An October Monday in Real Time

Hey friends! How are you? How was your weekend? Ours was filled with kid birthday parties, soccer, fun with family and friends (and their chickens!), drizzly weather, homemade chicken soup and neighborhood walks. In short, it was simple but wonderful in its simplicity.

I wasn’t in the mood to type out a recap of everything today because I’m sitting at my computer feeling too chatty for that. So let’s catch up in real time, just like the good ol’ days of blogging before social media took over the world!

An October Monday in Real Time

I was up at 5:15 a.m. and immediately took myself through a lower body hypertrophy workout.

(My code PBFINGERS15 should still save 15% off Stakt mats! The love I have for this mat only continues to grow, especially through my new workout challenge that requires elevated surfaces regularly. I have the Stakt Mat Pro version and it does NOT slip. EVER.) 

Lower Body Hypertrophy Workout

The workout I followed is part of a 5-week Tighter Together challenge I signed up through the Madeline Moves app and I cannot tell you how much I feel like I truly needed this challenge. I got my personal training certification through NASM years ago and that knowledge has allowed me to feel confident in my own workout programming… but I’m also well aware of my shortcomings and the areas I tend to neglect when left to my own devices. (Ahem, stability. Balance. Flexibility.)

I absolutely LOVE the way this challenge is so scientifically sound and incorporates strength, stability, mobility and power components. Guys, the single-leg work and certain sloooow stability-related exercises have been humbling. Like crazy humbling. They also feel like a giant magnifying glass on the areas in my fitness programming that have been neglected for way too long. I know in my brain stability, mobility and balance work is so important, especially for longevity, but this challenge is motivating me to actually DO it rather than skip right over it.

After my workout, I grabbed a quick shower, said goodbye to Ryan as he headed off to work, and then made my way into the kitchen to get breakfast ready for the boys. Everyone was apparently a little sleepy this morning and slept past seven which made the hustle out the door feel a little chaotic, but we did it!

Breakfast 1.0 for me looked like a hot protein vanilla-matcha latte and a peppermint white chocolate ALOHA bar on the drive to the big kids’ school.

Author’s Tea

The fourth graders hosted an author’s tea first thing this morning and Rhett and I attended together to watch Chase!

Chase’s class has been working on adding dialog, similes and metaphors to their writing and Chase volunteered to read a short story he wrote in front of his class. He had us laughing out loud and we were proud of our big kid!

After the author’s tea, it was time for preschool drop off and once I said goodbye to Rhetty, I made my way to my favorite local coffee shop to set up camp for my morning work time.

Before leaving for school drop-offs, I prepped a blueberry chia pudding to eat along with my whole milk latte for breakfast 2.0 and while prepping it overnight is much preferred, I didn’t mind it being a little on the runny side for one morning. (I just stored it in a Pack-It to keep it cold until I was ready to dig in.)

As for the rest of the day, my morning will be spent with my booty parked right in this coffee shop chair working away and then I’ll be back in mom mode with after-school activities (it’s a karate day over here) and the usual kid chaos. I hope you all enjoy your Monday, my friends!