07/13/2021
Phase 1 complete! 👊🏼 So many feelings right now. Let me tell you 75 Hard and the Live Hard Program is not a fitness challenge. It is a mental toughness program. Learning some serious grit and mental strength. I have learned so much about myself. I can’t really explain it. The first 75 days of 75 Hard weren’t extremely challenging for me although there were a few REALLY challenging days, for me the hard work came in with Phase 1. It seemed to drag out forever. I had several moments, one day in particular about half way through where a situation out of my control with a person in my life causing me some serious grief. I was sad and depressed, my mind and my negative self talk was just telling me to give up, that it was ok. Then something in me just rose up and said NO! I won’t give up. So I begrudgingly completed my tasks, took a sad cold shower and went to bed. I woke up the next morning feeling amazing and even danced in my cold shower! Something had just clicked for me that day. Fast forward to day 28. I was heading out for my 2nd workout on my bike when I had a cycling accident and was catapulted to the street. After going to urgent care and with a knee injury, several abrasions and a bruised body, I cried. My husband thought it was because of the pain. My post was going to say I failed on day 28 of 30…who could blame me right? But I knew I could finish. I mean come on. I had 2 1/2 days left. Just 5 workouts! So I had my husband drag me outside and I did an upper body workout. Since then I’ve been doing all my workouts from a chair. I would say that’s too easy, but I’ve been worn out more so working through the pain than just doing the workouts I’m comfortable with. I conquered the day!
