Day 1

Sunday night was the first night of my workouts with my Dad. That night, we worked on Chest, Back and Abs. WOW! That was some workout! In the workout, the demonstrators were using a pull up bar but we didn’t have one so we used resistant bands that hang over the back of a door. My Dad and I took turns using the bands until we reached our goal for that exercise. They also had you doing no less than 100 pushups on this thing but for someone who struggles to do 5, that just wasn’t happening! So I just did some extra "band" work to make up for my lack of strength. After the hour long work out on the back and chest, they then began the most intense, extreme workout on the abs that I have ever seen in my life! I have done some sort of P90X workout in the past and I had worked my abs in one of the DVDs that I watched but that was not the same workout that was playing on the TV on Sunday!! I did what I could but when they did some that I wasn’t able to complete, I just did my own crunches and kind of did my own thing.

After I completed my workout, I sat down, ate a nice large Chicken Caesar Salad and devoured a bottle of water. Normally, my go-to Sunday night dinner would be the McDonalds drive-thru and I would drink a large soda to go with it. But when I decided to start this journey, I told myself that I would go all in. Exercise and Diet.

After I finished my dinner, I turned to close the window so I could go to bed and when I lifted my arms, they felt like butter!! I was amazed at how weak I felt and how little I could use my arms!! The next morning when I woke up, I was feeling pretty good. A little weak but I wasn't sore or stiff or even weak. I felt normal... if there is such a thing as normal. As the day went on though, all of that changed. My arms got very sore, stiff and I was totally weak. My arms were so sore that I could barely life my niece and nephew!! However, it was a nice feeling to know that I had worked out and my body was responding to my efforts. 

One day at a time...