Day 1 - "Damn you Jorge...."

Alarm goes off at 5:30 am.... I hit snooze of course. Alarm goes off again at 5:45 am. I manage to pull my raggedy self out of bed.

The interesting thing is that this is about the same time I wake up almost every day for work... but for some odd reason today seems a little harder to get going. Oh, that's right... today is the FIRST DAY OF MY WORKOUT PLAN! I begin to curse Jorge, the author of 8 Minutes in the Morning... I mean, c'mon.. what kind of mad man creates a workout program that only takes 8 minutes! Now I don't have any excuse NOT to work out. It is either pure genius or insidious... I am currently reserving judgement.

So I try and wake up my wife so we can start this "fun" journey together, so I gently shake her. No response. I shake her a little harder and she tells me "no, I'm waiting for the ticket".

I laugh and ask, what ticket? She says, "The ticket from the lady". Now I really start laughing.... big mistake apparently (Note to self: do not laugh at my wonderful wife before she is awake.. it seems to make her pretty upset). You would think I would learn this after over 8 years of marriage but after all I am male, and therefore not very sharp.

After a short conversation about why I should not be laughing right now (which makes me laugh even more.. another bad idea by the way) we head downstairs to begin our "8 minutes in the morning". (BTW - the "ticket" that she was waiting for was apparently at Oprah's airport and the whole family was trying to get on a plane to go home..... wish I was at Oprah's airport and not heading downstairs to work out)

So back to Day 1. We head downstairs and gather our weights and open the 8 Minutes book to "Week 1, Day 1". There is a short motivational page.. something about visualizing your new body or something like that. I am currently visualizing my nice warm and cozy bed, but I would much rather be starting a workout plan of course (BTW - not sure if I mentioned this, but I am arguably one of the most sarcastic people on the face of the earth. Not sure if that comes through in writing but I just thought you should be aware).

The next step in the daily plan is to "warm up". Jorge suggests in the book to "run in place" for few minutes. As my wife and I begin to do this.. and looking pretty ridiculous in the process.. I go on a short tirade and curse Jorge once again for his diabolical "8 minute" plan.

Today's exercise consists of a bench press like motion laying on the floor and a bent over row with the dumbbells. Once we got going it was not really that bad, in fact it was rather easy. As with most things it is the act of starting.... a rolling stone and all of that.

And then just like that it was over.... weird. It almost didn't feel like "working out", and I should know because I usually have a sever allergic reaction to working out (I get hives and turn all blotchy I think).

So after Day 1 I am feeling pretty good... maybe this will work after all.