Image not totally unrelated. Maaan, I am fighting a battle against something I used to do every damn day. This is entirely my own fault, but damn it I am going to win this war. Damn you "core" routine, you will be my bitch >: ISo this started because I didn't work out at all over Christmas/New Year. I thought that I'd just be able to get back in and keep goin from where I left off? How very wrong I was.
This is what is defeating me:
Stretches/Deep Stretches
Regular stretching routine plus some yoga mixed in, focus on breathing to relax any fatigue from previous day/general household work.
Warmup
Four songs of at least 3 mins length, the key is to start slowly and build up your movements until you're lightly perspiring and your heartrate has increased. It is totally okay to look like you're having some sort of fit at this point, you really need to concentrate on stretching and moving all the muscles you are going to work out.
Core 1
20 of each of the following:
Minicrunches (to get abs to work properly)
Twist Crunches
Push ups
Crunches
Slow Squats
Push Ups
Crunches
Slow Squats
Twist Crunches
Cardio 1
20 minutes of skipping (with rope)
Core 2
Sideways leg lifts (20 on each side)
Push ups
Crunches
Squats
Push ups
Crunches
Squats
Pass-the-pillow
Cardio 2/warm down
6 tracks of minimum 3 minutes in length, with a focus on really breaking a sweat and actually dancing not just waving your arms around in a wild spasm. Your heart rate should really be going at this point.
Cooldown/Stretches
keep moving, and use a further 2 tracks to cool down, make sure you shake out all the bits you exercised properly, and be sure to stretch them all again. At this point you should also rehydrate and take any protein supplements that you are using to accompany your workouts.
I cannot get past Cardio 1. I get to about 150 skips and DIE. If I'd have realised that 6 weeks of not working out at all or even really breaking a sweat could reduce my lung capacity by this much, I seriously would not have stopped. Ow.
So my goal for this week is to be able to do a full Core routine. This is just my monday exercise schedule, every day will be different although this will be the hardest and push me the farthest. So if I can't even do this, then I don't think I'll be able to get to my target weight/bulk for summer. I haven't even started taking the protein yet!
BLEH.
Plus pretty much all I can think about right now is sex. Which isn't helping.
