I hope everyone is having a great day so far. For me, today is going to be the day that I start a fit journey I DO NOT give up on. Although, admittedly, even as I'm typing, I'm not totally convinced in my ability to stick with this fitness routine. Raise your hand if you're the type of person who starts something with the intention and determination to finish...and then a week into it..whoops. *raises hand* I know we all try, (even if we claim we do our best, we didn't really) and something just got in the way...it wasn't our fault! But I think now it's high time I stop letting myself off the hook. No, I do not 'not have time', I'm going to make time. No, I haven't done my best. My best is not giving up. My best is succeeding.
So, here we are. At the very start of my fit journey. I already have this blog to thank for getting my lazy ass working out today. My motivation for exercise was about about -20, although to be fair, we are in the middle of a heatwave..and mother nature has struck ugghhh. BUT. I did it. I worked out. You see, I had decided that I wanted my journey to fitness to be a part of this blog...and for that I have to actually get fit. But, more than that, I want fitness to be a part of my life. I have always been interested in sports and up until about age 14 I was 'the sporty kid'. The kind of sporty kid that got picked first in team games, and was always in the p.e block doing something or other. Unfortunately, my limbs had other ideas. Fast forward a few years, a million and one injuries, a problem in my joints and a lot of added weight and you get to me. Now, the person who is out of breath after three flights of stairs and has gotten so used to being lazy that it's so hard to get active again. Still, I'm GOING to do it. And I'm going to do it using Blogilates.
Blogilates is a fitness empire created by pilates instructor Cassey Ho (although I'm sure you already knew that!). It's a hugely popular programme used by quite literally millions of people. She has fitness plans for each month of the year and even a beginner guide to get started, the one in which I'm following, and it's incredibly all free! Each week I'm going to write about how I found the exercises, which were the hardest/easiest, and the improvements I've made. Since today is the first day I've done the exercises which was 'Total Body Workout for Beginners' I don't have much to say..apart from it was hard! Like sweaty, red in the face hard. But, I'm excited and determined to carry on and reach the normal 'hardcore' calendars.
If anyone else is following the calendars please let me know in the comments how you're finding it, or even if you follow a different workout programme let me know!
Speak soon x
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