Alrighty, folks. Day two! It’s cardio or die time! The beginning of this video is yoga. I love yoga, don’t get me wrong, but I am having a hard time with this. They go a little too fast, and I’m a little uncoordinated. So, I’m going to try and figure out some modifications or substitutions to make this a bit easier, because they wouldn’t put it in the video if it weren’t important right? I’m sure with time and progression I’ll get better at the moves and my strength will improve to make it easier but I’ll have to work my way into that gradually. I mean, I’m outta shape here, so I didn’t expect it to be EASY!
I think it’s the transition from downward dog to plank to upward dog that that has me struggling the most. It’s basically asking me to do a push up.I can’t. Well, not tin this capacity. Plank alone is hard for me. It’s like rolling my body from a position where I’m sticking my ass up in the air, to have it hovering just above the ground. I’m not very limber right now so downward dog is actually limited. I can get into the position, but it’s not exactly right because exactly right isn’t so stable. Kind of a hard thing to explain but if you were to try it you might understand. Then try it with about 100lbs of extra belly and 30 lbs of extra leg an arm too. For any skinny people reading this I’ll give you an example. Imagine opening and closing a hardcover book. It’s easy right? Opening it, then closing it, when it’s closed its flush the pages it’s supposed to be protecting. Now, between the cover and the first page, put 2 or 3 marshmallows THEN try closing it. See the problem? Too much junk in the way to close the book it just kind of closes, but it’s still partially opened. That’s what it’s like trying to do downward dog for me. I’m essentially putting my body in an inverted V shape but with marshmallows in the middle.
Anyways, now you get the picture.
I’ve been trying to do better about my eating also. I made some Cornish game hens and veggies for dinner last night, I tried to use as little oil as possible. Steaming and baking instead of frying, using fresh herbs and cutting on salt and things. I know that my eating habits are better when I just put in the time to cook. The problem was when I got home from work after working for 10 hours I was too drained to cook. Sometimes I would make myself do it, but I’d end up eating so late then going right to sleep because I had to be up so early. Work was over throwing the balance of my whole schedule. When I went to the gym, I would have even LESS time. My old schedule, 6 am wake up for work, 6:30am BE at work, get off at 5:30pm-ish, then gym for an hour or 2, get home by 7:30pm, make dinner, eat at 8:30pm, in bed by 9:30 pm to do it all over again.
Not an easy lifestyle to live. I am happy I’m not doing that job anymore and I have time to focus on ME for change. It’s not easy. I got so used to laying around, being lazy, and just sitting like a piece of furniture. I don’t want to spend my life just getting by, I want to LIVE it. Problem is, when I’ve got no one to help me make things easier or to take some of the burden away things get sorta cramped together. I have to shoulder the responsibility of it all and that makes things kind of difficult, then depressing, and then I just stop caring. So from now on, I’m going to just stop being depressed. I’m going to stop being lazy, and I’m going to take all this responsibility and rearrange it into a manageable form. It’s going to take time and effort but as long as I’m willing to work, I’ll get through it.
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