Day 7

All right. Today was a bit of a different story.

I started out doing the jumps after drinking about three - five cups of water. And I mean big cups. I managed to get to get out 100, but I got a headache again. This time it was different, it struck me as rather obvious why it was occurring this time. It felt exactly like a tension headache, which is what it was. My breathing wasn't the same is it was all those other times that my jumps were successful. So I turned to Google.

God, I love the internet.

Turns out I was correct. Also, before I even finished the search, my head was fine, which means I was likely also correct about yesterday, too.

Later, before dinner, I tried again. All the websites said pretty much the same thing. Jump on a padded surface, breath properly (deeply and smoothly), don't clench up, and if you're new to the jump rope (jumproping?) then do small sets.

I did all of that and I experienced no problem whatsoever. I know, it says 500 jumps, as in one set, but I really couldn't do that. I did 50 jumps, paused for a few seconds before my body chilled, then went to 100, chilled for a few seconds, and then started over again counting to 50. The Funny thing is that it got easier as I went on and by 400 I managed to churn out 100 in a row.

Just to make sure there's no confusion, I want it on record that I started from scratch when I tried the second time, I didn't build off of the first 100.