Kickboxing! Who, me?

Yes, ME. Can you believe it? I hardly can. The other day my sister informed me that my gym offers various classes from yoga to kickboxing that are free to members. Well, there was a kickboxing class tonight and I got brave and decided to join in. My legs are pure jelly right now. OMG. Tonight, by FAR, was the toughest workout I’ve ever done in my entire life. Period. WOW! Ok, so I’ll briefly recap how it went.

She started us with stretching exercises. I really, really need to start stretching more, but that’s a topic for another day. I got a good workout just from the stretching! Then she started in what I suppose are basic kickboxing moves, punching to the front, jabs, kicking to the side, to the rear, to the front. Then we did lunges, squats, jumping jacks, and a whole bunch of other moves I don’t the names for. We also did some ab crunches on the exercise balls and finished up with more stretching. I felt like I was going to throw up at certain points, but there was no way in hell I was gonna quit. Uh-uh, no way. I had to modify a couple of moves because I didn’t want to aggravate my arm injury. Well, that and the fact that I still don’t have a sports bra. Yeah, jumping jacks and not having a sports bra don’t mix. AT ALL. Anyway, I can barely walk right now because I feel like my legs are going to come out from under me. I am sure to be sore tomorrow, but I feel AWESOME just thinking about all the calories I burned. I was also sweating, which, honestly, I don’t sweat that much, so you know I worked hard if I was sweating.

Whew!

After that I hopped on the treadmill and walked a mile at 3.0 mph. Oh, and since I haven’t blogged since yesterday, I should mention that I also walked 1.5 miles at the gym last night…so that puts me at 7 miles for the week so far. And FOUR days in a row at the gym. I ended the year with a BANG and I’m starting the year off PERFECT! (Thanks Steve for the motivation!. )

Food related, my fast yesterday was pretty successful. All I had to eat all day was dinner (serving of spaghetti and a roll) and a serving of crackers before bed. I was hungry, but I just tried to focus on other things and whaddaya know, I made it.

Lastly, I wanted to mention my friend Lynne’s new blog. She is the friend I reconciled with a couple of months ago after years of no contact. Soon thereafter we realized that we were both trying to lose weight and since then have become great supporters of one another. She is also the one who invited me to join her work’s fitness challenge! Anyway, her blog is Losing Lynne and it would be great if you would stop by and show her some love.

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