Week 18 - successfully got back on track after the week 17 catastrophe. It was a bit hard to motivate myself both because of the "break" and because I'm not really seeing the progress I was hoping for, probably mostly because of the injuries and stuff. I'm slowly working back into lightly exercising my painful shoulder again and I'm really crossing my fingers that kayaking in a couple weeks won't be too awful on it. I also brought back planks last week, while keeping an eye on my shoulder and stopping if it feels "too much" strain, which is fairly arbitrarily defined. It's been a month of skipping all shoulder exercises so of course I've lost all my progress there, but I think if I work back up a bit more slowly this time it'll be OK. And try harder to avoid the marathons of shoulder-intensive lab work, which was the main problem, I think. It hasn't been too sore although I'm still on the computer way more than I should be which aggravates it, so I'm going to try really hard to avoid long stretches and the computer and try to include more breaks. Ankle is back to its "new normal" i.e. mostly OK unless I push it too much, so I'm not going to worry about it for now, but I really need to rehab it somehow before I visit Europe in July and do a crapload of walking. But I don't really have enough focus for that right now, so...priorities.
Also I'm SO HAPPY that FINALLY the weather is good enough for biking and I biked a bunch last week, just short trips <30 min so far since I'm trying not to overdo it like I always do, but slowly getting into biking shape for the summer. I'm so excited to get some non-dreadful cardio in without hurting my stupid ankle, or anything really. It's been absolutely amazing weather the past few days. I even got a sunburn from sitting outside for ~30 min at lunch, heh.
Goals for week 19:
1) stick to bodyweight routine.
2) internet needs to come under more control. Yeah, it's happening. I don't care if it's crazy hard. My should can't handle being on the computer all day at work and then all night at home.
Work internet: set timer every hour and must pull myself away, get up and move around, even just a little. Ideally, do some shoulder stretches each time. Also, try to avoid spending entire days on the computer, since that usually is 90% slacking anyway.
Home internet: this is hard since I spend sooooo much time aimlessly clicking and it's so boring but somehow I have such a hard time pulling myself away from the quick fix. Maybe I could try the timer here too, I dunno. Or even better, I might give leechblock another shot, maybe that thing that blocks websites after a certain amount of time on them, might make my time on them more...efficient. I have tried this many times and always get annoyed and disable it. But I dunno what a better solution is. Having a less boring life off the computer, I suppose. Actually, I think I'm a little lost these days without sports filling up most weeknights! Maybe I need to try a bit harder to develop new hobbies (or the ones I have already). Anyway. I just set it to block after 2h/day of my worst offenders, we'll see how painful that is, I suppose.