All through the past year, I had vowed that when I got back into my own place, I’d start working out again, because I’d have my weights again. And I decided that I was going to have to follow through on that. I also decided that I’d include my progress in pressing on… because it would help me to have a physical record and it’d keep me accountable. Today, I took the first step.<\/p>\n
\nI had decided a while back that I was going to follow some of the aspects of the Body-for-life program that I had followed a couple of years ago. It’s a very good program, but there were parts of it that I didn’t feel that I would need or that would be feasible for me to try to do, like eating six small meals a day.<\/p>\n
However, the upper-body workout was something that I was intent upon keeping. It’s a good workout; it only takes 45-50 minutes, and you only do it three times every two weeks. I figured that was something that I could keep up with. I knew that I was going to start riding my bike around town and the campus, so that’d take care of the aerobic and lower-body workouts. My legs don’t need to be any bigger than they are. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So this morning I had my first workout. It took some effort to roll out of bed and do it. The last time that I had started a workout, I had no idea of what I could do, and ended up overestimating my strength by a long shot. I figured that this time I’d have a closer idea of where I needed to start.<\/p>\n
I was pretty close. I pushed myself to the limit on a bunch of the exercises. My workout was a challenging one, but not impossible. Look at Day 1’s results<\/a>. It’s not very pretty, but it’s there for right now, and that’s fine. I’ll spruce it up later.<\/p>\n