Jumping Jacks, pretty easy to do, get your heart rate up, good exercise, quite hard to get wrong? I'm not sure. I was fine all Thursday, got up on Friday morning, headed into the living room to work up a sweat with Jillian, I'm almost looking forward to the exercise in the mornings now. Almost. I do enjoy it once I get going though, it's that initial push into activity that gets me!
Straight into the warm up, jumping jacks..... *OUCH* nasty shooting pain across my back. No injuries says Jillian, and somehow I've managed it. I'm not sure if I've done something while exercising, or done something during the day on Thursday that's kicked it off, but pain has arrived. It's frustrating because everything I try and do hurts. Jumping, walking, lifting my arms too much, even driving sometimes makes my back ache.
The only thing in Jillian's work out that doesn't seem to be a massive problem is the crunches, as you're only using your abs. Oh joy. Although the evil that is the bicycle crunches at the end of Level 1 do seem to be getting easier. Has this happened to anyone out there? And any ideas on how to make it better again? It's been a few days now, and everything still hurts!!
We spent the weekend (including Friday) in aeroplane fuelled frenzy. Friday and Sunday were spent running around after an errant Auster and Saturday at Old Warden Park. There'll be a post about our day out on my other blog as soon as I get the photos downloaded. So there was plenty of walking around (and too much driving) over the weekend so I don't feel completely bad as I didn't spend all day on the couch!
We had a pretty healthy picnic to tide us over for the day on Saturday.
Wholemeal rolls with ham and (tonnes of) salad, plus a small amount of low fat mayo.
Bottles of water.
Nectarines.
Peaches.
Salad.
Scotch Egg. Yum.
Despite the healthiness, we stopped at Braintree Freeport on the way and the better half bought a massive bag of chocolate and Wham bars.
So a number of those were eaten yesterday evening at home watching a movie. Bad times. But we're back to healthiness tonight. Fish, steamed veg and sweet potato for dinner.
Ciao
Jo
I started this same workout at the begining of September too! My boyfriend had taken himself of to Australia for a month, so I decided it was the right time to start I've only had the dvd for about a year! Oh my, I found it reeeeally hard, the first few days were awful, but did I manage the 30 days somehow, but at no point did I feel I had it nailed, Jillian is evil!! I've gone to doing level 2 and 3 on alternated days now (when I can find the energy!) but they are still pretty hard to do! I had searing pains in the backs of my legs for a few days recently just after the warm up, I'm still not sure why, probably not doing something right, but it did fade away, I hope your back is better now, the last thing you need when you've got jillian shouting at you is extra pain! Good luck with it! xx
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