Day 5 (Body Weight as Resistance)

Today’s routine was relatively uneventful. It was mainly leg and arm exercises. I didn’t do the jumping jacks---I used my apparently useless walk of a little over 2 miles and a run that has depleted to under a quarter of a mile for that portion of the work out. I need to get a jumping jack proof bra or I’m going to hurt myself. I decided to only do 3 sets of 10 of the exercises instead of 15. By the second to last exercise I only did 2 sets and by the last I only did 1, but I got though all of Thursday’s exercises. The one ridiculous thing that my internet twit (thanks Melissa---she needed a nickname) had me do is bench raises (this is an exercise that has you stretch your legs out in front of you and use your triceps to lift yourself up to bench level). She said that the advantage to this is that you use your own body weight as resistance and you don’t need any equipment. When I couldn’t even do one of those with my legs outstretched it dawned on me that this crazy woman weighed ½ what I do and is ½ my age and is in her prime (which I haven’t been in for 20 years). What is resistance to her is a steel plated barrier to me. I bent my legs because my triceps were going to need a lot of help lifting my body weight. Resistance my foot!!!! I thought I’d better keep the profanity that I thought out of print. I made myself a ham and cheese half sandwich because I made the mistake of looking at the calories of this thing. The ham was only 30 calories per slice, but the cheese was 80. I didn’t check on the bread. I wasn’t going to do without my cheese, so I cut out one slice of bread (with unknown amount of calories) I know if I had used my head, I should have cut half the cheese out. Any ways---I didn’t immediately eat all of the calories that I had just burned. I say that’s a victory!!!!!