Exercise!!!

Guess what! I have started to exercise again!

It has been A LONG time since I have exercised. My two main reasons for not working out have been battling with feeling to busy with studying and feeling scared that if I work out, I'll get mono again. Being the anomaly who gets mono THREE times when your supposed to get it once and then never have to deal with it again, I am a little hesitant to exert myself physically. At least not too much, too quickly.

My first day of working out started with a 45 minute walk. I actually wasn't really keeping track of time and I'm not really sure I know how far I went. I do know that I tried to do the proper technique of power walking, ie the heel to toe walk and a much faster pace then my normal walk. It felt SO good to walk and enjoy the weather.

Throughout the walk I listened to my favorite Caedmon's Call CD and decided that I was going to sing out loud, because who cares what the people in the cars think of me. I like to sing...so what?!?!

Anyways, by the end of the walk, the power walking was really starting to work my upper thighs and my calves. If you do the right technique, power walking is a pretty good workout.

Then I got home and discovered my new workout buddy...the Wii Fit!

It is so cool! You play little games to do aerobics and strength training and balance training workouts. By the time you've done 30 minutes, you don't even realized that you've worked out your abs and your legs!

My favorite was the hula hoop game! That is the one I have pictured above. Basically because your standing on the wii fit board, it can tell how you are shifting your weight and therefore it will "hula" on the screen. While your doing it, its amazing how much your abs and your back get worked out by doing the circular hip motion. It's way cool.

They also have strength training stuff, so you can do ab exercises, arm exercises, and leg exercises.

By the end of the whole work out, the walk and the wii fit, I felt SO GOOD! I mean I was a little sore, but not overly sore. It was a perfect balance of feeling like my body had gotten some work in, but at the same time not overexerting myself.

I think that this might be my new workout plan, walk (eventually getting to a jog, then run) and do wii fit!

I'm pretty gosh darn excited :) :) :)