DAY ONE

Holy goodness. 5:30 comes VERY fast after the end of the Oscars... I could still see Hugh Jackman waving good night to me and yet I was dragging my exercise gear on... I took B1X's advice and I laid my clothes out the night before. I kind of felt like I was still young and in school and looking forward to the first day again...

The first workout: Chest and back.
Super hard. I'm not even joking. I think I probably did over 100 push ups in an hour. The funniest part was that I did them all in a modified stance from my knees and I had two red welts on my knees for the whole day! There are like 4 different kinds of push ups in this video. And when you're not doing that, you're doing something else crazy to your chest and back... It was the kind of workout that has you wondering who will brush your teeth for you the next morning when you can't raise your arms...?

They recommend that you have a chin-up bar to do all your pull-ups. However, I am still working that out, so I decided to follow their alternative route and put a resistance band around the top of a door. I wish I had a video camera on me. There I was, totally getting into it, when POP! The resistance band popped off the top of the door and snapped my stomach. A really large rubber band. My stomach. It was shocking. It hurt a bit. But even at ten to six in the morning, it was funny.

Then, the surprise. It wasn't *just* chest and back - it was chest and back AND ABS! What?! You don't surprise a girl with that! It was insane. I tell you, the day that I can do every rep in that workout, I will demand people bow as I walk by! Ok, I'm not going to be that crazy, but still. It will be a memorable day. Fo sho.

With the added surprise, it also threw off my well calculated prep schedule for work... So, it was a very rushed shower/dressing/primping/breakfast-grabbing morning.

The best part
My favourite part about doing this, was remembering at different points in the day that I was done! I didn't have to workout again that day. No more gym guilt during my lunch hour or after work. That was awesome.