Hello friends, I am so excited to announce that I made it to OVER three miles in my hour long workout tonight. Dance dance dance! Something about the three mile mark for me is important. I used to run regularly and if I could make my three miles every time I felt like it was a "worthy" workout. Of course my three miles tonight included heavy breathing, sweat dripping and the sound of my pant legs rubbing together because of how large I am at the moment. The important thing????? I did it. and I feel good. and it makes me happy. and I am proud of myself.
Props to my husband for wrangling the kids to bed tonight while I accomplished said workout! <3
SONG OF THE DAY
I greatly greatly enjoyed Madonna's "Give It To Me (Paul Oakenfold Edit). It's one of those songs that ended up on my playlist somehow that I probably have never listened to before. I was doing intervals and it was a really really great song to jam out to during my high resistance interval AND my low resistance interval. Give it a chance. It's probably been on my playlist for over a year and tonight's the first time I listened to it, so if you need to take your time doing that same I completely understand!
ABDOMINAL MUSCLES
I'd like to talk about abdominal exercises. I've mentioned before that I have Diastisis Recti, the splitting of the abdominals, from my pregnancies. This requires me to be very aware of and sensitive to certain activities. Sadly it has cut out some of my favorites: kickboxing & golfing. The shearing motions of your abdomen during a golf swing and in various kickboxing moves actually create more separation of the muscles if they are already weakened. THIS SUCKS, PEOPLE. Those used to be staples in my life. Someday I will defy the experts who say once you have a diastisis you can't do those things ever again. I am determined, damnit.
Today I expanded my horizons in my diastisis exercises. Up until today I stuck to three safe positions that focus on the transverse abdominus. These have always been very helpful for me in conjunction with a "splint" that I used to wear to help move the muscles closer together. I began to rely on said splint and have weaned myself off it over the course of the last year. Now it's time to add on to the current exercises I do and I simply googled it today. After my hour workout I did these moves (shown in the video below) that engaged muscles in my abdomen that I have not knowingly engaged for a really really long freaking time. IT FELT GOOD. I'm posting the video here for fast reference when I need a refresher!
Well folks, that's all from me today. Have a good one!
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