Raising Your Frequecny

I'm happy to report that I'm *officially* training again!

I've been on the treadmill twice this week and twice last week. Each time, I increase the number of minutes I run and decrease the number of minutes I walk. Still no pain, praise the Lord!!! This weekend is the first time I'm allowed to RUN ON MY OWN outside of the PT gym :) I don't think I've ever in my life been *excited* to get on a treadmill but I SO AM! Beyond that, the frequency of my PT visits will be decreased to once a week now and it'll be on me to find gym and treadmill time on the other two days that I'll be running. I'll continue to do my PT strengthening exercises twice a week aside from the three days that I run. That leaves 2 days for Beachbody or rest.

In terms from Jen Sincero's book about being a Bad Ass - my frequency has been raised infinitely by my work out this morning!! This calls for a new theme:





Speaking of frequency - one of the things I had to change about my running mechanics was my cadence. We increased it by 10 steps per minute (for now), which called for me to create an entirely new running playlist. So with an odd mix of trepidation and anticipation, I retired my current running playlist (145-150) and dug into my favorite search engine for songs to create my new running playlist (155-160).

If you need to create a playlist for yourself, this website has a wonderfully specific set of filters that will allow you to search by bpm, genre, and so many other "seeds": Song Key BPM

It took some tweaking, but using this engine and Amazon Music, I created a killer new playlist for myself. I'm still adding songs as I think of artists to feed the search machine, so this playlist should be growing. Have a peek:





After my first session of searching and placing songs on the list, the running time came to 2:54 and some seconds. I thought, "Maybe the universe is trying to tell me something about what my finish time will be", but truthfully I plan to do it in less. I'll have to skip by a few songs because if I'm still running at 155 in May, I'll be crossing that finish line listening to Everlong by the Foo Fighters. Just sayin'

I walked out of the PT gym today and felt the warm air - in the 50s despite the fact that it's January in Pennsylvania. The sun was even out! I just raised my face to the sky and took a moment to resonate with those high frequency thoughts and thank The Big Guy for all the blessings in my life. It's just a good day today :) Thank you everyone for your support and words of encouragement. In this moment, I feel completely happy and look forward to what is to come.

Really this all started last night when I got the best hit of encouragement. I was being wishy washy on whether or not I'd go to spin class tonight. As I was still waffling, I get a text from my friend who came to spin class on Saturday: "Are you going to spin class tomorrow night?"

So yes, spin tonight it is :)

It's so important to have friends who can both hold you accountable and keep you moving forward - in so many places in life. Beachbody really taught me that, and I've been so blessed to experience that kind of friendship here in the last year I've been with the company. Even though most of the activities that I do now aren't Beachbody, I am still in touch with my challenge group friends and look forward to completing another program once I'm through with physical therapy and can back off a bit on my daily 45 minute PT exercises.

I hope that you all are having a lovely lovely day :) Catch you later!