What's been tripping you up lately in your H&F life? What's been the thorn in your side? What are you doing to overcome it?
For me, it's improving everywhere else except my clean. I will drop under just about any snatch, even if I know I'm not going to make the lift. I'm a brazen snatcher. But when I clean, I am terrified of dropping underneath that bar. I cannot seem to break through a certain threshold on my clean. I've been stuck for almost 6 months. I know I'm strong enough to clean the weight, but dropping under it is seriously holding me back. My coach and I had a heart to heart last night (lol) and we decide to do high hang work for the foreseeable future so I get used to getting under there.
Talk to me. Tell me your struggles. Rest your head on my friendly bosom.
I know I should run through pregnancy, but dammit. I just don't want to. It's a huge struggle because yeah I need the cardio and yeah, I know it's good for me.
This is more an annoyance/whine than a struggle, but...
I am simultaneously training for a HIM and a 10k OWS, so I'm balancing working out with a group of swimmers and triathletes. Almost across the board, they need to workout WAY earlier than I do. For example, the swimmers workout on weekdays from 5am-6:30am. My 4:30am alarm comes SO EFFING EARLY. It is hugely annoying to me that I could fit the same workout in and still get to work on time if I slept an hour later - but then I'd have to do it by myself. So I get my ass up, go early, come home, then twiddle my thumbs waiting for Calvin to go to work together. (We carpool.)
Then on Saturdays I meet friends to ride long. It's the weekend. I would love to not start until 7 or 7:30, and there are several who would like to ride then too. But one or two of them want to start at 6 because kids, and a few more are all WE SHOULD RIDE TOGETHER! Which means 6. Mother effer, 5am wake up on a Saturday.
I know I could just workout alone at my own convenience, but that sucks too in a different way. This is just killing my sleep schedule.
I know I should run through pregnancy, but dammit. I just don't want to. It's a huge struggle because yeah I need the cardio and yeah, I know it's good for me.
But I just don't want to.
Meh, if you don't want to, don't do it. Some days you just don't feel like it.
Talk to me. Tell me your struggles. Rest your head on my friendly bosom.
Thank you! Ugh- my struggle is motivation in general and also balancing training for a sprint tri in August and my half mary in October. I'm doing the tri for fun with friends, and I know it's great cross training for my half which is what I'm trying to see it as, but I's just wanna run!
It just always something and it's getting old. I think my plantar is acting up...or it could be my SFX from last year, which means the doc was prob right about osteopenia, even though the test was negative....He still wanted me to see the bone specialist, but it was just too much and seemed too unhealthy prior to TTC. (i.e. the treatment could cause infertility, no we're not TTC, but we'd like to some day!). Wah. Just wah.
Post by bullygirl979 on Jul 11, 2014 9:11:21 GMT -5
Mine is more short term but I'm not motivated to train for the last week. I take horseback riding lessons. I take swimming lessons. I run. I bike. I don't feel like doing any of it this week. And I know that is okay but that also means I'm not practicing my swimming...which makes me feel like I'm wasting my money with lessons.
I'm getting frustrated with my inability to get my legs over my head to do a handstand. I can do other arm balances, I can hold a headstand for 5 minutes and come down slowly in a pike, I can do a handstand against the wall if I'm facing the wall and walk backwards with my hands. But I feel like I'm making zero progress toward being able to get my legs above my shoulders.
I'm trying to be good at reminding myself it will happen eventually. Patience...
My schedule. It's been a disaster the past 3 weeks. I'm teaching two classes, in my final push before my tenure packet goes in (eep!), we've been interviewing job candidates, and I'm the director of our major and picking up a lot of slack that I shouldn't be.
Needless to say, it's thrown some serious monkey wrenches into my ability to train on my normal schedule, and I've let it affect my eating too much.
I am so checked out of my training plan for my Sept. Half it's not even funny. I'm just burnt out from running. I can't even muster the energy to run 3 miles on a treadmill. Oy.
I know I should run through pregnancy, but dammit. I just don't want to. It's a huge struggle because yeah I need the cardio and yeah, I know it's good for me.
But I just don't want to.
As someone on this board said to me a few weeks ago when I had a similar wobble about running: here's an inside tip, you don't have to run. If you don't want to, don't force it. Take up something else that you are more motivated to do. Given you are pregnant, that might limit your options a little, but there is plenty out there still.
My eating. I'm running more and doing more yoga so I know I need to eat more. But I cannot stomach all this food. I feel gross and feel like I'll gain. I know I won't cuz I need it but I feel like its so much food and I get tired if eating. Like I can't eat another bite but know I'm Way under cals. Eating more is such a struggle for a light eater. I've never been one to eat a lot so this is killing me. So Much food
Eating. Not sleeping enough. Stupid left leg. Shit. I just realized I didn't bring any fuel or water bottle for my long run up here in the mountains. Damnit.
Oh I have one. I went to the pool the other day to crosstrain, but damn, that shit is hard. I lasted ~15 min and then sat in the hot tub, but I felt great after my little hot tub session.
First, I'm struggling to maintain healthy habits while doing school (only 6 hours per semester, but still, seems like a lot to ME) and working full time.
I was so proud of my body and really feeling good about myself earlier this summer (when I was at the height of half-marathon training). Now my jeans are tighter, I feel much more of a belly pooch, and my face looks bloated.
