Today was another good day, in my opinion. It started out with the hardest part which was Leg Day. Leg Day consists of all sorts of squatting with various weights, performing acrobatic feats…or that’s how it feels lately! It consists of Back Squats, 1-Leg Hinge Lifts, and Bulgarian Split Squats. You can look those up and start doing them if you’d like and see if you feel like a weighted acrobat, like I do!
After getting all our errands run and having a quick healthy lunch we settled in to get a touch of work figured out, then off to the gym for my cardio workout. Another personal best on the recumbent bike, with 15.85 miles in 57 minutes for Sprints. Got the heart pumping a little, but honestly it wasn’t as high as it used to get, so something must be working right!
Was able to read a little, although not as much as I would like. Had a wonderful conversation about God and beliefs with a contractor we hired to do some work on the house. We talked for almost an hour off the clock about the differences between his beliefs and my own, great conversation!
The book I’m reading, The Power of Habit, and been interesting that’s for sure! Been reading about how some people, even with brain damage, who can’t learn new things logically or educationally, can somehow still learn habits and the reactive processes involved. They also found that so long as you have a cue, it will help trigger your habits, and a reward of some sorts afterwards will help make the habit stick long-term. After practicing the habit, your physiological responses will start to crave the habit and the rewards associated with it, and will actually start to anticipate the rewards prior to receiving it. There is a bunch of science and studies behind it all thus far. We’ll have to see if the book will give us something to learn and work with more than the last book I read…? I just Don’t Want to Be Left Disappointed!