Day 74 and 75 Recap

As I move into the home stretch of this challenge, I am really starting to look forward to a break. While the actual workouts are literally part of my daily routine (without thinking about it really), the fatigue is becoming noticeable during my higher intensity activities.

For example on Thursday, Day 74, I was out to Thursday night pickup basketball and I was feeling it. I can normally run up and down the court all night and usually have more endurance than 90% of the other players. The last couple of games, however, I have really felt the fatigue kicking in. I was still able to play my game and work hard, but that exhausted feeling kicked in much earlier than usual.

I was thinking that this is actually a good thing because it is a perfect reminder to me about the value of rest. Once Day 90 has come and gone, I am going to workout 5 days per week and rest 2 days. That way, I can go harder during my workouts and then completely rest on my off days. It will also be a good balance because every trip to the gym is at least an hour out of my day. This is not always an easy thing to do with my crazy schedule.

As for today, Day 75, I actually faced a bit of a predicament. After geting a slow start to my day because I was up most of the night with my son, I lost a good chunk of my afternoon to donate blood. I had totally forgot that I was scheduled to donate until about an hour before my appointment. The problem was, I had not yet done my workout for the day.

After giving blood, I was actually quite light headed. I'm assuming it is because I barely had any sleep last night. The other problem was, it is STRONGLY recommended to not do any exercise until at least the following day. I did not want to ruin my workout streak but I also did not want to negatively impact my blood regeneration (its not necessarily a small issue).

What I decided to do was wait the minimum 6 hours and then do a light at-home workout. So at 11pm after a night at home with my wife, she went to bed and I stayed up to do some work and to do an ab and stretching workout. I took about 20 minutes and actually got a bit of a sweat going. I did about 10 sets of various ab exercises and a whole bunch of leg stretching.

Now that I'm done the workout, I am wide awake so I am going to use my energy to get some overdue work completed. I will probably pay for it in the morning because I am overtired from last night. But I will take some time to do a recharge meditation tomorrow morning and I should be good to go!