Becoming A Gym Rat

Okay, so the title might be a little misleading because becoming a gym rat is not the plan...just visiting the gym on the regular.

I signed up for the gym last week but yesterday was the first chance I had to make it there. I did some cardio on the treadmill, walked 1.5 miles on 3.5 speed with an incline, and jogged 1.5 miles at 4.0 speed without an incline. Not gonna lie, it sucked but felt good to actually get my body moving. The pace was fairly slow so I wasn’t crazy exhausted after 3 miles, but my legs were burning a little since I kind of started cold turkey. The plan is to go after work every day, so hopefully this turns into a routine I like!

One of the other reasons they could have been shaky could be because I started the butt challenge on Monday. Let me tell you…it is not easy! I’m on day 3 and struggled through 60 squats, so I can’t imagine making it to 250 squats by the end of this! Ahh!

After taking an 8-ish month break from softball and soccer, I started back up on both this last week.

Softball: A friend texted me last saying they were going to be short on girls and asked if I could play. I agreed, and then found out it was a double header! It was kind of rough going back after such a long break! To be honest, my team isn’t very good…but it’s fun. Unfortunately, I’m super competitive. Our first game was a blow out, lost by like 12 but I played hard. We barely won our second game, but a win is a win :] I played again last night, and even though I played hard, it was another loss. There aren’t many teams in the league so to make sure teams aren’t playing the same team over and over again, they schedule teams in different divisions to play against each other. We’re a C division team and played against an A division team last night. There wasn’t much hope for us, but at least the other team kept it interesting and swung at the ball instead of everyone walking! I’m cool losing when the other team actually shows up to play!

Soccer: A couple of weeks ago a different friend asked if I could play on their indoor woman’s team and was hesitant on playing since soccer actually totally kicks my butt. I played this last Sunday and quickly learned how out of shape I totally am. At one point, I had a small break away near the goal but completely lost it after my stupid legs gave out because they were tired. There were a few really good players on our team and I’m kind of just a sub on this team, so if I do play with them again, hopefully I’ll be able to hang! We ended up winning the game…with no help from me, haha.

 

It's kind of weird to think that I kind of sat around doing nothing and getting no exercise for the better part of 8 months (with the exception of stairs at school!) so I'm looking forward to keeping up all this movement! A healthy diet is where most of my weight loss focus should be, but it should also be paired up with some fitness! Here's to the long  and active road ahead!