Day 3

Not much to report on today, except that I hurt...a lot. My thighs are week and so very sore. Feels good and miserable all at the same time. Sure glad I have a couple days break before the leg and hip torture is scheduled again. However, I'm looking forward to the day when the pain is gone and I can do so much more.

Today's weight taken at 10pm is 272. Yikes! Yesterday's was better.

See you tomorrow.

Day 2

Yesterday was Day 1 and I started this challenge by working on my abs and learning that I can do 8 pushups with out stopping. That's actually better than I thought I'd do.

This morning I was up at 6:30am to start my day with a leg and hip workout and then ride my bike. The leg and hip work out looks like this

• 25 squats
• 10 single leg dead lifts (each leg)
• 10 single leg kickbacks (each leg)
• 25 plie squats
• 1 minute of high knees
• 20 calf raises
• 10 side lunges (each leg)
• 10 walking lunges (each leg)
• 1 minute of butt kickers

The idea is to repeat this three times....yeah, that wasn't going to happen today. But I knew that and my plan is to work up to that. Today I almost got through it once. By the time I got tot he walking lunges my legs were shaky and it was hard to keep my balance. The butt kickers...well I couldn't even do those, I could barely jog in place. Then when I went to walk down the stairs to ride my stationary bike, I was so shaky I thought I'd fall down the stairs. I only rode my bike for 10 minutes today because I had to put my bike back together after I had taken the tires off to fill them with air. Ideally I'd like to ride it for at least 20 minutes.

All in all, it was a good morning. I stepped on the scale after my work out, it read 269lbs. This weeks measurements are as follows
Calf 17"
Thigh 28.5"
Hips 54"
Waist 50"
Bust 51"
Arms 14"

100 day challenge

So I came across this site today giveit100.com and it got me thinking. The idea is to do something, anything for 100 days. Maybe you want to learn to juggle, maybe you want to learn to dance, maybe you want to start exercising, whatever it is you do it everyday for 100 days and make a video of you doing it each day. Well I am not interested in making a video, but I am in for documenting it here every day for 100 days, starting today.
This is what I am going to do:

•  Six days a week I will do strength training of some kind
•  Five days a week I will do cardio for at least 20min
•  I will eat smarter, no snacking after supper.
•  Sunday is my rest/cheat day. By "cheat day" I simply mean that is the day I can enjoy a treat that is off limits the rest of the week.

So to start, for the month of January I will be doing the following;

•  Pushups every day, My max right now is 8 with out stopping. I will add 2 every three days.
• Monday, Wednesday, Friday I will do strength training on my hips and legs
• Monday, Wednesday, Friday I will ride my stationary bike for at least 20min
• Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday I will so strength training on my abs
• Tuesday, Thursday I will work out to a exercise DVD for at least 20min
• Everyday I will make a blog post
• I will weigh in everyday and take measurement once a week all of which will be added to my blog post.

When February comes around I will change things up a bit.

So there it is, that is the plan. One hundred days will take me to April 18th, the beginning of Easter Break.

Wish me luck! I'll see you again tomorrow.