After taking my first dose of chemo last night I immediately went to bed before any potential fatigue kicked in. I slept well overnight even though I woke up a few times. Since I am working from home this week I set my alarm for 6:00a. When it went off for me to go workout I felt a brief wave of nausea so decided to go back to sleep.
Read MoreWhile vacations are nice, it felt amazing to sleep in our own bed. I was able to get just shy of 7 hours of sleep after not really sleeping consistently over the weekend. I had an early appointment to get blood drawn to see if the levels that our neuro-oncologist was concerned about had come back up. Luckily I had a great phlebotomist so I barely felt a pinch when he drew the blood. I can’t say that about every time I have had blood drawn or had IVs set up for contrasts.
Read MoreGoing to bed for the 2nd night in a row after 1:00a on the same night when daylight savings kicks in didn’t bode well for me getting sleep. Even though I slept in a bit this morning I still only got 5.5 hours last night. When I woke up I was wide awake already and couldn’t fall back asleep.
Read MoreAs I was falling asleep last night I checked the Spartan WOD since I was up past 2:00a when the WOD is typically published. When I saw that today’s workout was their Lo180 workout which is a low impact cardio session for 180 minutes long I knew that I wouldn’t be waking up to go workout since I don’t have 3 hours to dedicate to working out.
Read MoreIt was nice being able to sleep in for a bit longer than usual. Upon waking up I checked my email for the Spartan WOD and got ready to go workout.The hotel that we’re staying at partners with a local gym that was a short walk away.
Read MoreI had originally set my alarm for 6:30a so that I would have time to get a workout in before leaving for the #WTFConf where I was speaking today. When I woke up to check my email I saw that today was a rest day so I crawled back into bed with the intention of sleeping for a little while longer.
Read MoreWhen my alarm went off this morning I jumped out of bed with excitement to go workout after taking yesterday off. I completed my shoulder exercises and then attacked today’s Spartan WOD.
Read MoreBefore going to bed last night I spent time stretching due to soreness throughout my feet, calves and shins however when I woke up this morning that soreness was still there. I decided to head back to bed to give my body a day to rest. I’m sure the soreness has come from all of the running that I’ve done in the last few days. Hopefully taking today off helps my body to heal and I’ll get back at it tomorrow morning.
Read MoreWhen I woke up I headed to the gym for my second day doing the Spartan WODs. Today’s workout was the same for all levels with increasing rounds per level. When I saw the pull-ups as part of the WOD I knew that I would only try completing today at the Sprint level which called for a single round of the above.
Read MoreWith another 8 hours of sleep last night I hit a 10-day streak for the first time in a couple of months. It feels good to hit a 10-day sleep streak due to the focus that I have been putting on sleep. The one thing that this doesn’t take into consideration is when I get close to 7 hours of sleep. There are many times that I still get 6.75 hours of sleep though that doesn’t count since I set my goal at 7 hours per night.
Read MoreThe nice part of weekends is the ability to sleep without an alarm. I still wake up by 6:30-6:45a when Sasha and Darren wake up. Even with them waking me up at 6:30a I was able to get 8.5 hours of sleep last night. I headed over to the gym to work on my shoulder mobility and to tackle the same cardio workout from last Saturday.
Read MoreAfter a long week I was exhausted last night so crashed quickly and slept in an extra hour before heading to the gym. I did basic stretches to loosen up my shoulders including hanging from the pull-up bar. Once my shoulders were mostly warmed up I then jumped in to, basically, the same back and shoulders workout that I’ve done the past few weeks.
Read MoreThursdays are typically my rest day from working out which means I can sleep for a little while longer. However, today I had an early morning meeting at work so I had to leave by around 6:20a to make it into work on time.
Read MoreWhile getting over 7 hours of total sleep, I managed to get nearly 4 hours of deep sleep last night which is the most that I have gotten lately. I was still tired when my alarm went off at 5:00a but dragged myself out of bed and over to the gym.
Read MoreI slept well overnight but woke up 10 minutes before my alarm went off. If your alarm is set for 8:00a, that’s one thing. When it is set for 5:00a, it’s completely different.
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