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Tackling Day 1: Working Out With Pets

I have always found that day 1 of any goal is never the hardest.  Motivation is at the forefront of our psyche and eating right and exercising are a breeze.  Yesterday wasn't that bad.  For once, I didn't forget to eat (this is a side effect of being a writer and an artist...when I get "in the zone" of creating, I lose track of time), and I actually scheduled time to work out.  I'm still waiting for my P90 workout to arrive in the mail, but I have plenty of workouts videos and I decided to pull out my Karen Voight's Yogasculpt as an easy transition into working out.  And I'm happy I chose that one.  There is something to be said for yoga realigning your spine and this morning, I actually work up without the usual back pain I have grown accustomed to.

Of course, working out with pets can be challenging.  It is amazing how they can ignore me for hours on end but the minute I put on a movie, or pull out my yoga mat, they want to play. 

When I lost my job several years ago, I also lost my storage center.  Being an artist, I have an awful lot of unsold artwork, supplies, and misc crap that I used to lug around when I did craft shows.  Needless to say, I live in a dinky house that is a heck of a lot smaller after the boxes took over.  Finding an area to work out in can be a challenge.  To do so, it requires temporarily relocating my dog's pillow and food bowl for the allocated time.

Now, I don't know about your dog, but mine can be very particular about certain things.  She can be asleep in the bedroom, yet somehow gets offended when you move her pillow in the living room.  And heaven help you if her food bowl is not precisely where she wants it.  Needless to say, she wasn't happy when I moved it and I spent the first 15 minutes of my workout pausing the dvd and bargaining with my dog on the use of her space.  Add to this, my cat decided he wanted to play with my yoga mat and began rolling it over his body as I tried to keep my dog from laying down on the same mat.  And then my cat discovered that my capri's had ties at the knees...

After restarting my dvd about 5 times, I finally decided to just live and let live (my pets always get their own way).  As I started my breathing exercises, salutations, and chair poses, I found it really wasn't that difficult to perform yoga after all with a cat hanging off of my pant leg and a dog curled up at my feet licking my toes...Take that day 1...on to day 2!

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