Day 4: Keep workin it!

I got to do my workout earlier than normal. My son traded in his cartoons to watch his mom workout.

Today, I was feelin it a bit in my calves. Once I started working out it went away. I hate them jumping jacks. I never liked jumping around, it hurts my big ol ta ta's. This workout is still kicking my butt, there are still times when I want to fall to the ground from either exhaustion or exhaustion, but I've never worked harder an meant it so much. I've even joined Sparkspeople.com. It's such an awesome website. It tells you how much of what your body needs and needs to burn to reach your goal and by what date. It'll even keep track of how much more protein, calories, fat, carbs, etc., that your specific body is supposed to have for the rest of the day for your requirements.

So, 6 more days of this Level 1 and I'm scared about Level 2. The static lunges are feeling not so hard, man do they burn! I can't wait for results.

Day #3: When will it get easier??

So, today I worked out much later than I like. I prefer to be dressed and ready for my day by now.

I feel exhausted and pooped!! But my mind feels awake and energized.
Everyday is a butt-kicker. Wait, I'm only on day 3?

I was able to do butt-kicks no problem and by the last round of Jump-roping, I was jumping higher than normal. I can't wait to do bicycle crunches without an issue like I used to when I was doing pilates.

The side lunges are still tough. I can definitely feel my arms getting worked on when I do the arm raises with the movement. My arms are too tired to keep typing, but I am going to stick to this. I admit that I just did not want to do this today. The speech therapist came over and I had to remind myself that I'm not going to start this hard work and take a break. I have been literally beating my own ass for 3 days now, completely out-of-shape, but I've been working so hard. I am not going to throw it away for a break. I'm 28 years old. The last time I was in shape was when I was 21, before I had my first kid. I want to be in my 20's and feel like it instead of like a fat old hag. This really means something to me.

Day 2 Shreddin it up!

I need to point out that I actually started the Shred yesterday, April 27th, 2009. I entered the post late on my side of the country, but the system entered it as today, April 28th.

Moving on. I woke up soooo sore in my upper body and tush. It makes me wish I'd never stopped working out just to avoid the severity of soreness. There's good news though.

As sore as I was, it didn't last. Once I started working out, it started to feel like a nice stretch. I couldn't tell that I'd ever been sore to begin with. The Butt Kicks felt alot easier today than yesterday. I still don't like them though. I've always preferred strength training over cardio. I hate cardio. I think I have a hard time with Butt Kicks cause of my thighs, that should change soon enough. The side lunges with the dumbbell raise kinda sucks. I had to use soup cans until my arms can build up the strength. That or maybe I'll go out and buy some lighter dumbbells. I have 5 lb. weights.

After my workout, I didn't feel as sluggish and exhausted as yesterday. I generally began tired because I was kept up by the wind blowing everything around last night. That and my 5 month old wanted to eat a few times.

I began this blog to use as a motivation and inspiration tool. I need so accountability and why not it be to people who are going to read this. I also began it because when I was browsing the web, I saw that people who were blogging weren't doing the program as instructed but took more days off so that it should've been called the 3 week challenge. It did get irritating to follow their blog and see that their results were that of the same workouts but not the correct instructions. Somwe took time off just cause they weren't motivated enough to do it right, they just didn't want to some days. So here I am, pushing myself through this and I'm going to do it right!!

Day 1: Shredder this cheddar

Well, I've been staring at this workout for almost a week now and finally popped it in. I weighed in at 184 pounds this morning. I must say I was not very happy with my scale.

Starting seemed not too bad, then all the sudden I was having trouble keeping up. Thank God for the seemingly cool down moments (less intense) it helped me catch my breath again.

Though I had trouble with the static lunges, even with the girl doing the modified version, I pushed and pushed. Jillian's point is to get us out of our comfort zone right? And honestly, I was picturing the contestants from Biggest Loser pushing themselves, much bigger than I and still doing it. If it's this hard for me, they must be dying. Tonight, I'm definitely feeling the soreness creeping up. Right after the workout ended, I was dead-tired. I mean: Exhausted!