We don't spend enough time together. It's $34/mo down the drain. Plus, the gym folk have turned into poo-heads, they're all aggro about selling stuff and they're pushy and obnoxious and they were mean to a friend of mine.
So it's over. But I still want to get fit-ified, so I'm gonna do it at home, without spending any money or accumulating any exercrap, and most of the workouts need to be doable in my living room while my child sleeps or otherwise amuses herself.
I figure a combination of bodyweight exercises, stuff like pilates (for which I already have a DVD so it doesn't count as an expense and it was only $10 anyhow), and lifting some heavy things ought to do it. I was floundering around trying to figure out a routine, or a workout schedule or something when I came across crossfit.com - which is pretty much what I was aiming for, except with some modifications on the olympic lifts part because as much as I'd like one, there's no room for an olympic weight set in the living room. So my huge-ass laundry detergent containers filled with water will have to do what they can as weights, and the rest I can probably manage.
For anyone else wanting to get fit 4 cheap, follow along as I shamelessly rip off the workout of the day (WOD) on crossfit.com and adapt it to my equipment-less living room!
Today turned out to be a great day to get started because the WOD consisted of... a 5 k run. Now THAT I have equipment for, and the child was fortunately at her grandparents' place so I took the hound and ran to Clover Point and back, which I *think* is 5 k from my house but I will check with the car odometer to be sure when I go out later. Anyway, I did it in 34 minutes, which is not going to get me on any running team anytime soon, BUT I did run the whole way, even the uphill-ish bits with the wind and rain against me, and I didn't even hate it.
Oh, it's customary to state goals and whatnot, isn't it? Ok, I wanna get down to 25% body fat by the time we go to Hawaii so I look all cute in my hideous floral-print bathing suit. How's that for vain stupid goal-setting? Let's see if I can do it.
Below is the "before" picture of me. 152 lbs, 38% body fat. Note the stylish workout togs. No lululemon for me! Also, my face is all red because I forgot to take the picture BEFORE my run.
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