Psych! / 30 DayShred

Psych; not to be confused with the literal term [psych]ology, [psych]opath, [psych]ologist, [psych]iatrist, etc.

That is such a silly word. I mean, look at it. Nothing about it is right. Psych should be spelled Sike, let's just get real. You know, I just learned how to spell psych in my senior year of high school. I'd always bumble it (I just made that phrase up, it sounds English) and spell it: Pysch. Or perhaps even: Psyhc (just kidding, I think). But most of the time, I just stuck with SIKE because it was shorter and much more effective.

But what I'm really trying to say (in a roundabout way) is that I PSYCHED myself out.

There was all this hub-bub buzzing around BN (if you don't know what BN is, I'm sorry I can't disclose that information until we're very good friends) about the 30 Day Shred and Jillian Michaels and I was just so gosh darn curious that I took it upon myself to YouTube as many clips as I could. It didn't look hard, so I decided to compile my OWN workout, very similar to Jillian's.

Here were the problems with that:
1. I had no idea what I was doing.
2. I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS DOING.
And apart from #1 and #2,
3. I thought it was an awesome idea, despite the fact that I didn't know what I was doing.

So I went about my merry-made-up-workout for 6 days, EVEN PUSHING THROUGH that gross, hard to maneuver (no, literally) second day. I'm not kidding, the second day after my made up workout, I couldn't sit down to pee without wanting to cry. I might have cried, you'll never know. So after 6 days, I started halving my workout and eventually just quit.

Kendall, why are you telling me this? LISTEN, child. I have a point. Hush now.

A friend of mine, we'll call her Sarah, because that's her name...lost my train of thought. SARAH AND I went to Target to buy floaties and gifts for my niece (the floaties were not for the 6 month old). We stumbled upon the real 30 Day Shred DVD and decided to go halves on it. I was literally quivering with fear as I pushed it into my DVD player that night. I figured that because I modeled my original workout around Jillian's without knowing what it exactly was, that this REAL one would be TEN TIMES HARDER.

Well, PSYCH. It wasn't!
In fact, it was totally doable. I'm serious. And Jillian makes me laugh with her serious demeanor.

So, I may have just written a novel to get to that last few sentences. You liked it, don't act like you didn't. This isn't a sales pitch for the 30 Day Shred either, because I've only done it for two days (and I'm going to LA tomorrow so I can guarantee there's going to be a 30DS hiatus from me). If you want to try it, you can come over and we'll do it together. I'll hold you. Or not, if you prefer not to be held that's cool, I'll let you sweat it out.