Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Day One - Arm Jelly Day
So day one. this is how it began. Sunday(not the actual day i started but the day before) 9:30 p.m. I had just finished celebrating my birthday. I get home and got to bed cause I have to wake up at 3:30am for work. I fall asleep fast. It lasts 2 hours....... My wife comes into the room and I am awake! Not just groggy awake, I am awake. She goes down stairs cause she is not feeling very well. I soon follow. She starts falling asleep watching a movie which because I am awake i was watching too. (like a kid acting like he is sleeping peeking with one eye open.) She turns it off at 2:00 30 min later i go back to bed hoping to get some sleep. It comes at 3:00..... it is then shattered by "pour some sugar on me." I know diet' exercise plan and I wake to a song about sugar. I get up get ready for work eat a banana. and I'm off. Fast fordward 12 hours. I have a 40 min drive each way and I work 10 hr. shifts on a printing press thus the 12 hours. get home change and that was the last pleasureable moment of my day. As soon as I put the first dvd in and start to read the warnings; the pit of my stomach starts telling me NO!!! But after only 2 1/2 hours sleep and years of feeling like crap about my self i press play. Chest and Back here we go. We start to wamr up. This isn't so bad I can do this. and the warm up continues... and continues... how long can this last ?... At this point I am stating to evaluate my choice to do this. Remind you this is only a warm up. Warm up over the real pain begins. Exercise after exercise my arms dont want to cooperate.Keep pushing keep pulling its all I can do. First water break the stop button looks like a glazed doughnut calling my name. Next set. "How many are you going to do." Tony says. I hear 20 25 20. I sheepishly squeek out. "5" yes 5! Thats what I thought i could muster but i did 7!!!(big accomplishment for me here!!!!tes 7 pushups about killed me.) Keep going I thought to myself ... Finially over I feel okay extremely happy that its over... but my arms feel like heavy noodles filled with jelly. Then I hear the music start again... How in the world could I forget about this. (DON DON DONNNNNNNNN....(scary ominious music) AB RIPPER X (echo echo echo)... I then think "i have abs i can do this... I hope." About 2 minutes in I realize abs are not a muscle in my body but a mass below my chest and above my legs that is going to be the end of me. While doing this I felt like a kid at fat camp with Tony Perkins and Lars standing over me telling me I'm fat. (Heavy Weights refrence) I didn't know my stomach could feel like that... it wasn't pleasant. After that my workout was over i felt like absolute crap but oddly happy about it. I can only imagine what the rest of this journey is going to bring. I can predict one thing...PAIN!!!
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AB RIPPER X is a killer!!! I remember the first time that I did it! But just think of it this way you can only get better from here!! ;)
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