Out Of My Comfort Zone..

I had to get out of my comfort zone to make any new progress on my fitness. Today, I upped the speed on the treadmill. I went from my leisure 6.0 to 7.0mph. That's a nine minute mile for 1 hour. I didn't add in any hills like I normally do when I run a 10 minute mile. I figured this was enough change for one day.

I finished my run and my totals were 7.0 miles and I burned 766 calories. I had 20 minutes left to lift weights. I increased the weights I lift too. I never feel any soreness after lifting so it's time to add in more weight. Due to the heavier weights, I did less reps. I'm sure as my body gets use to heavier weights I'll be able to do more but for now I'll just work on making small changes.

I thought I'd be sore from rock climbing yesterday since my forearms were tired after climbing for the hour. Nope, woke up and nothing hurt. Guess that's good but then I got to thinking... maybe I didn't work as hard as I could have. No, no need to push myself past exhaustion.

So, I was out of my comfort zone today.. running my butt off and liking the changes I made to mix things up and keep me motivated. I'm now working on speed.. not distance and I'm working on more definition of my muscles instead of maintaining.

I do know that I need to keep moving out of my comfort zone. It's soo easy to stay where I've been and figure it's good enough. I'll never reach my next goals if I don't keep my body moving and ever changing.

So I challenge you to get out of your comfort zone. Work hard, sweat and make that fat really cry today!