Recovery Updates

About a month and a half ago I blogged about how I plan to approach recovery from a previous injury. At the time I laid out the following focus areas:

• Avoiding any exercise and workouts whatsoever. Even light exercise I’ll be skipping. My exception will be 10 minutes of slow yoga each evening as a wind-down mechanism.

• Changing my regular wake-up time. Normally I’m up around 5:15am, however recently I’m finding it hard to make that time. I’ll be challenging my previous approach and letting myself naturally wake-up and go from there.

• I’ll be focusing a lot on mental health and meditation during this time, and finding ways to utilize any free time in a creative way.

I’m happy to say that I’m making progress on some of these, but not all! For me it’s been more about my general awareness and how I’m feeling day-to-day vs. keeping a strict structure on my physical activity. A few areas that I’ve improved on:

• I’m much more mindful of rest and exercise and when one can support the other.

• I’ve included 10 minutes of slow yoga in each evening, which has been a game-changer for my mental health. That 10 minutes of wind-down each evening is one of the things I look forward to each day!

• In my free time I’ve started reading much more and continuing to grow out my podcast library.

One thing I didn’t budge on is my 5:15am wake-up time and I glad I didn’t! The only time I adjust for this is if I’m on vacation.

Throughout this process it’s made me realize one thing about myself: I thrive on routine. When I have a solid routine in my life, everything else moves much more fluidly.