Not all plans go as planed. Let me tell you why my week was ESPECIALLY challenging:Last week I needed to get my 4th exercise session in on Sunday. I had thought about going out to the garage to where the Total Gym is, but it was super cold in the garage, and actually kind of too crowded to exercise with all the Christmas decoration boxes out. So I decided to ask Justin to put me through the core exercises that he's been doing in drama since school started on Aug 18th. Justin has lost over 25 pounds since then and he is all muscle now. He works out on his own and will set up exercise sessions with fellow cast members on the weekends. I'm very proud of him! So I thought he would be able to put me through the warm up exercises for my 4th day. Here's what he made me do:
- Push-ups: sets of 15, then 10, then 5 - I could only manage girly ones, but they still were hard to do!
- Leg lifts-2 sets of 10 - without the feet touching the ground between reps
- Back to Back squats (Justin and linked arms with our backs touching and did the squats together) - 2 sets of 10
- Front to Front squats (this time we faced each other and locked wrists and did them together) - 2 sets of 10
- Lunges - by this time my legs were shaking and I could only manage 10
- Crunches laying on his bed with my feet on the floor - I think I did 40 or 50
- Some other weird cruch where I layed on the floor, bent my knees, lifted my feet in the air, put my hands in front of my like I'm praying and did the crunches from one knee to the other with out putting my feet or head down. I'm not sure if I did more than 20, by this time I was getting delirious and told him I was done for the night.
I was proud that I was able to do most of the work out and now I have floor exercises I can concentrate on for the days I can't make it to Curves. BTW - as I left the living room Justin told his dad "she won't be able to walk tomorrow', then the little shit snickered! The punk!
MONDAY MORNING - I was out to prove Justin wrong. I got up. Walked almost normally. My thigh muscles were pretty tight and a bit painful, but I was ok. I had to put my goodie bags together and take them to work to distribute and then go to Reva's to take her on some errands. So I went about my business and noticed that my thighs were hurting a bit but was ok. Then when I got to Reva's around noon I went to use the toilet. As I began to assume the position, my legs almost gave out and I almost fell back against the tank. But I was still OK. So OK that I figured I should go to Curves as planned to keep the muscles loose. So I get to Curves that evening, and I was hurting and could only do about half the reps that I normally do and was feeling very old. I took an extremetly hot bath that night!
TUESDAY MORNING: Justin was wrong. I could walk on Monday. Tuesday not so much! I felt extreme agony in my thighs whenever I went to sit down, especially on the toilet. Never noticed how low the seat was before this week! Going down the two stairs into the garage was agony. I was hurting and calling myself a total idiot! So Tuesday I pretty much did nothing but get some things done for Christmas. No exercise was performed on this day.
WEDNESDAY: Christmas Eve - My legs were a little better, but I really didn't do anything but get everything together to go up to GV. My legs were still sore, but on the mend. But by this time my pecs and abs were feeling the pain too!
THURSDAY:Merry Christams - no exercise, feeling much better, Yay!
FRIDAY: We went to the Bay Area, but I still managed to get in some exercise. After we got home I did a modified version of the floor exercises that I'd done with Justin. I even used Jordan's dumbells and did some arm curls and other exercises. I tried to do just 5 back to back squats, but Justin went so low on the second one my hips locked up and I thought my thigh bones were going to literally pop out of the joint. So I just used the back of a chair to do 10 squats. I also did crunches and push ups. When I went to do the leg lifts I learned just which ab muscles are being worked! I made a couple false starts in which I could only do 2 at a time. But I perservered and was able to do 10 with out putting my feet down. When I later tried to do another set, I did something bad and now have a pulled left abdominal muscle. Everytime I sneeze, and I never sneeze less than 5 times in a row anymore, I have sharp pain in my left ab. I swear, it sucks to be this out of shape! So on Friday I got my second day of exercises in.
SATURDAY: Curves was open again, so I actually did the work out and was actually able to do almost all the normal number of reps that usually do, but I was definitely tired and sore afterwards! Third day of exercises complete!
SUNDAY: Curves is closed on Sundays, which is what started my whole ordeal...so tonight I plan on doing my version of Justin's floor exercises again. The left ab still hurts, so I may have to skip the leg lifts, but I'll do something else. Or I might use the Wii Fit the kids got for Christmas. I'll report back on if the Wii Fit is a good exercise tool, I hear that it is.Good luck to you all!
-Shannon
That was a great job in getting your workouts in. It's really challenging during the holidays and it's commendable you tried some alternatives to get the days in. Good job!
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