My morning......duh duh duh

Since I've been making better food choices, I thought it might also be a good idea to most exercise my body. I've tried various forms of exercise over the years. Running, aerobics, walking,water aerobics,various work out DVD's and the list continues. This morning while I was mulling over what I would do, a friend posted her work out. She is doing a beach body program. Beach body is a MLM fitness marketing company. They keep people interested by always introducing a new program every 3-6 months. She was doing something called 22 minute hard core. It is a HIIT workout. HIIT stands for high intensity interval training. It is tough. You do multiple reps of multiple types of exercise as fast as you can with short rest periods in between. Well that is supposed to the way it is done. Now I am going to be 58 in November and I weight 208lbs so you imagine how it looked. Go ahead. Me in the living room, curtains closed (I spared anyone else from the sight I'm now asking you to imagine. Go figure. The program consists of 7 exercises. I only knew how to do five. Instead of doing 7 exercises three times, I decided to do 5, five times. I did in place sprints, gorilla walks,straight leg in place sprints, mountain climbers, and jimmy jumps. You are supposed to do each exercise for one minute with 10 second rest breaks in between and 22 second breaks in between sets (after doing all five). Ok, I started by sprinting as fast as I could for 42 seconds, yep, not a minute but 42 seconds and I was gasping for oxygen. Breathing is important. Forget breathing I was sucking wind or trying to. I realized quickly I would not be able to do one set much less 5 if I went all out. I decided then that finishing was the goal, period. I'd do what ever it took to finish. That meant googling modifications. It also meant going fast but not too fast. Even doing that, I was rarely able to last the entire minute. I usually was sucking up oxygen by about 42-45 seconds. Remember that 10 second rest period? Well there were some episodes of lying down on the couch in between exercises and doing what ever it took to catch my breath. After round 2, I used my inhaler. I'm not exaggerating when I speak of sucking wind. I also decided rather quickly that the effort was taking up all I had and so I came up with a way to count my sets. The picuture is of books in our living room. After each set, I would pull a book out. No thinking required, just pull a book out after each set. I still can't believe I finished. It is now 8:05pm and I'm so tired, I'm in bed and when I complete this, I'll be asleep in minutes. I did a hard thing. I made a good choice and listened to the right voice in my head. I chose happiness. Goodnight.