30 Day Challenge Day 27 Complete!

For a variety of reasons yesterday (chief of which was my legs were right sore from walking to work through the week), I took the day off from the 30 Day Challenge.  So I completed Day 27 today instead. 

I have to say, today's workout sucked.  It was a countdown cardio ladder, where you do 10 reps of one move, then 10 reps of a second move, 9 reps of the first move, etc.  Those are really not my style of workout at all.  Last time it came up, I was lucky to get through half of the reps before Betty Rocker moved onto the next move.  This time, I paused the video and worked through most of the workout at my own pace, just so that I knew I actually got the reps in. I would have been much happier doing some other style of cardio; I'll have to keep that in mind for once I finish the 30 Day Challenge.

That's something I've been thinking about lately too: what's next once I finish this?  I love the fact that the Challenge has gotten me up and fitting a workout in first thing (that only works on the days when I don't work at 9 or 10 in the morning).  On most days I get myself out of bed, do my workout, have a shower, then go to work.  If I have to work a morning shift, I'll go to work then come home and do my workout then.  The only days I've consistently failed to do a workout are the ones where I work a full day (like a 9-5).  So I think that once I'm done the Challenge, I'll try to build those days into my week as rest days.

And really, there's no reason why this can't continue.  I have a library of workout DVDs at my disposal.  I can very easily get up and pick two Ten Minute Solution segments to do before having a shower.  On days when I have a little more time, I can do a longer workout if I want, too (like a Crunch dvd).  I'll probably have to come up with a rough weekly plan of which day to do which kind of activity (like cardio day, abs day, etc), just to make sure I'm working out my entire body (and that'll make it easier to decide on a workout first thing in the morning!)

Since starting the 30 Day Challenge, I also haven't done any fasting days.  I've found that after a workout, I'm way too hungry to not eat a nutritious meal.  So I'm considering trying to fit in some fasting days too, which will necessarily also have to be rests from working out.  But I'll have to see how well that will fit into my week.