Days 1-3 of a new me...

Now that we are done having kids I have a great desire to get my body back into shape. I haven't worked out for such a long time...I mean REALLY worked out. Thanks to family and a recent birthday I am able to work out at the rec center for a few months...YAY!! A friend of mine, Katie, has been telling me about a spin class she goes to and it sounds like a hard, fun work out so I thought I'd try it out.

DAY 1:
Day one I attended a spin class. It was a spin circuit that day...I would not recommend your first day of working out after not having worked out in a long time with this class. Boy did it kick my rear...and by that I mean I about passed out, got a major headache, threw up kicked my rear. Embarrassing. Sadly I have to admit my ambitions were greater than my bodies ability. We started on the bike...did fine. Started feeling it a little. Then we went to something called the deck of cards. Now I'm a person who loves games, but this deck of cards was no game. She shuffles the cards, counts out half the deck and draws from it. Each suit has an exercise that goes with it and the number on the card indicates how many of that exercise you do. First set had to do with mainly the upper body (arms mainly). I managed to make it through this with jelly arms at the end but still standing. Next we got back on the bikes. Made it through this too. Then back to the deck of cards. She told us what each suit stood for and we began. This time there was a lot of up and down motions...bad bad bad. Oh man did this ever send my head for a spin. I'm not 100% sure if it was my head below my heart or what, but it didn't end well. My vision started to go and a little ringing in the ears began. I felt really dumb stopping but I didn't feel like passing out infront of a bunch of people and making the entire class have to stop. So I took some time trying to regain my head, but couldn't seem to get a grip on it. The wonderful instructor was so sweet and asked if I was ok. I said I think so, just feeling dizzy and light headed. She said I should walk or try to ride for a while. I tried the bike first, but not such a good idea. I about fell off with my head still in a fuzz. So I took a few laps around the track to try and get my head to settle.
Unfortunately it didn't ever stop completely, but I felt like I could get back on the bike and thankfully was able to finish the class on the bike. We got done and I went home. I felt pretty awful...my head started pounding. I got the kiddos ready for school by taking a few times of laying down in between doing hair. I got done and tried going out to see if they had their stuff all ready and it hit my hard...ran to the bathroom and threw up. My sweet kids kept asking if I was ok. Madie came in the to see what I was doing and Cailee being such a great big sister kept her out and told her that she didn't think she wanted to throw up too.
I took the kids to school and ran to a friends house for some IBProfin (I ran out right before Christmas...why oh why didn't I pick some up when we ran out...).
Thankfully my sweet baby was having a good day I was able to finish feeding him his bottle and lay him on my legs while I laid on the floor by a heater. He fell asleep and Madie and Brandon watched a cartoon while I closed my eyes for a while. The IBProfin had a chance to kick in before Ethan woke up and my head finally got under control.

So I can officially call day 1 very interesting.

Day 2...
Cardio workout. Thursday workout ended much better than the previous day. I ran on the treadmill and worked out on the elliptical. I felt a lot less light headed after that workout. I was able to go 20 min on each and felt good about it. I know I'm really out of shape so I have to keep telling myself to give it time and keep going. My husband has been such a great encouragment. He wakes me up each morning and tells me he's proud of me. I'm so grateful for that.

Day 3...
More cardio. I did a repeat today of Thursdays workout. I've been watching my heart rate the past couple of days to see if that's the cause of the light headedness(have no idea if that's actually a real word, but it is in my world). It seems like I have no problem getting my heart rate up, infact I'm struggling not getting it to high. Today I peaked at 195 bpm and the target heart rate for my age is significantly less. I seem to reach my target heart rate with the warm up, so I'm not sure how to fix that. Then getting my heart rate back down has been some what of a challenge. So far I haven't died, so I figure I'll just keep watching it to see what happens.

It does feel good to be proactive about how I feel about myself. I'm frustrated with clothes not fitting, but I refuse to go buy new pants because I don't plan on staying where I'm at for very long. I have goals I plan on achieving, one being that I want to run a 1/2 marathon at some point with my sisters!! I don't really enjoy running a lot but it's a bucket list item that I'd like to check off. And who knows, maybe I'll enjoy it more than I think. I like to physically challenge myself from time to time and right now this is it.

Note to self: You are stronger than you think. You've endured much and have the ability to do this. It's a goal you will achieve. You have a wonderful support system...lean on them when you hit a wall.