I have a 10K planned in mid-July and a half-marathon at the end of September. I just can't dedicate the time to get in racing shape for them and will do them as "fun runs" but I'm really beating myself up for that.
I know this is just a season of life, but dammit, I still want to look cute and not have muffin top in my jeans.
Post by runblondie26 on Jul 11, 2014 9:42:35 GMT -5
Getting 5-6 hours of broken sleep each night is really wearing me down. I can't get myself out of bed early in the morning anymore, and the evening is too full of things to do. Having strep this week killed all my workouts as well.
It's about to get even busier with DD starting school next month, which will add a lot of time to my commute, plus DH being out of town more often.
Post by bluedaisyus on Jul 11, 2014 10:08:13 GMT -5
Depression. That's what's tripping me up. I want to run, but I'm down and it's gross outside and I just want to hide out and not do anything even though I know it would make me feel better.
Also our crazy summer schedule and my wife's regular weekend overtime.
This is more an annoyance/whine than a struggle, but...
I am simultaneously training for a HIM and a 10k OWS, so I'm balancing working out with a group of swimmers and triathletes. Almost across the board, they need to workout WAY earlier than I do. For example, the swimmers workout on weekdays from 5am-6:30am. My 4:30am alarm comes SO EFFING EARLY. It is hugely annoying to me that I could fit the same workout in and still get to work on time if I slept an hour later - but then I'd have to do it by myself. So I get my ass up, go early, come home, then twiddle my thumbs waiting for Calvin to go to work together. (We carpool.)
Then on Saturdays I meet friends to ride long. It's the weekend. I would love to not start until 7 or 7:30, and there are several who would like to ride then too. But one or two of them want to start at 6 because kids, and a few more are all WE SHOULD RIDE TOGETHER! Which means 6. Mother effer, 5am wake up on a Saturday.
I know I could just workout alone at my own convenience, but that sucks too in a different way. This is just killing my sleep schedule.
This is more an annoyance/whine than a struggle, but...
I am simultaneously training for a HIM and a 10k OWS, so I'm balancing working out with a group of swimmers and triathletes. Almost across the board, they need to workout WAY earlier than I do. For example, the swimmers workout on weekdays from 5am-6:30am. My 4:30am alarm comes SO EFFING EARLY. It is hugely annoying to me that I could fit the same workout in and still get to work on time if I slept an hour later - but then I'd have to do it by myself. So I get my ass up, go early, come home, then twiddle my thumbs waiting for Calvin to go to work together. (We carpool.)
Then on Saturdays I meet friends to ride long. It's the weekend. I would love to not start until 7 or 7:30, and there are several who would like to ride then too. But one or two of them want to start at 6 because kids, and a few more are all WE SHOULD RIDE TOGETHER! Which means 6. Mother effer, 5am wake up on a Saturday.
I know I could just workout alone at my own convenience, but that sucks too in a different way. This is just killing my sleep schedule.
A little random, but have you tried a gentle alarm wakeup? There's a good iPhone app called "sleep cycle" and you put in a 30 minute range that you want to wake up and it wakes you up at an optimal time during that 30 minute range. So yeah, you risk waking up 30 minutes earlier than you need to be up, but I found that I felt so much better with the gentle wakeup that I didn't mind missing out on some sleep.
It also tracks your sleep patterns and so I found out that no matter what, I was always deep asleep at 5:00 a.m., which explained why I could never make a 5:30 workout.
Depression. That's what's tripping me up. I want to run, but I'm down and it's gross outside and I just want to hide out and not do anything even though I know it would make me feel better.
Also our crazy summer schedule and my wife's regular weekend overtime.
This is more an annoyance/whine than a struggle, but...
I am simultaneously training for a HIM and a 10k OWS, so I'm balancing working out with a group of swimmers and triathletes. Almost across the board, they need to workout WAY earlier than I do. For example, the swimmers workout on weekdays from 5am-6:30am. My 4:30am alarm comes SO EFFING EARLY. It is hugely annoying to me that I could fit the same workout in and still get to work on time if I slept an hour later - but then I'd have to do it by myself. So I get my ass up, go early, come home, then twiddle my thumbs waiting for Calvin to go to work together. (We carpool.)
Then on Saturdays I meet friends to ride long. It's the weekend. I would love to not start until 7 or 7:30, and there are several who would like to ride then too. But one or two of them want to start at 6 because kids, and a few more are all WE SHOULD RIDE TOGETHER! Which means 6. Mother effer, 5am wake up on a Saturday.
I know I could just workout alone at my own convenience, but that sucks too in a different way. This is just killing my sleep schedule.
A little random, but have you tried a gentle alarm wakeup? There's a good iPhone app called "sleep cycle" and you put in a 30 minute range that you want to wake up and it wakes you up at an optimal time during that 30 minute range. So yeah, you risk waking up 30 minutes earlier than you need to be up, but I found that I felt so much better with the gentle wakeup that I didn't mind missing out on some sleep.
It also tracks your sleep patterns and so I found out that no matter what, I was always deep asleep at 5:00 a.m., which explained why I could never make a 5:30 workout.
That's interesting. I know what you mean. I am an 8 hours a night kind of person, but if I can't get that, I feel worse on 6 hours of sleep than I do on 4-5.
Post by katandkevin on Jul 11, 2014 10:48:32 GMT -5
Motivation period. I started my IM training schedule but I am not the least bit excited about it. I need to be but I don't know how to get myself back there.