I can definitely feel the effects of yesterday's cardio in my legs today. The muscles are tight and just past sore but not to really painful. I have always liked the 'day after' soreness of a good workout. I think it helps me remember that I am actually doing something. I didn't think that I did a lot with my arms, but I can feel tightness there too.
The cardio I chose today was a humbling experience. I consider myself a decent dancer, I took many years of classical dance when I was younger, and I do enjoy social dancing. I picked a dance based cardio workout today, and I couldn't keep up. I don't know if it was just that I didn't have time to practice the moves slower and get them down before trying to do them at tempo (which was quite fast). It wasn't that I couldn't get my body moving fast enough, but rather that my mind wasn't translating the movement fast enough for me to get moving before I was supposed to be on to the next move.
I didn't have the healthiest of breakfasts today. I am kind of a horrible breakfast eater. We rarely have fresh fruit on hand, as the fruit at our stores is mostly horrible quality...either not ripe or bruised and rotten. I had some frozen toaster waffles (they were blueberry, but I don't really consider that a serving of fruit). The waffles on their own aren't too bad, but I added a frozen sausage patty and then some cream cheese, to make a breakfast sandwich.
Lunch was better, I had a tangelo and one of those whole wheat hot pockets. Yeah I know it's processed food, but its one of the more recognizable ones. I really like tangelos, even though they aren't as sweet as some of the other oranges, they peel easily and they rarely have any seeds. I don't really like oranges that much, but these are okay. I think I read somewhere that they are a grapefruit cross. I can see that, they can be kinda tart sometimes.
I made some flan (from a box like jello) that I am going to have later. I don't eat a lot of sweets, I rarely eat candy, although I do like chocolate. I don't like a lot of cakes and stuff...anything that is too sweet I really don't like. But I love cheesecake and custard type deserts. Creme brullee is another great one.
All in all, I really feel good about today though. The cardio was only 10 minutes, but I did a full set of my other exercises and stretches. I definitely want to make sure that I am stretching at the same time. I am pretty flexible, but I don't want to loose it as I work on my muscle tone. The biggest thing I really want to work on right now is to get my cardio up so that I can do a 30 minute cardio without feeling like I was gasping for air, and doing it regularly. All told, I did about thirty minutes total I think, at least 20 minutes, which is pretty good. If I can keep that up, at least 5 times a week, I think I will do good.
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