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Breakdown of days 1-5 for my Daily Exercise 30 Day Trial

Day 1 – Wasn’t feeling enthusiastic about starting this challenge, normally a bad sign. I delayed getting started all day and began a workout at home at 7p doing a variety of push ups, crunches, pull ups, dips and squats.  My maximum amount of push ups was 26.  Lets see how many I can get on December 30th.

Day 2 – Easier to get started.  Went running in between classes at the indoor track.  I didn’t keep track of how many laps, just ran for time, ended up doing 26+ minutes.

Day 3 – Did a similar workout to Day 1, again feeling relatively unenthusiastic about the challenge. I waited until after 7p again.

Day 4 – Running at the indoor track again, 26+ minutes.  Made myself exercise before leaving school because I felt like I wouldn’t wanna do it when I got home.

Day 5 – Got out earlier today, getting to the gym at 10:30a.  My Shoulders were a little sore so I wanted to ride the stationary bike, but the gym only had two stationary bikes, both old and in bad shape.  Using them was very uncomfortable.  After a few minutes, I scrapped the stationary bike and shot a basketball in the basketball gym instead.  I was the only one there so I shot alone.  Shooting by yourself is fun when you’re as rusty at as I am.

Reflection

Quality

The workouts have been good quality except for today, basing that on a little sweat and muscle soreness.  Today’s workout quality wasn’t great, but my goal isn’t to get efficient quality workouts everyday. Consistency is my goal, so I won’t feel bad about a poor workout. At least I know not to expect to use the stationary bikes at that gym..

Enthusiasm

My self-discipline’s been dragging me to my workouts so far.  I haven’t been as motivated as I normally am for a 30 Day Trial, but I’m still having success.  Guess I owe that to my self-discipline.

Start Time

All of my workouts were after 5pm except for today.  It felt better to do the workout early and not have it looming.  From This day forward I’m going to do the workouts as early as I can.  Anything I can do to make the challenge easier on me.

Onward to Days 6-10

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