A Forgotten Pain

The other day I purchased a new program for the Wii called the Wii Active. I used the Wii Fit for a while last year and it helped me to lose close to 17 pounds . However, ever since the holidays, I kind of stopped watching what I ate, stopped exercising, etc, and although I didn't gain all the weight back, I gained a decent chunk. Ready to get back on the weight loss wagon, I started up the Wii Fit on June 1. The only thing was, I was bored with it and I didn't really feel it was that strenuous despite the help it gave me last year. I heard about a new program called the Wii Active and gave it a go this past Saturday.

OH. MY. GOD. This thing totally kicked my butt. I had to enter all my basic information and pick an activity level I wanted to work at. You could start doing exercises on your own, but I chose to do the 30 day challenge which is a guided workout - the on screen instructor chooses my exercises and keeps me going until it decides I am done. By the end of the 30+ minutes of my first guided workout on Saturday, I had more sweat than I had had in years and I could barely move my legs as it had me do a tremendous amount of leg work, lunges and such. But, I felt good about doing it.

Sunday I woke up and I could barely move. Determined, I went on to day 2. Like a bad nightmare, the program threw even more leg work at me, rendering my quads useless at one point. They had other focus areas too, but this is what hurt the worst by far. The rest of the day Sunday, every little step too the effort of a champion. Thankfully, when I went on to day 3 on Monday, the majority of the work was focused on arm work. And, because the program must have appreciated my hard work, it told me to take the day off today to rest my muscles. What is funny though is I was almost disappointed this morning not to exercise, but I wanted to stick with what it told me. Still, I am actually looking forward to tomorrow's workout and I can't believe I just typed that. I am quite happy with this program so far...