Third Challenge: Week 2

I made it through the first week of exercise! YAY! Ok, that being said, the reason I didn't do an update last week is because my arms hurt too much to lift them, and my fingers were swollen up like wee sausages. I did a mix of gardening (HA! More like waging war against the flora in my yard. But, the kind of war in which you try to pull roots out for hours on end, then whack at them frantically with a shovel until finally your husband comes out and tells you that he just bought you a hatchet on Amazon and can you please stop until it comes because he's getting a little concerned...) and bodyweight exercises on my yoga swing.  I ended up digging up and yanking on parts of my stupid yard for eight hours over three days, and did 15-20 minutes of bodyweight exercise each day on the other three days. Sunday, I rested, because damn. I hurt. I hurt in places I didn't know had muscles.  For the first three days, it felt like I had a fever because my muscles were running so hot and swollen.  There was whining. There was so. much. whining.  There was also falling asleep at 9:30-10 most nights from sheer exhaustion.  In case you couldn't tell, I detested this challenge.  But then, something weird happened.  The pain finally backed off, and I stopped dropping off to sleep like a nonagenarian every time I sat still for more than five minutes at a time.  Do I feel stronger? Not really, and whereas I could do four hours of yardwork the first day, I became completely drained about two hours in on subsequent days. There also isn't any improvement in the measurement area.  But hey! At least I no longer feel like a particularly bruised banana, so there's that.
For week two, I'll probably do more of the same, but add in 50 jumping jacks every day, and work on my old physical therapy leg exercises too. I'll let you know how it goes.