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I came home tonight and like a good Troy I did some workout exercises on the exercise ball. Only thing is, I was still a little sore from the workout I did this morning. Let’s rewind…

Back in my yute, like so many of my friends I loved to watch… The A Team. But not just the A Team… anything that Mr. T was on. Wrestling, Rocky, A Team, and that crazy Mr. T cartoon. Inbetween segments of the cartoon, the real Mr. T would come on the screen and tell all the kids they need to eat right and exercise. Mr. T told us he does 200 situps a day, eats 6 bowls of cereal for breakfast, and does 300 pushups every night.

Well, I wasn’t about to eat 6 bowls of cereal a day, not even with a lot of sugar.

So, I did the situps instead. Being skinny (oh the days of wearing a size “slim” jeans) I had a pretty easy time of it. Situps are easy. Why were some kids such wimps that they had to cross their hands on their chest instead of behind their heads. WIMPS!

Of course now… situps are a little more difficult. So, with the exercise ball, the first time I used it I thought “wow this is much easier!” you can arch your back wayyyyyyyyyy over the ball and get maximum extension and compression with very little “effort.” Unfortunately, the part I always forget, is there are more factors that go into using the ball than a normal situp. You have to balance while doing the exercise.

So tonight, when I finished doing the third set of 10, I got up off the ball and could barely stand up. I stood there for a few seconds, unable to straighten my back. Not that my back was hurt, but my abs were cramping.

Now THAT’s a new feeling. ow ow ow ow. ow. So I went and made dinner (ramen, beef) and came back and oince again stretched out on the ball and did some curls with weights. This stretched out the abs again and made them a little less sore. What this means though, is I’m doing something right, and hopefully eventually I will have something to show for it.

Of course, right now, I’m not looking forward to doing more tomorrow morning.

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A little disappointing this week, as today weighed in at 220. I had gotten down to 218 late last week, but a weekend of cast parties, and 2 nights of eating leftover spaghetti seems to have taken its toll. So technically it is up .4 from last week, but as I mentioned in a previous post, losing close to 7 lbs in a week seemed too much anyway.

I’m still down 5 from 2 weeks ago, so I’m hanging in there. Hopefully this week will be another good one. This morning I still have a sore neck, so getting out to go walking is next to impossible. So… bring on week 3!