After playing 4 straight days of basketball at the end of last week and early this week, I found myself craving exercise the past 2 days.  How strange.  While I’m exercising, it’s a freaking pain and sometimes really sucks when you feel like you need an oxygen mask.  But afterwards, it feels good.

It’s way easier to workout with 1) people in better shape than you, 2) people who are telling you what to do (aka at basketball practice).  1 is good because they push you to do more than you normally would by yourself.  Heck, by myself, I would give up 5 minutes into it and stop whenever I got tired, which is pretty quickly.  2 is good because you can’t stop, lol.  If someone is telling you to run lines, do defensive slides, etc.  You can’t really be like, I’m not going to do it.  You have to.

Yesterday, I worked out with C.  We were supposed to just shoot around but it ended up way more than that.  We were going to run until the courts freed up.  One lap around was a little more than 1 mile.  We ran 1 and up this hill, man I was so tired.  Then we threw the football around, little did I know, C. wasn’t done.  She wanted to run another lap!  She normally runs 3 laps.  Crazy.  So I was like, fine, but no hill.  While I was struggling along, C was just running little loops beside me!  Geez, I’m slow and out of shape.  Haha.  Then we threw the football around more.  Then she’s like ready for 3?  I’m like no!  Lol.  She’s like, alright, next time we’ll run 2 straight. -_-

Then we got back to her apartment and she’s like, now I do push-ups and crunches.  What?!  She does 50 wall push-ups and 50 crunches on the ball – 3 sets.  I did 20 girl push-ups and 20 crunches on the ball – 3 sets.  By the last set, I couldn’t even do a push-up anymore.  And my abs were burning!

Today, I’m a bit sore.  I should definitely exercise more with C.  I think I exercise much better when I’m being pushed.