It's All About the CORE

I think that it's safe to say that I am going to be really sore when I get out of bed tomorrow. Today, I think that I did what I have been telling myself not to do since I started training again...I over did it.

This morning, I woke up and headed to the gym for a make-up Pilates reformer class. My doctor recommended that I give Pilates a try as a way to strengthen my core and my back, so I started these weekly sessions about 6 weeks ago. Because this morning was a make up session, I think that our instruction decided that we were going to work extra hard for an hour. My calves were burning, my abs were burning and I swear that I now feel muscles I never knew existed. So, by the time the hour was up, I pretty much felt like jell-o.

By 5pm I was feeling better, but this is about when the exhaustion set in. I know that everyone tells you that you should sleep when the baby sleeps, but when Brody naps for 3 hours, I can usually think of so many other things to do during those 3 hours, and then of course I never really accomplish everything that I hope to in those 3 hours. By the time Brody woke up, I was seriously considering cancelling the babysitter (Mike is out of town this week), and just not going to my track workout. Instead, I went and endured another couple of hours of intense core exercises from Coach Mary.

So, it's now almost midnight, I'm home after two brutal workouts and a piece of tasty Hobee's coffeecake, and I am still up. And yes, I now feel like a HUGE bowl of jell-o and I don't think that feeling is going away anytime soon.

Right now, it's all about the core.

I wonder if someday my core will feel more like a washboard than jell-o?

We can all dream, can't we?