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STOP THE NEW YEAR TRAIN!!!!!!!
I really feel like 2010 has started too early and I am running to catch up with it.
My goals arent quite set in concrete and my body is disobeying me big time, bugger it.
My family and me had a lovely Christmas, spent mostly camping and enjoying the warmer days.
We still have 2 more weeks of camping coming up so looking forward to that.
Its the just about the only time I get to play board games and cards.
Below: Me with my son Ben, my mum and my daughter Eva
Usually New Years Eve rolls around and Im all sorted and know what I want to achieve in the New Year.
This time round I was a bit thrown off after receiving an email from Ali Gascoine inviting me to join the NZ Team and compete at the ANB Champs on the Gold Coast in May 2010. Bit of a hard decision really. Its less than 20 weeks away and really cuts into my Off Season Training.
I love the Off Season as I have said many times before. Training hard and feeling really strong is awesome.
If I chose to go to Aussie with the Team I really only have time for 2 short Power based Programs before the 12 weeks diet rolls round.
I believe the sport to be about Improvement, and doing the diet is a waste of time if you are going to just look like you did last year.
So do I stay or do I go??????
My decision will impact my other NZ Goals which were to take a Team to Taupo. I would still take a Team but whether I would compete also is another story.
TRAINING
Training has been going well even though I am battling a hell of a lot of pain and fatigue lately.
Haven't felt this bad in quite awhile.
Been lifting quite heavy, workouts last about 45mins, maintaining the strength and stamina that I built in the previous program.
Training 4 days a week.
Cardio has slipped alot. Been sleeping in, having trouble getting up as not sleeping due to pain. My morning cardio is prob done every 3rd day and the night cardio is zilch. At about 3 oclock my body hits the wall and fatigue is taking over.
If you have never experienced true fatigue it is horrible. You more or less lose your legs, have trouble lifting your arms, just have to lay down, you start to feel better and go to do something and just crash to the floor.
This is hard for me to cope with especially when my kids see it. They start to worry and its real hard to stay strong and act like everythings o.k.
Once my hubby gets home from work I crumble totally. The fatigue has been real bad for 2 weeks now.
I am trying to work out why???? Knowledge is Power and I like to know why and what I am fighting.
A lot of other ladies with R.A are also suffering big time, so it might be the wheather or the moon?????
Takes alot to hold me down , but it is.
Today I did manage a chest/tricep and quad workout, and my mind feels so much better , the pain has subsided. How long that will last I do not know.
The workout doesnt make the fatigue worse, as a lot of people would think. It helps reverse it.
The advice people give me is "go to bed Women, dont train". This is the worse thing I could do.
The old saying "move it or lose it" is soooooo true.
I dont advise this for everyone suffering with arthritis, I know my body real well and I train with my brain, I am very careful.
DIET
Eating has been pretty clean. I am so desperate to ease the pain that I am trying to eat as well as I can. My only down fall being that when you are in alot of pain you just dont feel like eating. I am getting 3 meals in a day and snacking on nuts and seeds and fruit inbetween.
I have been trying the supplement Tribulus before workouts and really feel like it is a great supplement. It really has boosted my strength and Stamina.
I hope to try out some other supplements this year and really give a honest opinion to whether I find them useful or a waste of money.
The next month is Tribulus and then I will have to go see the guys at Supplement King again for their advice.
POSITIVITY
My goal this week to help me feel happy and more positive through all the pain is to write down 100 things I am grateful for every day until I feel a change.
I am used to writing down 10 things every morning but 100 is quite challenging. Yesterday I managed 90. Today I have 30 so far...lol.
It works well though as my mind is trying to think of things I am grateful for, so therefore, there is no time for negitive thoughts.
So simple yet so effective.
Today is my Wedding Anniversary. 3 years ago today I got married. That was the last time I was this sick with the R.A and I did end up in Hospital, getting discharged 3 days before the ceremony and ending up back in hospital the week after .
Our Wedding day was the best day ever though, surrounded by all our friends and family.
So my goals:
1. I will be Focusing on surviving the R.A.
2. This is the only thing holding me down. Im awaiting advice from my Specialist and trying all I can do to get better.
3. My workouts will always happen (unless I end up in Hospital).
4. I will try to catch up with that 2010 Train and head to the front of the carriage so I can start steering it in the right direction.
5. I will be Grateful for all that I have right this very minute.
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