Yesterday was... painful. I did do my 100 squats! I thought my legs would give out on me a few times, but I made myself finish it.
When I woke up and wrote yesterday's post, I felt pretty good. My legs felt less sore and less rubbery than they had the day before. Oh... but I forgot the golden rule of muscle soreness that I learned when I was into weightlifting. The third day is always the worst one. And yesterday was the third day...
After writing the post I tried to get on with my day, but my legs just got more and more sore. Even walking became painful. I didn't think I would be able to do any squats at all. I mean, I have willpower, but I didn't think my body was going to respond.
Around noon I set up to try to do some. My legs hurt more than ever and I didn't think I would even be able to squat down, let alone back up. I put a chair on either side of me, in fact, so that I could help catch myself if I started to fall. Squatting down was... painful. But I forced myself up. Then I did the next 24 slowly. A few hours later I did 25 more. By evening my legs were just screaming in pain. But I forced myself to do 25 more. Then before bed... I really didn't think I had any more in me. Again, I forced a set of 25. I did each one slowly and deliberately, as if I were at the gym and squating heavy weight.
I did it! 100!
This morning I feel ok. Legs still hurt. My quads are burning and my hams are telling me not to move at all. Let's see if I can do the next 100 later today. Eventually I want to go over 100 with some bonus ones like my pal @livinguktaiwan, but I don't know if that's in the cards today.
I'm doing this 100 Squats per day Challenge to raise funds for Cancer Research. Read my challenge announcement here. If anyone else wants to join, please do, and please mention it here! If I see enough interest, I'll create a community for it so we can all more easily be cheerleaders for each other.
Ouch! That sounded painful David, but as you say the third day is the worst. Hang on in there! Things can only get better now !!
Let's hope!
You'll be aceing this in no time, you'll see! Hang in there, Miyagi-san! :)
Will do!
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