20 minutes

Thats all I’m doing, 20 flippin’ minutes a night. Tonight being the second of 20, the prior 2 were 15s.

My abs feel like Ive been doing a TON of crunches. My shoulders feel ‘used’ but not abused. And my arms are just fine.

All because I have been focusing on proper form where you use your core muscles over your shoulders and arms. The arms form a box and you dont alter the shape of that box (much) as you rotate your torso side to side. The shoulders do the lifting of the paddle.

And I am feeling every stroke. No counter so have no idea how many I did, but I could figure about 20–30 strokes a minute so somewhere between 400 and 600 ‘side crunches’

My tummy hasnt done shit like that since BOOTCAMP!!! (well, not totally true, but I won’t delve into specifics,,,)

And I turned up the resistance a notch tonight. Doesn’t take much either, 1/16″ changes the flywheel reaction noticeably . Probably wont get much more out of it seeing how it rises so quickly. Been thinking about tooling up a ball governor that will increase pressure on that band as I paddle faster: more like how the water starts adding up as speed increases until you hit hullspeed and can’t get any more speed without brobdingnagian efforts. I could come up with something over a weekend but dialingbit in may take longer,,, but it would be a hella selling point if it made the machine more realistic,,,

My tummy aches, and I did it to meself,,, lol.

Id better be ready come April 23rd,,,,

Addendum: I know, my income needs to shift from outside (employer) to inside (entrepreneur) and while I KNOW it, making the transition is harder. Well, not true. Making the mental adjustments in ME to make that transition IS harder.

Maybe I just need to jump off that diving board,,,