We're not all body builders, and that's ok!

One-thousand crunches.

One hour on the tredmill.

One-hundred lunges and squats.

I am in the process of getting healthy and fit.  It has been officially a week and it's been ok so far.  I've been walking a lot and drinking more water and so far so good :)  I used to be in pretty good shape back in high school but even then I could only do about 10 boy push ups before I pooped out.  [Now I think I could maybe do one and three quarters.]  I'm excited to use the gym facilities at school but I need to understand that I won't be able to go as hard as I would have the last time I darkened the doors of the gym.  It's also really intimidating when the hockey team is out there benching 150 and I'm having the time of my life with the little 8 pound hand weights.  The tooth pick girls running on the tredmill for an hour barely breaking a sweat.

I have a new approach.  I'm not going to go to the gym and give it 150% because I fear a brain anurism.  If you're not physically active on a regular basis the worst thing you could do to yourself is over do it, be wickedly sore and then not go back for 5 days because you can't walk or lift your arms in the shower to wash your hair.  I'm more likely to go for a small light work out everyday, work up an endurance and keep upping my time/weights/resistance a little bit every time. 

Today for instance.  I want to start going push ups because they're good for your back, sholders, arms and chest.  [And you don't need equipment to do it.]  But I want to be able to do an excersize for more than one rep, and my core isn't as strong as I'd like it to be so it just seemed like it was something I wasn't able to do.

I was thinking back to the days when I worked at the front desk at a gym, to the conversations with personal trainers and it came to me!  Kitchen counter push ups!  You stand facing the counter, you stand about 2 feet away, put your hands out onto the edge of the counter and do a push up standing up.  You can adjust yoruself according to how much you want to feel and what not.  Brilliant!  Three reps of 12 and I can feel it! 

ALSO.  Who says you have to run on a tredmill?  A moderately fast paced walk at a bit on an incline does wonders and is much lower impact on your knees.  [And less movement on those giggly area's.  HAHA!] 

I'm going to Boston Pizza tomorrow for an early birthday lunch with my family before I leave for school.  Porportions will save me from over indulging.

nom! nom! nom!
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