I Like to Move It, Move It

Another light in the dark for me lately has been exercise.  I recently started P90X.  Now, just a quick background on me.  I am a relatively non-moving person.  I was exercising, or trying to, every day, but it was the same exercise, over and over and over.  Now, I have gone from that to P90X.  If you don’t know, the “X” part of that stands for extreme.  And they are NOT kidding!  Extreme indeed!  But after only 3 days, I found myself really enjoying and a little proud of the few things I actually could get through (as if that was some indication that I might have had some kind of muscle mass before I even started).  On day three, one exercise plan was called Ab Ripper X.  I found that I physically was not able to do these things.  It wasn’t because I wasn’t strong enough or I was too muscularly sore, but because I had actually sprained my ab muscle and didn’t realize it.  Really?  Life’s good way of knocking me down a peg and saying yeah, you aren’t that good.  So grudgingly I took yesterday off of the exercising.  I went shopping with the hubs and then came home and watched some TV while I was bitterly nibbling on cheese, wishing it were a big bowl of ice cream instead.  But tonight I will do my next sequence of exercises.  I might have to modify in order to avoid injuring myself further until this is healed, but I will do it nonetheless (I am excellent at pressing my luck, just ask my mother). 

So now I feel like the ab is healed and I pushed forward.  A couple days after that, Yoga X.  I learned the hard way that my body does NOT do what it used to be able to.  I learned that when I was coming out of a difficult move (a move that was NOT difficult when I was 10) and felt the (giant) muscle in my back go.  Oh that was pain.  I made it the rest of the way through the yoga gingerly however.  I did have the skip the next day’s workout, but not because of the injury, but because I was literally home for one hour so there was no way to get through one and have time to take a shower before the next activity.  So yesterday I moved on to Kenpo X.  THAT was a lot of fun!  I know I looked very sloppy and clumsy and not capable of landing a punch on anything, but it was still fun and I look forward to doing more!