It was January 21st yesterday. Not New Years day, or even the day after. We had let 3 weeks go by before making good on our promise to "train hard" in the new year. UGH. How does that happen? Life. Life happens. (and laziness. that happens too).
The reality is, we are NOT hard core athletes. We like the treats just as much as the rest of you. We'd prefer to browse the internet most times than train.
So last night when the text came in (yes, Den and I text each other even when we're in the same house) asking if I wanted to go soak in the hot tub.....the answer was "YES! I WANT to go soak in the hot tub!!!". That's not what I said though. I texted back "Nope, it's time to get on the trainers".
And without a complaint, down he came with a spring in his step. It was time to train. No more excuses. He got our bikes set up, grabbed our shoes, filled our water bottles and was raring to go. (As an aside....do you know how nice it is to have a personal bike mechanic/'getter readier'? LOVE!).
He was keen to do the 40 minute cycling DVD we have. I told him we needed more, and put on the 75 minute one. Whine. Complain. "Can't do it". "Too much, too soon". Ooooh boy, there were a lot of complaints coming out of his mouth. Good thing he's not much of a swearer. :-) Even as much as 1/2 way through he was telling me he wasn't doing the whole thing, "only 40 minutes, like I wanted to in the first place!". (He's stubborn). Luckily, I'm stubborn too. I stood my ground (or rather, 'sat my bike').
And you know what? We both completed the whole darn 70 minute workout. It was brutal hard. I wanted to give up and lightly pedal (otherwise known as 'fake it') SEVERAL times during the workout, but I didn't. WE didn't.
Getting our butts up all of those stairs from the basement was a great reminder of how sore our muscles were. OUCH! But getting to the top and knowing that we had our first workout done felt awesome.
I tell you this because there will be many days when we don't feel like working out. Many. Do us a favour and support us, and keep us honest to the process, OK?
Proud of both of us. 1 workout down.......countless more to go.
Off to get in a leg workout this evening (and hoping Mr. Stubborn doesn't give me a hard time AGAIN!)
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Update: We struggled through the P90X leg workout. Yowza, what a killer! I know it'll get easier as the weeks go on, but tonight really put us through our paces. Mr. Whine didn't even show his face tonight!
Awesome!
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