And so it begins…

I dragged myself out of bed at 6:00 this morning, even though all I wanted to do was press the snooze, curl up in my comfy bed and go back to sleep. On top of that, my puppy – I call her my puppy, but really in the doggy world she’s a senior citizen – decided to come up and snuggle with me.

This is my girl, Remi –>

How could you say no to that adorable face?

So, we had a couple minutes of snuggle time, but then I told myself, “No. Nothing’s going to change if I don’t change it,” and managed to pull myself out of bed.

I’ve decided that I’m going to get up early in the morning and do my workouts, as opposed to doing them in the afternoon/evening. I’ve found that this is also one of the reasons why I got stuck in my rut of procrastination. I would hold off on doing my workout until later in the day, but by that point I was either busy or too tired and never ended up doing it.

So, after taking Remi for a walk, I dug in. The start up benchmark says that it takes an average of 6 minutes to complete. I did it in just under 9 … I don’t think that’s too bad.

Overall, the exercises themselves were fairly easy to do. It was a combination of modified push ups, jumping jacks, squats, and lunges. It told me how many reps of each to do, ranging from 10-20. Then I just marked each one off as I completed it, and repeated the whole drill 3 times.

Even though it was pretty easy,  I gave it 100%, and my legs did start to feel like jello near the end (never mind the fact that I think my thighs already have a certain jello like quality). The push ups were the one spot I had some difficulty with, but I imagine this will improve with time.

One thing I have yet to figure out is how I’m supposed to eat around my workout. If I’m exercising first thing in the morning, do I eat breakfast before or after? And what kinds of things should I be eating? If anyone has any experience/knowledge about this, please share!

At least I have a few days to figure it out before Nike completely whoops my ass. Friday is my first “real” 30 minute workout. I’m very much not looking forward to that. But I made myself a promise, and I’m going to do everything in my power to stick to it.

See you Friday!