much more your typical cat - happy to find a comfortable spot and sleep all day.
