Beating Hot Metal & Making Combat Fitness work FOR me

*\o/*  We made it through the New Year!!

I did the blacksmithing thing - and IT WAS AWESOME!  The gentleman who was kind enough to let me intrude in his workshop shared a lot of information with me.  He and his wife were amazing.  Seriously.  Now, I get to smack around hot metal at a friends house a little closer to home.  It's odd, I figured I would like it... but not this much.  It's a weird feeling.  When you're hammering metal that is glowing orange, and you can *feel* it spreading out underneath your hammer.  So. Freaking. Cool.  There's a notch in the learn all the things resolution - which is awesome.  Begin as you mean to continue, or as you mean to end.

In class there's this crazy 21 Day Combat Fitness Challenge that a bunch of the schools are doing.  Not gonna lie, when I first looked at it all I could think was, "I can't do it."  Then I realized that attitude pretty well sucked ass.  So I canned it.  I harassed a friend, and got some extra moral support and someone to feel my pain with me.  Decided I was IN!

Then I saw the first WOD (workout of the day) and I cried a little bit.  Before you get all judgy, or whatever - stuff it and keep reading.  Sheesh.  

There are unfortunately things that I cannot do.  Not because I lack the will - but because my body cannot handle it yet.  YET.  I'm a chubby girl.  It's slow going.  It took me a little while today to get to the "yet" part.  I saw the post where they were like, "do half reps if you don't work out every day" and wanted to gag a little.  Half reps is still 25 reps for each exercise.  Let me show you it:

WOD 1: Mon 8th

20 Hip Mobility
50 Press Ups
50 Mountain Climbs (2 counts as one)
50 V Crunches
50 Squat Kicks
50 Eight Count Bodybuilder
50 Squat Kicks
50 V Crunches
50 Mountain Climbs (2 counts as one)
50 Press Ups
20 Hip Mobility

Hip mobility is no problem - I actually enjoy that one.  My whole body feels good after those.  I could probably do 25 of those other exercises if there were only 4 or 5 of them instead of 9.  I took my insecure self directly to my Instructor (thank allll the gods that she's patient) and spilled.  I told her I was worried about starting and not being able to finish - and then knocking my stupid brain back into "I can't" mode.  I was like.. what if I do quarter reps instead of half, and then hopefully move it up a notch in two weeks?  She thought that was a good plan, and I instantly felt better.  

Then I did the math, and it was some stupid number like 12.5.  O.o  Whut?  No.  So I settled on 15.   I'll modify the push ups, and do them on my knees.  I think the others I can do without mods - I'll just be slow.  And you know what?  That's OK.  Because I am going to do this.  I'm going to do this every day. Though the workouts will be different every day.  When I get home, by 6:30, I will have started.  Hope I don't die.  Fingers crossed or something lol

And then??  I'm hopefully going to go beat on some more hot metal.  And feel like a badass.  Because I can.