I woke up this morning in incredible Jillian-induced pain from the first week 3 Body Revolution workout that I did yesterday. Instead of cursing her, as I’m sure many do when this happens (sorry Jill!), I was thrilled!! Yesterday I was really disappointed when I couldn’t do all of the moves in the workout and was worried that I didn’t do enough to really even benefit from doing the DVD. And I even posted about how maybe it was just too hard for me and I should give up. Clearly, my muscles disagreed with my assessment. What’s more this wonderful pain made me realize that I didn’t really feel that way during weeks 1 and 2. Sure I felt like the workouts were killing me when I was actually doing them but the next day there wasn’t much evidence of a job well done.
These realizations made me try the second week 3 workout tonight. Yesterday I had decided that I was going to go back and do weeks 1 and 2 again but I’m so glad I didn’t! The second workout, though it was tough, wasn’t nearly as hard as the first one. I don’t know if it’s because I was mentally prepared for it or that the muscles we were working were just stronger, but whatever the reason, I felt great! I couldn’t do all of the moves perfectly but I didn’t feel like such a disappointment.
Now this being said, I think I still may have to take more time with weeks 3 and 4. Maybe these workouts are going to be my weeks 3, 4, 5 & 6. I don’t want to move on until I can do all of the moves because I’m sure it’s only going to get harder in the following weeks. But I’m okay with that and the support and comments I received on my post yesterday really helped me come to terms with this. Thank you. I said myself that this isn’t a race, so I really shouldn’t be holding myself to someone else’s expectation of how fast to go through workouts. I trust Jillian’s judgment but not everyone is built the same or at the same level of fitness. Body Revolution is supposed to be a 3-month weight loss program and perhaps it’s going to take me 6 months to get through it. But you know what? I’ll be proud that I finished no matter how long it takes!