Starting to Exercise

Unfortunately my journey to fitness started about three months ago! It just so happens that this week decided that a journal would help me keep up what I started. So let me tell you how I got to this point…

I began small, three times a week, just doing push-up, crunches, and squats. All of the exercises where just using my body weight. At the very start I just did what I could. I was just spending five minutes a day exercising. After a few weeks, I was doing the 10 of each exercise.

I then started to add a little cardio. I would do jumping jacks for 30 seconds to warm up, then do some stretching, and then do the exercises. Eventually I upped my warm-up time to one minute of jumping jacks. I will tell you jumping jacks didn’t come easy to me my calves would burn. I just made sure to stretch them and keep going. Over time the jumping jacks got easier and I still get a little burn at the end of my second minute of jumping jacks.

After a little bit I decided I better even out my workout. So I added some other core (abs) exercises. I did crunches, crunches to the left, crunches to the right and leg lifts (10 of each to start with). I also added supermans. A superman is a lower back exercise where you lay on your stomach and put your hands out in front of you (like you were flying like superman) and bend backwards so your chest comes off the ground. This movement is the exact opposite of a crunch.

I also just recently bought a GoFit Chin-Up Bar that mounts in a doorway. I have played with this but still can hardly do even one. I’ll talk more about this in my current workout post...