Procrastination Station aka My Couch

It is a super blistery Saturday in which I have much to do. Dishes, vacuuming, tubs & toilets to scrub, but instead I am situated in the comfiest location on my couch watching a movie on TV I own and have seen dozens of times. Not only is there all this house shenanigans to do but I have a midterm in two weeks and I think two papers due as well, one may even be due the same day as the midterm one the Thursday before.

On top of all of this I really need to go exercise.

This week is… mediocre. I have been mostly okay food-wise, despite the realization the the secret ingredient for goulash (hamburger in macaroni to anyone not directly related to me) makes it SO addictive. Especially with cheese on top! YUM! Except its not so great for you. probably not the worst thing I could eat but really not going to help me lose those pounds that so badly need to go away.

Exercise-wise this week is better then last week mostly because Boot Camp was not cancelled this week. It was again BOSU BALL week. I am a total-super-fan of the Bosu Ball. I have found one online that I likely will be buying but I need my pay check to stop being in hold status and get into my bank account.

I love the Bosu Ball. Its that half exercise ball and then flat on the other side. It works out your core like to tomorrow. At Boot Camp she has us jog on the round side so it is squishy and doesn’t hurt my old lady knees so bad. Its so hard to stay on, the instructor (Vivian) pointed out that my feet don’t face fully forward when I run. They always are a bit turned out. I don’t know why they do that, if its from my pathetic year and half of dance or what ever else but they were then the top of my attention as I ran I focused so hard on keeping my feet straight I kept almost falling off. Either way you use your core muscles the entire time trying to balance. Even just simple things like bicep curls and other dumb bell exercises become great ab exercises because of the balance factor. 

Also, lunges off the ball, squats on or half on the ball really add to the pain factor. Then, she has you flip the ball. Then its a flat surface to stand on but the round side is on the ground making it the wobbliest, unbalanced, spooky thing to try to get onto. Once your up and balanced its not so bad but trying to get up while holding hand weights its damn near impossible. Its pretty embarrassing but then when you attempt to squat it just becomes seventeen times more humiliating. You legs start to overcompensate and wobble back and forth working you bum so much harder then any normal squat could even hope to.

They are surprisingly expensive these Bosu Balls. I have been looking them up for a few weeks now, from Amazon to Kijiji nothing seemed right. Good ol’ Costco came through. Still more money then I really had thought they would be but shipping is included and it looks trusty enough. I will think about it a bit longer before I spend almost 100$ by the time taxes get through with it, but I really enjoy them. Even the jogging is a great help and could be easily done in front of the TV.  Any thoughts on the Bosu?

Bosu Ball Link - Costco

Other then the Boot Camp, Thursday before school I was proactive and ran on the elliptical for and episode of How I Met Your Mother. The thing with this is the hardest part is the first five minutes. After that point you start to get motivated by the fact that you already did five, why not another five, then another then why bother stop because there’s only five more minutes until the end of the episode.  This time I was interrupted a few times and I was at 0.93 miles at the end of the episode and thought to myself, “I would like to have run a mile today, that sounds impressive and then I can have something to improve on.” So I kept going. I ran one mile in 22 mins and some amount of seconds. I should have noted them, I believe it was like, 39 seconds or something like that. Now, 22 minutes is not a fast time for running a mile in the least I am well aware, but it is a starting point for sure.

Back to my procrastination.

I have been sitting here for over four hours now, four hours of sitting. I have checked Facebook multiple times only to remember each time that its pretty boring because I don’t really get the appeal, and there's always stuff on YouTube but I am really not in the mood. So TV and me are having a lazy Saturday morning. However, my elliptical is probably lonely and if I want to beat my three days in a row of cardio record from last week then I really need to go use it soon. Maybe after this movie… Maybe after lunch. I really need to do it today though. I will beat this food baby despite all my goulash is really not going to help.

On a more exciting note the recreation guide is out for Spring-Summer. I plan on enrolling in one or two classes. I would reallllllly enjoy a Pilates/yoga class and an aqua fitness one sounds like fun also. I believe Chelsea wants to sign up with me, not sure if my mom wants to do either of those classes but its nice motivation to join with people you know. I am extremely shy so even walking into a gym or exercise class really causes a lot of anxiety. Having someone with me instantly lowers my stupid anxiety and makes me focus on what I need to, breathing. Exercise classes make me focused and work hard, too hard to worry about people looking at you because your too busy gasping for air as your told to do three more stupid squats. Although, maybe another Boot Camp would be good. I wonder if it will be the same patterns? Even if it is its gotten me 16.5 inches and 8 lbs smaller in 7 weeks, so I would be alright with that. I think everyone should try a Boot Camp sometime in their life. It is a total body workout that really (I suppose it depends on your class) works you out more then you thought possible. So, go try one! Even for just one class just to see how it is. You probably will almost die, but its so worth it.