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: