It’s 80 Day Obsession Monday and the word for Week 3 was “ROUGH” because that’s how it felt.
Instead of reviewing the program day by day as I did for Week 1 and Week 2, let’s just talk about the highlights and lowlights.
To recap: Week 1 was 15 reps of each exercise, repeated twice. Week 2 was the same, but sets of 10 reps with heavier weights. Week 3, however, is done in sets of 3 exercises, 10 reps each, with 3-4 total circuits. Meaning, you are doing the exact same exercise 2 minutes later with almost no recovery between each set. It is HARD.
The week started out feeling off because I came home on Monday after being in Ohio and Michigan for the weekend. Not only was my entire schedule thrown from the weekend and eating (and drinking) all the bad things, but I was also crazy tired from traveling for so long on Monday. Monday’s workout, Total Body Core, was awful and felt terrible, and I think it just set the tone for the week. Even for Leg Day on Friday, which is my favorite out of all, I still felt out of wack and not in the mindset of completing a hard workout, especially with the very different structure.
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I woke up feeling gross and battling a headache all day on Saturday, which meant Saturday became rest day and Cardio Flow was pushed to Sunday. Thankfully I think that day off did me some good because Cardio Flow felt better than the rest of the workouts for the week. I also finally got the hang of some moves that tripped me up the past two weeks, which felt great.
There was one major victory for the week: For the first time I finally felt the burn in my glutes during Booty Day. Autumn does a great job of giving form tips that I tried my hardest to put to good use. Slowing down the exercises and visualizing which muscle was isolated helped a lot and had my tushie buuurning through the bridges. I was so surprised by it that I dropped the bridge pose just to grab my butt muscles. It was great. Let’s hope my body remembers the form for the next 10 weeks of 80 Day Obsession!
Despite the crappy week I’m proud of myself for still completing each workout. There was a time when I would call it a bad week and take a few days off, but I didn’t. That’s progress, right?
I should also mention that my diet was allllll over the place. Thursday was my birthday (read the blog post about it here!) so the celebratory birthday weekend at home turned into more birthday and Easter food. I covered all my basis with pizza, donuts and burgers through the last half of the week. What can I say, I’m a sucker for food. And I’m going to pretend that having a diet that jumped from healthy to not every other meal was not the reason why I felt so gross all week. Definitely not. No correlation, probably.
Next week is Week 4 and the last week of Phase 1 for 80 Day Obsession. I’m determined to stick to the program and end strongly. My birthday brunch is Saturday, so I will give myself a pass for mimosas I plan on having. Until then I’ll stick with the meals I already have prepped for the week. Here’s hoping for some stronger willpower in Week 4 than I had in Week 3!
I guess I’m learning that this time around nutrition is definitely harder for me than the program. What is harder for you: exercise goals or nutrition goals? Do you have any tips to avoid the cravings? Let me know in the comments.
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