Business, Bee Keepers and Pork Bellies: Week 6 of 26: WOD in The AM = FML

Completing the Workout of the Day, or "WOD", is a challenge in itself. Completing the WOD at the 6, 7 or 8 AM slots is cruel and unusual punishment. I envy those of you who can jump out of bed, and into workout gear before the sun is shining. And I'm one of those people who doesn't sleep much to begin with. I'm totally functional with 3-5 hours of sleep. But swapping out the part of my morning dedicated to coffee and reading for burpees, box jumps and kettle bell swings is just not natural.

With less than five months until our little man is born, my schedule is becoming more and more demanding. My normal 2:00 and 4:00 work out sessions have been pushed aside for extra appointments and meetings with clients. In my head I told myself, "No problem, people workout in the morning every day." After all, I'm up by 6:00 anyway, so an 8:00am workout should be no sweat. Boy was I wrong.

Working out before my body (or my mind) is prepared is like water-boarding while still under the blankets. OK, maybe that's a little extreme or dramatic. But for those of you who have made early morning exercises a part of your daily routine, congratulations. I'm looking more forward to pre-dawn diaper changes than I am 7am WOD's.

Aside from adding an early morning workout to my schedule, I've also already gained 4 pounds. Some say of "mass", I'm saying of muscle....Pure. Muscle. Four pounds in 6 weeks is better than I was expecting, but I still have 16 pounds to go, and 20 more weeks to do it in. Maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew. Or maybe I need to just continue biting off more than I can chew. See what I did I there?