MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY
Tangled Emotion & Twisted Experience
Life is a tangled twist of emotion and experience. Sometimes the things we never wanted, once we have them, we discover are the things we never want to live without. Sometimes the ones we love hurt us so deeply and completely we wonder if we will ever heal, and when we finally do, only to be splintered into pieces again. Sometimes we hope for what seems like a lifetime, and just when that hope has all but gone, something happens to make us believe again and desire to hold onto that hope. Sometimes we are just prisoners in a cage of our own making, and by the time we realize it, have come to call that cage “home” and do not want to leave the confines of comfortability. Sometimes life can seem so very much more than we can handle, and just when we are ready to leave we discover that we in fact want to live, and live as hard as we can until there is no more life left in us.
Life is a tangled twist of emotion and experience, a stage where every player has an important role, whether they know it or believe it or not, and it’s not over until it’s determined that that player has nothing left to love or break or hope for or give, until that player has no more spirit left to fight.
Life is a tangled twist of emotion and experience and we ALL live it.
© 2012 Rosie Chee
TRAINING
Monday - HIIT Treadmill (warm-up to weights) + Shoulders/Hamstrings
Tuesday - Arms/Abs
Wednesday - Day OFF
Thursday - Day OFF
Friday - HIIT Run + Full-Body + Post-Weights Cardio
Saturday - HIIT Treadmill (warm-up to weights) + Shoulders/Arms/Abs
Sunday - Day OFF
Monday - HIIT Treadmill (warm-up to weights) + Shoulders/Hamstrings
Tuesday - Arms/Abs
Wednesday - Day OFF
Thursday - Day OFF
Friday - HIIT Run + Full-Body + Post-Weights Cardio
Saturday - HIIT Treadmill (warm-up to weights) + Shoulders/Arms/Abs
Sunday - Day OFF
OTHER NOTES
Sleep: Been working right through all week, so going to bed every night
(except for last night) about half an hour after getting home from my
night work. Has taken me 30-60 minutes to get to sleep each time, sleep
broken, waking on and off until I've had to get up in a few hours to
start all over again.Energy: Whether I've had energy or not is not relevant - even though I've been dead on my feet and tired as hell all week, I've HAD to be up and about, doing everything - and training has suffered a little because of this over the past week.
Joints: Both shoulders and left wrist have been in a lot of pain this week.
Body Composition: 9% bodyfat - so a loss of 0.3% bodyfat. However, despite having THREE days OFF training this week and what training I HAVE done only 30-50% of Maintenance, this is ok. I FEEL a lot better than I did last week, and abs are actually starting to come in more.
Training: 2-a-day training did not happen this week - instead I was working every day from 0800 through to 2200-2300, on top of trying to manage study, so I just got in what training I could (did ALL my resistance sessions at least, even if shorter than usual) in the gaps between morning and night work. I DID add in some TRX training for my shoulders and hamstrings this week, as a change re weights, especially for my shoulders and it helped re the pain a little, although feeling DOMS from it (and I don't so much from weights). Definitely need to start running more, as well as making my HIIT LONGER again - have been using the treadmill for ~10 minutes, which is not conducive to my lower legs and certainly not to progress. I don't work as much this coming week, so will be focusing primarily on getting back into a routine that I can STICK to - a little hard when working hours have been all over the place, most of which is very last minute.
Supplements: Last day of Compound 20 today. Have been using UR Spray since 1 August, at 50 sprays twice daily - post-am and post-pre-bed showers.
Overall Sense of Feeling: This week has been a huge "stress" week - it seems sometimes that God wants to see how much I can handle when my life is ripped apart and turned upside down, which is ok but not ok at the same time, and I have held a lot back this week, just wanting to get through. Now I get a day of "rest" - I have work to do, but are going to try and put that aside until tomorrow, so that I CAN give my mind SOME downtime, since the overload it is on is NOT the "good" kind. Despite all that, it HAS been a productive week - a lot of CHANGES set in motion and things to look FORWARD to.
