Alright, made it through one week and started on the next.
Yesterday was my "rest" day on Sunday. I may have read "rest" as "go for a 37 mile bike ride. Got a call from a friend to go out for a Sunday ride; couldn't pass up the nice weather, and recalling from my riding days, an easy spin on the pedals can do some good for stiff/sore muscles, which it did.
Here's the ride, mapped on Endomondo using an app on my phone:
After the ride, in the evening, I did the Stretch X routine and found it quite relaxing and a nice way to unwind in the evening. Some (well, most) of the stretches are beyond my capability right now (I just wave at my toes, instead of touching them) but I plan to keep working on it.
Onto today, which was starting last week's cycle over again. The cool thing? I'm already noticing some improvements. I'm still not pounding out pushups or hoisting myself over the chin up bar like I'm in micro gravity, but I lasted longer into the workout putting up higher numbers than I did last week. It's enough to keep me motivated knowing I'm going to get some kind of improvement out of this. On the Ab front, I actually kept up through the "crunchy frogs" exercise. Had to pause it there and go at my own pace on that one, and the remainder of the exercises were a hot mess with me in a sweaty heap on the mat just trying to work on the component parts of the moves.
Clothes are feeling a little looser, scale is going down a bit, but I'm not worrying about that hard-data type of stuff until the 30 day mark. 22 more days to go on that, lots of time, lots of time. I'll do quick checks here and there, but it's more a curiosity thing rather than a motivator or corrective type of inspection at this point.
Looking at a double day tomorrow - with Plyo early in the morning before work, and a roller hockey game after work, weather permitting.
Continuing on!
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