Getting better, sorta

Today was a decently rough day. I think it was partly because I had two days off from working out and my mentality today was, "I don't wanna!!!" I had a good salad for lunch and then I went to water aerobics and that was a pretty good workout there. I'm able to tread water pretty well now :) And riding my bike back home I noticed our front lawn was mowed but the grass is all piled up. So I grab my rake and put all that in the trash. With all that added up it was just a good workout. But I promised myself I'd do this so as soon as I got inside I started strippin and getting my workout clothes on.

Today was Pure Cardio. x_x

I was feeling pretty good through the warm up. I was doing more and trying to regulate my breathing. I felt really good after our first stretch. Letting the heart rate sink back down to a comfortable rhythm not the bu bum bu bum bu bum bu bum!! of before. And then Shaun T is like, "Is anybody else worried about this coming exercise?" First time I head that I was like, "Well now I am!" And yea it gets ridiculous. We did 5 or 6 different exercises and we did them in 3 sets. The first set: I'm like I got this. Second: Alright this is getting tough. Third set: (breathing heavily) Alright ok I'm ok.

30 second break

And then we get right back into it. Tell you what though I am getting pretty good at controlling my heart rate in those 30 seconds. Breath deep. And breath it back out.

But the work out after that. That was what was killing me today. I just couldn't do some of the jump up-crouch-jump back (plank)-jump up to crouch-jump up and do that again. I was just like, "Ahhhh!" I'm not perfect and I'm not doing as many as these people, but I still feel like I'm getting a good workout. I just don't want to push myself too far. I know this is Insanity but when I started breathing really quickly I thought I was gonna hyperventilate. So I took a break.

I did, however, make a slight break through. There's this move called the Heiseman. And you have to square your feet a lit more than shoulder length and go from one foot to the other. But the thing with this is that you have to incorporate a lil step in the middle before you pull your leg up. It's tricky. And I've been struggling with it for the past few videos. I just didn't feel like I was coordinated. It didn't feel right. But now I've got it and I think from here on I can do that move better. So this is good. I'm making progress. If I can figure that move out and get a good rhythm then I can do that for other exercises.... like the super cardio ones that Shaun T has for us.....

Alright time to eat up the rest of my salad and get my ass over to the library. I've got a fun-filled night of reading articles, books, and working on a paper.

Gotta love summer school.