A good stomach ache?

In spite of my vow recently to work out 6 days a week, when this week is over, I’ll have exercised 5 days. Same last week and the week before. I’m starting to think that maybe 5 days is okay. I haven’t felt burned out at all, and I actually look forward to exercising.

I’ve been spending a lot of time at Curves. I usually go on my way home from work, and I usually do 45 minutes to an hour there (vs. the “normal” 30 minute circuit). The thing I really like is that I can stay additional time on any one machine as long as I don’t interfere with the routine of someone else. That’s usually not too difficult as because there are rarely more than 4 or 5 other ladies working out; sometimes I’m the only one. So I’ve been doing extra upper body work…there are about 6 upper body machines, and I usually will do extra time on each one. I've heard some people complain that Curves is monotonous, and I can understand that if you do the same thing every time; but I don’t.

Yesterday, I took B to the park and I wogged (walked/jogged) around for about 30 minutes. After I got home, I felt like I still needed to do something else. It occurred to me that doing one of the “on demand” exercise shows on TV might be interesting. I’ve never tried any of them, so what the heck, it will be fun, right?

Ha ha...

I picked out a 12 minute program called “6 pack abs.” I’m in pretty good shape, so this should be a piece of cake, right?

Ha ha ha...

To be truthful, it wasn’t too bad WHILE I was doing it.

This morning I could barely get out of bed.

I don’t know the technical name for all the muscles in the midsection…suffice it to say that each and every one felt like it was on fire.

So…what better way to loosen up those sore muscles than to do the same routine again? And what the heck...let’s add on12 minutes of “buns and thighs."

BIG MISTAKE...

I’m so sore right now, it’s an effort to breathe much less get up off the couch. Just goes to show you, if you don’t target certain muscle groups, they don’t get exercised. I’m hoping if I do this another couple of days in a row, it won’t hurt so much by next weekend.

In the meantime, please don’t ask me to get up off the couch...unless you want to see a grown woman cry.

~Graciela

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