Day 2: Ultimate Ball

Apr 09, 2011 14:13

Yesterday, after my morning workout, I went to the gym with my sister and my mom. I did a 14 minute mile, which is pretty bad time, but I jogged it steady at an avg. 4.4mph without stopping and so as to not super-exert myself because the employee at the gym was about to run me through the weight machines afterward.

I enjoyed the running. I haven't been out to run in a while, and the treadmill is an easy place to start back up. I prefer running outside because you see more strength/stamina results that way, but I'm still too heavy to be running very hard yet :) lol.

The weight machines were good. I need to strengthen a few areas for me to effectively be able to do some of these DVDs. Namely, my chest/back/arms for the whole push-up deal :P

Then I got to sweat it out in a sauna, which is always nice.

This morning, I was a little sore in my chest, near my arms, but not enough to need rest. The workout for today was stability ball work. Mostly moves that involved being in plank, with your feet on the stability ball, pulling in knees or just holding plank. It was kind of fun. I spent a lot of time on the floor from my legs spinning to one side of the ball and flipping me over. At some point, I realized that the stability ball they use in the video is significantly larger than the one I have. When on the knees next to the ball, their's comes up to their ribcage, while mine barely reaches my hip, so much much smaller. I may have to invest in another or see if I can pump mine up a bunch more without popping it.

Every morning, I'm supposed to drink 4 cups of water as soon as I wake up, as part of the accompanying diet. That is pretty much the extent of my involvement with the diet so far. I like the water thing because it gets a good amount of the water I should drink out of the way and, maybe just all in my head, makes me think I am flushing more toxins I have built up during sleep. I dunno, it sounds good and it's a good motivator to drink so much water when I usually don't want water. Water is an after noon drink :) lol.

My first day of rest is tomorrow, so it's gonna be weird. I feel like I should work out every day, but here's my program telling me I'm not supposed to. Don't have to tell me twice :) I might still go out for a short run or something. I want to try to do some extra push ups in my spare time to get better with that. It takes just a few minutes a day and I think it will make a difference.

I may alter my diet toward theirs a little to help things along, but I'm mostly concerned with my calorie intake. I just hate diets, it's so much more crap o think about every time I eat. When things start to become a hassle, I want to do them less, so I'm trying to be careful with a lot of this stuff, so I don't make myself want to quit. If I am "suffering" or unhappy, I am very likely to give up. So the dieting I try to keep to a minimum and just eat what I want within my calorie goal.

I need to get better with getting to bed on time and sleeping enough, or I will get so tired and sore, I might have a hard time staying motivated. The getting up at 5am thing to work out before my day starts is working out really well for me, but as I went through the week, I went to bed later and later and was dragging my butt through the exercising.

I realize that I am a sensitive person when it comes to inconvenience and fitness programs. If I can't do it mindlessly with little impact to my daily routine, I DO have a problem sticking to it. Because I know how I can get, I'm trying to be smart and stay ahead of myself in dealing with things that i know will hurt my progress. I just thought I sounded, like, everything is sooo conditional to me keeping with the program, and in reality, I know that's true, so, better to realize my flaws and know how to deal with them than pretend I'm a different person than that :) lol
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