jmshadowdancer
Exercise: What others are doing, what I'm doing
Aug 20, 2013
Today I weigh 316. Not sure how I feel about that, but at least it's down. I think I'm still sulking that I gained that all that much weight. Bah.
I asked my facebook friends and relatives to tell me what they do for exercise. I was really curious.
The responses include:
physical therapy
zumba
walking
running
jogging
belly dance
ballet
yoga
insanity
kick boxing
dancing
lifting cheeseburgers
sex
That last one made me giggle hardcore. To be honest I was surprised at all the variety of answers I got.
I am personally taking an interest into calisthenics. Last night I did ten sit ups (crunches), ten push ups (modified), ten squats, and ten supermans. This left my legs feeling like Jello. I could at least perform the squats. When I attempted to do the pushups, my arms kept buckling from my weight so I had to do modified. Even with modified my arms buckled and crapped out on me. I have like, no arm strength whatsoever. I used to be able to do situps for martial arts, but when I did them last night, my butt bone hurt insanely. I did crunches and was able to complete them halfway up. With the squats, I made sure that I was in a near sitting position. I never understood what I was doing in high school when the coach had us lean up against the wall and do them. I just did them. My 32 year old body cried in pain yesterday trying to do these squats. But I did them.
So yeah, all that left me feeling like Jello and exhausted. I went to bed at 9:45 and woke up at 6:45. I am seriously lacking in sleep, but my body appreciated the rest. I've been so tired and sleep deprived that when I did fall asleep last night, I woke up trembling from chills. Am not sure what that was all about, but my hubby is the best and covered me in a fleecy blanket like a baby. God, I love that man.
I've been getting on the bicycle for ten minute rides. I need to start logging my exercise, but so far so good. The bike doesn't leave me winded. Then again, I suppose I could pedal faster. I like to pedal nice and even so I don't sprain myself and my body likes to pedal.
I also need to get the Xbox out because I own a Kinect and Zumba (too hard) and Dance Central (really fun) and should be playing physical games more. I mean, I coughed up the money thinking that by now I'd be a dancing superstar on the Kinect. All that went wayward when I got pregnant. Not to blame or have bad feelings towards my baby, but she paused my progress a little... No no, I let myself go just because I was pregnant.
