Week 2 Day 1 - Whoa Nelly!

Monday means Pure Strength Class at the Y at 6:00 a.m. and that means I'm up at 5:00 a.m. Fortunately, I woke up and the soreness that was trying to take residence in my throat seemed to have disappeared. I loaded up on the Vitamins C, D and Zinc anyway. I had a little bit of time left but I didn't want to do the pushups before heading to class and end up with jello arms while I was teaching. That wouldn't look too good! So I taught my class and got to work where there were plenty of opportunities to get down on the ground and do the pushups but I think I was slightly scared, even intimidated. I know, right? Seriously?? Intimidated after a completing a whole week of pushups? Whatever!

I got home, made dinner, ate dinner, iced and rolled out my feet and I finally ran out of excuses and things to do. I warmed up and cranked out the pushups: 14, 14, 10, 10 and a maximum of 20! HAHAHA! I crack me up sometimes. All that anxiety for nothing!

MY OBSERVATIONS:

• Yowza!! I am probably going to be sore!! I really felt every single one of those pushups.
• The 60 second rest definitely feels short. I think I prefer a 90 second rest.
• I worked up a sweat completing the 5 sets. 
• The last set of 20 pushups was definitely to exhaustion. There was no way I would have been able to do 1 more.
• I procrastinated all day long because the number of pushups per set was really playing tricks with my head yet when I started, all of the apprehension and doubt just melted away.
• I didn't have a target for my last set so I surprised myself that I completed the same number as Week 1 Day 3.