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 So in this round of The Elastic Waist Book Club, you may have noticed that we're taking on Jillian Michaels' kind of insane 30-day diet and fitness plan, Making the Cut. We've bought the book, we've taken the fitness tests, we've shopped for the groceries and most of us have been doing this for about 12 days now, more or less. As for me, you know that I am not particularly fit to begin with, the exercises are killing me but the food is good, and that I slacked (a lot) over the (long) weekend. Now I will tell you that I am sitting here coated in a sheen of sweat and pain, and I feel every muscle in my body twitching, and I really, really hate that Mountain Climber exercise and also running on the treadmill at an incline, which makes me feel like I am slogging along in a nightmare, racing in slow-motion away from certain death and towards an uncertain one. I ate a protein bar. I don't know if I can keep doing this. I can keep doing it, if you guys can. So tell me how you're doing. How are you feeling? What's kicking your ass, what kinds of names are you taking, what's your favorite exercise so far, how much do you want to go to Jillian Michaels's house and eat Twinkies on her lawn until she calls the cops? Check in! 4 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Well, I started later than most -- it is technically Day 6 for me, but it is actually Day 5, because I worked very very hard in Pilates last night and then was not up for another 45 minutes of work. So you are twice as far along as I am.
I hate the mountain climbers, and I hate Burpy a LOT. I would hate the sprints if I did them, but I don't have a treadmill and I am doing the other exercises barefoot on account of how hot and sweaty I get, and I am -not- sprinting up and down my street barefoot.
BUT. I suck a little less at pushups than I did on the first day. I forgot to drop my weights by half when I switched to the balance-ball chest exercise thingy the other night, and I finished anyway. And, and, and -- I am so excited -- in the bicep-curl exercise last night at Pilates, my instructor and I were both startled and pleased to see wee little visible bicep muscle bulges in my previously noodle-like arms, as I pulled the springs up. And that is all I need to keep going.
I've been reading in conjunction with exercise and some careful food choices, recently, and I'd like to share a book with you that might offer you some new insights. It’s called Harmonic Wealth and it’s all about finding harmony in your life in all areas - financial, relational, mental, physical, and spiritual. It has some really good tips about how to engage all five pillars (or areas) of your life, and to learn more about how they complement each other. Rather than dealing with each issue individually, maybe take a look at the bigger picture.
Here’s the link to that book I recommend: harmonicwealth.com/read
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I really hate the exercises that require balance. Like the one leg squats and the back kick lateral shoulder thingy. I have no balance whatsoever and I'm probably the worlds least flexible person so those exercises are really tough for me. I have to concentrate really hard to keep from toppling over.
I took a few days off last week and definitely cheated on the diet with some cupcakes and pizza, but this week I plan on refocusing again and keeping with the diet and exercise.
So far I'm down 2lbs....even with the diet slipups. So I'm hoping to keep up those results and I might eventually see some abs...maybe!
Oooooooooooookay, and then Little Miss Woohoo! gets to Day 9, where not having a gym membership and having congenitally crummy knees suddenly becomes a real problem. I have just realized that the day 9 routine consists of:
equipment-necessary exercise (ENE) / ENE / ENE/ knee-hurting exercise (KHE) / KHE / ENE / ENE / (fine) / ENE / ENE / KHE / ENE / (fine) / ENE / KHE / and finishes with three things I can do. So...okay! Five exercises and I'm good! Except that doesn't seem quite in the spirit of the thing.
So, I am off to look around the internet to figure out how to duplicate the effect of various lat pull-downs and cable rows without a machine. (Happily, figured out alternate hamstring exercises on Day 5, and the high-impact stuff I learned to tweak years ago.)