Take a bunch, they’re made of meat. Specifically hamburger.
Day 6 done! The Kenpo workout is actually pretty fun; I'm not much on karate for martial art purposes, but it does make fun exercise, I'll give it that. Plus it'll be easy enough to modify the workout to use kungfu-style punches and kicks, once I get better at it, yeah? That would be 4w3s0m3.
(I'm not as hugely into l33t as I used to be - like most people, I grew out of the 90's eventually - but I've always appreciated 4w3s0m3 for being such a cool balance of alphas and numerics.)
The Universe also dropped the opportunity for a five-mile hilly bike-ride yesterday, and of course I took it (especially since that cold made me miss Underwater Hockey - by the way though, the cold went 95% away after a day! Woot!). And yesterday was Legs & Pullups* day, so that was 5 miles on top of an hour of lunges and squats in the morning. Oh yes. My rear end is so sore today, ladies and gentlemen, that I have to sit with a pillow.
Actually I pretty much feel like hamburger all over at this point…well, actually my abs are ok today, but they were wrecked last night (Legs & Pullups* comes with a bonus 15 min of stab-me-in-the-stomach-please-it-would-be-kinder, as do two other workouts every week).
Notably, my knees also seem OK, though I should get better about taking the glucosamine/chondroitin supplement I bought, just in case. (Note for those who, like me, hate pills: Emergen-C makes a Joint Support packet!)
Anyway, tomorrow is stretching, which I'm sure will also be epic. But as I could really use an epic stretch, and possibly a meat-tenderizer, that's great by me.
One other cool thing I'm noticing: A workout like this functions as a good anchor for one's routine. Getting up every morning and exercising for what amounts to two hours (once you factor in getting ready, showering after, all that) threw everything else into a new orbit, but as it all settles there I get to tweak things, and the workout helps keep them where I put them. Pretty rad.
On the downside, I now sleep about twice as much as I did, which means that the two-hour workout is actually costing me six. I made the decision to do it knowing that, though, and my plan once I finish the 90-day program is to switch to something shorter (there are plenty of maintenance programs that are like 20 minutes a day) and get my polyphasic schedule back. I'm OK with not having it for a time while I tackle a specific big project (like getting that honest-to-awesome athlete's body I've always wanted), but I want it back as soon as that's feasible.
Anyway, on that note, I should take this writing time while I've got it…!
*Psssh hell no I can't do pullups. Yet. I also can't hang a pullup bar in this apartment anyway, so that works out. The program has options for using bands to simulate pull-ups until you can do real ones, so that's what I'm doing for now. ::fistbumps for anyone out there who can actually do pull-ups!::
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