After re-reading “The 12 Week Year” by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, I decided to embark on a 12 week fitness challenge to get back into shape after childbirth. Here’s how week 12 panned out.

Week 12 Workout Plan

• Run: 2.75 mi run x 1, 3 mi run x 2
• Stationary bike: x 3
• Plank: Every day
• Walking: Every day

Week 12 Workouts

• Monday: Walk, Plank (140 sec), Bike (20 min), Run (4 mi)
• Tuesday: Walk, Plank (140 sec), Bike (15 min), Run (2 mi)
• Wednesday: Walk, Plank (140 sec)
• Thursday: Walk, Plank (140 sec), Run (3.1 mi)
• Friday: Walk, Plank (140 sec)
• Saturday: Walk, Plank (140 sec), Bike (20 min)
• Sunday: Walk, Plank (140 sec)

Workout Totals

• Run: run x 3 ✅
• Stationary bike: x 3 ✅
• Plank: Every day ✅
• Walk: 7 days ✅

Conclusion

AND 12 week challenge is a wrap! Time really flies by when you’re with an infant. 3 months ago they were a potato. Now they’re almost crawling! When I have some time to crunch numbers or thoughts I might do a follow up blog post about the experience/changes.

Physically, I’m not sure if I have an “aha” kind of change (my weight didn’t change), but having been able to go from running 0 miles to 4 miles at a time at a reasonable pace and still not being exhausted, I think a lot inside must have changed. And even if nothing else, I feel like the fact that I challenged myself and rose up to it for 12 weeks is something huge!

For the next foreseeable future, I think this is what I plan to do:

• Run 3x a week
• Walk daily
• Plank – maybe… I finished day 99 of it, and I’m debating whether to stop or keep on going with decreased seconds because 2 minutes 20 seconds is really hard for me ?

According to Strava, I logged 19.3 miles of outdoor walks over 7 hours 11 minutes, 1 hour of bike riding, and 9.2 miles of running over 1 hour 47 minutes this week!

Over the past 12 weeks…

• I ran 83.4 miles
• Walked 262 miles
• Pedaled my stationary bike 11 hours and 27 minutes