I get up at 5 am every morning and hit the ground running. I've got college classes, work, and I spend several hours a day in the car transporting kids to sports practices. I don't get home until 6 pm and then I've got to put dinner together. I'm exhausted by the time I fall in bed at 8:30.
For the next few months my exercise will be limited to 10 and 15 minute intervals throughout the day whenever I can get it. I have one good workout on the weekend, too. This is all because of my crazy schedule. I wonder if I can get up at 4 am? How would that affect my day?
Until I figure this out, my exercise will be routines like today: I walked briskly twice for 15 minutes each. It's muggy so I quickly worked up a sweat, which is no good in the cramped office I share with two other ladies. (No A/C.)
My diet is going good, though. I like the TNT book, and I like what it says, but I have to take care that the carbs don't get too low, because I get too emotional when they do. Can't handle stress when the carbs are too low. And since I'm about to put my firstborn on a plane and send him off to college, I need all the emotional stability I can get.
I've been studying the videos
in this post at T-Nation. I love lunges, dips, squats. The Physical Therapists have got me a little worried about doing them, though, so I want to make sure my form is extra-perfect. My lunges are just like the "before" video: the knees are always behind the foot. Got to work on that.
But I'm having a hard time figuring out what he's trying to say on the squats.