Weekly Workout Recap: 03/30/2020 - 04/05/2020

I'm still feeling like I have had pretty good momentum with my workouts. It's not exactly hard to fit them in while in quarantine. I was on call Monday through Friday this week; however, I ended up only have to go in three of the five days and only for a few hours each day.  So, I still had more than enough time to exercise to my heart's content.

I'm SO FREAKING HAPPY that I decided to splurge and buy a bike last week. There really aren't words for how much I am enjoying getting out and riding in the evenings. Unfortunately, riding does make my neck and shoulder issues flare up a bit so I can't ride every day but I'm thrilled to be riding as much as I can.

I'm glad that I decided to purchase the ankle weights while I was out, too. It's been nice to have the option of using those for some leg exercise here and there. It's just taking a little bit to think outside of the box for things to do now that I can't go to the gym after work every day. Although, in all honesty I am working out a lot harder now than I was when I was going to the gym. I'm not working out after a long exhausting day at work, so I have a lot more energy to give to the workouts. I'm also just feeling more motivation for working out overall. I guess my thinking is that if I'm in quarantine all this time, I'm going to do everything I can to use the time to my advantage.

Thus far the only thing lacking in my recent exercise routine is doing any actual running, but more on that later. For now here is this week's Recap...

Workouts:

Monday
Leg workout with my ankle weights

Tuesday
1.5ish mile walk

Since today was the last day of the month, it wrapped up month three in a row of closing all of my Apple Watch rings, and getting at least 30 minutes of exercise every day since January 1st. This is a huge deal to me and I'm pretty proud of myself for sticking to it, so here's a photo from the app of my March accomplishment...



Wednesday
5.6 mile bike ride

Thursday
Yin Yoga

Friday
Arm workout with my dumbbells
5.9 mile bike ride

I made the decision to start wearing masks as much as possible when I go out. I was unable to find any actual masks, of course. However, I was able to find some cloth ones online that I have on order. But lucky for me, I have TONS of scarves at home because I've acquired a collection over the years for dog photos.

Here I am wearing one of my homemade masks using one of the scarves I had around home...



I saw a little 'wildlife' on my ride and I had to stop and take photos...





Saturday
6.7 mile bike ride

No photos from my ride today, but when I got home I decided to take my dogs to Dairy Queen for pup cups in celebration of one of my dog's birthday.

Here I am with 3 of the 4.  The other goober is camera shy and hard to get in photos!...



It's not very often that I take all 4 of them out together, but made an exception for this quick trip.  The darker brown one is my oldest dog at 12 ½.  She's actually a really smart, super good dog who does well in public from a behavior stand point.  However, she suffers from a lot of anxiety and usually doesn't enjoy outings - unless food is involved and then she's all about it!  She also has a lot of health issues, so she's unable to do much in the way of exercise.  So, she usually gets to live it up at home most of the time.

Sunday
Aaptive "Smoking Guns" Arm Workout

I had done this workout once before and wasn't sure how I felt about it.  After a second go round, I'm still not sure I love it and much prefer the one I did last week.  However, I guess it's good to mix things up from time to time.