When I was a teenager I walked 2 miles/day for 5 days/week, and I did yoga. My Mom taught me the finer details of yoga. One of the things that she taught me was that even if I couldn't do a pose, the act of trying to do the pose will build muscle, and eventually I would be able do the full pose.
I keep that exercise principle in mind whenever I am in aerobics classes. If there is an exercise that my body finds difficult to do, I just keep trying to do that exercise until I can do it. Eventually, my body does adjust to the exercise. I was so surprised when I was doing yoga yesterday and I could go from the Plank pose into Downward Dog pose several times in a row. When I first began exercising I could not do the Plank pose, now I'm doing that and more.
I can't believe that it's been just a little over a month since I began training for the Breast Cancer Fundraiser. My body has made some amazing changes within that short period of time.
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