You ever have one of those days where you just don’t want to workout? I’ve had about 7500 of those days since I stopped playing tennis everyday after high school. With the great majority of those 7500 coming in the last 15 years.
This experiment is making me do it everyday. Sure I can take a day off, but at the cost of $60 and another failure day in this bet, it’s easier to grumble and just suck it up and go through it. I felt that way today. I like this yoga place down the street, but I just didn’t want to do it. So I’m looking for the spice of life and ran across the Bootcamp – see the Mutha of all sumbitches post – and now have an additional thing that I don’t want to do. The nice thing, is that I don’t want to do it more than the yoga, so maybe it’ll make me do the yoga – good, since I paid for six friggin months (thanks, Z! jerk…)
However, this bootcamp thing is immediate. Whereas yoga you feel building over 90 minutes, the bootcamp is smacking me around after 60 seconds. And you can really feel what it’s doing to your body.
Perhaps I’ll figure out a way to get both into a daily routine until a job forces me to do otherwise. The stretching of yoga makes me more limber and I can feel it pulling the toxins out of all my organs – the last 15 years are still pouring out storages since I ain’t had but one day’s worth of poison in the last month. The bootcamp is getting the stamina and muscles really stomping. So a good complement overall I think.
To the bettors chagrin, I’m happy/sorry to say that the day’s avoidances are likely to appear virtually identical for the next 69 days while the food and exercise might toggle just a smidge. Here’s today’s…
1. Smoking. Nope. I’m happy to keep registering this as such since by the end of this I’ll have quit for 83 days (damn you, Xmas Eve!)
2. Booze. Nope. Maybe I’ll throw the bettors a bone one day in the next 69. Nah…
3. Caff/Carb bevs. Nope. Can’t wait for March 18th to have a no-decaf iced black tea.
4. Exercise. 1hr of boot camp; 1hr 20 minutes dog-walking.
5. Food. M1: Egg whites, mozzarella, open face wheat bread; M2: sliced turkey, gouda, cashews; M3: rotisserie chicken, cheddar broccoli gratin, raisins, 1 pc dark chocolate
