Different Results: Different Strategy
My week back at work after being sick was fairly tough. I worked some very long days trying to get caught back up and I still feel behind from where I wanted to be by now. And I still seem to have about 10% of this frickin' cold.
Getting sick pushed me completely off track but in the past month I saw my work schedule throw off my training plans. I think that integrating a morning workout into my routine is the way to go.
What has to change to accomplish that:
I found that I did not perform well when I first get up in the morning but of course the goal of training is to condition your body to adapt and change. There's my answer! I have to keep working at it until I force my body to adapt and change.
I have been a freak about getting to the office earlier and earlier! Like I'm pissed the first express bus isn't until 5:45! Oh good lord girl, let it go! Arriving every day at 7:30 is PERFECTLY FINE!! I do like to be there alone in the early morning but I think this is more important. The express bus I take is going to be on the bus tracker starting today. I can see exactly when a bus is going to arrive at my stop. I will plan to be on a bus that will get me to the office by 7:30 every day. I should be able to get up at my usual time, spend about 15 minutes waking up, have about a 30-minute session and be able to get ready for work in the unhurried manner I prefer. I should also have time to send out the early morning commentary I do from home each day.
I need to change my morning nutrition habits. I have long dealt with a tendency for anemia. I get it from my mother. Last year I had reached a level of severe anemia. I was taking an iron supplement but I was taking it incorrectly by consuming things that interfere with iron absorption like calcium supplements and tea. I started taking iron first thing upon waking on an empty stomach. I'd drink a Fuze with vitamin C while I was getting dressed. Vitamin C enhances iron absorption. I am never really hungry in the morning and was never a breakfast eater anyway so I had my first protein drink of the day at the office, giving my body loads of time to absorb the iron before consuming anything that might have interfered. But I got very inconsistent with that. I'd get busy and put it off and put it off and before I knew it, 10:30am would roll around and I had consumed NOTHING since awakening! I need a good morning nutritional plan.
I think I can continue to take my iron first thing upon awakening as I will continue to get up at 4:30am. I could have a protein drink by about 6am and that should be fine. I have let my insistence on leaving for the office before friggin' DAWN get in the way of following a sound morning routine that includes getting something into my stomach besides my various supplements and vitamins.
Iron at 4:30am, everything else at 6am should be fine and I should have more than enough time for everything. I will be due for a blood test in June and that should be enough time to see if I am maintaining good iron levels.
So! I've been doing a little waking up as I've written this! Alright, let's see how this works starting RIGHT NOW....
Getting sick pushed me completely off track but in the past month I saw my work schedule throw off my training plans. I think that integrating a morning workout into my routine is the way to go.
What has to change to accomplish that:
I found that I did not perform well when I first get up in the morning but of course the goal of training is to condition your body to adapt and change. There's my answer! I have to keep working at it until I force my body to adapt and change.
I have been a freak about getting to the office earlier and earlier! Like I'm pissed the first express bus isn't until 5:45! Oh good lord girl, let it go! Arriving every day at 7:30 is PERFECTLY FINE!! I do like to be there alone in the early morning but I think this is more important. The express bus I take is going to be on the bus tracker starting today. I can see exactly when a bus is going to arrive at my stop. I will plan to be on a bus that will get me to the office by 7:30 every day. I should be able to get up at my usual time, spend about 15 minutes waking up, have about a 30-minute session and be able to get ready for work in the unhurried manner I prefer. I should also have time to send out the early morning commentary I do from home each day.
I need to change my morning nutrition habits. I have long dealt with a tendency for anemia. I get it from my mother. Last year I had reached a level of severe anemia. I was taking an iron supplement but I was taking it incorrectly by consuming things that interfere with iron absorption like calcium supplements and tea. I started taking iron first thing upon waking on an empty stomach. I'd drink a Fuze with vitamin C while I was getting dressed. Vitamin C enhances iron absorption. I am never really hungry in the morning and was never a breakfast eater anyway so I had my first protein drink of the day at the office, giving my body loads of time to absorb the iron before consuming anything that might have interfered. But I got very inconsistent with that. I'd get busy and put it off and put it off and before I knew it, 10:30am would roll around and I had consumed NOTHING since awakening! I need a good morning nutritional plan.
I think I can continue to take my iron first thing upon awakening as I will continue to get up at 4:30am. I could have a protein drink by about 6am and that should be fine. I have let my insistence on leaving for the office before friggin' DAWN get in the way of following a sound morning routine that includes getting something into my stomach besides my various supplements and vitamins.
Iron at 4:30am, everything else at 6am should be fine and I should have more than enough time for everything. I will be due for a blood test in June and that should be enough time to see if I am maintaining good iron levels.
So! I've been doing a little waking up as I've written this! Alright, let's see how this works starting RIGHT NOW....
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