30 Day Shred

So after a wonderful week at the cabin of eating everything in sight and only walking to the dock and back and then a marvelous doctors appointment the Monday right after we got back... I decided it was time to change something. Enter the 30 day shred by Jillian Michaels. I have actually had this work out DVD for probably 8 months and have never tried it out because at my old house the DVD player did not like Jillian so it refused to play her. So on Aug 16 Andrea and I decided to begin to torture ourselves for 30 days.


Day 1: I am writing this in red because well Day 1 absolutely SUCKED and red is the color I associate with something sucking!!! The workout has three different levels with level 1 being the easiest. The workouts are only 20 minutes long and have 3 sections with 3 intervals: 3 minutes of strength, 2 minutes of cardio, and 1 minute of abs. It sounds like it should be easy to get through by switching it up every couple of minutes. It's not. You begin by doing push-ups. I can't do push ups and I never have been able to! I could barely manage to do the girl push ups with your knees on the ground, but I tried and did as many as I could even though it was burning. Also I have really bad knees that hurt when I do anything so they were very sore after many static lunges, jumping rope, butt kicks, and squats. I was already sore the minute the work out finished. Lets just say the next morning it was really hard to pee because sitting on the toilet is difficult when your legs are sore. I've always noticed this, every summer when I would start the weight lifting program at school I could never pee easily after the  first and second days because I couldn't get on the toilet! But I definitely felt sore in other parts of my body as well but it was a good sore because I knew I had gotten something accomplished. I had to take a couple of breaks but they were very short and it was mainly because I couldn't lift my weights any higher or my feet hurt.


Day 2: Day 2 is purple because I like purple and the workout seemed a little easier today!! I don't know how since I was sore all day but after warming my muscles up I could no longer feel the soreness just the pain from the workout I was currently doing. I felt like I could do some more girl push ups but those are still the hardest part of the workout. I used 5 lb weights this time instead of my Zumba shake weights which Andrea used. I'm not 100% positive if I can lift my arms... hopefully I can tomorrow! I really do like this workout though, I feel like I'm actually getting something done in 20 minutes. Again took a couple short breaks but less then yesterdays which is a good sign!


I'm going to try really hard to update this blog with how the work outs are going on a daily or every other day basis.


Alex


PS HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLIN!!!! BIG OLE 22!! YOU OLD MAN :)