Exercise hurts!!!

I tried doing a 30 minute simple Pilates video tonight. I survived it.... but I feel so gross with work out videos. I can't grab my ankles like they do and it's sad. I have trouble keeping up and I'm extremely uncoordinated.

The good news about this is that no one can see you if you're in your apartment so it doesn't matter how uncoordinated you are.... I like the Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred... but it will kick your *kitten*

I do minstry of sound pump it up, the ultimate workout! Its fun and broke down into sections so you can work your way up, it absolutely ruins me but each day I get a little further!

Yeah, exercise definitely hurts. I like that one saying though, "Pain is just weakness leaving the body." :laugh:
Let me tell you something that might make you feel a little better. When I started working out, I could barely even do 2 minutes of the cardio classes on the Turbo Fire DVDs. Every time I tried to exercise at all, whether it was jogging, bicycling or the Turbo Fire classes, I would be in agony all during it and after for about 2 months. It slowly got better though. The reason it hurt so badly for me was because my muscles had partially atrophied, due to such low activity for the better portion of 5 years. I sat on my *kitten* and played computer games (WoW mostly) ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT sometimes. I almost lost my husband over it too. I literally did nothing, and if you do nothing for too long... muscles atrophy. Luckily for me, it was reversible since it was from that and not trauma. Pain is good, pain means your muscles are alive and working. Embrace it. Learn to love it. Understand that it won't hurt forever, and eventually it WILL start to feel good. Trust me! I love my workouts now - I no longer have pain in my legs anymore other than the normal amount of soreness when I push myself really hard. Don't give up! It's worth it, just keep pushing yourself!

have you considered the couch to 5K program? http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

it literally is for couch potatoes to get them running! i know it doesn't sound appealing, but it's very liberating to be able to just put on some shoes and go rather than having to drive to a gym or waiting for someone to finish using a piece of equipment. also, it gets very exciting seeing how well you do each week, the progress you make on this program is phenomenal. tons of people who have never run in their lives swear by it, including me.

if you have a smart phone (andriod) or iphone you can go to either the market or itunes and download the app. it makes it super easy... you can listen to your own music and someone tells you when to walk, run, cool down etc.

otherwise if you just have a standard mp3 player or ipod you can download pod casts which are great too.

Do you have a Wii or similar? I know they no real substitute for a gym/workout class but I like how it gives feedback, I thought EA Active was quite good and I'm sure there is others.

Can you get to any gym classes? I went to my second one (since I moved 3 months ago) tonight and there was a few people who had never been before but they all went, tried and finished it (I was bright read and hate to think how unfit I looked!) and nobody took a second glance. I think it really helps for motivation.

Also I just bought a HRM and am hoping it will make me compete with my previous workouts to get better and better...

The hardest thing is initially going to exercise I find, I'm always fine when I'm there x

I was gonna suggest walk off the pounds too.
I am way out of shape and I can totally keep up with her, and really work up a sweat. I don't find it boring because I really stay busy and all the weight lost on my ticker below... about 90 percent of that is all from that. So I'd recommend it to anyone!

I started going to the gym 3 times a week and I did zumba an hour each time. I thought I was going to die!

When I started I was 400 pounds I have a bad knee and a bad ankle. The first time I went in I wanted to give up. same thing the next 3 or 4 times. added to the fact that I was huge and here were all these sexi looking people doing it seemingly with ease.

I kept at it and before I knew it, I was able to keep up and increase my excercise to 5 days a week (M-F) still doing Zumba 3 days along with weight training/intervals. The other 2 days weight training and basic cardio. (treadmill, bike, epilep) etc. but no zumba. I swam for fun on saturdays with my kids. but nothing crazy. And Sunday was my total rest day. I lost 65 pounds in 5 months. I will not claim it was easy and even after being at it for a month I still had days I wanted to quit but I didn't. If I absolutley needed a rest day I took it. But the important thing was that I did it and I didn't let myself stop me.

If life had not dealt me a bad hand I would still be where I was but I screwed up. Gained some weight back but here I am again starting again and guess what? I will carry my butt right back to the gym after I lose the inital 15-20 pounds using diet and walking. I know I will have to rebuild my stamina. Probably wont be able to do more than 5 mins on the bike but atleast I will put the effort in! You CAN do it!