#fbfit

i have a love/hate relationship with HIIT. i particularly like the tabata technique :D it aligns well with my shitty attention span lol. 

i kept up pretty well up until... idk, 75% of the way through? my head started to pound, and because i took my glasses off to do the jumpy bits, every time i lifted my head to continue watching the video, the bright white light in the background seared my eyes. i made it through though! and it felt good (at the end). according to my apple watch, i beat my HIIT calories burned record, so that’s kewl. 

i’ve been running into this issue since monday where i’ll feel amazing after my workout, but about an hour or so later, i will collapse because of my need for nourishment. i think this pain is amplified by the timing of completing the workout as well as taking my birth control pill simultaneously, on an empty stomach. finishing up this video, kelli strongly encourages that we get our carbs in ASAP after the workout, because our body needs the fuel to keep going... but i don’t. i suffer for a few hours, until dinner is ready from 830-9pm. 

day 3 of fb fit was upper body strength training. lifting weights and all that jazz. it was a welcome reprieve from the cardio i suffered through yesterday lol. 

i think i will always prefer weights to cardio. and then cardio to core. my core sucks. :| i know it will never get better if i don’t work it it (and i do!), but it just KILLS my neck. doing toe touches from yesterday’s vid strained my neck and i def felt it this morning. i really should go see a chiropractor... but i don’t know how much that costssss...

when doing these exercises, they always say you should be focusing on your core, not your neck, but i can’t help but experience the pain anyway. it’s not like i’m intentionally sticking my neck out... my core just sucks. 

lol i swear i cycle between the same goddamn tumblr themes. maybe they just don’t do a great job making other themes available? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

our gym membership with SLS ends this saturday. we canceled it because we’re planning on moving to billerica (or at least... more south?), and there’s no sense in paying that super expensive yearly maintenance fee lol. it’s just as well... andy never wanted to go anyway :\ and it was costing me $90 a month lol. it was more expensive than our internet! 

anyway i’ve been doing random at-home workouts... i was doing blogilates for a while, but after i finished the beginner’s calendar, i didn’t have the patience to do the 5 VIDS PER DAY required for the normal calendars? it just didn’t really seem to... have a point, i guess. it seemed kinda hodgepodge and without structure. 

so then i tried HASfit for a month. they’re GREAT - i love how down to earth these guys are. i even support them on patreon! but i have a similar kind of issue here as i did with blogilates, where i’m not sure that the month has a point. i’m sure both calendars provide you with a great workout, but i kind of want something more... directional, i guess. 

now i’m back to fitness blender! this time, i’m doing their programs. i purchased 3 of them during cyber monday (the programs are already so cheap as it is lol) and am currently on day 2 of one of them! i’m pretty excited. i did their physical fitness test yesterday (benchmark abilities: running a mile, pushups, planking, etc) and the first video today. i even took a bunch of “before” pictures in my underwear (lol) and posted them to this tumblr! but on PRIVATE of course! there’s no way i’d be comfortable enough to show the whole internet my bod >.< i’m supposed to take more in 4 weeks, and then another 4 weeks, etc...

anyway i’m doing their 8 week fb fit program and am really hoping to finally see some results since the videos this time seem particularly pointed. i did day 2 today and could barely keep up! i really have my hopes up this time! doing HASfit for a month really feels like my muscles were at least defined... and i honestly feel like i’d see more results if my eating was more controlled. :( 

for that reason, i bought a meal plan from fitness blender as well! honestly, the way i eat is likely the biggest thing holding me back here. the shitty thing though is i can’t really... use the meal plan until i move out. my stepmom (woah... it’s my first time calling her that lol) is constantly in the kitchen and it’s just not realistic to expect i can use it whenever i want to. but that’s all right, we’ll be moving out in a few months hopefully...