So, I joined a local gym about two months ago and it's been......awesome...... and sometimes painful. I realized after doing my half marathon (and getting far more injured than I normally would) that a) my core was COMPLETELY shot after having two babies in less than 2 years, and that b) I needed cross training not only for my core, but for everything else too. Boy was I right. Within the first week of joining the gym, I realized just how bad all my muscles throughout my body had become, with my core muscles being the worst. This was particularly obvious when I did any kind of balancing exercises--the whole rest of the class would be able to stand on one leg just fine, and there I would be teetering and wobbling away. I'm still not great at balance, but with a little persistence (not to mention slowly strenghtening my core!), I've gotten better and better and better. The same can be said for any other aspect of exercise. With Step classes for example (which I had never done before even though I had done all sorts of aerobics exercise classes pre-babies), I literally FELL OFF THE STEP in one of my first classes..... eeep! Now, however, I've gotten better, and can actually manage to navigate the darn step bench for the whole class. Yippeee!
Oh. Yes. You probably want to know how all this exercising has impacted my weight loss. It hasn't. My weight has stayed the same as of last week (when my scale stopped working). However, my dress size has actually gone down. Well, in the hips, chest and everywhere-other-than-the-waist. That dreaded core again. Hopefully, I don't still look pregnant. Eeeep!
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