In my posts so far, I have mentioned two fitness/wellness related ideas that I want to develop throughout Planuary and I have had another one pop up over the weekend.
Here are the updates:
Reflective Journaling
My plan for jumping right into reflective journaling did not work…so far.
I really thought I was on to something with moving my journaling to the beginning of the day and creating a strategy for voice dictation and copying and pasting but then I had the most jumbled week in which ever single aspect of my schedule went right out the proverbial window.
Honestly, if you had written my planned activities on pieces of paper, threw them in the air, and then turned on a fan, the resulting schedule could not have been more erratic than the one that last week generated all on its own.
I’m just glad that I am at a point in my life and in my medicated understanding of my ADHD brain that I didn’t end up blaming myself and going into a brain loop that would have also thrown this week into a jumble.
ANYWAY!
The issue here was that my plan hinged on taking time early in the day to do my journaling and then I didn’t have a single day in which I could follow my usual morning routine.
I did manage to journal on two days but that was only because I ended up with unexpectedly long waits in my car on a couple of occasions.
So, clearly I need a plan for relatively ordinary days and one for days when my morning has a different shape.
And perhaps I need to set a reminder for early afternoon asking if I have been able to journal yet.
I’ll circle back to this again next week.
Pushups?
And this is probably the part where you are wondering about the pushup plan.
That hasn’t happened either – and that’s ok because this is Planuary not Do-All-The-Things-uary (Instant forgiveness for the win!) but I am still moving slowly towards the plan.
I have looked at a bunch of different pushup plans some of which I could immediately discount because I know what my brain is like. *
But there are two plans that are top contenders – this one that Sam sent me from Training Tall and this one that I have had bookmarked for ages from Buff Dudes Workouts but I will probably end up taking the stuff I like and making my own Franken-plan. **
And, of course, I had planned to start by picking a yoga practice to do daily and then add the pushup plan in afterwards.
I haven’t picked the yoga practice either but I have refined that plan instead.
I am going to do one of these four practices each day, depending on my time and inclination.
The first two are from Yoga with Adriene and the second two are from Heart and Bones Yoga.
Yoga For Neck, Shoulders, Upper Back | 10-Minute Yoga Quickie
Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Relief – Yoga With Adriene
Thoracic Spine and Shoulder Relief
Yoga for Thoracic Spine (mini class)
So, there are some steps forward on that Planuary plan, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Planuary Idea #3
I have fallen into a classic Christine/ADHD thinking trap, again.
I want and need to move more (because my body is feeling pretty cranky) but my brain keeps trying to figure out the ‘best’ thing to do instead of just doing something.
It keeps telling me I need to make a big plan before I start AND that I don’t really have the time or information to make that plan so I should start later.
And it also likes to toss in information about my various obligations during the week and how I will need to work around them (gee, do I really, brain? sigh!) and how I need to figure out the perfect time of day to workout so I don’t waste time or get my work plans derailed.
And it also reminds me that I walk the dog every day and that I do TKD twice a week so I am already doing *something* – which is true but doing those things is not addressing the body crankiness so I need another layer of activity, no matter what my brain is saying.
This is why I always say that my Go Team posts are just as much notes to myself as they are to anyone reading them.
I have literally been writing daily posts about how to avoid these kind of brainloops (among other things) and, yet, my subconscious was busy with all of this foolishness.
SO, I am shutting that down. I’m being kind to myself about it but I am still shutting it down.
I’m starting with 5 minutes of extra activity a day right now and I will add to that as I go on.
And, frankly, while 5 minutes is my low bar amount, I will probably often end up doing more because I know my obstacle is getting started, not keeping going.
The Current Plan
Yeah, that seems like a lot of things but they are all kind of small – 5-10 minutes of journaling aloud, 4-18 minutes of yoga, and 5 minutes of additional movement daily.
Even the longest version of that is only 35 minutes a day and it doesn’t even have to happen all at once.
And, of course, this is Planuary so the plans can (and probably will) change.
That’s just part of the process!
*For example, there is no way I will work up to 50 wall pushups before moving to the floor. I would end up spending more time fighting my brain to get started than I would actually doing the practice.
**The fact that I am neither Tall, nor Buff, nor a Dude means that the names of those sites/channels crack me up every time I look at them. I consider that a bonus, really.
