First Day of Workout! Phew!

January 5, 2015February 26, 2017 Rajlakshmi42

Vacations over, it’s time to face life again 😛

The holidays left quite an impression on me, specially the extra layer of holiday happiness that accumulated after slamming down all my favorite fried foods and cheese. I knew it was time to get back to routine when the happiness started stuffing out of my jeans. But after 20 days of merrymaking, my body was ridiculously stubborn.

Filled with ohh-yeah-I-am-gonna-kill-this-workout kind of enthusiasm I started my warm up. Within 7 minutes I was gasping for breath. One hand on stomach, other holding the chair, I watched the lady in the video going on about how she loves summer coz it’s bikini time, smiling and working out her thighs, while I was wheezing like a donkey.

Took me a while to start breathing like a human again… I mean from the nose.

Next I got down on floor to do some crazy abs stuff. This one was pretty simple – lie on the floor, lift legs and move them in circular motion. Easy enough!?! I made a perfect circle in the first attempt, the rest were rhombus, triangle and parallelogram. After which my legs were lying perpendicular to each other.

Time for some leg drops I thought. Bad idea, I realized soon. Lying down, legs together and straight, I lifted and dropped them, without touching the ground. After five drops, my legs decided to comfortably remain in ‘dropped’ position. Yes, I could actually feel my abs burning with intensity of greatest measure.

Dayum Pinterest!! for making it look like a cakewalk.

My husband passed by, opened the fridge, took out an ice cream and then went back to his movie marathon, flexing his muscles, happily licking the delicious chocolaty layer, filled with vanilla flavored cream and crunchy nuts.

Focus … focus …

If you wanna know how 30 secs could feel like a year – Do Planks. Whoever invented this must be experimenting on time and Relativity or was hell bent on dissuading people from toning their abs.

I thought of finishing with mountain climbing and burpees, but courage had long fled my heart.

It’s been three days and I could manage a few burpees without falling flat on the carpet. My two packs are actually visible … or maybe that’s belly fat in some twisted shape. Can’t distinguish much !!

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