5am Is a Real Time of the Day, Apparently.

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I need to write, I really do and all I want to do is read and sleep. Well, and apparently exercise, which is an interesting new development. I made it to Water Aerobics at 5:50 this morning and dad and I are getting up even earlier tomorrow to go. I really do like going and it’s nice going with dad in the mornings. We don’t work out together but we ride together and it’s nice visiting and stuff. And the working out thing has been kind of wonderful too because it’s a little like meditating. I spend the time counting repetitions or matching the swing of my right arm with my left leg, or trying to keep up with the lady yelling directions at me and it’s like I can’t think too much about anything else. Sometimes I listen to a book while I do the weight training type stuff, but I can’t always listen and count which is fine because I do have Apple Music and there are some good workout mixes on there I like listening to. I’m trying to decide what I’ll do in the morning.

 

I think the 5:50am class tomorrow is going to be a class called “Muscle Max” and that sounds like the kind of thing where I won’t be able to move any part of my body afterwards, and while I’m enjoying my exercise, I’m not interested in being immobilized for four days while I recover. After I did a “Fit to Fight” class (punching bag and push ups basically), I could barely move for a week, I was so sore and torn up. I couldn’t raise my arms to shoulder level, let alone all the way up and my job is way too physical for me to go through something that intense right now.

 

At the same time, this morning’s water aerobics class was… not easy exactly, but it felt more like “recovery exercise” than anything else. It felt like the kind of thing I would do to give my body a break from exercising which is weird but cool. I mean, I did breathe harder and my heart rate went up a little, but I just didn’t feel strained at all. And if I didn’t feel strained at all, it could be that the class in the morning could be something that has multiple levels and I would be able to do a level that worked for me. I’m wondering if the person who leads the class will be in there early and I could maybe talk to them a little about the class and how challenging or modified for beginners it could be. The name of the class sounds incredibly intense, but the description on the back didn’t sound so bad. It was just something like the class had “multiple levels” and you would be “pushing yourself.” So I don’t know. I guess we’ll see. It would also be good to do the next day on my Couch to 5k app. Maybe I’ll just see how I feel when I get there. Anyway, I guess I have another ridiculously early morning tomorrow, so I’m headed to bed.