Bootcamp and the Flu

This last week hasn't been very good workout wise or health wise. I came down with the flu on Thursday night, pushed through work on Friday and paid for it the rest of the weekend. Needless to say I was a lump on the couch for the last 4 days. But I am feeling much much better so clearly I needed all of the rest. So a recap of is in order of what I did do last week.

I got in 2 days of working out before the flu, Tuesday and Wednesday. They were weight workouts from bootcamp. Tuesdays was difficult but in a good way. We had tempo lifts on the schedule, 6 beats to the height of contraction and then 2 beats to return to the starting position. It was rough but I loved it. I'm really glad that I'm lifting again even if I am a cardio junkie.

Wednesday was a core workout. I'm not supposed to do back to back lifting days but I thought it would be ok since it was a mostly body weight workout. And the workout went well except for the shaky arms afterwards. Needless to say I was sore for the next few days. I'm not gonna lie, I really liked it. Being sore always makes me feel better. I know I'm working muscles I don't usually and it really is just going to help me out in the long run.

Thursday hit and so did the flu. Therefore nothing else got done workout wise. I did manage to meet my 2 goals for the week: 1.) Drink 72 oz of water/day and 2.) Stretch/foam roll for 10 min/day. The second one was really hard for me to meet considering I hate stretching. I'm going to change my 1st goal to drink at least 16 oz of water a night at home because that is when I really struggle to get hydration. This will make me focus more for water after my workouts.

So this week is a new week and I'm feeling much better. After all of the rest I was able to get I'm finally starting to feel like my old self. As a reward I will be going for a run this afternoon after work and putting dinner together. It will be outside in the cold because I missed the beautiful weather this weekend. But there is no more snow and ice on the ground so I feel fairly safe running outside. That was my hold up. I was not going to risk injury to run outside.