Day 4, Level One

We didn't get home until about 10:45pm yesterday night.  While I know that a solid sleeping pattern is essential to health (especially when you're trying to get into shape) I did not want to let the fact that it is late stop me from doing my workout, so I threw on my workout clothes, rolled out the yoga mat, and started up the video.

Again, circuit one was a pain and a struggle to get through.  My greatest weakness: the push-ups.  It hurts my arms so badly when I do multiples that it makes the other exercises hard to do.  I did have to rest several times, but I made it through. I think I am going to practice push ups outside of my work out times to build up my endurance for those.

The rest of the workout was good for the most part.  Again, the weights are a little heavy for me to be doing both arms simultaneously for some of the exercises, but I've modified the ones that I am having trouble with to one arm at a time, with bursts of me pushing myself and doing both arms for as long as possible.

Instead of doing Jillian's cooldown, I did my own.  I skipped the Wii fit portion of my daily workout routine because by the time I was all done with this, it was just after midnight.  I'm going to make up for it tonight by finding ways to sneak in some extra exercise.

I am feeling pretty damn good today.. not sore at all, really.  I also broke my own rule and measured myself today before the week was up.. I'm rather pleased with the results.

I started with this:

B: 118
W: 102
H: 126

I now have these measurements:

B: 111.5cm
W: 101cm
H: 122cm

That is a total loss of 10.5cm, which is the equivalent of just over 4 inches. Holy. Fuck.