I promised a while back to make my blog less about reading and training.

Apparently I lied, because here comes an update on my training! [Feel free to close your eyes and scroll on…]

So far, this week has been a nasty catch-up from last week’s measly schedule.

Tuesday: 30 mins core, 30 mins cardio, 45 mins Sh’Bam
Wednesday: 60 mins ViPR
Thursday: 60 mins NTC get Strong!

Every day has proved a new challenge, but as it goes- tomorrow is a new day.
I’ve had to overcome a lot psychologically, because I was starting to feel a little lazy after missing out on my training all weekend.
I was definitely tired after Tuesday, I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse that your instructor knows your name and starts spurring you on during class [“Come on Ashley, let’s go!”] and only does it to you. Seriously, she only targets me. It’s pretty sweet of her I guess. I definitely pushed on during Sh’Bam, I don’t think I’ve ever been that driven during any Sh’Bam class earlier. Interesting what a little encouragement can do to you, isn’t it?

My body was alright on Wednesday, so I braced myself for ViPR, a new class that started last month. I thought I was going to collapse in the middle of class. I haven’t done much cardio since the Summer….Mainly because I have such bad stamina and I really hate cardio-workout, so ViPR came as a real shock to me. I’ve mainly focused on building strength in my body, so that part was okay, but since there were new movements introduced with ViPR, my body was really not used to it. It was interesting though, it was a real hate-love relationship throughout the workout. [I don’t even know if that’s good or bad…]

Speaking of bad stamina, I thought ‘Why don’t I submit myself to more pain and torture by repeating last week’s Thursday with NTC Get Strong?!”… Apparently, while I was booking myself in for classes, I thought it’d be a good idea to sign up for as many ‘pain-in-the-butt’-classes as possible. [Past-Ashley is laughing at present-time-Ashley right now….]

So today had another round of Nike’s GET STRONG-program in stall for me, as if the training-bit wasn’t enough, I already felt the burn from ViPR’s butt-training the day before. 
I decided to push myself as far as I could take and that was just enough. And surprise surprise, today’s instructor recognized me from the few times I’ve actually attended her other classes and/or met her in passing at the different gyms, so she remembered my name and when I was at my weakest point during class [CARDIO], she screamed at me to pick it up….. I love my gym.

I was happy that I’d pushed myself for three days straight, I’m proud. I’m still happy, the only thing that isn’t happy right now is probably my bottom.

I haven’t decided if I’m going for tomorrow’s Energy training yet, I’m a little skeptical about it but I should probably start building my stamina again… But I’m so bad at it…. [First world problems…]

I came to think about what my Sh’Bam instructor said on Tuesday. Coincidentally, it was the instructor I had today that was having the next class after Sh’Bam so I managed a quick hello and they both asked why I wasn’t going for BodyPump right after Sh’Bam [Because they’ve picked up on the fact that I like to subject myself to two hours of jumping around and dying inside], my reply was that I was going to try out ViPR [I’m so glad I substituted the quick hour of core and cardio for BodyPump on Tuesday] the next day which made them both gawk and protest. 

“Ashley, you cannot allow yourself to think that way. Tomorrow is a new day, your body will be in a different state, so don’t ever limit yourself before you know what your challenges are.”

They’re so sweet sometimes, but I know they’re just there to subject me to torture.