New Plan

Okay, after a good break, I'm feeling up to starting my exercises again. My knee hasn't been giving me problems anymore. So, my new plan is to go slower. I'm going to start a 60 day program. It goes in levels just like Jillian did, but this one starts out even slower. I'm hoping that this will get me ready for the 30 day shred. I might even restart my 5k training plan while I'm doing this so that I am working out a little more. We'll see. I'm just really surprised that my knee started going crazy. I've never had any problems with my knees, even when I was doing my 5k training and after I ran my 5k. The first time I tried 5k training I got shin splints, but I did a different 5k training and I was fine. Here's to hoping that my knees hold up on me long enough for me to loose some weight!

Daytime Post

I exercised last night. I have to say that I'm pretty happy that I don't need to take that many break anymore. I still can't get through the whole set of pushups and jumprope. The jumprope causes the backs of my legs to get really tights and I have to stop before I get a charlie horse. Although, the third and final cardio of the night I was able to get through all four cardio exercises, no breaks, even including jumprope! I weighed myself and found that I had gained some weight. I did weigh myself after our weekly ritual of getting ice cream which was stupid. Oh well, next time I go to publix, I will weigh myself again but I just have to be more careful about when I'm eating. I need to go back to drinking water most of the day, and absolutely no soda but diet. That was something I was becoming relaxed with because my mom doesn't always have diet. If I'm over there and want a soda, I usually reach for a regular. I also measured myself, and I think my waist and hips both went up an inch! My arms stayed the same, and my thighs went down a half an inch. I guess I was disappointed, but after the first ten days are up, I'll redo my weight and measurements. I thought that I would do it every week, but it might just be better to do it every ten days. It kills me to wait though! I did retake my pictures, and I didn't see any change, but again it's early. I think that my back has more definition but I have a lot of back fat so, it's not pretty!

Day 5

I didn't give up, I promise!!!! I did exercise through day 3. I had a really hard time of it though. I was in a lot of pain and didn't have a lot of movement, and my form was way off. Obviously, that led to more pain that I hadn't had before, and not very good pain! My knee was killing me. I've never had knee problems, so I did take off on Day 4. I felt really guilty about it too, but I ended up sitting in a hot bath to help with the pain in my knee. I'm so glad I did that because I felt so much better today. Today, my legs weren't hurting, my knee still felt a little off and was popping a lot but I did exercise. I paid really close attention to my form and tried to match the form of the girls as closely as possible. If I felt any strain on my knee, I immediately stopped and retried using better form. I've come to realize that the majority of my form problems come from not sticking my butt out. I'm so bad about putting a lot of pressure on my knees during squats, and I found that I had close to none once I through my butt out there. I think I was getting away with it for the first couple of days because I was using my thighs which is probably why they were trying to kill me. When I couldn't use my thighs on Day 3 my knees were automatically the next in line to take the most amount of strain. In other ways, I found that it was easier to keep with it. The only exercise that I'm not really seeing an improvement on is push ups. I don't have a lot of upper body strength and I have a lot of upper body lol. It'll come in time I suppose. Now for my motivational picture of the day: