Hurray for Monday!

I had a solid sleep last night and woke up very tired, and a bit stiff, but overall in a good frame of mind.

Yesterday was a busy day! I work on Saturday nights till 1:30 am, so Sundays are weird. I try to manage as best as I can without getting too stressed out about the change in routine. This is how it went yesterday:

I woke up naturally around 6am, ate my normal breakfast, then went back to bed for another 2 hours and when I woke up again I felt more like myself. Then it was a quick snack of an apple and I was off to the gym! I did some mobility work and dynamic stretches before hitting the weights which consisted of squats, leg press, rows, db shoulder press and some back hyper extensions. I'm not doing anything too regimented right now because I start my PKIN on weight training this term, and we will be working out on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have no idea what to expect out of those workouts, so I'm just trying to focus on a few key points for my own workouts, and they are:

1. Keep the weights challenging, which means, go heavy.
2. Make sure I do somewhat of an all body routine, since I'm only hitting the weights at a frequency of 2-3 times per week.
3. Getting in some cardio activity, which ranges from intervals on the bike, walks around campus, or runs at the indoor track. I LOVE the indoor track!! It felt so great to run there on Friday, I felt like my feet had wings! It was my first time on a real track, and since I live in Ontario, the snow and cold makes for some not so motivating weather for running. I used to run in all kinds of weather, but now I tend to avoid the cold, so this is perfect for me.

Then I had to work a 5 hour shift at the coffee shop with no break, so that had me on my feet the whole time, and that is just so tiring. I crashed hard when I got home last night, and my feet were so tired.

But all that is just a distant memory right now, because today I got my period!! This is so important to me right now, because it marks the second time in 2 months that I've gotten my period after a year's absence.  Before that, I was on the pill for years on end, so I never really knew what "normal" meant in terms of my body and my cycle. Plus it's been a crazy stressful year, both mentally and physically (more on that another day), so I didn't know whether I had done major damage. I have a serious grin stuck to my face today!!