Let me just start off by saying that I am faaaar from perfect. That isn’t just a preface for Day #3, but a general statement as you’ll realize. 🙂
Day #3 was a wash. I was under the weather, as in feeling the onset of a cold and too lethargic to move more than 300 feet (the distance required to move from bed to couch to refrigerator in that order and back). For a nanosecond I thought of turning on Insanity and doing some moves via the couch, but then my mind got in touch with my body and came back with a “heck no!” My mouth however seemed to operate perfectly fine, as it consumed every possible chocolate food item in sight. I think that was a symptom of the cold tbh.
Day #4 guilt set in and my preliminary-cold subsided (my non-Doctor opinion believes it had something to do with the chocolate). After 2 hours of contemplation and web-surfing, I realized I had run out of excuses. Even worse, the fear of summer and that whole “moment on the lips, forever on the hips” idea edged its way involuntarily into my mind because it applied about 20x just yesterday alone.
Once I decided that I HAD to turn on Insanity, I momentarily struggled with whether to turn on the video for Day #3 or #4 . According to Insanity’s workout calendar, there’s only one rest day allotted at the end of the week, after 6 days of working out. Skip one and you’re doomed to miss out on a lesson or be thrown off the calendar. I opted to miss a lesson and turned on Video #4 so that my rest days stayed the same (i.e., Saturdays). Hilarious because Day #4 is the Cardio Recovery—I wasn’t recovering from Cardio the previous day though, but rather laziness. I put in as much effort as I could, but I was nowhere near keeping up with Shaun T. Like not even close.
Source:Â http://memekid.com/shaun-t-memes.htm
Still I felt a burn, so yay!
Day #5 I woke up with sore thighs. No pain, no gain…right? I then decided to eat banana pancakes first thing in the morning. Semi-healthy because they only consist of bananas, eggs, and oats, but then I added syrup. Pancakes aren’t pancakes without syrup! Recipe is similar to this:Â http://eugeniekitchen.com/banana-pancakes/Â but I didn’t have any baking powder on hand, so I subbed in oats.
Anyway, the video for Day #5 is Pure Cardio. For every 30 seconds of exercise I probably did about 10 seconds…sorta. Aside from banana pancakes threatening to come back up and taking water breaks frequently, there were also some moves that were a no-go. For example, there are a couple of push-up related moves. Those were practically impossible for me to follow, since I can do about 2 push-ups without crying and falling on my chest. I just did a push-up or two during those times to build arm strength. There were also several jump in the air, jump down, and then push your legs out (similar to plank position) where I was going at a quarter of the pace. I still consider it a win because my thighs continued to burn throughout the day and my non-existent abs felt something tightening!
As for the mini goal: Things are going as planned! I finished lesson 5 today and I can introduce ma mère, mon père, mon frère, et ma soeur (spelling courtesy of google translate). Will I remember half of what I learned today tomorrow? Eh, no. But great thing about Coffee Break’s podcast is that they seem to reintroduce previous lessons into the new lessons. 🙂
Until next time, bonne nuit!Â
I judged myself for a brief second, before I realized that I could only change one habit at a time.
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