2019 Happy New Year!
The new year has begun but unlike years past, I am not planning an over zealous workout regime to start my year off. I am actually planning on reducing my resistance days and increase my yoga and flexibility days. Over the past few months, I have noticed a very large dip in my flexibility and in my mobility due to the lack of flexibility. Also, gaining muscle has not really seemed to help in my quest to burn my belly fat, so I am taking a different approach this year.
I am going to really try and control my diet and lose as much belly fat and fat in general before I start back to heavy duty resistance training. I will be doing resistance to maintain muscle mass, not to increase it. Also, due to my work schedule, there are days which I am unable to workout at all, so instead of feeling guilty about that or, pushing myself to do something that I really don't feel like doing, which is waking up at an ungodly hour to workout (I couldn't do that anyway because of my "would-still-be-sleeping" family), I just decided to incorporate it into my workout schedule and so I will be working out 4-5 days a week as opposed to the previous 6 days a week.
As for set days, Sunday and Wednesday are already set for Tennis. I average a 1500-2300 calorie burn on those days, plus two resistance days most likely on Tuesday and whenever I can fit it in, on days that I don't have night classes. The worst news regarding my workout is the loss of my Pickle-ball partner. Due to severe arthritis, he has decided to stop the activities with heavy and aggressive movements and instead to more low-impact workouts like walking or stretching. I hope that he will come back some day, but for now, he is out indefinitely, maybe for good.
I will also be doing body-weight moves a lot more as maintenance. Something like 30-50 push-ups a day 5-days a week, and some core moves. I also want to get back to doing Pull-Ups as well. Later in the Spring, I plan on getting a set of parallel bars to so I can do Triceps Dips. I am also toying with the idea of getting into suspension training, using something like that TRX system or some knock off of it. I have held off on doing it till now because I don't really have space to do it, but I figure if I just be careful with my pull-up bar, I should be able to use that to suspend from. Or, I can work something else out.
On the days where I can't workout, I plan to walk around my campus for at least 30 minutes. I put out the money to buy those "Reflexology" insoles so I want to test that Eastern method out and see if pressure points on my feet really do have any influence on my health. That is how my 2019 is shaping up, so I'll keep this BLOG updated on what and how I am doing with this different take on my fitness journey.
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