I started working out in March of this year. I've been working out at least 30-50 minutes/5 days a week and walking and sometimes jogging 2km/3 days a week. I also do dance workouts whenever I want something light and more fun, but it seems like no matter how many fitness challenges I do or how many routines I try out this whole thing doesn't get easier.
I feel like in March I was a different person, it hurt like hell because never in my life I had done jumping jacks for a minute straight or hold down a plank for more than 20 seconds but I still did it, I was full of energy and drive and that allowed me to complete a 28-day program and jog 3 times a week. For a while there I thought I started gaining more resistance and becoming a bit stronger, after completing my first program I did other mini-challenges as well as doing some misc workout routines but today I started Chloe Ting's new Weight Loss program and I was struggling to finish the last routine out of the 3 I had to do today and this is the first day!!
I'm so confused, I thought as long as you showed progress and kept being consistent in your fitness journey you would get stronger and build more stamina but yet I'm still struggling a lot. The routines in this new program are not more demanding than the ones I started with in March and yet I feel like I'm still on day 1 of my fitness journey. I even cut down on the jogging entirely because I can't seem to finish my usual route anymore, it's like all of the sudden I have zero energy, or drive for that matter. To be fair to me I've seen personal trainers and people with years of gym in their backs struggling with Chloe Ting's routines and yet she is the one people say is perfect for beginners and if that's for beginners....my god.
I can kinda confirm that her routines are much easier than other fitness YouTubers I tried. Chloe and Mr London are the only people with routines that contain exercises that I can do from beginning to end. I know feeling tired and sore is part of the whole ordeal and I'm fine with that, hell sometimes I look forward to the burn some exercises bring but I feel like by now I should be able to do high knees for 40 seconds get 10 seconds of rest and transition into the next exercise without feeling like I'm dying considering that I've been working out almost every week since March.
Or maybe it isn't supposed to get easier and this being super hard all the time is the whole point. I don't know, I just want to be able to complete my usual 10-minute routines with some sort of ease sometime soon and without relying on any modifications. I guess I just gotta get stronger ugh.
I'm not really trying to get abs or muscles or be super fit or anything like that, I'm just trying to be healthy (and maybe lose a pound or two while I'm at it) after my clinical depression basically made me a bed prisoner so maybe my current efforts are okay for now and I'm just being too hard on myself. Even though I'm struggling quite a bit I still feel a bit proud of myself each day I manage to complete a routine and I do appreciate my body for letting me do that. Any kind of progress is still progress so I'm going to keep at it.
