Skip to main content

What I'm Reading on Taco Tuesday

What I'm Reading
Well, thankfully Miss Crazy Maddie decided to actually sleep all night. No nutso barking episodes. I read myself to sleep by 9:30 and slept fairly well. I'm out of fiction books, so I have resorted to reading much-needed running recovery books instead. Not exactly riveting, but valuable information.

The one I've been reading is The Athlete's Guide to Recovery by Sage Roundtree. Honestly, I wish I had this book from the very beginning of starting to run. It's mostly geared towards endurance athletes, but honestly has great information for any athlete.

One chapter that struck me was discussing being able to recognized pain symptoms. In other words, you workout and expect sore muscles. But when does that soreness indicate something more,  like an injury?

For starters, when the soreness is unilateral (hand raised), when the soreness doesn't go away (hand raised), when it is not from changing up exercises (hand raised). I had so many red flags and just chalked it up to long distances and general fatigue of workouts. And of course, in hindsight, I just want to smack myself.

She also goes into detail about using heart rate, not just during exercise but in rest, as an indicator of "over reaching" and varying your workout loads. It gets a little technical, but she also does pretty good about simplifying it enough that it makes sense.

Anyway, if you're an athlete of any kind, I do highly recommend this book. Do you have any training books you recommend? Please share. I'd love to know!


PT Updates
A lot of you have asked about how physical therapy is going or how it went yesterday. I don't want to constantly harp on my injuries, so I've been shying away a little bit. Right now my heel is beyond tender. The physical therapist worked on it for nearly an hour.

I'm doing every stretch suggested as well as rolling it out on a golf ball for a solid 30 minutes each day. I'm also still doing extra stretching and rolling for my piriformis muscle.

The PT (who happens to be a triathlete training for her first Ironman) is hopeful, but also cautious. She wants me to hold off running for 2 more weeks. She also tried taping it up with kinesio tape. I know a lot of runners swear by it. I was hoping for some miracle. Honestly, I can't tell any difference.

I did go to spin class today. Mostly because I can't make it tomorrow and Jason joined me. Otherwise, I would have taken a rest day or gone with upper body. It was a good class though. I'm definitely not sorry I went.

Taco Tuesday
Honesty, feeling super lazy and uninspired when it comes to cooking lately. I have a full fridge, stocked pantry, and I just don't really want to mess with cooking, with coming up with something (creative or otherwise), with making and cleaning up a mess. Nada.

But, we aren't ones to go out to eat during the week or even pick up to-go for that matter. So, that means something needs to get made. Since it's Tuesday, I went with the Taco Tuesday theme to make it simple on myself. At least the menu was set right?

I ended up going with a combo of tempeh and black beans for the filling. I did saute up some onions and bell peppers then added in the beans and tempeh and seasoned with the usual Tex-Mex suspects including a splash of lime juice.
 

Since we had some corn tortillas on hand, I went with those over the typical wheat tortillas we use. Of course the tacos were topped with lettuce, tomatoes, Daiya, and lots of jalapenos.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Love in Photos

In honor of Valentine's Day - Love in Photos Husband Family and Furbabies Friends Even if you're not a fan of Valentine's Day - I hope you have a wonderful day and remember the loves in your life.

Hump Day and More Pineapples

Full-Body Workout  I'll readily admit that getting up this morning was quite painful and almost didn't happen. I forced myself out of bed though not exactly excited about tackling a full-body Pyramid workout. Sort of daunting at 5 am really. I did the warm up from Shock Cardio Cardio Core Circuit (cardio only premix) then hit the weights. It was a pyramid up only so I increased my starting weight. I topped it all off with the first 2 1/2 drills from the cardio workout. I ran short on time and was basically spent. Squats into Plie Squats Step Ups (seriously hate these especially at 5:30 am) Incline Chest Flyes into Chest Press Pullovers into DB Underhand Rows Step Ups (freaking again) Static Lunges Overhead DB Press into Lateral Raises Deadlifts Kickbacks into Overhead Extensions Hammer Curls into Alternating Curls Calf Raises I am so excited to report that my new cross-trainers and running shoes arrived today. Can't wait to test both of them out. I waited way way way too

Hitting the Gym and Lazy Means Creative Tex-Mex Creation

Sunday, Gym Day Why do vacations and min-vacations go by so quickly? Just doesn't seem quite right. Anyway, we left Branson around 9:30 am to head back home. It was a pretty uneventful drive back, which is usually a good thing. We got home and unpacked, then I headed up to the gym. I started with a 10-minute treadmill run to warm up before hitting the weights for back and light legs then abs. I went with a giant set for back then supersets for legs. GS - 4x8 Underhand barbell rows Pullovers Double-arm rows SS#1 Rear-leg elevated lunges (Bulgarian Split Squats) - 3x8 Calf raises - 3x20 SS#2 - 2x8 Walking lunges Plie squats with low-end pulse Single-leg deadlifts - 2x8 I did some ab exercises, stretched, and called it quits. Lazy = Crazy Dinner I may have made it to the gym and washed a few loads of laundry, but I never made it to the grocery store - lounging in the pool trumped grocery shopping. This meant getting creative with dinner. We had another package