So, today is my day 4. I didn't do it yesterday because I had a sharp pain in my right ankle that had me limping all day at work. When it's just normal pain, I just throw on a compression sock and power through it; but when it's a sharp pain, I take that as a warning and back off. I decided to wrap my ankle and rest it (especially since Day 4 is straight jumping). Today, it still ached, but it wasn't a sharp pain, so I did the thing (with both a compression sock AND a wrap). I'm not going to lie, it's hurting right now. I'm going to go ice it. Hopefully, it will be good for Day 5 tomorrow. 🤞

Done and done! I rocked a knee high compression sock on my right leg today and that helped. My foot is still not jiving with certain skips and my ankle is still not as flexible as it was before I had to wear a walking boot for 10 weeks, but the compression sock DID help. (I know you feel me, Joe!) My wrists and forearms are feeling those chinups, though, despite only doing five not six. But I got it done! 👊

I didn't mess up as much as last week, so I take that as a win. I mostly just did regular bounce with some boxer step, though. I can't do single leg just yet...well, I CAN with my LEFT foot, but my right foot (that I broke last Summer and has only recently healed) said, "Nope. We're not doing that." It was the same when I tried "running" in the very last 1 min set - my right right foot gave a very definitive veto on that one! I'll get there, though, and I still did the thing! 👊

Done! On to day two! 👊

DONE! Today was a really rough day and I was temped to not workout, but I overcame that. The max pushups I did was 7, but I averaged 5. I pushed hard, though, and did the thing! 👊

Done and dusted, as Joe would say! Less tripping, so I take that as a win! One more day and Week 1 is in the bag! 👊

Soooo.....it is currently really storming with thunder and lightening here, so my Day 4 is being pushed to tomorrow. I jump in an old beat up deatched garage that is not the safest place to be in this kind of weather, so I had to delay today's workout. I know Dan prefers five days in a row, M-F, but it's going to have to be Day 4 on Friday and Day 5 on Saturday for me. 😬

Today, was a bit better than yesterday, but still had some frustrating tripping. I also did the fast skip without my rope, as I still have a lot of rust to shake off until I'm back to being able to do all the skips again. But, I did my imperfect thing and I will keep doing it until it becomes less imperfect. 👊

I'm going to be really real here - that was not an awesome workout....though it wasn't the workout's fault. I mean, I hate ladders in general (my old JRD90 peeps know this about me), but that's not actually why it wasn't awesome. It wasn't awesome because I messed up...A LOT. I even whipped my arm a few times, which I haven't done since my early days of jumping. I used to be a MUCH better skipper, so it was pretty frustrating. I stuck with it (and will continue to stick with it), but I was annoyed with myself pretty much the whole time. And when I tried to do some running in place skipping, I felt a twinge in my formerly broken (recently healed) foot, so that put the kibosh on that one.

I know the workouts can't all be great and not being able to jump for a long time has its effect on the body, so I'm not disheartened....well, not completely, anyway. Perhaps it is better to say that I'm not dispairing. I did do the thing - however imperfect that thing may have been - and I will keep on doing the thing. 😉