Today was just fabulous, weather wise. We had one other day that I could have put the sprinkler out, but for some other reason I didn’t. Today was the day. J has been asking me for about two weeks if he could go through the sprinkler and I keep telling him it was too cold. When he asked yesterday, I told him that no matter what he could go in it today.
We weren’t home from school for five minutes and he started asking. I made him wait until his Sister had gone for a nap and that was it, he was running and jumping and cooling off. After Apple’s nap, I put both of them back in their swim suits and turned on the water.
I just love sprinkler and summer fun.
Here’s to many more days of this for the rest of the summer.
I had a pretty good week this past week.
I really wanted to pump it up so I alternated days. One day I either ran 3k or I power walked 3k (I actually only walked once), then the next day I would do some strength training. So all in all I got in three cardio and three strength days, this is on top of my regular walks to and from school. Which are ending in a few weeks for the summer, so I will definitely need to keep up the workouts.
Other than my muscles being very sore, I really felt good. Especially since my girlfriend and I polished off that Monkey Bread.
Which brings me to todays exercise. Rest. I am sharing rest with you for two reasons this week, one is that today I had to rest my muscles and two J was busy at a friends house so my photographer was absent.
If you are working out every day it is extremely important for you to take one day of rest for your muscles. When you work out your muscles actually breakdown, losing protein. As much as it is important to replace that protein after working out, with a protein shake, some peanut butter or a whole protein enriched meal, it is also important for you to rest your muscles so they can repair in their own time. Not resting them can also increase your risk of injury which would derail your workouts all together. Resting your muscles actually helps build muscle mass. If you do not rest, then your muscles will actually get smaller instead of larger.
All athletes take a rest day so you should too. Of course, if you want to go for a light walk on your day of rest, that is fine just be sure to not push yourself too far on that day.
Now to keep it up the alternating for another week.
We made it down to Major’s Hill Park for the last day of the Tulip Festival. The morning sun tricked us into thinking it was warmer than it was. Apple was dressed appropriately however, Hubby, J and I had bare legs and boy was it cold.
J is now too big for some of his favourite rides and too nervous to go on some of the bigger rides. So he stuck with the Carousel and we hope to encourage him onto the bigger rides as the summer goes on.
Next up was the Candy Floss or Cotton Candy. J has been asking to try it for a few weeks now. He saw it on a show and wondered why I never bought him any. I had to remind him that I buy him some every year at the beach, but he never liked it before, so I would unfortunately have to eat it, all. Hubby and I had a Beavertail (my third for the year!) and shared with Apple.
Despite the cool temperatures we had fun and remembered why we like to go out for a morning on the weekends doing something other than errands.
