Day 2 - The Morning Health Parade

The alarm goes off at 5:30am.. hit snooze again. Maybe I hit it one or two more times, but who's counting. Finally roll out about 5:55am.

This seems harder than it was yesterday. At least yesterday had the promise of something "new"... today its just a workout. Amazing how fast something you don't want to do becomes routine, boring and painful (that's me... Mr. Positive... yeah!).

I wake up my wife. No mention of "the ticket" this morning (what do you think I'm that stupid?). We head down stairs to read our motivational kick start from Jorge. I guess its the sarcasm in me, but its a little tough to read some motivational rant about imagining my perfect body at 6am in the morning... but hey it usually gives me some good material to crack a joke and make my wife laugh.. I am always looking for new material for jokes.

We then head into the warm up routine. For some reason instead of running in place to warm up, we end up actually jogging around the house. Into the kitchen, around the island counter, into the living room, around the coffee table, etc. Kind of like a little morning parade... oh this is so much fun!

Not sure how this became the warm up but I sure hope our neighbors don't see us. Oh yeah, that's right.. its 6am...Who the hell would be looking in my windows at this time of the morning anyways. I peek out the front.. just to be sure.... I never did trust my neighbors.... small hands, smell like cabbage (Austin Powers for those of you not as dorky as I am).

We jump right into the exercises - Shoulders and Abs today. The shoulder exercise uses the dumbbells and you know about the abs... just your standard pain in the rear crunches. Takes me back to the glory days of Middle School, and failing the Presidential Fitness Test... again.

Once again its over before I know it and I am putting the weights back in the garage and hitting the shower. I really do think I can do this. Wait a second.. is that an actual positive comment on this program with no sarcasm what so ever.... it is. Now that is impressive.

One note on the "8 Minutes" thing. Its really more like 15-18 min. After you warm up, do the exercises and stretch, but I just don't think "15-18 Minutes, give or take a few here or there in the Morning" tested well with the focus groups. So "8 Minutes" it is.

** Stay tuned for Day 3 when I realize why this program is so effective.......