According to the chart, Fridays are rest days (won't that be nice!) but I chose to continue with the workout sets so I an get an idea of what the 3rd session is all about. It's called SWEAT - and for good reason. By the end of the 35 min routine, I was literally dripping sweat. But here's the thing.... there's no high cardio. My heart rate was never elevated at all. I'm going to conclude that my major sweating was from constant movement and not being in shape already. Coming from the gym environment, I don't see how I'm going to burn fat if I'm not getting my heartrate up. It's that whole VO2 thing (Volume of Oxygen - thankyou Jeramy Freeman). :-) 

​BUT...I have to agree with what I said in yesterday's post. I believe this PiYo program is going to help with my strength and flexibility and get me back to where I need to be and back at the gym where I can really push myself once more. And in all fairness to the PiYo program, I do believe that once I'm in better condition I cant totally see how you can push within these moves as well. There's plenty of opportunity to take the stretches to the next level and I look forward to one day being able to do that. Right now it's once again about modifying and I'm still getting the stretch, I'm feeling it because I'm able to push myself within that modification. Hence, the drenching sweat. 

​Throughout the routine, I couldn't stop thinking about how I still somehow need to add in the cardio. Maybe it's getting out and walking before or after (1 mile through the neighborhood) or hopping on the exercise bike after a routine when I'm all warmed up. Or maybe it's hitting the gym for 30-40 mins on my way home from work! Or maybe I should do it all?? YOu can't see me, but I'm nodding my head as I write this because that's exactly what I should be doing. It's time to make it happen. I've done it before now I need to make it stick.

​So....I'm going to enjoy this holiday weekend, get my head back in the game - which in this case is making my grocery list and sticking to my meal prep and plan this time - and be ready to take this head on starting Monday. I will come up with a cardio schedule and stick to that too. It's all about the planning.

​No effort, no results. 

I officially started on Wed. with the first workout. I completed it, and I surely felt it! Let's just say it was a class on discovering just how UN-flexible I have become! Being overweight doesn't help, but there are just some position shifting that isn't as smooth as the professionals! Hey, if you can't laugh at yourself...... And, with the pinched nerve stuff still showing it's face, the moves were sometimes more challenging than I think they would have been otherwise. But again, I pushed through and I must say that I did break a sweat and by the end I felt pretty loose. I thought I'd be tight and in pain but I wasn't. So in the back of my mind I'm thinking this is going to be something very good for me by the end of the first 60 days. And that was Day 1.

So this morning I did the day 2 routine, which was supposed to be for the upper body. And it was, I guess. While I did once again break a sweat, fumble through the positions, laugh at myself (more than thankful that the rest of my house was sound alseep and couldn't witness my half plank twist (or whatever it was called) disaster!) as I tried to figure things out, I completed the set and felt pretty accomplished. Well, actually I felt like I really didn't do anything. I'm feeling alot in my wrists and shoulders while doing the exercises - which I guess is making them stronger - but so far nothing really hurts. As I'm sitting as my desk writing this and thinking about it, I can kind of feel a "fatigue" in my abs/core, so I'm going to say this is working! And I can be brutally honest and say there's a lot of fat to melt off those abs! So to feel something now is a fantastic thing!

Note: I purchased PiYo for myself as a way to steer me back on the exercise train and get through the joint issues I've been facing which have kept me off track. But I also purchased it as a "couples" program in hopes of being able to work out with my main man! (I even bought him his own yoga mat) <3 I can only imagine what it's going to be from his perspective..... You all may want to keep checking in just for the fun of it!  So anyway, he's been away on business so I'm getting a head start this week and using this as my "trial" week. He's much more fit than I am and I need all the help I can get because I have a feeling he will be true to his nature and it's going to become a serious competition.

Well, babe.... GAME ON!

​#piyo #fitness #fitme #workout #myhappyplace