Day 2

I forgot to bring my workout clothes, so right after work I had to hit Target for some new duds.  I needed to anyway;  yesterday at the track, since I'd just managed to loose 40 pounds, I probably looked like a clipper ship under full sail!  Short, shorts and flab billowing in the wind!  So, today I got clothes that actually fit. That should fix the shirt and shorts billowing problem, but I still have that flab that needs to come off.

I pulled the email that Jon created for me and once I was fully decked out in my new workout duds (and cool new shoes) I started right in.  First I had to stretch.  Oh boy, the soreness from yesterday had really started to set in.  It was very difficult for me to touch those ol' toes!

I managed to get through all of my stretches and then it was off to the workout.  Here is what Jon prescribed for me:

5 minute warm up run

Do the following in a circuit 3x:

12 walking lunges (6 on each leg)
10 squat jumps
10 long jumps

5 minute cool down run and then stretch for 20 minutes.

Here are the results.

I managed to set the iPhone timer for 5 minutes and then I took off down the road.  After running for what I thought was a couple minutes, I looked at the iPhone... damn!  I didn't get the timer started right. So, I told myself that I'd just keep going for 5 more minutes.  Although pretty sore, I made it and started to loosen up.

To my surprise, the walking lunges are tough!  I mean the first couple are okay, but the next 10 were very hard and my legs felt rubbery.  I'll be damned if I wasn't going to finish them and I did!

Then it was onto the squat jumps.  I remember these from when we did them in high school.  I remember them being pretty easy then... not now!  I did all ten, but I felt every ounce of extra weight shiver through my body with each jump.  By the time I got to 10, I don't think I could have done another.  I felt like a ripe green olive drowned at the bottom of a martini.  

The final exercise in this circuit was the long jumps.  The first couple were easy and fun, but by the 10th I don't think I could clear an earth worm.

I did it!  I made it through the first whole circuit!  I remember my brother telling me that I could rest like 30 seconds before I started the next circuit so I barely caught my breath and it was off again.  This time I made it through the lunges and squat jumps, but could only eek out 3 long jumps and by then I felt that I was going to injure myself for sure if I tried the 3rd circuit.  So I decided I'd do the cool down run and then stretch well.

Considering this was Day 2 and I'm still alive to write about it, I think it was very successful.  Tomorrow its back to the track.