Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.

My workout mantra courtesy of Yoda.  I admit, I was legitimately saying that out loud to myself during the ruthless "first real workout" (frankly I count the fit test from Wednesday, that shit burned) for Day 3 of the Bodyrock 30 Day Challenge. If today was just the beginning, I can only imagine how brutal this is going to get but I am 100% determined and I will NOT quit. I hope. I am at least feeling really good about this as well as myself. I have almost doubled the amount of water I drink (and I already drank a fair amount) and I am still (mostly) doing a good job eating healthy (less starch, sodium and fatty foods).

Anyway, for Day 3 we (by we, I mean I watched the video on the website and followed along so I felt like was working out with someone) did Bodyrock Burn (and boy did it) and Bodyrock Sculpt (here's hoping).  All with the 50/10 intervals again, which I am really enjoying (I found an app on my Kindle Fire that does a great job), it makes you really work for it. Maybe it's because I'm competitive but I just always feel like it's a race and I'm trying to beat the timer. It's also really helpful to have a badass playlist going while you're working. I like to listen to The Black Keys because they make me feel like I could kick some ass, which is a feeling that I find fairly seductive.

For Bodyrock Burn there was a circuit of four exercises that you repeated 3 times with the interval of 50 seconds on and 10 seconds rest. You start with touch downs (also called side taps which are fast side lunges with a touch down to the middle) then move on to spider push-ups (you bring alternating knees out, similar to hydrants but in a push up position), these were too hard for me in the basic position so I modified to girl push ups with a hydrant, next you do tuck-abs/tuck-crunches (sit ups with a knee tuck, in the rest position try to keep your feet from touching the ground) followed by hanging knee raises, I don't have a pull up bar (yet, I'm working on it because I want to be able to do these) so I did reverse crunches with a kick out. It kicked my pathetic ass but I loved it. Here's how I did:

Touchdowns: 70/60/50
Modified Spider Push-ups: 15/20/15
Tuck Abs: 15/20/15
Reverse Crunches: 20/25/25

After I got nice and sweaty doing that circuit 3 times, you immediately move on to Bodyrock Sculpt. For this one there were 8 exercises in the circuit; a bicep curl and press, shoulder press, squats, triceps presses, "round the world" (start with forearms facing forward arms lowered in front of you with your free weights lightly touching then bring arms straight out to your sides, up over your head then down in front of you back to start then reverse that, that is one rep. This hurts so good.), upright row, bent over row and finally abs (full sit-ups) with elevated legs. Thankfully you only do the circuit once. Here's how I did:

Bicep Curl and Press: 20
Shoulder Press: 20
Squats: 25
Triceps Press: 30
Round the World: 10
Upright Row: 25
Bent Over Row: 30
Abs: 30

The chick who does all the tutorial videos and whatnot on Bodyrock's name is Lisa Marie (I will probably start referring to her occasionally so I thought I ought to mention it, not that anyone but me is actually reading this haha) and she wants everyone who's doing the 30 Day Challenge to take a before picture today. I did but I will not be posting it until I have my after picture as well so that I can feel good about myself rather than just embarrassed. Anywho, I am going to hurt tomorrow, but luckily it's Saturday so it's is a rest day that will be spent at Rivers Casino with AJ and his family (hopefully I win a little haha). Sunday is also a rest day, though hopefully I'll do at least a little Yoga, maybe I'll even skip the rest day (don't count on it).  Here is some inspiration/motivation for the day:

I so want a muscular/toned back, I think they're super sexy.