But when Monday hits and I'm doing this workout, my attitude toward it changes. First, I hate pull ups. I hate them because it seems like everyone else can do them but I suck at them...especially that switch-grip bullshit (where you hang and switch your grip from overhand to reverse). I can't even do that at all...I have to release and then re-grip. But the end of the workout, I can maybe do four. Today I actually felt forearm pain at the end which made it easier to give up.
I don't do well at the leg exercises either. My guess is that some of them are for balance but the TV bastards never waiver or have to hold on to anything (unlike me). I'm improving a little from last time...at least I don't have to hold the chair for every rep. I start to feel bad about holding on to something...like I am cheating and not learning to balance...but I have to remind myself that if I can't even do a rep, I'm not getting ANYTHING out of it. So I might as well do something. As my previous posts on this workout state...something is better than nothing.
On high rep / no weight / non-cardio workouts, it is also hard for me to really feel like I am accomplishing anything. You don't "feel the burn" like you do when lifting weights 8-10 reps to muscle exhaustion. Part of it is because I am careful not to push myself to the point of pain in the knees.
A lot of this also has to do with the fact that it is Monday. At the time I'm doing the workout, I'm in a hurry and need to get to work (which I dread anyway), so focus is not my thing and the workout suffers.
OK, enough of the pity party. Kenpo is tomorrow and then I am done with the resistance portion of phase I.
