Day One

Week One- Day one
I found a workout program that has peaked my interest. It is called Freeletics. Today I did my first workout that consisted of three rounds of burpees, climbers and jumps.

The first round I was required to do 10 reps of each exercise. I did the burpees and the climbers, but had to use an alternative (high knees) to the jumps because of my bad knees. I was able to do all the burpees, but I was exhausted after just 10.

Round two had 25 reps of each exercise. I had to use a variation to the burpees after completing just 5. They call the variation a sprawl, which is just a burpee that stays in the plank position and does not go all the way to the ground. I was able to do the climbers and again did high knees instead of the jumps. Needless to say I was tired. I struggled through the sprawls I would to 5 or so and have to take several seconds for a break. I have always disliked burpees, even from my crossfit days.

Round three was back to 10 reps for each exercise. I was able to fight through 5 more burpees before I went back to the sprawls. I was able to finish the first routine in just over 13 minutes. I feel good about the time, but need to be mentally tougher to push myself to take less breaks and go for one or two more reps before each break.

I have not quite figured out the nutrition aspect of my transition. I crave things like soda foods that I know are not healthy at all. I think this will be the hardest part of changing into who I want to be.

I know that I need to change my habits to help build a healthy family. I know that if I am constantly drinking sugary drinks and eating junk my kids are going to grow up with the same struggles I had. I need to get out of this habit now. I know there is not a switch that I can flip to change my taste buds to like foods like kale or cottage cheese, but I need to try now.

Oh have I mentioned that I am sore.... Day one done.