So, while I'm still fresh in my sweat I thought I would go ahead and jot down my thoughts about my first workout. Ever see those Jell-O commercials with the people wiggling out the brand? Yeah...that's me right now. I even had my post workout shake--a recipe from the book (they were kind enough to include blender-less options for people like me) that didn't taste too bad and fulled me right up.
Stage One workouts follow the pattern of one "whole body" exercise followed by two alternating sets of two exercises that target upper, lower, or mid body. My upper arms and legs and butt are pretty wiggly, bu I also feel wobbly in parts of my body I wasn't directly using... Basically, I feel like my muskols are all being tossed around in a shake'n'bake bag.
Overall, I am pretty pleased with myself. I feel like I was testing out weight loads today. My first sets were usually lighter, and on most exercises I increased my weight for the second set. Next time, I will start with the weight I used in the second set if it was challenging enough, or add weight to that number. There were a couple exercises I did (step ups and push ups) where I couldn't do 15 reps in the second set, but I pumped out 12. That's not too bad, right?
The only thing I pretty much failed were the prone jackknifes on the swiss ball. Maybe my ball is too big for me to do those, maybe my core just isn't strong enough to stabilize me on that thing, I'm not sure what my deal is. I tried, kept falling off, and switched to swiss ball crunches instead. I took those nice and slow and my gut is burning something awful..
But I WILL figure out how to finish the prone jackknifes before this stage is over!
Can't wait to see how I feel tomorrow...
This just in: Washing my hair was a pain in the A. Holding my arms up and scrubbing my scalp was so tiring...
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