Day 35 (day 7 / week 5)

I had an exercise invite for 5am this morning, but I totally flaked lol. I didn't get a good night's sleep, so I wanted to sleep. I exercised this afternoon after I put dinner in the crockpot and put Logan down for his nap.

For some reason my perception of "Burn It Up!" has changed in the last 2 days. I used to dread doing it in the back of my head. Doing the lunges yesterday felt good (mentally), and I did it again today. My knees popped more today than yesterday but I just tried to ignore it. Pushing through them for some reason has changed my perception of this video. I realized today that when I push through something that I don't want to do, I find myself in this zone that I used to find myself in when I was a gym rat.

I don't think I mentioned it, but yesterday I decided that I would count and do the leg kicks that I don't like, on my own, while the video is on (so I do the section in the same amount of time) and just rotate legs, instead of doing them both at the same time. Usually we do 4 variations of kicks on the right leg, then do push ups, then do the left leg, and more push ups. I think we do between 15-20 push ups each time. I can't remember exactly how many because it's different each time (like 15 and then 22). I decided to do the 1st variation with the right leg then the left leg, then 10 push ups, then the 2nd variation on the right leg then the left and 10 push ups and so on. I do 30 kicks for each variation (for a total of 120 on each leg), which I think is a little more than the video, and I do 4 sets of 10 push ups, which is also a little more than the video combined.

It's funny how if I control it on my own, I can do more than the video, but if I do it with the video, I can't do it--it has to be psychological (see I told you everything is psychological to me!) especially the push ups.

Anyway I also decided that the yoga portion annoys me lol. It's like for 55 minutes we are, go! go! go! fast, push it! and working like maniacs to just slow super down for the yoga. I am still all worked up, and can't cool down that quickly unless I stretch. So, that's what I decided to do. It feels better and I just leave the video on while I do it (playing the yoga portion in the background), and just do the Slim & Limber stretches. I have done the video so much that I have it memorized lol.

I also decided today, since tomorrow starts week 6, and I am doing "Slim in 6" that I would continue phase 3 through week 7, until week 8. I am pretty sure I didn't start this series until I was a week into January anyway, so I am just balancing it out I guess.

I guess that's it!

Hope you have a good workout and a great day!

I can do this. I am a star.