Thursday, February 9, 2012

Workout Week 1...This might be a fat girls enemy


You ever have those days when you decide to take the stairs instead of the elevator? That thought of I got this, its not that many steps…. You start your journey and at first you feel great, heck you even have a little hop in your step. First flight of stairs done, only two more to go!  As you start the second flight you begin to feel the burn in your legs and notice, damn its getting a little hard to breath, that little hop you had during the first flight is gone, but you’ve made it one more flight you’ve come this far why stop now. You start that third and final flight of stairs, now in your head you are Rocky “Eye of The Tiger” playing in the background you have reached the top arms up raised to the sky you’re the champion you can do anything!!  In reality, that damn third flight of stairs is more like climbing Everest. Your legs are on fire and feel like they weigh a ton and they should… I mean they are lifting your butt up each and every step.  Your lungs are on fire and are in need of oxygen.  You would yell out for oxygen that is if you could get enough to muster up a yell, but all that comes out is a little whimper of defeat. Yes, you make it to the top and yes, your hands are raised above your head, but that is only because you are lying on the ground trying to catch your breath sweating like a stuck pig. Waving people on to just step over you, and by chance if someone ask if they can help you, your first response should be to tell them to call 911 because your heart is beating out of your chest, but instead you ask them to get you a coke and a cinnamon bun because well you just climbed three flights of stairs and your hungry and thirsty and you might be lying on the floor for the next hour, its cool it’s comfortable and really the only reason your not moving is because you can’t feel anything from the waist down. Needless to say this might be the point when you decide its time to work out and starting doing some cardio.
After your adventure up Everest AKA the three flights of stairs you decide you are going to start your work out the next morning. Then that annoying alarm clock goes off yelling at you saying “hey, hey you need to get up and get your ass moving”. You throw back the cover to find out out that’s snowing and freezing outside and your questioning why you are up this early in the morning. You have to fight back the urge to lie back down in the warm bed, then your remember that three flights of stairs just kicked your fat ass and just like that your bed doesn’t look all that good…ok, it still looks really good and nice, but again you just got your ass handed to you by three flights of stairs….yes, be ashamed.
Now on to your work out, what should it be? A work out program called Insanity. Now you just got out of bed and the first thing you want to do is something called Insanity…really you have to be freaking insane to even think about doing something called Insanity. Yet you do it anyway why because you want to lose the weight and feel great about yourself…and deep down you want to go back to those stairs and show them who is boss…yeah its cool you can shit talk them once you make it to the top with out killing yourself. Here you are armed with water feeling good about doing Insanity and for the first five minuets of your work out your feeling great you tell yourself you got this. Then ten minutes in you’re starting to feel the burn but there is a part of you that is second-guessing what you’re doing, but those stairs are in the back of your mind. Five more minutes yupp you know you are insane and then water break and stretching. Then at the moment when you are feeling the burn and starting to sweat you hear Sean T say ok good warm up...WHAT!!! ARE YOUR EFFING KIDDING ME!!!!! And all of a sudden its like double time the work out, this could be why they call it insanity. Yet you push yourself, you rest a lot, might be a little light headed but those stairs are your driving force, well that an the fact that yes I’m yelling at the people on TV like they can hear me, but whatever its making me feel better as I’m slowly sweating to death.
Soap Box Moment: I’m sorry but those people in the videos piss me off!  First of all NO ONE EVER LOOKS THAT HAPPY WHEN THEY WORKOUT!!!!!  If your really working out that hard you’re not smiling you have more of that I’m really concentrating on something important look on your face. Second real people sweat, they don’t glow or glisten, if you’re doing something called Insanity your ass is dripping sweat. Third, Hey ladies the 80’s called and said they want their work out clothes, no one works out all the time in sports bars and spandex, now you’re just showing off…eat a damn bloody burger. Fourth don’t show me people who are already skinny and toned in these things. Give me some variety show a fat person in there every now and again. Something that says, hey I was fat before I did all this working out, I was able to start to look like this…and yes eating right too, but point being show some fat people. I’m tired of seeing the girls with the toned triceps and six pack abs, I want to see the people with bat wings, pony kegs and things wiggling and jiggling when they run. Ok I’m done
Finally your done, you made it through Insanity feeling great you also look like you just survived a hurricane…yes you look like hell, your sweaty and I’m sure you smell too, but its ok your losing the weight rending the fat away which is why you could possible smell like bacon for a while but its all good were getting in shape. Then you take that first step after working out your knees give out in protest and I’m sure that if they could talk they would be say “HELL NO BITCH!!!! did you just see what you did to us, not only do we have to carry your fat ass around everyday but you just did that Insanity work out, HELL NO!!!! Your on your own” Yet all of these pales in comparison to the fact that you still had three flights of stairs kick your ass.

Couple things help during your workouts
  1. Find good music: A good play list up beat and strong it helps take your mind off of your workout.
  2. Do only what you can do: Everyone is different and thank god it would be a boring world if we were all the same.
  3. Challenge yourself: Everyday push yourself a little more…This also helps build character just in case you were wondering
  4. Just get up and do it: Even if you don’t think you can or don’t want to just get up and do it.
“Sometimes you just show up. A bit of failure can be the best gift in the world” Jared Leto - yeah that’s the tweet I got from him awhile ago, but in truth it has been a saying I hold on to, and when I feel I can’t do something I still show up.

Tell next time
I would say fat girl out…but I rendered some fat away this week sooo …
Smelling a little like bacon girl out.

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