If I remember correctly the last time I did this I lost inches with level 1 and weight with levels 2 and 3- but we'll see how this one turns out this time. My only slight issue is that I live in a city centre flat with the neighbour from hell underneath me who literally gets what I can only presume is the broom she flies about on at night and bangs it on her ceiling/my floor anytime I make noise or move. Which means that the cardio sections are not worth the hassle. I did step out the jumping jacks, complete the punching sections and march on the spot for the jump rope and butt kicks, so I'm not exactly standing still and having a rest, but it's hardly the high impact 2 minutes that it's meant to be.
With this in mind I also decided to have a go at couch to 5K. Cuch to 5K is an app you can download to your ipod/iphone and it talks you through a workout - telling you when to start and stop. It's a 9 week program that takes you from running for a minute and walking for a minute and a half in week 1 to running for a full half hour. In theory. We'll see how this goes.
As I said I was full of enthuasiasm and motivation (you know those levels that only are there right at the very beginning that you spend ages trying to refind later on in the program?) so I decided to skip level 1 and go straight on to level 2 - which involves 90 seconds of jogging with 2 minutes of walking. It wasn't quite a biggest mistake of my life moment, but I wouldn't recommend it. Running a minute and a half wasn't so much the issue - it was the fact that I require more than 2 minutes to recover from that! #unfit
Having said that, I think had I had my inhaler with me at the time it might have gone a bit better. I have astma, that usually doesn't bother me. I used to only need it when I had really done exercise. Like proper, physical exercise. Not because I had run a minute and a half.
I'm not a natural runner but being hardly able to breathe after I finished running for a minute and a half is probably a repercussion of how overweight I now am - which really brings it home that beign overweight isn't just an issue for me and my visual appearence, but it's a huge issue for my health. The strain I'm putting on my body by being clinically obese (my bmi is 34 - clincially obese. I always thought of obese as people who took up 2 seats on a plane but no, obese is me. That's kind of scary, because I don't stand out on the street as being ridiculously overweight. But that's a thought for another time.) is dangerous. So it needs to stop.
So tomorrow will be day 2 of the 30 Day Shred, and day 2 of level 2 of couch to 5k. Even if I do need my inhaler.
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