get in shape

I have my Yoga Booty Ballet DVD—it’s nice to have that for mornings when it’s tough to get out of bed. Runyon takes just over an hour; the DVD takes 45 minutes. I want to start doing this DVD 3x a week – or to the point where my butt isn’t sore every time I do it. There’s a reason ballerinas don’t have flabby bums.

So when my cat curled up on top of me this morning (which she hardly ever does) I was able to sleep for a blissful extra 15 min without disturbing her.

I’ve hiked Runyon twice this week—but not yet in the AM before work, as was my plan. So easy to think “I’ll just get up an hour and a half earlier”, so hard to actually crawl out of bed in the morning.

I am going to try VERY VERY HARD to go to bed early, so I’m not struggling to get out of bed after a couple of hours, because I just won’t. But if I’ve had a good night’s sleep, it should be much easier.

So…this week’s goal is to go to sleep at granny-like times, so that I can hike in the morning!

Did Runyon on Sat (but not Sun) – so 1/2 a star for the weekend?

I want to start going every morning OR running in the AM.

And especially—Squats and Lunges!

MUST START TOMORROW. Well, technically today. In several hours.

Did 20 min of Yoga Ballet Booty y’day. More the ballet, not so much the yoga.

And I’m going for “a run”. By which I mean, I’m looking at my “Couch Potato to 3 KM Runner in Six Weeks” chart and doing the assignment for Day 2—which is 20 min run/walk alternating. But in my book, I’m still going for a run!

So I find myself suddenly surrounded by beautiful young dancers at work, and it’s at once inspiring and depressing. I’ve decided to only pay attention to the inspiring and ignore the depressing.

I didn’t really FEEL that out of shape until I started thinking about things I wanted to do but couldn’t (1 – do circus stuff again, 2 – learn to surf, 3 – wear a bikini and not freak myself out) until I was back in fighting form.

So…I used my friend’s gym pass for a month. My car was broken into and all my stuff was stolen. It was like the universe wanted me to sit home and eat chocolate while watching TV!

But today I started my running program. A program which is supposed to turn non-runner me into a running machine in just six short weeks.

Both my old h.s. field hockey coach and I will fall over in shock if I become a runner. But today went okay…25 minutes (run/walk alternating for now) is just the right amount of time to play all my favorite songs, so that’s fun. It’s nice to have theme music.

I used to be in such great shape—granted, that is probably the natural by-product of having a job which entailed working out 20 hours a week or more. And since I hurt my back and quit that job….nothing. Such a tumble from grace.

And I keep coming up with some big plan that will magically get me back in great shape, which is ridiculous. It took a lot of cheesecake and sleeping in to get this way, and it’ll take awhile to get back to the level of fitness I want to be at.

SO….an achievable goal. This week, I will get up early and hike Runyon Canyon three times this week. On the days I do not hike, I will do sit-ups and pushups. I can do that.

Tomorrow will not be the day that I hike.