Squats = Quads Death

Four days completed! I've got to say, when I first looked at this, the three minutes of planking was pretty darn intimidating but the initial 20 seconds only earned an eye roll from me... until I did it. 20 seconds seems a lot longer when your whole core is shaking around.

Fifty squats just seemed scary right off the bat though, but per Ashley's advice I broke it up into three sets with a short break between each one. Still hurt like the dickens the next day! Yesterday I kind of shuffled things together and I liked how it ended up so I'll probably keep up with that format: 20 squats, 20 crunches, 20 squats, 20 crunches, 15 squats, planking, and then finish the last 15 squats.

Overall I'm seeing an improvement in how much I can do already, but that three minutes is still sitting at the end of the month, giving me the stink eye...

Another Exercise Challenge!

This is what I'll be up to for the next month! Thanks to Kisa, who initially found a planking chart, and then made the mistake of talking to people about it and watching it steamroll into a three exercise calendar of dooooom. Seriously though, I scoffed at it but after 20 seconds of planking was a very unhappy camper... and the squats.... THE SQUATS.... my quads really hurt.

April's Wake Up Call

The real take away lesson from April's 30 day challenge is waking up early is very nice, but a pain in my butt. That's really the entire month's work summed up right there.

I enjoyed having a bit of time to prep myself for the day; eat an actual breakfast, read a bit, surf the net, what have you. I did not enjoy having to force myself out of bed every morning because apparently deep down inside, I'm pretty lazy...

Anyway, I'm glad I gave this one a try and I can see myself continuing to wake up earlier just because it makes my morning a lot less stressful compared to my normal routine of rolling out of bed and sprinting out the door.