I had a bit of a lazy week this week after my holiday. This week has to be productive, so I'll share my plan with you in order to increase the accountability factor.
To do list:
- book uni medical and fitness assessment
- make doctor's appointment to gather my vaccination records
- locate 'baby book' vaccination information
- force my resume upon every business owner in the local area
- return outstanding forms to St John Ambulance
Exercise schedule:
Monday: 6.30pm Pump, 30 min cardio
Tuesday: 9am Abs, 9.30am Attack, full stretch
Wednesday: 9.30am Pump, 10.30am Step
Thursday: 9.30am RPM, full stretch, 6.30pm Boxing
*subject to timetable change for public holiday*
Friday: 10.30am Attack, full stretch
Saturday: 8.30am Pump
The exercise schedule might seem a bit nuts but I had a pretty lazy week in the gym this week. I have always enjoyed exercising and a standard week for me involves 4-6 gym sessions, though this week I only managed 3. I love feeling fit, strong and flexible. I like working really hard and pushing through pain for the endorphin rush after I'm finished. Sport is great, I love learning and improving new skills and, of course, winning. The happy exercise hormones help keep me mentally healthy and without regular, strenuous exercise, my mood plummets. These days, like a lot of people, I basically use exercise as a substitute for therapy.
Also, I need to pass a physical fitness test in order to be able to go on placement for uni so I'm trying to get as fit, strong and flexible as I can be. The test is an Ambulance Victoria requirement. I will have to do push-ups, sit-ups, ride an exercise bike, the 'sit and reach' flexibility test and have skin fold measurements taken. You receive a score out of 5 for each activity, it doesn't matter if you fail an individual component as long as you get at least 13pts over all and score at least 3/5 in either the push-up or sit-up tests.
The idea of someone coming at me with body-fat calipers makes my skin crawl. I thought once I finished compulsory high school P.E. that I wouldn't have to face this kind of physical assessment ever again. Wrong. I really loved P.E. overall, but like many, I hated anything that involved someone who didn't really need to know weighing me.
It's such a bizarre thing, that number on the scales. One day I hope to be the kind of person who truly doesn't feel that that number is of any particular significance. I don't want to be the kind of person who invests a large amount of self-worth in that number and is only too happy to tell the whole world how small that number is or who is completely destroyed by how great its magnitude may be. I would love to meet a person, in particular a woman, who honestly does not place any microscopic particle of self-worth on what they weigh. It's a pretty sad world where our social commodity as human beings, particularly for women, is valued against our size. That being said, I don't think social acceptance of greater bodily diversity should used as an excuse for people not to take care of their health.
I will report each day today whether I kept to my schedule!
On an unrelated note, all day I have been thinking about these...
Two of my most favourite things, peanut butter and chocolate. Thankfully for my health, they are not too readily available in Australia!
Have a lovely week, wonderful readers =)
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