Ouchy

[jethrien]

Moved up a level on the exercise video. I have to wonder--how on earth did someone come up with some of this stuff? Sadistic, that's what they are. Chuckro may have been slightly alarmed by my vehement cursing at the TV and the world in general yesterday. I managed a little better this morning. (What's keeping me going is that I remember this stage from the last level, when I was incredulous that anyone could do more than two or three of some of these exercises in a row. They were still really freaking hard when I decided to move up a level, but I could get through the entire set at least. So I think after a couple weeks I should be doing ok on this level, too.)

The weird thing is that the strength training on Level 1 was really hard, but the cardio and abs I could handle. The Level 2 strength training is about the same level of difficulty, it feels; maybe even a little easier on average. But the cardio and abs work are so much harder. I really do want to die near the end. It just seems so restful.

Everything hurts right now.

Comments

[firynze.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm dreading most about starting to really try to be active again - I remember what I used to be able to do, and I can do so much less now, and it's FRUSTRATING. And painful!

The "getting up and doing it" before you're able to rationalize anything is a great tool, though. I wonder how I can figure out how to harness that to get to the pool in the early morning.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I've also found that announcing intentions helps. If Chuckro knows I meant to exercise today, I feel really embarrassed if I don't actually do it.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

The problem is, I don't have anyone in-house other than Cody to keep me honest, and Cody would just tell me to sit and eat some seeds and stare at the wall. ;-)