Day 4 Power 90 Challenge

Today's workout was like all my workouts. I came home exhausted and dreading it. I thought about ways I could avoid it. In truth, had I not committed myself to doing the Power 90 challenge and announced it on Facebook through my blog, I would have skipped exercising today. Which would lead to not working out tomorrow. And probably not the next day. Etcetera. This has been my history.

But I did workout today. And as usually happens, about five minutes after I started, I began to enjoy myself, feeling my muscles working and my joints growing more limber. I could tell I was making progress. As I was doing pushups, I could tell that I was growing stronger. I could do 5 half-pushups before I needed a break instead of 3 (sadly, I'm not exaggerating) . I could do 4 sets instead of 3. I could go lower to the ground. And as always, as I was marvelling at my small improvements, I found myself wondering why I don't workout more often. And how sad it is that I can't even do a pushup.

Day 3 Power 90 Challenge

Today, motivation was relatively easy. I figured if I can drop off my barely three month-old, beautiful, perfect, angelic, cuter-than-all-heck baby to daycare (however great the care-takers) AND NOT CRY (until I picked her up anyway), then I can at least excercise for an hour. Even though my arms and abs were especially sore in places I never knew I had muscles, I worked hard and pushed myself, taking only a few very short water breaks. (Okay, one time I stopped to pee too.) It felt very rewarding to finish the workout, despite the fact that I cheated at the end and didn't do the last 1/2 minute of abs (anything called "full body crunch" deserves to be skipped - at least in the beginning). I know I worked hard because my elbows were sweating. And the best part was I didn't even cry afterward.

Experimentation in Blogging

What's a blog? Hmm...This should be interesting. Let's begin the experiment...